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Expression!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners organize ways of reading expressively as well as fluently. They encounter books by Dr. Seuss within this lesson. Practice, practice and more practice makes perfect. Punctuation marks are reviewed for accuracy.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Flash

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars work in pairs to drill and practice alphabet sounds, keeping track of their progress on a chart. Working one at a time, each partner flips letter cards, saying the sound and letter. If they get it correct, it goes in the YES...
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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
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Catch Me If You Can

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice reading with improved fluency. After discussing how reading with fluency can enhance the text, students practice rereading a text. Individual students read the text to the instructor and record their progress in words...
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Lesson Seven: Watch Out For Pedestrians

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice their reading rate and fluency. In this fluency lesson, 5th graders practice speaking fast and slow in a variety of different character roles. They read with a buddy and have their fluency evaluated by their buddy. 
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Ready, Set, Go!!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work to improve reading fluency by practicing oral reading skills. They read and reread sentences, noticing the effect repeated reading have on speed and accuracy. In groups, they complete timed readings and work to improve...
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We All Need Speed Limits

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students consider fluency and speed of reading. In this speed limits lesson, students discuss the importance of speed when reading and how the rate affects comprehension and listening skills. Teacher models think aloud as a strategy.
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Practicing Sight words

For Teachers K
Review sight words with readers. They will look over their sight words and come up with sentences for each of them. They also review the alphabet and identify unfamiliar words.
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Letter Writing Accuracy

For Teachers K
Students develop letter writing fluency. In this letter writing lesson, students write alphabet letters. Students work individually to develop letter writing automaticity.
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Sound It Out!

For Teachers 2nd
Help your class improve their spelling skills. Learners take a test, are given a particular spelling rule to practice, and play a Bingo game. This employs various methods for practicing spelling skills.
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Worksheet
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School-Home Links: Reading Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood reading text worksheet, students read a brief selection with a caregiver, on their own, and to their teacher in order to practice reading smoothly, without stopping.
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Developing Fluency: Hurry, Off We Go!

For Teachers K
Students practice reading with fluency and accuracy, as well as remembering what they have read in order to interpret the meaning of the text. They read a story several times to become fluent reading faster each time read. Finally,...
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Reaching Your Destinations

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Individuals will read their chosen instructional text aloud to their classmates. Intended to build reading fluency and confidence, this lesson presents a basic presentation project. There are no instructional texts attached or suggested...
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I'm Bananas for Faster, Fluent Reading!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review the way to use cover-ups to focus on vowels and decoding. They listen as the teacher demonstrates reading a sentence slowly like a robot, and then a little faster each time, adding feeling and expression. They then read a...
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Tigers Run Fast, I Read Fast!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students review what it means to be a fluent reader. With a partner, they practice reading and rereading the same material. They mark the time and record their improvement on a chart. They also count how many words they read in the...
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Thumbs Up For Expert Readers!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the cross check strategy to increase reading comprehension in this lesson. They listen as the teacher reads "Where the Wild Things Are." The teacher purposely reads some words wrong so that the story does not make sense. ...
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Haunted House

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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...
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Worksheet
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Canada Day!

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading comprehension Canadian history activity, students read a multi paragraph passage about the holiday in Canada. Students answer 12 questions.
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Speedy Monkeys

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Alternative Algorithms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Analyze algorithms for computing with rational numbers and develop fluency in their use with your math class. They work individually to solve the problems on the "Alternative Algorithms" sheet. Then, they analyze the appropriateness of...
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Printables
Readington Township Public Schools

Facts Practice Using Multiplication/Division Fact Triangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Why waste time teaching multiplication and division facts separately, when this resource allows you to cover both concepts at once. Displaying the fact families for all single-digit factors, these triangle shaped flash cards are a great...
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Build Fluency /A/

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the letter "A" and play a game to reinforce the printed and sound recognition of the letter "A."  In this letter "A" instructional activity, students observe the teacher model the letter card game. Students...
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Moving from I Think I Can to I Can Read!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars listen as a sentence from "The Little Engine That Could" is read two times; the first time choppy and the second time smooth and tell which sentence was read with expression. They read the rest of the story with the...