Curated OER
Reading Skills: Chunking
Prepare advanced English learners and low-level readers for the reading demands of post-secondary education with skill of chunking. Readers learn to make meaning from phrases rather than individual words, helping them to read more...
Curated OER
Climb to Faster Reading
Students participate in repeated reading activities to improve their fluency after listening to the teacher model fluent and non-fluent reading. They work with a partner to complete repeated reading of sentences and books while being...
Curated OER
Racing Readers
Pupils listen as the teacher models both non-fluent and fluent reading and decide which sounds better. They read a book silently to themselves before completing repeated, timed readings. Working with a partner, they complete timed...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Scanning Exercise
Test your scanning skills by racing the clock with this exercise.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Activities for Struggling Readers
How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Strategies for Every Child to Read
What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Parts: Affix Wiz [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students practice reading a list of affixes and then time each other to see how many affixes they can read in one minute. Students repeat to work towards increased speed and accuracy. Materials are included.
Other
Braindance: Reading More Selectively
Gives specific advice on the most effective way to gain information through reading, especially necessary because the glut of information has created "an increasing need for the ability to scan." There are suggestions on how to decide...