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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Arthur the Brave [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A reader's theater script for Marc Brown's book, Arthur the Brave, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Miss Nelson Is Missing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Harry Allard, Miss Nelson is Missing, is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Diane Stanley's children's book, Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: "The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken" [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Helen Lester's early childhood book, The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reader's theater script for Shel Silverstein's narrative poem, The Giving Tree, is provided on these pages. Thirteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Dentist [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for The Dentist, is provided on these pages. Two character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Snowy Day [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Ezra Jack Keats' children's book, The Snowy Day, is provided on these pages. Eight character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Snowballs [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of Lois Ehlert's early childhood book, Snowballs, is provided on this script. Nine character roles are needed in this performance.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Red Balloon [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
A reader's theater script for Ruby Cremaschi's story adaptation, The Red Balloon, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Puppies for Sale [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of the early childhood book, Puppies for Sale, is provided on this script. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Unit Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Senses

For Students K - 1st
In the following activities students can learn about the basic characteristics and structures of the brain, skull and sensory system; investigate sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; and discover how the brain and the senses are...
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Capitalization Flash Cards

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This site contains a flash card game with general rules for capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives. Students can choose their difficulty level.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the students what is different.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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Website
Other

National Foundation for Educational Research

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Offers an impressive collection of educational research publications and practical guides across a wide range of subject areas.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This multi-day series of lessons will engage students in reading and listenting comprehension strategies related to books about animals. Students will retell, dramatize, and illustrate their new animal knowledge.
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Luisa Builds a Model"

For Students K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] These paired texts "Kareem's Playdate" and "Luisa Builds a Model" both have representations of physical space. A reading comprehension question set for each separately, a set for the two together, and...
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Chirping Chirp"

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The passages "Clara and Philip the Turtle" and "Chirping Chirp" share the common theme of caring for injured animals. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and one combined.
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "The Treasure Map"

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This paired text focuses on the theme of Discovery; it includes two reading passages, "Jack's Lost Kite" and "The Treasure Map," comprehension questions for each passage, and a combined set of questions...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Predict and Clarify With the Old Woman & Her Pig

For Teachers 1st
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Margaret Read McDonald's book, The Old Woman & Her Pig. Students will participate in making predictions, clarifiying understanding, and retelling the story.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.