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Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.
Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
Grades
K - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
"2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
Phonics In Context
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Phonics In Context
Use an engaging, authentic text to build students' knowledge of phonic elements and give them a taste of Japanese culture.
Awareness of Alliteration: Enhancing Writing Through Mentor Texts
Grades
1
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Awareness of Alliteration: Enhancing Writing Through Mentor Texts
Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.
Going Digital: Using e-Book Readers to Enhance the Reading Experience
Grades
2 - 4
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Going Digital: Using e-Book Readers to Enhance the Reading Experience
Students use various tools and features of digital readers to develop vocabulary, support comprehension, respond to text, improve fluency, and enhance the reading experience.
Shared Poetry Reading: Teaching Print Concepts, Rhyme, and Vocabulary
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Shared Poetry Reading: Teaching Print Concepts, Rhyme, and Vocabulary
The rhyme and reason behind this lesson is that students will need to develop important reading skills to increase their reading fluency.
The Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
The Connection Between Poetry and Music
Students won't miss a beat in this reading fluency lesson that combines music and poetry.
Word Study with <em>Henry and Mudge</em>
Grades
K - 3
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Word Study with Henry and Mudge

Henry and Mudge is used in this lesson to build students' word recognition through rereading, high-frequency word banks, word studies, and writing.

Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Recurring Lesson
Learning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
Seven blind mice—see how they spend each day of the week in this lesson that uses the book Seven Blind Mice to guide students through shared reading, writing, and listening activities.
Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.
Gingerbread Phonics
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Gingerbread Phonics
"Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
Getting the <em>ig</em> in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
The Two Voices of the <em>ow</em> Spelling Pattern
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
The Two Voices of the ow Spelling Pattern
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.
Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter <em>G</em>
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
Gentle, gigantic, graceful—do these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.

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