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Activity
Scholastic

I Survived Being Bullied

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Listen, or read, to a first-hand account of how 15-year old Adama survived being bullied. Scholars gain insight into Adama's experience while reinforcing reading comprehension and vocabulary skills using context clues.   
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

Stressed Out Sally

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Life changes may cause stress. Here, scholars identify stressful situations in a peer's life and offer coping skills to make for a better day. A short story, "Stressed Out Sally," provides pupils with a look inside a bad day. After...
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Excuse Me, Is This the Way to the Drainpipe?

For Teachers K - 6th
Elementary kids read and color the story of Willy Wetsworth, a drop of water, as he describes the journey that he and his friends take to provide fresh water to houses. He tells his story to Martha Merriweather, a little girl, and...
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Unit Plan
Cassandra Reigel Whetstone

Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pair your reading of Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows with the questions and activities provided here. Learners answer questions about the text, create story maps, put together brochures, relate math to the story, practice some...
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Activity
Reading Is Fundamental

Summer Fun...

For Teachers K - 5th
Extend learning through summer with these activity ideas! Individuals can choose one or all nine of the activities, which range from a summer reading goal to an examination of local insects (with accompanying story prompt). See the...
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Activity
Reading Resource

Take Me Out to the Ballgame Card Game

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack! Inspire some competition between your learners with a baseball-themed reading game. Players take turns reading as many words as they can, and once they reach a card they can't read, they tally up...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments, bodies of water, things found at a...
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Indiana Department of Education

Indiana K-12 Educators’ Resource Toolkit

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Imagine a tool that magically engages readers in the classroom. A handbook for Indiana educators doesn't guarantee success, but it does offer a variety of strategies for teachers to try. The handbook opens with research-based theory...
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Activity
Reading Resource

Painting Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Paint with the colors of reading! Learners in special education classes or mainstream classes practice decoding basic and advanced code with a series of sentences on paint blobs. Once they read the sentence, learners cover one spot on...
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Worksheet
Student Handouts

Blue Beard: A Fairy Tale for Children?

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Make a study of the well-known fairy tale (in this case told by the Brothers Grimm), Bluebeard. Learners read the story, respond to several questions about the text, and practice vocabulary words from the text.
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Reading Resource

Cars Uno (Advanced Code)

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Zoom into the distance with a reading game based on Disney's Cars. Kids use the rules associated with Uno® to match either the character or the word on each card during their turn, or they can skip players, reverse the order, have...
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Workbook
Essential Skills Software

Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Reading Test -- B1 Level

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this reading test worksheet, learners read about Nelson Mandela. Students read a biography of Nelson Mandela and answer questions about what they read.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Read with Expression!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the concept of expressive reading. Through modeling the teacher shows them that more expression makes reading more interesting and enjoyable to listen to. They review ending punctuation marks and the types of expression...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Running Towards Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They are timed during each reading and graph and compare their results.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ready...Set...Let's Read!!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners observe and demonstrate various reading decoding strategies to improve their reading fluency. In pairs, they take turns reading sentences outloud to each other, with the goal of reading them more quickly each time. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nascar Reading

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to sentences read with fluency and without to determine which sounds better. Next, with a partner or in a small group they practice reading a book three times. Finally, as an assessment, they read the book while being...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hit a Homerun with Reading Speed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars review basic reading decoding/comprehension. They read passages and see how fast they can read the pages. In a baseball-like game, they try to read faster and faster. If they improve their fluency rate, they increase...
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Curated OER

Guided Reading with Hey! You're Eating my Homework

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice vocabulary via a discussion of pets and animals that may have interfered with homework. They view the title of the book, and discuss what might be happening in the picture. Students discuss strategies for reading...
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

6 Traits: Sentence Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students practice writing with sentence fluency in order to make the story more enjoyable for the reader. In this sentence fluency lesson plan, students focus on rhythm and flow.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Look, Read, and Write

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this sentences instructional activity, learners look at the pictures, read the sentences, and write the sentences. Students write 8 simple sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Make and Read a Picture Graph

For Students 1st - 2nd
What books do you like? Have your learners read and interpret a picture graph detailing a fictional class's favorite books. Consider conducting a survey of your learners' favorite books and plotting the results as a class!
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Worksheet
Manchester University

Where The Forest Meets The Sea

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Join a father and his son as they explore an isolated location off the coast of Australia in the children's book Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker. Engage young learners in reading this fun story with this series of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Green Light

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
How is music like reading? First, listeners rank music from slowest to fastest. How does the music's pace affect your mood? How does this same theory compare to reading? Spark a discussion to identify the similarities. 

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