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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
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Professional Doc
Other

Balanced reading.com: Decoding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
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Website
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Engage in Group Reading Activities With Purpose and Understanding

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Things That Can Go

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Come Play With Me

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses children playing. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This thematic language arts lesson uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary students learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic organizers introduces...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Let's Be Pals

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Giving

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on giving to others. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a first grade reading comprehension lesson to teach students how to make text-to-self connections while reading.
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eBook
Other

Sebastian Swan: Read a Book!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Looking for a new way to get young students reading? This interactive reading site provides online stories and accompanying questions for students to explore.
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eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: The Mouse That Was

For Students K - 1st Standards
This e-book shares the story of a mouse realized that he should always be himself around others. He set out to become "big" and set his sites on being "big" at the zoo.
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Article
Other

Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
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Website
Other

Jl Resource: The Reading Room

For Students K - 1st Standards
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.
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Professional Doc
US Department of Education

The Partnership for Reading: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Fluency Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.
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Website
Other

Mindplay Software

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn about Mindplay, a reading diagnostics software.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Authors Purpose

For Students K - 1st Standards
A five-part learning module with links to videos and an image on author's purpose.
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Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Author's Purpose

For Students K - 1st Standards
Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dolphins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates a science and reading lesson on dolphins. The lesson includes wonderful interactive activities for the students activating prior knowledge and what they learn in the chart.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Kindergarten Sequencing Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sequencing lesson for Kindergarten in Learning Focused format.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter a Flipchart for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning Focused Curriculum Setup; Teaching for letter A includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided lessons, graphic organizers, guided reading, and science tie-ins.
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Handout
Can Teach

Can Teach: Word Race

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.
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Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.