Reading Games – Free Online Reading Comprehension Games for Kids
Reading games for kids are a great help for parents and teachers who are looking for fun ways to develop healthy reading habits in children. The virtual world here at JumpStart has a fun collection of games to encourage reading in kids. Play them now!
Vocabulary Activities
Skits This is a good culminating activity, before a test, to bring together all the grammar, vocabulary, and cultural concepts in a lesson. Goal: To create and present a cohesive skit on a particular topic. Preparation: Create a rubric and a clear set of directions for the students. Include such items as content (vocabulary and topic), structure (grammar and syntax), sound of speech (pronunciation, flow, inflection), and presentation (props, action, delivery of lines, length). Procedure: Since this is an activity that you have been using since early in level one, students should know what to expect. By this level, writing of lines should be very minimal.
Teaching With a Mountain View: Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers + Link Up!
We have all heard about the shift that happens, usually between second and third grade, when students (should) go from learning to read to reading to learn. Unfortunately, for some students, their ability to read to learn is stifled by their inability to read fluently. Even for those kids who can read at an average pace, the faster and more accurately they can read and decode, the more effectively they can comprehend. When I taught third grade, and now as an interventionist, the importance of fluency is empathized more than ever (and has definitely met some critics).
Writing Cafe
My Home Page » Writing Cafe Writing Cafe How to Write Well The writing CAFE is a workshop approach to teach writing strategies that align with the first grade state standards.
Fluency: Instructional Guidelines and Student Activities
Guidelines for instruction Provide children with opportunities to read and reread a range of stories and informational texts by reading on their own, partner reading, or choral reading.Introduce new or difficult words to children, and provide practice reading these words before they read on their own.Include opportunities for children to hear a range of texts read fluently and with expression.Suggest ideas for building home-school connections that encourage families to become involved actively in children's reading development.Encourage periodic timing of children's oral reading and recording of information about individual children's reading rate and accuracy.Model fluent reading, then have students reread the text on their own. What students should read Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice reading with a high degree of success.
Fluency Practice Passages
Why Use Fluency Practice Passages Fluency is a key foundational skill that helps students read complex text with greater understanding. When students read with accuracy and expression at an appropriate reading rate, their fluency supports their comprehension.
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Reading Fluency Activities
The reading fluency activities on this page are essential for children with dyslexia and struggling readers. These activities can be taught in the classroom (small and large group setting) and can also be implemented at home! Keep checking this page for more free printable reading fluency activities and other ways to increase reading fluency! Reading Self-Check Poster By enlarging this template you can help students learn and remember important self-check strategies when reading. We have found that it is beneficial to add objects to each strategy!
Stone Fox
The Stone Fox Progeny Press Study Guide By Progeny Press Stone Fox is the adventurous story of Willy, who lives with his suddenly ill-grandfather. When the State of Wyoming threatens to take his grandfather's farm, Willy enters a dog sled race hoping to win enough money to pay the taxes. But an Indian named Stone Fox also enters the race, and Stone Fox has never lost. Can Willy and his faithful dog, Searchlight, beat Stone Fox and his five white Samoyeds?
20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading
As anyone with a toddler knows, iPads are addictive for children. They seem to have some sort of special radar that lets them know when an iDevice is within their reach, and they’ll do anything they can to get their hands on them. Resistance is futile, but instead of lamenting excessive screen time, you can make your child’s iPad addiction a productive one with educational apps, including those that promote early reading. With these 20 apps, children can learn how to write letters, improve phonics fluency, and even write their own books. Read on to find the very best iPad apps for developing young readers, and feel free to share your own favorites in the comments. ABC PocketPhonicsKids can develop skills in letter sounds, writing, and first words with ABC PocketPhonics.
Starfall: Learn to Read with Phonics, Learn Mathematics
The introductory sections of the page offer a good grounding in the fundamental underpinnings of fluency, which can help teachers stay centered on the core concept. At the bottom of the page is a large variety of links and jump-off points to activities and resources related to fluency development. by theofficepicnic Jul 25
This page discusses what it means to be a fluent reader, why fluent reading is important, and several strategies for improving fluency in the classroom. It also provides the links for many other fluency resources, including activities and sites with other information. by ttribou Jul 24
This site offers insights to teaching fluency by defining what fluency is (and isn't). A brief example of this is where the site breaks fluency down into its three components: accuracy, rate and prosody. Fluency instruction is also broken into modeling, guided reading, practice and performance, and word study. by cameronbourg Jul 24
This site talks about fluency and its importance, as well as tips for instruction. It offers tons of links to help learn more about instruction, assessing fluency, and online reading materials. by britto Jul 23
This site provides a great overview of what fluency is and how it should be addressed in the classroom. It also provides resources and activities to help students improve their fluency skills. by jkor Jul 14
This website explains what fluency is, how to model it and why it is so important to reading success. It includes lesson plans, implementation techniques, and links to other resources. by vickiekwiecinski Jul 2
This website gives information on fluency. It explains why it is so important and how to teach it. The site offers resources such as: lesson plans, advice, and links to worksheets.. by mandimedley Jun 29
Great simple research findings about why fluency is so important in young readers. by jortega Mar 13
This is a nice site that list reasins for teaching fluency and some activities that go with it. by lauravennard Mar 12
This page/site describes why fluency is important in providing a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. It gives simple definitions of the 3 components of fluency: Accuracy, Rate, and Prosody. The link to the Oral Reading Rubric helps teachers rate students' overall fluency. There are also "a ton" of resources for activities and ways to assess students. by lemelendez520 Mar 12
This site has a good broad overview of fluency. It has helpful resources for implementing fluency instruction and evaluation in the classroom. by kjames15 Mar 11
This site basically defines reading fluency, advises teachers when to implement fluency and assessment activities and offers fabulous ideas for literacy centers, such as song and recording centers/stations. It also discusses the importance of teacher fluency instruction through modeling, guided oral reading and by offering students many opportunities to apply and practice these reading concepts. I definitely see myself revisiting this website from time to time and label it as very informative. by jlehman Mar 9
In order to implement fluency teaching into reading instruction, teachers need to be aware of the three components of fluency. Here are some examples of activities for each of the components. by mcussen Feb 16
This site is full of examples and strategies for oral reading fluency. I like how it defines the strategies very clearly, so there are no gray areas and teachers know eactly what choral reading, repeated reading, reader's theater, etc. is. There are also great links to more strategies and actual classroom activities, related to reading fluency. This is definitely a page I will bookmark on my classroom computer and refer back to. by kham1 Nov 5
This is a site full of information about fluency and its importance (would be great for explaining "fluency" to parents). It also has links to amazing resources, handouts, and activities that can be used in a classroom setting. by kbeck07 Nov 4