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Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
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Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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Free Reading: Letter Baseball: Letter Sound Fluency Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting letter "baseball" game where students "bat" by giving a word that starts with the letter that the teacher holds up. This site includes a link to letter cards to print.
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Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
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Free Reading: Word Baseball: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students are divided into two teams and when "up to bat" sound out a word on a card accurately, and then pick a card from the baseball plays in a bucket.
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Free Reading: Guest Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Mix up reading time by having your own young scholars transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
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Free Reading: Letter Combination Activities Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Great small group and whole class lessons on introducing, reintroducing, building fluency, and building accuracy for letter combinations.
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Free Reading: Letter Writing Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...
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Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great exercise to help young scholars practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
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Free Reading: Reading Connected Text Activities

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.
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Free Reading: Phrase Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.
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Free Reading: Book Letters Free Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Expand your reading activity by having young scholars write a letter to a character in the book.
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Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
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Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.