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Target 2% Lessons to Support Comprehension for Grades K through 5
- Resource ID: T2P0005
- Grade Range: K–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
These comprehension activities are designed to enhance the instruction of all teachers of reading and to meet the learning needs of all students, as indicated by data.
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Target 2% Lessons to Support Vocabulary for Grades K through 5
- Resource ID: T2P0003
- Grade Range: K–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Vocabulary knowledge is an essential component of comprehension, language proficiency, and reading growth for all students.These vocabulary activities are designed to enhance the instruction of all teachers of reading and to meet the learning needs of all students, as indicated by data.
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Target 2% Lessons to Support Phonics for Grades K through 5
- Resource ID: T2P0002
- Grade Range: K–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Phonics is the relationship between the letters (graphemes) of written language and the sounds (phonemes) of spoken language. These phonics activities are designed to enhance the instruction of all teachers of reading and to meet the learning needs of all students, as indicated by data.
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Target 2% Lessons to Support Phonological Awareness for Grades K through 1
- Resource ID: T2P0001
- Grade Range: K–1
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Phonological awareness is the structure of oral language. It involves the awareness that oral language is comprised of sounds and the ability to manipulate these sound parts in various ways (blending, segmenting, deleting, adding, substituting).
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Target 2% Lessons to Support Fluency for Grades K through 5
- Resource ID: T2P0004
- Grade Range: K–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Fluency is the ability to read text effortlessly, allowing the reader to concentrate on meaning. Fluency includes reading accurately, quickly, and with prosody (appropriate phrasing, expression, and attention to punctuation).
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Here Is the Beehive
- Resource ID: PBS201
- Grade Range: PreK–2
- Subject: ELA & Reading
This rhyme can start a conversation with the child about where bees live, where they keep their honey, how they sound, and what they look like. It can help the child learn new words.
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Proper Case of Pronouns | No Nonsense Grammar
- Resource ID: PBS343
- Grade Range: 2–6
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Pronoun case is determined by how we use the pronoun in a sentence. There are three ways: subjective, when the pronoun does something; objective, when something is done to our pronoun;
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Comic Cam: Expressive Reading
- Resource ID: PBS368
- Grade Range: K–3
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Jennifer Barber introduces the different characters she created for her stories when she was seven years old. She reads one of her stories using different voices to differentiate between the three characters.
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Activity: Awesome Alliteration | WordGirl
- Resource ID: PBS381
- Grade Range: 1–3
- Subject: ELA & Reading
This WordGirl lesson focuses on alliteration. Students will generate a list of alliterative words, then write an original poem using those words
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Simple and Compound Sentences | No Nonsense Grammar
- Resource ID: PBS388
- Grade Range: 1–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
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How to Capitalize Titles | No Nonsense Grammar
- Resource ID: PBS409
- Grade Range: 1–4
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Capitalizing titles of books, movies, etc. can be tricky at first glance, but is easy to figure out. Remember to capitalize the first word, last word, and any important words within the title.
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Wheel of Fitness
- Resource ID: PBS460
- Grade Range: K–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
This Kindergarten through 5th grade video is similar to Wheel of Fortune. Students are chosen to spin the Wheel of Fitness and perform the exercise shown.
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Using Commas and Quotations | No Nonsense Grammar
- Resource ID: PBS410
- Grade Range: 3–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Quotations and commas are two very useful punctuation tools that indicate dialogue and brief pausing in sentences. Learn how to use them correctly!
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Season Fitness
- Resource ID: PBS454
- Grade Range: 1–5
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students learn about the varying seasons
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I Love Words | Sesame Street
- Resource ID: PBS257
- Grade Range: PreK–1
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Abby Cadabby sings a song about words she loves.
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Sign the Sing-A-Long Song | Sesame Street
- Resource ID: PBS222
- Grade Range: PreK–1
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Sign language transforms this popular nursery rhyme. This bilingual sing-along teaches "If you're happy and you know it" in English and Sign language.
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Reading Camp Day 2: Wonder Red's Words Day | Super Why!
- Resource ID: PBS363
- Grade Range: PreK–2
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Click on the links to access an overview of the Day 2 activities, the Day 2 materials list, instructions for each activity (including related PDFs), take-home worksheets, and links to the related episode, computer game, and video clips.
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Reading Camp Day 1: Alpha Pig's Alphabet Day | Super Why!
- Resource ID: PBS362
- Grade Range: PreK–2
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Click on the links to access an overview of the Day 1 activities, the Day 1 materials list, instructions for each activity (including related materials PDFs), take-home worksheets, and links to the related episode, computer game, and video clips.
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Tips from the Playground: KN, GN, and BT
- Resource ID: PBS371
- Grade Range: 1–3
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Reggie discusses the silent letters in the "kn," "gn," and "bt" combinations. He advises his viewers that "the ghost is always first," meaning that in all three combinations only the second letter is pronounced.
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Shock & Friends Phonics Rap: OE
- Resource ID: PBS391
- Grade Range: 1–3
- Subject: ELA & Reading
Shock and his friend rap and beatbox using words that contain the "oe" vowel combination. This resource teaches reading, pronunciation, and decoding.