Standard 1: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills

In this Model Eliciting Activity (MEA), students will be gien an engineering problem in which they must work as a team to design a procedure to select the best pollinator for certain situations.

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

Type: Lesson Plan

In this activity, students will read text and self-evaluate their reading fluency using the provided evaluation checklist.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently using teacher-selected technology.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read fluency passages using teacher-selected reading software.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will read teacher-selected passages using expression appropriate to the content of the text.

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 read text chorally in unison.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

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 gain speed and accuracy by rereading teacher-selected text with a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will practice reading teacher-selected target words and then read connected text containing those words.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

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 that has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read teacher-selected target words in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will sort and read multisyllabic words with shared rimes in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read word parts (syllables, affixes, and roots) on a practice sheet in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly identify roots in a timed activity. As an extension, students will read multisyllabic words containing common roots.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will decode unfamiliar words by analyzing their parts.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify words based on advanced phonics-related clues (i.e., affixes, roots, base words, syllable types, and vowel patterns).

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify roots in multisyllabic words and match them to words that have the same root while playing a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will combine base words and affixes to make new words while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will write corresponding spelling patterns for long vowels in multisyllabic words. As an extension activity, students will write the correct vowel for the schwa sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will decode and spell words containing vowel diphthongs while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will quickly read affixes on a practice sheet in a timed activity. As an extension, students will read multisyllabic words containing common affixes.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will group multisyllabic words containing the same base word.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will sort words based on their affixes.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will make new words by combining words with inflections.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will produce compound words that begin with a specific letter. In an extension activity, students will read and segment multisyllabic compound words into two words.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will match syllable cards to create words.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will segment words into syllables and record the number of syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will make words using letter cards containing digraphs, silent letter combinations, vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will decode and spell words with r-controlled vowel patterns.

Type: Student Center Activity

3...2...1...Lift-off. Engage students in discussions about aerospace themes with the Ariane 5: The Satellite Launcher eReader. The eReader is an informational text with various text features and facts about the Ariane 5 rocket.

Type: Text Resource

Francisco Márquez was born in Venezuela and spent his childhood in both Venezuela and the U.S. He studied political science and law in Venezuela and earned his MBA in the United States. After receiving his MBA, Francisco returned to Venezuela. Under the authoritarian Nicolás Maduro regime, Francisco was arrested as a political prisoner and spent time in a Venezuelan prison. Eventually, Francisco was released and is now a political rights activist.

Type: Video/Audio/Animation