Reading Lesson Plans

Reading lesson plans are important for several reasons: reading lesson plans

1. **Structured Learning**: Lesson plans provide a structured approach to teaching, ensuring that each reading lesson has clear objectives, activities, and outcomes. This helps students progress systematically, building on their skills over time. reading lesson plans

2. **Goal Alignment**: They align with curriculum standards and learning goals, ensuring that the instruction is purposeful and meets educational requirements. This alignment helps teachers track student progress and adjust instruction as needed. reading lesson plans

3. **Consistency**: Lesson plans ensure consistency in instruction, which is especially important if different teachers are working with the same group of students or if a substitute teacher needs to take over.

4. **Differentiation**: They allow for differentiation, helping teachers to tailor their instruction to meet the diverse needs of students, whether they are struggling readers or advanced learners.

5. **Assessment and Feedback**: Reading lesson plans often include methods for assessing student understanding and providing feedback. This helps teachers identify areas where students may need additional support or challenge.

6. **Time Management**: They help teachers manage their time effectively, ensuring that all necessary content is covered within the available instructional time.

7. **Engagement**: Well-planned lessons incorporate a variety of activities and materials that engage students, making reading more enjoyable and helping to foster a love for reading.

8. **Professional Growth**: For teachers, creating and following lesson plans can contribute to professional growth by encouraging reflection on teaching practices and outcomes.

Overall, reading lesson plans are essential for effective instruction, student achievement, and maintaining a positive and productive learning environment.

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Free Reading Lesson Plans!

• Incredible site! It has tons of guided reading lesson plans organized by level! Warsaw Schools’ INCREDIBLE site!

• Common Lit is an incredible site. You can find lessons by standards, genres, and more!

• This site has 40 WEEKS worth of sequential lessons for grades K or 1 or struggling readers in any grade. FreeReading.net

• Speaking of the Common Core, some complex texts are leveled. Click this link and scroll down to FYI for Kids. Use these corresponding lessons for each article: Comprehension Response Sheets by Pat Cunningham. There are also generic comprehension guides: Comprehension Guides.

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• Check out ReadWorks! Make a free account. Enter in grade level and skill, and you will get free passages and worksheets! Readworks has Skills and Strategy Units. They have Comprehension Units. They also have Novel Study Units for 5th and 6th Grade!

• Read Write Think is another excellent resource! Make a free account. Go to Classroom Resources and then go to Lesson Plans. You can search for lessons on a particular book, or click the 3 lines on the left and select the grade, content, and objective that you are seeking.

• Education.com You may need to sign up for a free account. You can search lessons by grade.

• PBS Learning Media has excellent lesson plans! Sign up for free. There are videos with support materials and transcripts.

• Tons of FCRR Preschool Lessons  – alphabet, language, phonological awareness

• Tons of FCRR Kindergarten and 1st Grade Lessons – phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

• Tons of 2nd and 3rd Grade Lessons – phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

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• Tons of 4th and 5th Grade Lessons – advanced phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

• Literature-Based Reading Lessons – There are several books to pick from with comprehension questions.

• Teachnology  – There are lots of topics and lots to see on this site.

• Free Lessons Aligned to the CCSS – Make a free account. You can browse by standard.

• Try Reader’s Theater. These lessons are not free, but students love reader’s theater and it’s a great way to assess oral reading and get every child involved. Check out my Reader’s Theater page!

• This site has excellent content area lessons: Kennedy Center.

• Teachers Pay Teachers has a lot for varying small fees. You can also search for a book you are teaching on TPT as many people have units to sell.

• I have 100s of free worksheets that you can create a lesson from!

reading lesson plans

• I frequently purchase units for my 4th and 5th graders from Bookrags. You can’t beat those! There are lesson plans, themes, questions, quotes. . . Some units have lengthy multiple choice packets. Watch what you are buying – there are Study Guides and there are Lesson Plans – two separate things, but both are great.  Shmoop is another excellent resource for summaries, themes, quotes, and more and Sparknotes is helpful for chapter book planning. (If there is a fee, don’t forget to cancel your subscription immediately, or you will be billed monthly.)

• Teach phonics with decodable texts! My FAVORITE set of decodable texts is from UFLI!

UFLI is based on the SCIENCE OF READING – and their materials are FREE!

• • 128 FREE UFLI lesson plans WITH decodables and sight words.
  • ALL Decodables on One PDF 8-128 (There are no decodables for lessons before 8.)
  • Slides, stories, student worksheets, home practice
  • Decodables in a mini-version with corresponding trick words
  • Scope & Sequence with Heart Words
  • UFLI Fluency by Unit-compressed
  • L5 – L83 Fluency Triangles
  • Sight Word Teaching Order and record keeping
  • ALL Roll & Reads 13 – 128 (There are no Roll & Reads for lessons before 13.) #92 is missing from the packet. Here it is!
  • Lessons 35a-110  – Stories written on lined paper in strips for a “Hedbanz” game – Google it if you don’t know what Hedbanz is. In a Hedbanz game,  a child takes a sentence and does not look at it, but affixes it to his forehead, and another child reads it, and vice versa. These align to UFLI, but I noticed the dialect is not from the United States (for ex., favorite is spelled favourite in one story). OR have the students cut the strips, shuffle, and sequence the stories!
  • The letters in each lesson
  • UFLI Lesson Links Easy Teacher Access
  • Foundations-Home-Practice-K (Includes lessons 5 – 68) and Foundations-Home-Practice-Second (Includes lessons 38a -128.)
  • Check out my page, Teaching UFLI at Home, for even more resources!
  • Alignment to Common Core State Standards
  • UFLI Notebook Covers PDF

Create more stories for each UFLI lesson with Project Read. You get 3 free stories a week, but for a small fee, you can join and get unlimited stories each week.

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TEACHERS! Make a file crate of the lessons – attached are free labels on the UFLI Facebook page called UFLI Foundations Community: Building Strong Readers! Join their FB page! UFLI Labels

I bought the manual ($70), and I teach from that. I have all the UFLI stories run off for the entire program in the crates. Furthermore, I organized my Fundations cards, mouth formation cards, Dollar Tree sight word flashcards, and Orton-Gillingham grapheme cards via the UFLI teaching order. I also made a bunch of Elkonin boxes and put them in plastic sleeves to have the students write the heart words in. This has been the BEST teaching year ever due to this organizational system.

I HIGHLY recommend buying the UFLI manual for $70. It is well worth it and has more lesson specifics than the free slideshow lesson plans! As a reading specialist, this is the #1 resource I use!

Watch these videos to learn how to be a pro at teaching UFLI decodables! These videos also show how to use their FREE AMAZING digital Word Work mats!

judy araujo

UFLI training video 1. 

UFLI training video 2.

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Administer the CORE-Phonics-Survey and start UFLI based on student needs.

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Edited on 09/23/2023