Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Homograph Hitch

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students match two definitions to each homograph. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Opposites Attract

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a card game by matching synonym and antonym cards. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Answer Know How [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort questions into one of four types: On My Own, Author and Me, Right There, and Think and Search. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Feature Find

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to find various text features including: a table of contents, sequence and format, charts/graphs/maps, diagrams/graphics/illustrations, print variations, an index, and a glossary....
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Using images and graphs, this interactive resource illustrates scientists' efforts to study Earth's climatic history for the last 250,000 years by drilling into the Greenland Ice Sheet and examining ice cores. Includes background reading...
Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Developing a Positive School Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What is meant by "school climate", and how can you assess the climate at your school? Read on for helpful definitions, assessment ideas, tools, and resources.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Beginning Consonant Sound Concentration Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a concentration game that focuses on hard and soft g/c consonant sounds. It can be used a class activity or a center.
Activity
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina: Tar Heel Reader

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students can create, illustrate, and publish books for beginning readers, which are made available for the public to read. Authors must go through the free registration process in order to create a book.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: High Frequency Word Concentration

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students match the high frequency words in a concentration game format. I use this as a center activity.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Can You Read a Spine Label?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a library skills lesson on how to read a call number on the spine label for fiction and everybody books (5th graders also studied biography spine labels). Followed by small group evaluation,...
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Other

Epa New England: Long Island Sound Facts, Figures, and Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Listing of various fact sheets created and published through the Long Island Sound Study. Topics include How Low Dissolved Oxygen Conditions Affect Marine Life in LI, Impact of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Long Island Sound, Sound...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compound Word Puzzle

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners will form compound words by putting puzzles together.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Homophone Bingo!

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Young scholars match homophones by playing a bingo-type game.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Feature Find

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will identify text features.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Prefix and Suffix Flip Book

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The student will blend base words and affixes to make words.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Research Roundup

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete graphic organizers as they gather research information. Materials are included.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Using Technology to Support Struggling Students: Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To be scientifically literate, students must be able to express themselves appropriately. Learn how to help struggling students master specific vocabulary and be able to use it in their science writing activities.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Multimedia course focuses on thirteen literary classics from many different times and many different cultures. Each lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on a particular work. Read excerpts from each work and...