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Flying High in the Reading Sky

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine the importance of reading with fluency and expression in this lesson. They listen as the teacher reads the book "What Will the Seal Eat" first smoothly and with expression, and then slow, choppy, and without expression....
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Put a Stop to "Choppy and Stoppy" Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use a crosscheck strategy to improve their oral reading rate and fluency. They are timed reading "Bud the Sub" orally three times, and work to improve their time and expression each time through. Students encourage each other...
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To Be Or Not To Be: Reading With Expression

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carrol with and without expression, and discuss the differences. In small groups they...
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Running Towards Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They are timed during each reading and graph and compare their results.
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Fluency with Lon Po Po

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in pre-reading activities for the book "Lon Po Po" and discuss the names of the children in the book. They agree on how to pronounce the names in the book. They choose a character from the book and read that part...
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"Beeing" Expressive: Growing Independence and Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice independence and fluency in reading. They read and reread Honeybees until they become fluent. Students focus on expression while reading. Students read with expression while working on fluency. They read with a partner.
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Let's Read with Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become good readers with expression by changing the volume, speed and pitch of their voices when they read with expression. They read with expression and emotion the book, "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," by Simms...
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Lightning Speed Reading

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students focus on improving their reading fluency. They discuss what it means to be a fluent reader and practice repeated readings with a short story. They work in partners and take turns timing one another for one minute reads.
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Reading and Responding

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and respond to a poem. For this reading and responding lesson plan, 8th graders read a poem as a class and respond to questions about it.
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Reading Logs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create reading logs. In this reading logs lesson, students create a monthly reading log with a theme. The reading log has a goal record sheet, minutes read sheet, and award list.
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Free Reading Project

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students participate in a free reading project to improve their reading skills. In this reading project lesson, students spend 30 minutes reading each day and complete journal entries for the lesson. Students complete a short in-class...
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What? You want me to read AND enjoy it?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students appreciate independent reading through learning about authors and genre.
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You Are What You Read

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders select a prose, poetry, or nonfiction excerpt from a book of their choice and share it by reading aloud to their classmates, who identify the genre and respond to related questions in their journals.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 1

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work individually with a tutor or teacher and (1) read a fictional passage, (2) practice finding key words in questions, and (3)practice using test-taking strategies. Reading passages are provided.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 4

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work individually with a tutor or teacher to (1) read a fiction selection, and (2) practice test-taking strategies. Reading passages and comprehension questions are provided.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 7

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work individually or in a small group to (1) read a nonfictional selection, (2) identify main idea and details, (3) identify the author's purpose, and (4) practice test-taking strategies.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 12

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) practice test taking strategies, (2) practice using story details, and (3) use critical thinking skills. Reading passage, comprehension questions, and teacher script are...
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Teaching Fluency Using Readers Theatre

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen as their teacher reads them a book. In groups, they are given a story and time to practice a skit. After taking suggestions from their teacher, they perform their skit and receive feedback from the class. They can...
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Shared Reading

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders grasp the concept of reading with expression. They express words through their voice. Students discover expressive words when reading a poem or book. They read A Light in the Attic by Shel Siverstein.
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Aiming For Fluency

For Teachers 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 3rd graders complete an initial read of a novel text. After recording a baseline words per minute, students complete...
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Growing Independence and Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students continue to practice their reading in order to gain fluency and independence in their reading. With a partner, they practice reading a book three times noting how many words they can read each time. To end the lesson, they...
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Monkey Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work to gain fluency and become successful readers through repeated readings. They use the cover-up method to help them decode new words and chart their progress as they complete one-minute timed readings with a partner.
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Remembering What We Read

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover strategies to help them better understand the stories they read. As a familiar story is read to the class, individuals practice answering basic questions about the main characters, settings, problems, etc. while...
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The Fight - Oral Fluency Practice

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the format of a statement, question and exclamatory sentences. After being read a poem twice, they discuss the concept of fluency when it comes to reading them. As a class, they read a different poem with each...

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