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Activity
University of Texas

Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Lesson Plansos

Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar worksheets,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Guided Reading with Elizabeti's Doll

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice reading strategies using Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Readers utilize decoding and comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading the story. A detailed list of text features, high frequency words,...
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 9 - Contractions

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Is it do'nt or don't? How about doesn't or does'nt? A lesson on contractions helps learners identify, form, and use contractions. Components within the plan include direct instruction on decoding and encoding contractions, as well as...
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Handout
Kaylee's Education Studio

Contractions

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Keep your class on track with contractions! This reference page includes six lists of contractions, which are organized by the word that is being contracted. For example, the word not is the title of the list that includes words such...
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Lesson Plan
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Compound Words - My Baseball Book

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine compound words and what they look like.  In this compound word lesson, 1st graders read the book, My Baseball Book, and compile a list of compound words from their reading. 
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Compound Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss what compound words are and what they look like as a whole group.  In this compound words lesson, learnerseach have a single word card and pair up with another student to create a compound word. A valuable,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Commonly Misspelled Words

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Display this list of commonly misspelled and frequently confused words for your learners. Though there is no interactive component, this handout is a great reference tool comparing many homophones such as sole and soul. One tip...
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Organizer
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Word Sort

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this word sorting activity worksheet, students look through a story they have read and identify compound words, long e words, verbs, adjective, short a words, contractions, words with wh, feeling words, and words with -ing in the...
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 10 - Compound Words

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Individually, words have power, but when added together, they can take on a whole other level of meaning. Readers learn about compound words in the 10th of 17 lessons of the Word Recognition and Fluency series. A script provides guidance...
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Lesson Plan
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Advanced Phonics Redux Fluency

For Teachers 1st
After being introduced to words with advanced phonics features, the teacher presents the whole class with a stack of cards containing both new and familiar words. As each card is presented, the teacher says the word and recites the rule...
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Lesson Plan
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Shared and Guided Reading with Ice Cream Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a lesson which has young scholars locate an exclamation point and a comma from the text. They locate previously learned words on the page, and create a word map from the word "Money." Students write about and illustrate their...
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Lesson Plan
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Guided Reading with Jazz Baby

For Teachers K - 1st
Jazz music and musicians are the focus of this language arts lesson plan. Young readers independently read the book Jazz Baby. To build fluency and independence they read silently, but are guided by directive comments from the teacher....
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Lesson Plan
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The Power Of Possessives

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
The whole class with get when to use an apostrophe after this activity. They use apostrophes to show possession or ownership. This activity includes a discussion starter, a practice exercise, a story activity, and a practice worksheet. 
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PPT
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Contractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Are you looking for a good presentation on contractions? This one could be for you. Learners are coached on what contractions are and how they are made. Then, in each slide, pupils must identify contractions, and also turn contractions...
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Lesson Plan
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Contractions Fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders build their fluency while reading contractions. In this contraction fluency lesson, 1st graders read a stack of 12 index cards that have contraction written on each. They read them as fast as they can, saying the word as it...
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Lesson Plan
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Guided Reading with Hey! You're Eating my Homework

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars practice vocabulary via a discussion of pets and animals that may have interfered with homework. They view the title of the book, and discuss what might be happening in the picture. Students discuss strategies for reading...
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PPT
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Contractions: An Introduction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A solid introduction to the concept of contractions is provided in this resource. The definition of contractions and how they are used is discussed and shown in example sentences. Students also look at several example sentences and a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Contraction Action

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this contractions learning exercise, students read 8 sentences. Students replace the words in italics with a contraction, choosing from the word bank.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Contractions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this identifying contractions worksheet, students read a list of two words and choose their correctly written contractions. Students identify and write twelve contractions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Contractions

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this contractions worksheet, students read 12 sentences and determine which 2 words in each sentence can be combined to form a contraction. Students write the 2 words chosen on the lines provided.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Contractions: not

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this contractions worksheet, students read the 2 words that make up the contraction with "not" and then read the contraction. Students read 26 words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apple Contractions

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this contractions worksheet, learners find two leaves that make the contraction that is inside the apple. For example, for the apple that reads, "she's" students will find the leaves the read, "she" and "is."
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Worksheet
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Spelling Vocabulary Words with "PH"

For Students 4th - 5th
In this completing the "ph" words with missing letters worksheet, students read sentences with incomplete words, use the scrambled missing letters and context clues, and fill in the missing letters to complete the words and sentences....