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Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope [Pdf]
This is a third-grade reading fluency exercise entitled "Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope" and has 203 words.
US Department of Education
The Partnership for Reading: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Fluency Instruction
A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.
TES Global
Tes: My Reading Record
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of blank reading records will help with the assessment of reading comprehension. Students write about what they have read during a teacher-determined period of time. The reading record...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write simple, non-chronological reports from known information (e.g., from own experience or from existing text), using notes made to organize and present ideas. Students will learn to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Two Sounds of G
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is correlated to Houghton Mifflin Grade 2 reading series. It reviews words with soft and hard g sounds, and includes a song, sound clips, interactive sorting, and classifying, spelling...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Duck for President Think Aloud
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is meant to model a Think Aloud. This strategy models good reading habits for readers: the teacher reads the text aloud and explains their thinking as they read. Duck for President by Doreen...
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Reading Keys: Tampa Read's Grade 1 Books Online
This site offers three books written specifically with first grade vocabulary and using progressively more difficult vocabulary from book one to book three. Book one has the vowels printed in color to make the students more aware of...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Spinning Short Vowel Word Game
Fun game helps young readers develop their reading skills by playing an engaging game with spinners.
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School.discovery.com: Fry's Readability Graph
Fry's Readability Graph from School.discovery.com gives us a comprehensive look at reading levels. The site has a tool that is used to determine the reading level of reading materials.
Starfall
Starfall: Vowels Save the Day
A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.ri.k.4 : Kindergarten English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard RI.K.4.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Connections Between Words and Real Life Worksheets
These worksheets help your students make connections between words and real-life.
Other
Unmuseum: Children's Reading Room
Here you'll find a selection of stories you can print out and read to your students over and over again. Enjoy the large print and the bright colors on the story pages.