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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Build sequencing skills by looking at transition words like first, next, then, and finally. Read four short paragraphs and use the transition clues to put the events in the correct order. Then use these words while typing an original...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Missing Key Details

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Where did Miss Nelson go? We look at the key details in the text to determine what is happening throughout the story. Young scholars will locate and record key details about story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, and...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Frayer Model [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about the Frayer Model, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the Frayer Model, understand how to measure progress with the Frayer Model, find research that supports...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Word Walls [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive word walls, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word walls, find research that supports the practice, and find examples.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
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Interactive
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Interventions for Struggling Readers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers links to an action plan a for school-wide intervention program. It includes a PDF of the principal's action plan outline, links to web casts of the intervention plan, and a video about the sounds of the English language...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Silly Sentence Mix Up

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners work with a partner to sort words according to category and then label each category. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Cube

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort word cards according to categories including: food, clothing, sports, animals, classroom things, and things with wheels. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Homograph Hitch

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students match two definitions to each homograph. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Opposites Attract

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a card game by matching synonym and antonym cards. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Beginning Consonant Sound Concentration Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a concentration game that focuses on hard and soft g/c consonant sounds. It can be used a class activity or a center.
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Activity
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina: Tar Heel Reader

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students can create, illustrate, and publish books for beginning readers, which are made available for the public to read. Authors must go through the free registration process in order to create a book.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: High Frequency Word Concentration

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students match the high frequency words in a concentration game format. I use this as a center activity.
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Website
CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.