Reading Lesson Plans

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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 includes methods for assessing student understanding and providing feedback. This helps teachers identify areas where students may need additional support or challenges.

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 is 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!

• CommonLit is an excellent site. You can find lessons according to standards, genres, and more! Just make a free account.

• This site offers 40 weeks of sequential lessons for grades K-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!

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

• Education.com You may need to create 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 choose from, each accompanied by 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 wonderful way to assess oral reading and get every child involved. Check out my Reader’s Theater page!

• This site features excellent content area lessons, including those from the Kennedy Center.

• Teachers Pay Teachers offers a variety of resources for a small fee. You can also search for a book you are teaching on TPT, as many people have units to sell.

• I have hundreds of free worksheets that you can use to create a lesson from!

reading lesson plans

• I frequently purchase units for my 4th- and 5th-grade students from BookRags. You can’t beat those! There are lesson plans, themes, questions, and quotes. Some units have lengthy multiple-choice packets. Be cautious about what you purchase—study guides and lesson plans are two distinct items, but both are excellent.  Shmoop is another superb resource for summaries, themes, quotes, and more, while SparkNotes helps plan a chapter-by-chapter study. (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.)
  • Decodables in a mini-version with corresponding trick words
  • Scope & Sequence with Heart Words
  • UFLI Decodable Reader’s Theater—All
  • UFLI Fluency by Unit—Compressed
  • L5 – L83 Fluency Triangles
  • 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  – Instruct the students to cut the strips, shuffle, and arrange the stories in sequence.
  • The letters in each lesson
  • UFLI Lesson Links: Easy Teacher Access
  • Spelling Rules Lessons 42-53
  • Spelling Rules Lessons 69-76
  • Foundations-Home-Practice-K (Includes lessons 5-68) and Foundations-Home-Practice-Second (Includes lessons 38a-128).
  • 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.

UFLI Vowel Teaching Order

Go across

short a	short i	short o	short u	short e
all, oll, ull	ng/nk
a_e	i_e	o_e	e_e	u_e (2 sounds—/yu/ as in mule and long oo as in rude)
VCe exceptions: give, have, love, come, done	Open syllables	Long VCC—ild, ind, old, ost, olt	y = long i	y = long e
ar	or, ore	er	ir, ur	w+or
ai/ay	ee/ea/ey	oa/ow/oe	ie/igh	Long u/oo
Short oo	ew/ui/ue = sounds like long oo as in (flew, suit, true)	au/aw/augh	ea = short e and a = short o (qua/wa)
oi/oy	ou/ow
ar/or = /er/ (polar/actor)	air/are/ear = /air/ (fair/share/ bear)	ear=/ear/ (hear)
Alternate long a = ei, ey, eigh, aigh, ea	Alternate long u = ew, eu, ue sounds like /yu/ (few, feud, rescue)	ough = /aw/ and long o (bought/dough)

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TEACHERS! Create a file crate with the lessons. Attached are free labels available on the UFLI Facebook page, titled ‘UFLI Foundations Community: Building Strong Readers!’ Join their FB page! UFLI Labels

I purchased the manual ($70) and use it for teaching. I have printed all the UFLI stories for the entire program and stored them in 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 created several Elkonin boxes and placed them in plastic sleeves for the students to write the heart words in. 

I HIGHLY recommend buying the UFLI manual for $70. It is well worth it and has more specific lessons than the free slideshow lesson plans. As a reading specialist, the manual is my number one resource.

Watch these videos to learn how to be a pro at teaching UFLI decodables! These videos also demonstrate how to utilize the free and 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