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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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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This instructional activity models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of videos, articles for parents and for teachers, teaching strategies, webcasts for teachers, and research briefs on helping children develop their writing skills.
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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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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Let's Play

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
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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 plan 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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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today's lesson is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy:types of Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reading Informational Text: Grades K 1

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This learning resource will show teachers how to model how to teach students to describe connections between pieces of information in a text.
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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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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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Pearson

Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.
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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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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: Compare and Contrast Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Compare and Contrast Lesson for 1st Grade Reading in Learning Focused Format.
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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: Inferencing Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Inferencing Lesson for First Grade Reading in Learning Focused Format.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Game: Does It Make Sense? Game 3

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This reading game offers young readers two sentences; they are to click on the one that makes sense. Then they are to drag a piece of a rocket puzzle into place. When the puzzle is complete, the game is over.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Teacher Source: Reading and Language Arts

For Students K - 1st Standards
PBS TeacherSource provides lesson plans and activities for all grade levels in the subject area of reading and language arts.
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Professional Doc
Other

Nsw Department of Education: Reading for a Purpose

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Short discussion of teaching students the importance of why they are reading a particular text. Also provides some commentary from a teacher who used this method and an example of some questions students wanted to answer from a...
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Website
Other

Internet4classrooms: ccss.ela literacy.w.k.7 Participate in Shared Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Choose from a variety of lessons to teach kindergarteners the steps to a research and writing project.