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Express Yourself!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the five main components to reading fluency: faster reading, smoother reading, expressive reading, silent reading and voluntary reading. This lesson is designed to help children use expression as they read. Improvement...
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Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
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Cloze Instruction

For Teachers Higher Ed
Bring Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Mad Libs, and cloze activities to your college class with this lesson. They complete a cloze instruction activity in which the students choose words that would fill in the blanks and create their own...
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Ten Little Cookies

For Students 2nd Standards
First there were ten cookies and then there were none. Who ate all the cookies? After reading a short poem that counts down from 10 as cookies are eaten, class members respond to four comprehsnion questions.
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Ready, Set, Read Again!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and decoding, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they complete a read of their passage to...
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High Frequency Word Work

For Teachers 1st
First graders make an "All About Me" book. In this high fluency words lesson students use a computer program to create a book about themselves. Students write their own text.
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Off To the Reading Races

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies , students complete an initial read of a novel text. With a partner, they read complete an assessment of their...
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Reading Like an Expert!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify and interpret that they should read as if someone is explaining it to them like a conversation. Then they reread the text given until they are no longer decoding and it sounds like they are just talking. Students also...
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Lets Read Faster with Junie

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assist them in becoming fluent readers. They practice reading with expressiveness and fluency with Junie B. Jones and some "Sneaky Peeky Spying," by Barbara Park. A checklist is...
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Dolch List 4 Sight Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd
In this literacy worksheet, 3rd graders read the selected 41 sight words in order to increase reading vocabulary, spelling, and fluency.
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5-4-3-2-1 Blast Off To Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice reading with fluency by rereading texts to increase their speed. They listen to the teacher model fluent, smooth, and expressive oral reading. They then work in a small group reading orally and self-assessing their...
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Reading the book

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use individual student letter cards to practice vocabulary and sight words. In this vocabulary lesson plan, 3rd graders quiz themselves and practice their fluency using these cards.
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Writing Sentences: Fluency and Variety

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fluency and variety activity, students pick a conjunction to fill in the blanks to sentences. Students fill in 17 conjunctions to blanks in sentences.
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I Saw A Ship A-Sailing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the reading of the story while focusing upon the development of vocabulary and reading fluency. They practice reading while running their finger underneath the text to follow along with...
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Make the Connection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners practice connecting words into phrases. They use the Declaration of Independence to help them connect phrases.
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Exceptional Expression!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young elementary learners develop expression while reading. They listen as the teacher demonstrates expression when reading aloud. Individual learners read with a partner and practice using expression in their reading. When their partner...
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Monkey Business

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice reading with expression, decoding and word recognition to become fluent readers. They read the book, "Not me!" Said the Monkey," by Cohn West and view drawings of a lion, snake, rhino, elephant and a monkey from the art...
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The Glorious Whitewasher

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young readers can be exposed to the literary works of Mark Twain as they interact with challenging text and gain experience by reading the complex passages of chapter two "The Glorious Whitewasher" from his famous book, The Adventures of...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a tic-tac-toe game to practice reading irregular words.  In this tic-tac-toe lesson plan, students read words to a partner.  If they are correctly read, students mark the tic-tac-toe board.
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We Play Music

For Teachers K - 2nd
Do you like music? Have your youngsters read We Play Music, practicing select reading strategies, like using picture clues to determine new words. Then, after their first independent read, have them re-read the story to a...
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"Clean Water Act"

For Students 7th - 9th
Read the short reading passage entitled "Clean Water Act" to help your class build reading fluency and comprehension. While most questions focus on recall, learners are asked to use the context to define select vocabulary words. This...
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Missing Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this online interactive missing words worksheet, students select the words from each of the 13 drop-down menus to appropriately edit the story.
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
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Give Me Some Expression!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Work to improve oral expression while reading aloud. Young scholars read sentence strips, changing their volume, speed, and tone to match what is written, making the sentence more meaningful. They read an entire story with a partner who...

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