Pop a little interest into your next reading lesson with "Popcorn Words." Students will build reading fluency and automaticity when they read each word as it pops up on the screen. Tip: As they advance academically, switch out these...

Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...

Read alouds are great ways to build fluency, accuracy, and intonation. Each slide contains part of a story about a haunted house and audio of the story being read aloud by several different children. Whether you use it as a reading...

Chunking words can help students with rhyming, fluency, and spelling. Here are six vocabulary words with definitions that are color chunked by syllables. There are two additional slides that have sentences. However, the purpose of these...

Blend consonants scr together to make a great sound used to begin words like, scream, screw, and scrap. Learners view a series of six images and  related /scr/ words to practice spelling patterns, chunking, consonant blends, or...

Targeted toward parents, the slides included here could be adapted for classroom use or shown at Back-to-School Night. The focus of the presentation is Six Trait Writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and...

Providing a wonderful way to explore reading and vocabulary skills, this resource takes your class on a journey to understand the accomplishments of Lewis and Clark through the eyes of their dog Seaman. It focuses on using the book Lewis...

This sound fluency PowerPoint enables students to read the beginning sounds of "CVC" words. In this PowerPoint, students say the beginning sound of the word. There are illustrations on each slide to match the word that is given.

This PowerPoint provides a summary, comprehension questions, vocabulary words, and links for independent activities related to the story "The Swimming Hole" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Age-appropriate definitions of such literacy elements...

Intended for an audience of teachers, this presentation lays out the six traits of writing, the writing process, and the teaching process for traits and strategies. If you are trying to understand the writing process more fully, you...

This lesson explains the different rates of reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

Six slides explaining how to use additive transition words to connect, or add, one idea to another to increase fluency. Examples are provided in a chart and within various types of sentences.

A ten-slide presentation explaining revision strategies that focus on improving the flow of a written text.