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Excellent Expression

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice reading more fluently with expression and enthusiasm by reading aloud to help them realize how much more exciting and inviting stories can be when read with expression. They encounter the book, "Alexander and the...
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It's Time to Sum It Up!!!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice the reading strategy of summarization skills by picking out main events or ideas while reading a chapter in a book. They interact with the article, "SuperCroc," from National Geographic for Kids magazine to summarize...
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual young scholars complete a reading...
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My Lips are Zipped

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners practice reading silently. After discussing how reading silently can enhance the reading experience, students discuss decoding strategies. Individual learners read selected, level passages during sustained silent reading.
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Speedy Readers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice reading a poem, "It's Raining Said John Twaining," by, N.M. Bodecker Athenuem, to assess a variety of strategies to maintain what they have read as well as speed up their reading paces. They keep a record of how fast...
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Read it in Your Head

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe as the teacher reads a sentence from a book in a whisper tone and then without making a sound but moving her lips. They then find a book that they would like to read and practice silent reading. Small groups then...
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I Can't Hear You

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice reading silently to become better readers. They each read a copy of the book, "Mr. Cricket takes a Vacation," from Carousel Readers. Each student explains why if everyone read aloud in class how distracting it would be...
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Summarization Is The Key To Success

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders exercise the strategies of silent reading and summarization to acquire new and important information from a text. They silently read and summarize page eighty-two in their "A History of Alabama" books. A review of...
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If You're Happy And You Know It, Show Us With Expression

For Teachers 3rd
Student practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 3rd graders read a story with expression to their partner. They complete an evaluation of each other's...
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You've Got to Express Yourself!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars listen as a sample paragraph is read twice; first without expression, and the second time with lots of expression and discuss which they liked best. They brainstorm reasons why reading with expression is important listing...
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How Grouchy are YOU!!!!!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle. With this selection, they encounter how to read with different voices. Students keep a reading journal in this class as well.
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Fuzz and the Buzz

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice various strategies for becoming fluent readers. They review the skills of phoneme recognition, decoding, crosschecking and spelling in order to read with automation. Working in pairs, students complete a pair-share of...
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Icky Fingers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are introduced to digraphs so they can match letters to their phonemes. They recognize the short vowel i=/i/ in both spoken and written words by practicing reading and spelling words containing /i/. Elkonin Letter Boxes are...
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Expression Is the Key

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, crosschecking, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a play. They read a poem to the instructor in a...
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read aloud with expression through practice by monitoring their changes in volume, speed, and pitch of their voices. They use cross checking, if they come to a word they are unfamiliar with, they read the rest of the sentence....
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A Tongue-Twisting Language Arts Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class.  In this language arts lesson, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher.  Students...
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Hospitality: Welcome

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students practice using their language skills in welcoming tourist. In this language and hospitality lesson, students practice using proper phrases to welcome tourists and to ask them questions that show they are able to be hospitable.
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Compound word fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders say compound words fluently. For this compound words lesson plan, 1st graders say compound words that are given to them on cards, and they try and say them automatically and as fast as they can.
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Phonemic Awareness Mats

For Teachers 1st
In this literacy worksheet, 1st graders use the mats in order to have a game board to construct words for the two spaces with the CVC format.
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Sentence Completion: Personal Information

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose a word from a word bank to fill in the blank. There are ten different questions for students to answer.
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Letter Combination Fluency

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. For this phonics lesson, students utilize flash cards with specific letters on them which can be combined with other cards to create words. Students practice...
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Use Expression!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars discuss how to read with expression and feeling. They listen to the book "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!" and give a thumbs up when they hear it read with expression. They practice reading...
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Get Excited!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual learners complete a graded evaluation of...
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students access how to read with more expression. They explore how reading with more expression helps to bring books alive. Students realize that with expression brings the enjoyment of reading brought to a higher level.

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