| Name |
Description |
| Opinion Writing for an Author Study | In this lesson, students will listen to the stories Franklin in the Dark and Franklin Wants a Pet. Students will analyze story elements and story structure, which will assist them in writing an opinion piece about their favorite Franklin story. |
| Hamming It Up with Character | Students will learn about characters in narrative text through group collaboration, the creation of character trading cards and an oral presentation of original dialogue. Students will work in collaboarative groups to think of adjectives that would best describe how the characters look, behave, and feel. |
| Ants in Your Pants! - Part 2 | In this lesson, students will learn how to find the central idea of the passage, Ants in Action. Students will also discuss what makes a fluent reader and participate in paired reading with a partner. |
| Ants in your Pants! - Part 3 | Now that your students have become interested in this amazing animal, it is time to learn more by starting a research project. Students will use multiple sources and a graphic organizer to record new facts about ants in preparation to complete an expository writing piece in the next lesson. |
| Practicing Fluency with Shel Silverstein | Your students will be delighted to become immersed into the world of Shel Silverstein’s masterful poems. As students practice fluency and oral presentation, they will also learn how to identify various rhyme schemes and record their favorite poem. |
| Name |
Description |
| Fluency: Fluent Reflections | In this activity, students will read text and self-evaluate their reading fluency using the provided evaluation checklist. |
| Fluency: Read Along | In this activity, students will practice reading fluently using teacher-selected technology. |
| Fluency: Compu-Read | In this activity, students will read fluency passages using teacher-selected reading software. |
| Fluency: Poetic License | In this activity, students will read teacher-selected poems with a partner. |
| Fluency: Impressive Expressive | In this activity, students will read teacher-selected passages using expression appropriate to the content of the text. |
| Fluency: Cast of Readers | In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a reader's theater format. |
| Fluency: Follow My Lead | In this activity, students will read text chorally in unison. |
| Fluency: Echo Echo | In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by echo reading text with a partner. |
| Fluency: Reading Results | In this activity, students will time repeated readings and graph words correct per minute. |
| Fluency: Reading Twosome | In this activity, students will gain speed and accuracy by rereading teacher-selected text with a partner. |
| Fluency: Practice and Read | In this activity, students will practice reading teacher-selected target words and then read connected text containing those words. |
| Fluency: Chunk It Up | In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful chunks and then read it fluently. |
| Fluency: Division Decisions | In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful parts and then read it fluently. |
| Fluency: Reading Chunks | In this activity, students will read text that has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks. |
| Fluency: Phrase Haste | In this activity, students will quickly read phrases containing high-frequency words in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Fleeting Phrases | In this activity, students will quickly read phrases containing high-frequency words in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Listen To Me | In this activity, students will read and record passages. They will then self-evaluate their recorded reading, focusing on expression, rate, accuracy, and phrasing. |
| Fluency: Rapid Read | In this activity, students will practice reading target words and then read connected text containing these words with a partner. |
| Fluency: Poetry Reading | In this activity, students will read poems with a partner. |
| Fluency: Play It Up! | In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a reader's theater format. |
| Fluency: Read and Read Again | In this activity, students will time repeated readings and graph words correct per minute. |
| Fluency: I Read, You Read | In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading text with a partner. |
| Fluency: All Together Now | In this activity, students will read teacher-selected text in unison. |
| Fluency: Two To Read | In this activity, students will reread texts with a partner. |
| Fluency: Reading Wiz | In this activity, students will read texts within teacher-selected computer-based programs. |
| Fluency: Listen and Read | In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading along with pre-recorded text. |
| Fluency: Chunk It! | In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful parts and then read it fluently. |
| Fluency: Chunky Passages | In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into a chunked format, then reread it fluently in its original format. |
| Fluency: Chunk-A-Lot | In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks. |
| Fluency: Chunk-King | In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful phrases by slash marks. |
| Fluency: Phrase Progression | In this activity, students will read phrases that progressively result in sentences. |
| Fluency: Phrase Speed Practice | In this activity, students will quickly read phrases in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Fast Phrases | In this activity, students will read phrases in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Fluent Phrasing | In this activity, students will read words that progressively result in sentences. |
| Fluency: Computer-Based Reading | In this activity, students will interact with computer-based fluency passages (teacher-selected). |
| Fluency: Readers' Theater | In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a Readers' Theater format. |
| Fluency: Express It! | In this activity, students will read sentences on sentence strips with expression. |
| Fluency: Choral Reading | In this activity, students will read text in unison. |
| Fluency: Repeated Timed Readings | In this activity, students will time repeated readings of teacher-selected text and record words correct per minute. |
| Fluency: Partner Reading | In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading teacher-selected text with a partner. |
| Fluency: Rereading Decodable Text | In this activity, students will practice rereading decodable text with a partner. |
