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Hurry On Your Trip Cat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing strategies for becoming good readers, young scholars complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a...
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The Fog is Magic

For Teachers 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 3rd graders complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Speedy Monkeys

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Race To Finish

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing cross checking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment...
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Zoom Zoom Zoom

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Speedy Reader

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils practice the fluency of their reading by incorporating a variety of techniques and strategies. They read with stop watches and analyze "In the Big Top" and "Charlie," by Richard Vaughan. Students race and record their personal...
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Vroom, Vroom, Vroom! Off We Go!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars practice sentences and short books to improve their fluency. They read practice sentences to model fluent reading. They review decoding strategies for unknown words including cross-checking. They read with their partner...
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Speed Reader

For Teachers 1st
First graders work with a piece of text to become more fluent in reading. This lesson helps children practice how to read faster. They work on reading fluency through repeated readings under pressure. In turn, more words read per...
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Start Your Engines

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Student increase their reading fluency and expressiveness through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read...
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Is That Expression in Your Voice Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

For Teachers 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding strategies, 3rd graders, working in groups, write sentences that could be read with expression. Each member of the group takes turns...
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Get Ready to Race!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, learners complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Race to the Finish Line

For Teachers 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing the importance of fluent reading, 3rd graders complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Simon Says: Mother May I?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of fluency, learners complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they read complete a timed...
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Speedy Readers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Take One

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review strategies used to read unkown words. They listen as the teacher reads sentences using a variety of reading fluencies and expressions. They read assigned parts of the play, "Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer" by Aaron...
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Go Speed Racer!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students increase their reading fluency through one-minute drills. Working in pairs, students read a grade level appropriate text in one-minute intervals. After reading they determine their speed through a word count. Students...
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Watch Out for the Wasp!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment...
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Flying with Adam Raccoon

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing rereading and decoding strategies , students complete multiple reads of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed...
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Books Have Feelings Too

For Teachers 2nd
Second gradersincrease their reading fluency and expressiveness through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, 2nd graders complete an initial read of a novel text without expression. Each student reads a...
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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves Storia Teaching Guide

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves? Little learners read a new version of the old swallow story with a fall twist as they try to answer the big question; Why is that lady swallowing all that weird stuff? The teacher's guide...
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Finding Equal Groups

For Teachers K Standards
Build counting fluency in your kindergartners with this counting and grouping timed learning game. Provide various groups of objects to count such as a clear plastic bag filled with 7 beans or a cup with 5 pennies. There are many other...
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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“THE LORAX” by Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Few children's books convey the message of conservation as well as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. Read the story aloud, emphasizing the interconnectedness of plants and animals in an ecosystem and discussing different ways people can help the...