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Grade Level Resources

Pre-K, Kinder and First

Resources for Pre-K, Kindergarten and First Grade

Florida Center for Reading Research Pre-K Activities

Talking is Teaching from Strive for Five

Story Bag activity from Strive for Five

101 Conversation topics for kids (external site)

Kindergarten 4th Nine Weeks Read at Home Plan

Helping Students to Develop a Pencil Grip

Alphabet Cards Just Take 20

Blending and Segmenting Lessons from Reading Rockets

Teaching the sounds of the alphabet from the University of Florida Literacy Institute

How to Teach Sound by Sound Blending

Connecting Sounds with Letters how to help your child video from understood.org

H is for Home Supporting Foundational Reading Skills-article by Dr. Nell K. Duke

"Heart" Words Explained-University of Florida Literacy Institute Tutorial

Reading Aloud to Children.pdf

Letter-Sound Dominoes activity from the Florida Center for Reading Research

Video demonstrating how to play the Letter-Sound Domino game

Fast words activity from the Florida Center for Reading Research

The Snowy Day resources-author website.

Story Online--for families to listen together: books read by actors and actresses.

2nd and 3rd

RESOURCES FOR GRADES 2 AND 3

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For Florida Students Tutorials, students log in with Escambia School District password

Topics and Details 2nd grade Tutorial Florida Students website

Supporting Specific Points in Text 2nd grade Tutorial Florida Students website

Central Idea explained

Exploring the Main Idea 3rd grade Tutorial Florida Students website

Character Traits Tutorial on Florida CPalms.org

Roots and Affixes for Building Vocabulary from the Florida Center for Reading Research

Rhyme Scheme tutorial

Types of Poetry for third graders to identify

Figurative Language definitions

Author's Claim and Evidence explained

4th and 5th

RESOURCES FOR GRADES 4 AND 5

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For Florida Students Tutorials, log in with Escambia School District password

Digging Deeper: Inferences Tutorial from the Florida Students.org website

Answering Research Questions Tutorial from the Florida Students.org website

Integrating Information Tutorial from the Florida Students.org website

See more Tutorials from the Florida Students.org website

Read at Home Plan Resources

Florida Department of Education Read at Home Plan

Supporting Your Child at Home

Assessment Resources

Book Lists and Reading at Home

Fluency for Families

Fluency involves reading at good pace and with expression. Reading with expression shows that we are making sense out of what we are reading and we are phrasing it in such a way that others can listen and understand too. Fluency begins with reading out loud, but eventually transfers to silent reading. One study (Rasinski, et, al, 2016) showed that students with better fluency rates scored higher on the ACT, one test used for college entrance.

Reading Aloud to Build Fluency.pdf

Fluency record sheet.pdf

Vocabulary Flash Card Games to Play at Home.pdf

2nd Grade Oral Reading Fluency Classroom Rubrics

3rd Grade Oral Reading Fluency Classroom Rubric

4th Grade Oral Reading Fluency Classroom Rubric

5th Grade Oral Reading Fluency Classroom Rubric

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