Standard 1: Applying Foundational Reading Skills

In this lesson, students will learn to identify, create, and determine the meaning of compound words. They will participate in a series of engaging center activities to practice using compound words.

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In this model eliciting activity (MEA), students are asked to help the International Olympic Committee rank prospective host cities for upcoming Summer Olympic Games. Students are provided with data about a list of applicant cities and then must rank the cities and write a proposal to the IOC explaining their rankings. At the end of the MEA, the students will write an opinion piece for the International Olympic Committee that tells their final decision about which city should be the next host of the Summer Olympic Games.

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 processes. 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 MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

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In this lesson, students will be able to recognize and decode the use of sound words in literature. Students will practice these skills through a sound game, creating a word web, and making a sound word flip book.

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This lesson is an introduction to using the prefixes re-, pre-, and un-. In this lesson, students work with partners to add common prefixes to words and define the new meaning of the word. Students will create a digital presentation showcasing examples of the prefixes in use in sentences.

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The students will participate in reading the rhyming story The Crayon Box That Talked and help to generate words that rhyme with colors. Then, students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of rhyming words by completing a sorting activity.

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In this lesson, students will decode words with the vowel team /ee/. The students will develop a class-made /ee/ tree in which the students will increase their vocabulary with a variety of /ee/ words and students will create a narrative using words with the vowel team /ee/.

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In this unit, students will read appropriately leveled informational text on dinosaurs and identify the relevant details of the text. The students will create a detail web using evidence from the text and will then write an expository paper about their choice of dinosaur. The students will also participate in a guided class discussion. The students will practice the guidelines and procedures for successful discussion and will also practice how to come prepared for discussion by providing supporting information from texts that have been read.

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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.

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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.

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Create a jingle advertisement and mark the rhyme scheme in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

In this activity, students will quickly identify letter-sounds and word parts in a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables (sorted by syllable types) in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables containing varied spelling patterns in a timed activity. NOTE: Additional syllable cards are available in CPALMS' resource .

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read word parts by using a race car slide.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will take turns identifying consonant digraphs, variable vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read and record passages. They will then self-evaluate their recorded reading, focusing on expression, rate, accuracy, and phrasing.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will practice reading target words and then read connected text containing these words with a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read poems with a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a reader's theater format.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will time repeated readings and graph words correct per minute.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading text with a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read teacher-selected text in unison.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will reread texts with a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read texts within teacher-selected computer-based programs.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading along with pre-recorded text.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful parts and then read it fluently.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into a chunked format, then reread it fluently in its original format.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks.

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In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful phrases by slash marks.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read phrases that progressively result in sentences.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read phrases in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read phrases in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read words that progressively result in sentences.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read high frequency words on a practice sheet in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read high-frequency words in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will take turns reading high-frequency word cards in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read affixes by doing timed practices. Included in this resource are syllable cards that extend the activity in CPALMS' resource .

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will combine base words with affixes and inflections to make new words.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify word components (base word and affixes) by doing a sort.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will add affixes to base words to make new words.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify base words and affixes (prefixes and suffixes).

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will form compound words.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will make words from syllable cards.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify syllable patterns by playing a game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify and segment base words and inflections.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify base words and inflections.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify and write individual words in compound words.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will sort words by syllable types.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will map graphemes to phonemes and mark syllables within words.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will combine syllables to form words by playing a matching game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will match vowel diphthong patterns by playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify vowel diphthongs by playing a bingo-type game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs by completing a spell and sort activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment and cut words into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will count syllables in words by playing a game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment and sort words by the number of syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read and spell high frequency words.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a checker game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will orally segment phonemes in words and write the corresponding letters in Elkonin boxes.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read words with different spelling patterns while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs in words by playing a baseball board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify and match vowel digraphs by playing a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify and sort different spelling patterns for long vowels.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read high frequency words by playing a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment the onset and rimes of words represented on picture cards. They will then identify the blends, digraphs, and vowel teams that represent each part.

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In this activity, students will substitute specific sounds in words to create new words.

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In this activity, students will delete the second phoneme in an initial blend and select the picture that represents the new word.

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In this activity, students will decide which phoneme has been changed by comparing two pictures.

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In this activity, students will sort pictures based on the location (initial, medial, final) of phoneme substitution.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. In an extension activity, students can segment and count the phonemes in each word and sort by the number of phonemes.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will delete final phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes to make words by playing a picture card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes in words using Elkonin boxes.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment phonemes in words by playing a counting game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words and sort by number.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will blend phonemes in words and select the corresponding picture.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will isolate initial, medial, and final phonemes by comparing pictures.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will isolate final phonemes by listening to words and choosing pictures with the same ending sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes in words represented by objects. As an extension, students may also identify the medial and final phonemes.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will sort pictures based on vowel sounds (long and short).

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing dominoes.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes to match picture cards.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read words in the same word family by doing timed practices.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will make words using letter tiles containing digraphs and vowel pairs.

Type: Student Center Activity