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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Zac the Rat

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Beginning readers can listen as they read-along with this wonderfully animated story about Zac, a rat who gets into quite a jam. Students can click on a word and it will show them how to blend the phonemes to pronounce it. It is an...
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Dune Buggy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Assessing Phoneme Awareness and Decoding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do you assess phoneme awareness and decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this question on phoneme awareness and decoding.
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Professional Doc
Other

Balanced reading.com: Decoding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an interactive ebook of the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." It allows children to read along, listen to, or read the story independently.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dolphins Are Not Fish Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is the nonfiction interactive ebook "Dolphins Are Not Fish - Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin." Children can read-along, listen to, or read this story independently.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dinosaurs!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is the interactive ebook "Dinosaurs!" Children can read along, listen to, or read the story independently.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Apple

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson focuses on the short-vowel letter A sound. It includes a poem about apples, how to from the letter A caps and lower case, and pictures of other things beginning with an A.
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Activity
Virginia Tech

Pixel: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading and Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short summary of different skills involved in reading fiction vs. non-fiction. Includes study tips and an organizational guide to use when reading.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Using Decodable Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you use decodable text in your classroom? This site offers insight into this necessary part of the reading process. Come and learn more.
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Graphic
Other

Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Reading and Understanding

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on how to check understanding of text for adult learnings.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Goals for First Grade: Early Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Children go through certain phases of reading development from preschool through third grade- from exploration of books to independent reading. Find out what children at the first-grade phase should be able to do, and what teachers and...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Alphabet Bubble

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Alphabet Bubble is a fun educational game that helps develop phonemic awareness. Children pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound. Once a match is completed children are shown a picture of the word.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction to Making Predictions and Inferences

For Teachers 1st
First graders will engage in a shared reading of "Mr. C's Dinner" so that we can build a foundation for understanding what it takes to make good predictions and inferences.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Finding Theme

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
One of the question types you'll see on the SAT Reading Test is called synthesis: these questions ask you to draw conclusions and make connections between two related passages or between passages and informational graphics.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Rhetoric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Details about Rhetoric on the SAT Reading Test. One definition of the word rhetoric is "the study of writing or speaking." Rhetoric questions on the Reading Test assess how well you understand the choices that authors make as they...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Information and Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Information and Ideas category of the SAT Reading Test includes questions that focus on what the passage says (directly or indirectly). To interpret the author's message, you'll need to consider both what's stated and what's implied...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Timeline: Making High School Count

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Khan Academy resource is an article that discusses the activities you can pursue to make the most of your high school experience in preparation for college.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Use Precise Language and Domain Specific Vocabulary

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 11: Summer Learning

For Teachers K - 1st
Adventures in Summer Learning offers practical suggestions for parents about how to create a literacy-rich summer, as well as profiles of effective formal programs for at-risk youth and children with learning disabilities. Video excerpts...
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 10: Toddling Toward Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Hosted by Reba McEntire, "Toddling Toward Reading" examines what it takes to give preschoolers the early literacy skills they need to become successful readers. Features children's book author and illustrator Sandra Boynton, whose...