Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Characteristics
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Words: Word Speed Practice [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students check for speed and accuracy while reading word lists. Printable materials are provided.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Parts: Root Rap [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a matching game by pointing to the root that their partner read aloud. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Parts: Affix Wiz [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students practice reading a list of affixes and then time each other to see how many affixes they can read in one minute. Students repeat to work towards increased speed and accuracy. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Word Way [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students identify unknown words within a text, identify their parts and syllables, and work to determine the meaning of each word. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: If the Clue Fits [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf]
A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Four Word [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students match words according to their base words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Sort [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students sort words according to whether they have a prefix, a suffix, both, or neither. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Syllable Patterns: Syllable Score [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students count the number of syllables in words and then write them on a listed divided correctly. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Syllable Patterns: Syllable Game [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by counting syllables in words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: Word O Matic [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students draw phoneme cards and build as many words as possible in one minute. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines
This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Research Roundup
A lesson plan in which students complete graphic organizers as they gather research information. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Inflection Toss
Students will blend base words and inflections to make words by playing a bean bag game.
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Florida Center for Reading Research: Compound Word Puzzle
Young scholars will form compound words by putting puzzles together.