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I Read On My Own!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine how to choose books to read on their own and how to participate in reading discussions. They practice the two finger rule for choosing an independent reading book and how to look at the book's topic for personal...
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Out of Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice becoming a fluent reader by mastering the art of decoding unfamiliar words and sentences. Working with a partner, they read and reread "Froggy Eats Oats," by Jonathan London with a big palm tree, die-cut monkeys and a...
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Thumbs Up For Expert Readers!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the cross check strategy to increase reading comprehension in this lesson. They listen as the teacher reads "Where the Wild Things Are." The teacher purposely reads some words wrong so that the story does not make sense. ...
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Use Expression!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice techniques to read expressively and fluently to be able to read smoothly, silently and avidly. They read and explore the book, "The Morning Queen," by Joy Cowley along with sentence strips. Each student is taught what...
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Art About Me- The Skin You Live In

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners read the text The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler. In this literacy lesson, students discuss the characters in the text and the various shades of skin they observed on each page. Learners read the beautiful descriptions of the...
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Word families accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders read new words that share the same rime as a word they already know.  In this word families lesson, 1st graders read words on index cards with the teacher, play a matching game with different rimes, and eventually read new...
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Blending Bumper Cars

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...
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Run Away With Fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the difference between a fluent and a non-fluent reader reads like and that the more often they read, they recognize words automatically. They pair up, read the story one at a time, and use a stop watch to time one...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a tic-tac-toe game to practice reading irregular words.  In this tic-tac-toe lesson, students read words to a partner.  If they are correctly read, students mark the tic-tac-toe board.
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The Interesting Iguana

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice the representation of i=/i/ in correspondence and spoken words. They study spelling and reading words with i=/i/ in letterboxes, circling words in pictures that show words containing /i/, and view a chart with "The...
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Sentence Completion: "My Library"

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read a two paragraph story with eight missing words in it. They choose words from a word bank to correctly complete each sentence.
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It's About You

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars build connections between census information and community decision-making by reading a reader's theater script. In this reader's theater lesson, students practice reading fluently and learn about the government. The...
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Contractions Fluency

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read index cards with contractions on them. In this contractions lesson plan, 2nd graders try to beat the clock and each other by reading the contractions fluently in the shortest amount of time.
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Cranking Cooky Cars

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice the strategy of phoneme awareness with special vocal gestures or sound with the correspondence /k/. They listen as the book, "ABC," by Dr. Seuss is read to them and then they work on a tongue twister and worksheets.
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My Weekend: Sentence Completion

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, young scholars read two paragraphs that contain several missing words. Using the word bank provided, students choose the word to correctly complete each sentence.
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Compound word fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders say compound words fluently. In this compound words lesson plan, 1st graders say compound words that are given to them on cards, and they try and say them automatically and as fast as they can.
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Isabelle the Icky Iguana

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the sound and spelling of the short vowel /i/. They identify the short /i/ sound in spoken and written words. The tongue twister "Isabelle iguana is in her igloo," and "Tin Man Fix It," along with Elkonin letter boxes...
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Picture it!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice the skill of visualization to process the benefits of reading text without pictures. They must master visualizing in their minds what the words are stating on the pages of a text. Each student receives a copy of "The...
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Sentence Completion

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read a story called "A Terrible Day". Each sentence has a word missing. Students choose words from a word bank to complete each sentence.
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Sentence Completion: "My Family"

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read a two paragraph story with one word missing in each sentence. Students choose a word from a word bank to correctly complete each sentence. There are ten sentences.
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Sentence Completion: "A Holiday to Singapore"

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this sentence completion worksheet, students read a three paragraph story that has nine missing words. They choose words from a word bank to correctly complete each sentence.
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BL to the Ends (blends)

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students examine word blends. For this word blends lesson, students investigate common word blends. Working in pairs, students analyze words containing blends and generate a word list.
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Six Trait Writing with Twain and Doyle

For Teachers 5th
Students explore the traits of writing in this six lessons unit. Poems, fiction, and drama are evaluated to identify writing strategies. Utilization of vocabulary and writing rubrics help students judge the effectiveness of their own...
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Phonemic Awareness Mats

For Teachers 1st
In this literacy worksheet, 1st graders use the mats in order to have a game board to construct words for the two spaces with the CVC format.

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