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Information Fluency Unit
Fourth graders, after defining the task and searching for some creative strategies, role play being a Park Ranger who tries to save Big Bend from being removed from the National Park system in Texas. They support the keeping of Big Bend...
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Batter Up
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 three timed assessments...
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Feeding Red
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, rereading and reading with expression, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor,...
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What a Speed Reader!
Third graders improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing cover ups and cross checking, 3rd graders complete an initial read of a text. Working with a partner, they complete a timed assessment of...
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Practice Makes Perfect
Students 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 of...
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Racy Reader
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 assessments of...
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Growing Caterpillars
Explore multiplication through caterpillar study. Learners will view a caterpillar video clip and work with a group to determine how much they would weigh if they grew to be 3,000 times their size as does the caterpillar. They will...
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First Day of School
Primary learners complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book First Day of School. They will complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and much more.
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March of the Dividing Ant
Young scholars inspect divisibility rules. In this divisibility rules lesson, students study the relationship between factorization and the divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10. Young scholars read One Hundred Hungry Ants and A...
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Guided Reading with Ten Oni Drummers
Second graders read the book, Ten Oni Drummers. Working in guided reading groups, they discuss fantasy as a genre and preview the book. They review word identification strategies and read the book silently. After reading, they confirm...
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Reading Comprehension
Students review the task sheet and information on SQ3R reading strategy. They choose a text for reading then apply SQ3R to the text to preview and ask questions about the content, organizational structure and author's prupose for writing.
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Guided Reading with Two Sweet Peas
Second graders read the book, Two Sweet Peas. Working in guided reading groups, they discuss moving, making friends, and the differences between poems and stories. They read the book silently and discuss the importance of being kind and...
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Kitty Protector
Pupils observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading silently. They observe the teacher model techniques for reading silently, and discuss decoding strategies. As a class, they silently read the book "The Fire Cat" and...
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Express Yourself
Students practice reading orally with expression. Students are divided into pairs and receive the book "The Big Wide Mouthed Frog." The partners take turns reading the book with a lot of expression. The students rate each others'...
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Summarization Is The Key To Success
Fourth graders exercise the strategies of silent reading and summarization to acquire new and important information from a text. They silently read and summarize page eighty-two in their "A History of Alabama" books. A review of...
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"Expression Equals Enjoyment"
Students practice strategies to become more fluent readers with expression. They observe the teacher modeling fluent and expressive reading of the book, "Pig and Crow," by Kay Chorao and then model what they've observed with expression...
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Shh!
Students explore how to read silently to help them read fluently. They discuss why it is important to read silently. Students read "Jane and Babe" as the teacher models how to read quietly and then silently. They write a story describing...
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Smooth Cat!
Students practice reading and rereading the same text in order to gain the characteristics of a successful reader. They read and reread the book, "Cat's Trip," by Sharon Fear and time each of their readings and then record their times on...
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Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
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Pencil Talk And Other School Poems
Students engage in a lesson to strengthen reading comprehension, the lesson focuses on the skill of making connections of story details and life experiences. The most important aspect of the lesson is for them to develop confidence while...
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Research Listed Websites for Support for Writing a Summary
Summary writing is tough for native English speakers, let alone English language learners! For this plan, high school English learners examine how to annotate online articles and write a one-page summary. They can post this summary on...
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It's Time to Sum It Up!!!
Students practice the reading strategy of summarization skills by picking out main events or ideas while reading a chapter in a book. They interact with the article, "SuperCroc," from National Geographic for Kids magazine to summarize...
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My Lips are Zipped
Students practice reading silently. After discussing how reading silently can enhance the reading experience, students discuss decoding strategies. Individual students read selected, level passages during sustained silent reading.
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If You're Happy And You Know It, Show Us With Expression
Student practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 3rd graders read a story with expression to their partner. They complete an evaluation of each other's...