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Ready, Set, Go

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing rereading as a good reader strategy, students complete an initial read of a novel text. With a partner, they complete a timed fluency drill...
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Make Way for Readers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading fluently and with expression. They explore different techniques for reading quickly when coming upon unknown words. They also participate in a paired reading activity in which they read "Make Way for...
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Up, Up, Up The Banana Tree

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

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of reading fluently, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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The Secret School-Chapter 4

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read The Secret School. In this language arts lesson, 4th graders discuss the characters in the story and read aloud using fluency while reading. Students write a summary of the chapter.
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Flying Through The World Of Books

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice various strategies for fluent, expressive reading. After reviewing chunking and book talks, students choose an appropriate leveled book to read. They are assessed on their reading fluency and reading expression after...
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You can call me.........Speedy Gonzalez!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice their decoding skills to increase reading fluency. They use timed reading to observe the rate at which they read. They work in small groups to read a book in a time situation.
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Investigate a New Word from "Notes from the Trail"

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read and take notes from Notes from the Trail. In this reading fluency activity, students read back and share their notes finding 7-10 new words. Students define, write an unrelated sentence and present.
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The Big Green Monster

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They complete center activities in groups of four in order to aid in decoding and...
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The better to eat you, dear!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice various strategies for fluent, expressive reading. After reviewing sentence structure, students choose an appropriate leveled book to read with their partner. They are assessed on their reading fluency and reading...
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Questioning the Reader

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students consider various reading strategies to improve their understanding and fluency. They review their assessment task and rubric for how their work will be evaluated. They read a story and predict what will happen by recording...
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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
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Exciting Your Mind

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice reading a piece of text with expression remembering to include their thoughts, feelings and concerns through speech. They read with expression to change the speed, inflection, volume and pitch of their voice. Each...
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Picture This!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice the strategy of visualization to aid in their reading comprehension of text. They paint mental pictures from readings from their history books, "The World and Its People: the US and It's Neighbors," and short stories...
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"So What Are You Trying To Say Here?"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students exercise the strategy of summarization to recall important information in a text. They read to summarize the passage, "Ways the Ocean Helps Us," by Katherine Jones Carter, from "Oceans." Each student follows a list of...
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Sum It Up !!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice various comprehension strategies to generate the main idea of the text. They encounter unfamiliar concepts and new vocabulary in their quest of the main idea in "Watson's Goes to Burmingham." The Five W's (What, Where,...
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Elementary learners practice reading with expression to understand text better. They identify punctuation marks to see how each sentence is to be expressed with a certain emotion. Then they practice their new skills by working through...
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What's All the Buzz about .... Reading!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use fluency checklists in this lesson to improve oral reading ability. The teacher models fluent and timed reading while reading the story "Fuzz and the Buzz." The students work with a partner to time each others oral reading...
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Leaping Frogs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils work to gain fluency and become successful readers through repeated readings. In this frog-themed lesson, they complete one-minute timed readings with a partner and show their progress as they move paper frogs across lily pads.
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High Frequency Word Work

For Teachers 1st
First graders make an "All About Me" book. In this high fluency words lesson students use a computer program to create a book about themselves. Students write their own text.
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"Hopping Into Fluency"

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners practice reading to become fluent readers. They read quickly, automatically and expressively. Students should also comprehend what they read. One way to increase fluency is through repeated readings. Reading a passage of text...
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Language Arts: Sentence Variety and Fluency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars are able to identify, create, and evaluate three kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. They are able identify the purpose of various sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, and...
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Reading Race to the Farm

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students 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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I'm Nuts About Reading

For Teachers 2nd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 2nd graders read a novel text. Working with the instructor, they complete a timed assessment of their words read per...

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