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Let's Read with Expression!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the concept of expressive reading. Through modeling the teacher shows them that more expression makes reading more interesting and enjoyable to listen to. They review ending punctuation marks and the types of expression...
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Make Way for Readers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading fluently and with expression. They explore different techniques for reading quickly when coming upon unknown words. They also participate in a paired reading activity in which they read "Make Way for...
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Let's Be Emotion Detectors!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate how to read with expression. They discuss the types of emotions and expressions to use while reading, and identify the appropriate punctuation for a variety of sentences. Students then write a sentence...
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American Expression

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Pupils exercise the strategy of reading more fluently with expression through practice and recognizing punctuation marks when reading. They read with expression the book, Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and a variety of...
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Ready, Set, Read!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice reading fluency and reading with expression. They develop reading fluency using timed reading. Students read "Arthur's Reading Race" and record how far they read in one minute. They repeat the reading in order to see...
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Expression!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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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Phrase Card Reading

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, after reading and discussing the book, "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing," by Judy Bloom, complete a vocabulary worksheet and read sections from the book fluently and accurately. They utilize dictionaries and thesauruses...
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Expression in Action

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read different sentences with and without expression and discuss the differences. In small groups, they read the short...
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"I Will Read (Do you hear me? I mean it!) With Expression"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students, who are fluent readers, practice reading with expression after listening while the teachers models good reading. They respond to teacher directions to show a specified expression. Reading with a partner, they practice adding...
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I Can Read With Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. They create a deck of expression cards...
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Reading with Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students 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 students read selected passages with...
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When Marian Sang: Reader's Theater

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Put on an eight-actor show based on Pan Munoz Ryan's When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson. The resource comes with a color-coded script that includes some images from the picture book.
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Perfect 10 for Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the reading experience, students listen as the instructor reads a story with expression. Learners complete a read with the...
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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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Expression Is the Key

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students 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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Growing Independence and Fluency Lesson: Ready, Set, Read Expressively!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice becoming more fluent readers with fluency by assessing one minute reads and repeated readings. They also practice reading silently and then read the book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,"...
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Language Arts: Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students increase fluency through repeated reading exercises. In groups, they practice reading sentences prior to reading the book, "Jane and Bob." Individually, students read parts to the teacher who notes expression, smoothness, and...
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Speedy Gonzales Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate their fluency through repeated readings. They review what a fluent reader is and practice decoding through cross-checking and covering unknown words. They work in pairs to read a passage several times and record...
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Ribbit, Ribbit: Leap into Speedy Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore reading with fluency. They use repeated reading in order to improve their reading fluency. Students read "Frog and Toad are Friends." They discuss why it is important to read with fluency and explore what reading with...
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Ready, Set, Go! Fluency, Here We Come!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students work with a partner to become fluent readers. Each person gets the chance to be each role. One of them gets to be the listener while the other person gets to be the reader. The reader reads the book while the listener times...
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Score With Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After a brief discussion of fluency and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Get on the Fluency Boat

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...
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Reading Lessons for Alaska State Standards - Reading Rate and Fluency

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders read a given passage silently. The student then reads the same passage orally to a partner. The partner records the number of words pronounced incorrectly. The student then sets goals to increase oral reading speed and...
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Ready, Set, Let's Read

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment...