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Reading With Speed

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice passages to increase their fluency. They work in pairs and time their peers for how long it takes to read sentences. They repeat the process three times and move to short text to continue practicing becoming a fluent...
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Zoom! Speed Reading

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice repeated readings to improve their fluency. They review the cover-up strategy for decoding unknown words and practice reading sentences and short text. They work in pairs and complete the Speed Reading sheet for their...
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Tigers Run Fast, I Read Fast!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students review what it means to be a fluent reader. With a partner, they practice reading and rereading the same material. They mark the time and record their improvement on a chart. They also count how many words they read in the...
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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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Simon Says Summarize

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars comprehend text for the purpose of understanding what is being read. In this lesson they practice the skill of summarization with the goal of improving reading comprehension while reading the article "Godzilla".
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Star Summarizers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars participate in a reading literacy lesson with the goal of improving reading fluency and comprehension. They work on the skill of summarization that helps to pick out important details of a reading.
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Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a reading skills lesson to improve reading comprehension. The skill of visualization is taught and practiced to help them better understand the plot of a story.
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Movies In Your Head

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a reading literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of visualization and the metaphor of a movie is used to explain images in the mind. This lesson teaches children how to make a movie in their head from what is...
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Eeeee -- It's a Mouse!

For Teachers K
Students recognize the long "e" sound, and identify it in spoken words by learning letter symbols. Students participate in role playing and tongue twisters to learn the long "e" sound. By learning phenomes, students are taking the...
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"Ready, Set, Speed Read!"

For Teachers K - 4th
Students become fluent readers. They need plenty of time to practice reading familiar text in order to remember more words, read faster, smoother, and more expressively. Students reread familiar text, the more their reading skills with...
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Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners recognize the grapheme g in its upper and lower case form. They produce the corresponding sound for the letter g. Students go over what shape your mouth makes and how the back of your throat moves when making the sound for g.
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Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Yum!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity that focuses on phonemic awareness. The importance of the letter to sound relationship is stressed in the instructional activity. The letter "m" is the target phoneme for...
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Sizzling Sausage

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the sounds of the alphabet. They practice making the /s/ sound. Students repeat tongue twisters. They write words with the /s/ sound. Students read a book about sounds and their spellings.
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Buzzing Bees

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson on phonemic awareness. They practice skills that are considered essential for good reading to occur. The skills of letter recognition and corresponding the letter to its phoneme are taught.
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Uhh I don't know!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to work on the skill of phonem ic awareness. The use of flashcards is essential for the instruction of the lesson. Students match the card with its beginning phoneme.
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Icky, Sticky!!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in an emerging literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme of choice is the letter "i". Students need to recognize the letter in correlation to its sound.
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Ew!!! It's Icky Sticky!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses upon the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme sound for the letter "i" is used with a tongue twister to build this important reading skill.
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1...2...3... You've got a Summary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a reading literacy lesson plan that focuses on the skill of summarization that aids in comprehension. The goal of reading is comprehension which makes this type of lesson plan important.
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Think First, Then Ask

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars are to read the book Everglades and create a KWL chart about the book. The KWL chart is explained to the students during the process of them reading the book. They complete step-by-step instructions to read the book and...
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Izzie's Igloo

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students must be phonemically aware to both read and write. This means that the student must understand phonemes and the relationship between letters and sounds. In this lesson plan, students work on the phoneme i=/i/. Since vowels are...
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Uhhh, I'm Confused!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students encounter how to identify letters with their vocal gestures and sounds before being able to become readers (phonemic awareness). They practice the short U says /u/, (u=/u/), students will be able to read short U words with more...
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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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Speeding Into Fluent Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars examine what it means to be a fluent reader. They review the cover up method for decoding words and practice sentences as a fluent and disfluent reader. They work in partners and read a book three different times for one...
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Emergent Literacy Plan

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the short "I" sound in words by learning a visual and oral representation of the sound. They identify this sound in spoken words provided by the teacher after a word is modeled for them.

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