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Oral Reading Fluency: Reading Text with Proper Expression

For Teachers K - 1st
Kids practice reading fluently with expression. They listen closely as their teacher reads a short paragraph, take note as she points out how she read each sentence, and then read along with her. They read to passage several times until...
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Dive Into Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners observe and demonstrate various reading strategies to improve their reading fluency. The teacher first models smooth speech. In pairs, pupils take turns reading from the book Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea by Cynthia...
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ELA High-Frequency Sight Words

For Teachers K
Read high frequency words and rearrange scrambled sentences in order to make proper sentences with pupils. They will also practice oral fluency by reading a word assigned to them. These activities reinforce reading fluency and vocabulary...
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Irregular Words Fluency, Speed Battle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Let's play a game! Explore language arts by participating in a flash card reading game. Kids utilize flash cards that have a number of irregular words written on them. They collaborate in pairs and compete as they attempt to pronounce...
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Put a Stop to "Choppy and Stoppy" Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use a crosscheck strategy to improve their oral reading rate and fluency. They are timed reading "Bud the Sub" orally three times, and work to improve their time and expression each time through. Students encourage each other...
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Blast-Off to Blending

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...
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Make Way for Readers

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice reading fluently and with expression. They explore different techniques for reading quickly when coming upon unknown words. They also participate in a paired reading activity in which they read "Make Way for...
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As Smooth as Silk

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils practice strategies dealing with reading fluency and how to read smoothly. They study the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, while incorporating cross checking. This lesson includes a small drum, a piece of silk and a...
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Falling Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying individual sounds in words by interacting with the phoneme /a/. They recite the tongue twister, "Abby had an apple in the bag," and play the game beware of the falling apples. Each student also reads the...
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
Students discover rhyming words. In this rhyming activity, students read A Giraffe and a Half. Students examine rhyming words from the story. Working in small groups, students create rhymes in response to a prompt from the teacher.
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Quick - Follow That Bear!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the importance of speaking with fluency and expression. They listen to the teacher modeling fluent, smooth reading and choppy reading. The students read "Follow That Bear!" orally, and practice reading it quickly and...
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Counting Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
In whole group practice, children count together and identify how many objects are drawn on butcher paper, increasing the number when they have achieved fluency. In pairs, they count manipulatives. They then copy series of numbers from...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners in order to become a fluent reader need to read often and repeat what they read over and over. Repeated reading helps students gain better knowledge of text. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and with this automatic...
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Introduce /B/

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students demonstrate how to pronounce the letter "b" sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students practice saying the "b" sound orally and repeat words that contain the letter "b." Additionally, students demonstrate the differences...
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Sight Words on a Snowy Evening

For Teachers K - 4th
Students read various poems by Robert Frost. In groups, they use the text of one poem to identify sight words that are new to them. As a class, they listen to a recording of the poem and then repeating it outloud practicing their...
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Wild Things Are Here

For Teachers K
Students engage in a literature study for the book Where The Wild Things Are. The skill of prediction is practiced as they preview the story as a whole class. The teacher models reading fluency, pronunciation, and phonetic skills while...
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Introduce /O/

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students demonstrate the letter sound, "o." In this sound fluency lesson, students view a letter card of the letter "o" and practice the letter sound by repeating it several times. Students identify the sounds of the letters written on...
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First Letter Changes

For Teachers K
Students use the books of Eric Carle to change the first letter in a word to see a new word. In this phonics lesson plan, students change the beginning letters in poems and books.
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Going on a Bear Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the value of Internet safety. Through various traditional and multimedia presentations and stories, students explore the ways in which they can gather information on the Internet with an emphasis on safe searching and...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Guest Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Mix up reading time by having your own students transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Interventions for Reading: Repeated Readings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a lesson plan for repeated readings including directions, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase students' reading fluency and, therefore, their reading comprehension.

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