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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Teaching Word Recognition [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
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Other

Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Word Patterns Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website helps students work with word patterns by having them create limericks and sentences. Students receive feedback and guidance as they work their way through the activities.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Grade 2: Additional Resources

For Teachers 2nd
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 2nd graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and Tooey come...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...
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Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
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Other

Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
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Other

Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
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Other

Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.