Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I'm Nuts About Reading

For Teachers 2nd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 2nd graders read a novel text. Working with the instructor, they complete a timed assessment of their words read per...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Speed Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

On Your Mark, Get Set, Read

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they read complete a timed...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading Race to the Farm

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

On Your Mark, Get Set, Read

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and cover up strategies, students work complete a timed assessment of their words read per minute with the instructor. They record...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ready, Set, Read

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. They record their word count on a progress chart after timed read.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Get Ready to Rumble with Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding, reading with expression, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they read...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read as Smooth as the Breeze

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they complete a timed assessment of their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

SWOOP Reading

For Teachers 1st
First graders read fluently. In this phonics lesson plan students practice reading strategies for fluency. They write a response in their journal about the book read in class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sailing on to fluently reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency using various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies , students, working with a partner, complete an initial read of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ready, Get Dressed, Read!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner and with the instructor, they complete a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

On Your Mark, Get Set, Read

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading strategies, students work with the instructor to complete a timed assessment of their words read per minute.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading Faster with Wild Thing

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils practice one-minute oral readings to increase their speed and fluency. They review several reading strategies, and then they read orally with a partner. The partner times their reading with a stopwatch and tracks their time on...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Express Your Reading

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students increase their reading fluency and reading expression through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text without expression. Working with a partner,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read with Speed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through various techniques. After reviewing decoding and rereading as good reader strategies, students complete an initial read of a teacher selected text. They complete a timed reading drill and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exciting Expressions

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Elementary schoolers observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read A Fine, Fine School with and without expression and discuss the differences. Then in pairs, read the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Child Literacy

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students read information on the importance of literacy and complete a worksheet. For this community service lesson, students evaluate children's literature and practice reading fluency. Students spend two hours per week reading to...
Lesson Plan
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Rain

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning  comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading activity, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Faster And Faster!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing rereading as a fluency strategy, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Speak Vocabulary Strategy

For Teachers 7th - 9th
A scarlet letter “V” stands for a desktop teaching vocabulary activity designed for Speak. Prior to reading Laurie Hales Anderson’s young adult novel, individuals sign up for a word, design a handout that illustrates the word, includes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Developing Strategies for Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Primary graders develop strategies to assist them with addition and subtraction. They discover number combinations and numerical facts which enable them to add and subtract more effectively. Young scholars use these techniques to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Create a Computer Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will create their own story and read it aloud. In this literacy/technology lesson, 2nd graders use computer software to create their own story, which is read back to them while they write it. Afterward, the student should...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Adding and Subtracting Ten

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Developing fluency with basic addition and subtraction is fundamental to the success of all young mathematicians. This four-day lesson series begins with learners using ten-frames and hundreds charts to recognize patterns when adding and...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Problem Solving When the Percent Changes

For Teachers 7th Standards
Use more than one whole to solve percent problems. The ninth installment in a 20-part series has pupils work percent problems in which they must determine two wholes. Individuals use double number lines to represent and solve the...