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Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
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| Listen Up! A Closer Look at Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen: | In this lesson, students will listen to readings of Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen by Howard Binkow. They will complete a story map, a character analysis, and answer discussion questions. Students will be led to understand the change that the character makes and the lessons learned. Students will write an expository text to respond to a prompt while demonstrating grade-appropriate grammar, conventions, and spelling. |
| I Love You Just the Way You Are: Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino: | In this lesson, students will enjoy listening to Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino and think deeply about the moral of this story. In addition to participating in a story mapping activity, students will answer discussion questions about the story to gauge their comprehension and expand their vocabulary. This set of lessons will be concluded with students writing an opinion piece about Unlovable’s biggest lesson. |
| Planting Vegetables After a Storm: | In this open-ended question, students in teams will make decisions about how to rank vegetables to plant on a farm. The students' decisions will be based on various criteria.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx |
| Poetry Parade: | Fluency is developed as students read, reread and memorize poems. Students will present poems to the class. |
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| 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. |
