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Unit Plan
Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Word Relationships

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how word relationships affect the meaning of text, and then practice this skill.
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Interactive
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Homophones

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Engage in this fun activity to learn all about homophones, which are words that sound alike but that are spelled differently and have different meanings.
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Graphic
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Learn a Word: Science Vocabulary Acquisition

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
In this lesson plan, students use multiple sources to learn the meanings of science words, collaborating to create useful resources for learning and retaining science vocabulary.
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Website
Auburn University

The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.
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Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Phoneme Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Resource that provides lists of words that are grouped in families with similar spelling patterns.
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Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Tell a T Rex

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read these silly sentences and decide which ones make sense. Perfect practice for reading for comprehension.
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Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

Words Plagued by Unusual Silent Letters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 20 words with commonly misspelled words that have silent letters. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: If the Clue Fits [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.
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Interactive
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Four Word [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students match words according to their base words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: Word O Matic [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars draw phoneme cards and build as many words as possible in one minute. Materials are included.
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Dune Buggy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Interactive
Other

Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Technology in Teaching Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Suffixes: Rags to Riches

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Increase student's understanding of suffixes with this interactive game. Students' demonstrate understanding of word endings by selecting correct definitions of each suffix.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Making Inferences

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Inferencing is finding clues and using background knowledge to determine an explanation from facts in a passage or story. It's "reading between the lines" of a story to understand what the author doesn't state.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Affixes: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces affixes, including suffixes and prefixes and lesser-known affixes. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Affixes."
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Skills Inferencing

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, images, and videos with information and examples of how to make inferences.