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Descriptive Prompt: Precise Language
Incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...
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Blast-Off to Blending
Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...
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Vínculo entre la escuela y el hogar: el cuento
Build oral fluency in your young, native Spanish speakers. First, an adult reads a short passage to their youngster. Then, the youngster practices reading the passage multiple times. Then, after they perfect the passage, they record 10...
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Sentence Completion: "Ima's Story"
Second graders read a paragraph containing one missing word per sentence. Using the provided word box, they choose the correct word to complete each sentence.
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Sentence Completion: "Anna's Story"
Learners read a paragraph containing one missing word per sentence. Using the provided word box, they choose the correct word to complete each sentence.
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Sentence Completion: "A Lovely Day"
Young scholars read two a two paragraph story that has one missing word in each sentence. They choose words from a word bank to complete each sentence. There are ten sentences to complete.
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Sentence Completion
Young learners select a word from a word bank to correctly complete a sentence. There are five sentences to be completed.
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Introduce /k/
Explore the ins and outs of the letter k using these strategies combining pronunciation, letter recognition, and initial phoneme examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /k/ sound. Use these tips to...
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Reintroduce /c/
Do you c what I c? Use these strategies combining pronunciation, letter recognition, and initial phoneme examples to examine the letter c with kindergartners. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the soft...
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Vocabulary Building Activity
Four weeks of vocabulary words are provided here! Each week has between six and seven vocabulary words for your young learners to master. First they hear each word, and then they get a short definition for each word. The second activity...
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Second and Third Grade Explicit Phonics Intervention
Support all young learners on their journey to literacy with this five-lesson reading intervention unit. Following a clearly outlined format, each lesson first engages children in practicing their phonemic awareness and phonics...
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What Letter Will You Write?
After reading "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," scholars discuss the emotions the events provoked in its characters. In pairs, writers compose a letter depending on the topic and style of their choice then reply to their own or a peer's...
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Irregular Word Fluency
Young scholars explore language arts by participating in a word fluency activity. In this irregular word lesson, students discuss the sounds that are made from different words as they read them from flash cards. Young scholars shuffle...
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Silent-Letter Word Fluency
First graders play a word card game to study words with silent letters. In this word sounds lesson, 1st graders say the words on the cards as fast as possible. Students continue to shuffle the cards and practice saying the words.
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Irregular Word Fluency, Bingo
First graders explore language arts by participating in a bingo activity with classmates. In this irregular word lesson, 1st graders utilize index cards and game boards to participate in a game of Word Bingo. Students practice sounding...
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"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare
Jacque's soliloquy from Act II, scene ii of As You Like It sets the stage for a close reading exercise that models how to approach difficult, dense text and enables readers to practice reading comprehension and analysis...
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Reading and Poetry Theatre
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking and cover-up, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Speedy, Speedy Students Reading Fast
Students review basic reading decoding. Given books at their independent reading level, they read independently and with several different partners to increase reading fluency. They see how many more words per minute they can read after...
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Ribbit, Ribbit: Leap into Speedy Reading
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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Speedy Gonzales Reading
Learners 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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Fly Away Into Reading
Students complete repeated readings of the same passage in order to increase their reading fluency and comprehension. They listen as the teacher reads both with and without fluency to hear the difference. Working in small groups, they...
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Ready, Set, Read
Student 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 the instructor, they read complete a timed assessment of their...
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Speed Read
Students practice reading and rereading in order to increase their fluency with speed and accuracy. They review how to decode words and to reread selections so that they become more familiar with reading. Next, they read "James and the...
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What's All the Buzz about .... Reading!
Young scholars use fluency checklists in this lesson to improve oral reading ability. The teacher models fluent and timed reading while reading the story "Fuzz and the Buzz." The students work with a partner to time each others oral...
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