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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives them a...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Potato: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. A word version of "Hot Potato" in which the students pass around a basket of words. The last student to hold the basket must pick a word and sound it out. If they...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Baseball: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students are divided into two teams and when "up to bat" sound out a word on a card accurately, and then pick a card from the baseball plays in a bucket.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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PBS

Pbs: Misunderstood Minds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful spotlight on scientific explanations behind learning differences and strategies to aid success in school. Includes profiles of the students in the documentary as well as interactive activities designed to give site visitors a...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, young scholars will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.
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Other

American Printing House: Welcome to the Braille Bug

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource is for learning about braille. Links are provided to change colors, increase font size, decode braille, learn about braille, discuss some books with others and play games.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Spelling Supports Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many readers are puzzled by the rules and exceptions of spelling. Research has shown, however, that learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge. Read this article to learn more about the...
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: The Letter C

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice reading words that contain the letter C and learn how to decode the s and k sound.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Theory of Adolescent Reading: A Simple View of a Complex Process

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How do adolescents move from reading words to applying knowledge learned from a text? See the adolescent reading model and the Strategic Intervention Model (SIM) clearly illustrated.
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Other

Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Life Is a Journey (The Odyssey Unit Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Unit plan containing five lessons designed for ninth graders. They center around "The Odyssey" and the journey of life, and they teach reading strategies such as decoding, note taking, and summarizing. All are aligned to Missouri...
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Other

Video Over the Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth document on video and the Internet. Including video & Internet-the problem, solutions & technologies in use, video encoding & decoding.
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Brain Machine Interfaces: Your Brain in Action

For Students 9th - 10th
Brain-machine interfaces (BMI), or brain-computer interfaces (BCI), is an exciting multidisciplinary field that has grown tremendously during the last decade. In a nutshell, BMI is about transforming thought into action and sensation...
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Article
National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: The Secret Language of Dolphins

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interesting look at the communication between dolphins. Based on a series of sounds, it is apparent that these creatures have a 'language' of communication starting right from birth. Learn what scientists think and if they have made...
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Article
Scientific American

Scientific American: Mapping Chromosome 21

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has all kinds of information about current events on the decoding of the human genome, and specifically chromosome 21. This research will be helpful in identifying the root of common Down Syndrome complications.
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Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Wrecks Factor: Factor Simple and Harder Quadratics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this game, you must send rescuers to ships trapped in the Bermuda Triangle by first decoding their coordinates that were given to you as quadratic expressions. As you decode the coordinates, you must draw a search area on a grid that...
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Handout
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: James Watson Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about James Dewey Watson, the co-recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with Franice Crick on decoding the structure of DNA. This article includes information on both Watson's personal life and public career.
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Other

Channel One: Lesson Plan: How to Spot Fake News

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson plan explores the problem of fake news sites, featuring a Channel One News video about the issue. What are the best approaches to decoding the real from the fake?
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match Fry Words 921 930

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words in this audio matching game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word Fry Words 901 910

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words by playing this online game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word Fry Words 911 920

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words by playing this online game.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Learn to Read: Surfer Girl

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Surfer Girl is an interactive story that allows you to practice reading words with the er, ur, and ir sounds.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Choosing Earth's Climate Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Students focus on the three interconnected choices global society faces as Earth's climate continues to change -- suffer, adapt, and mitigate -- to analyze and predict current and future impacts to Earth's systems. Using videos excerpted...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Dyslexia

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Children with dyslexia often have poor phonological skills, resulting in difficulties with decoding, reading fluency, and spelling. Dyslexia can also impact reading comprehension and writing. Learn about the early warning signs for...

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