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Trelease on Reading: "The Read Aloud Handbook," Ch.6
Author Jim Trelease presents ideas about how to make books and reading more appealing to children, which helps to raise reading rates and levels. Read these excerpts from his book on this topic.
Read Works
Read Works: Comprehension Units
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension units for grades kindergarten through fifth grade are available on this site. Units consist of read aloud questions and paired passages. Multiple Lexiles are shown, along with...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
Read Works
Read Works: A Plant Puzzle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the ingredients necessary for plant growth. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: The Great Escape
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction story shares the story of a girl who is taking care of animals and makes a mistake. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
Read Works
Read Works: All in a Week
[Free Registration/Login Required] This poem discusses the adventures taken while reading during a single week. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Scholastic
Scholastic: 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency
Improve students' fluency by doing the following in the classroom: "Model Fluent Reading," "Do Repeated Readings in Class," "Promote Phrased Reading in Class," "Enlist Tutors to Help Out," and "Try a Reader's Theater in Class."
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Austin Independent School District
The Reading Teacher: Oral Reading Fluency [Pdf]
A research-based article about oral reading fluency and its correlation with reading comprehension. Includes information about different fluency development materials, how to use screening tests to show areas of concern or to track...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Anticipation Guide
Anticipating is an effective reading strategy for readers of all ages. Utilize this template and graphic organizer to help your students become better readers.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Dragonfly
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article, or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
Contains back-to-school poetry lesson plan ideas that ask students to write poems in order to get to know each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.3.10 Worksheets: By End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Lit
[Free Registration/Login Required] Links to 30 worksheets and graphic organizers that can be downloaded and printed. Each activity focuses on skills highlighted in standard RL.3.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.3.10: By the End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Literature
Links to 25 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.10.
Read Works
Read Works: The Harmonica
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Help Beginners With Oral Reading
This helpful overview for teachers recommends strategies that aid young readers with oral reading.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: All Good Slides Are Slippery
An article from Poetry Magazine by Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, presents a portfolio of poetry from authors of many different times and places. In addition to the poems themselves, he discusses why he chose certain poems for this...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup: Reading Comprehension
A reading passage with eight multiple-choice questions to assess reading comprehension.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509136-6a3a05a74e487150140eeddda2c30d8e.jpg?1661800050 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Technology in Teaching Reading
Elementary students, while working on their basal reader story for the week, will use various forms of technology to increase comprehension and other reading skills. (Other strategies may be substituted if some of the technology...