This unit is to be used with second grade students to teach addition and subtraction strategies, or remediate with students needing extra practice.

In this lesson, students explore the different purposes readers have and how to determine what their purpose for reading is. Students also learn how to evaluate whether a book is at the right reading level and length for their abilities.

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Math games are fun, motivating, and provide opportunities for students to build number concepts, reasoning, and fluency. These games may be used as math stations or as whole group learning opportunities. This file contains directions and materials for Cluster 2 math games.

This video was created by NCDPI. This video examines best practices and research related to developing computational fluency. Teaching strategies and tips are provided.

This article discusses how creating Readers Theater scripts from informational text can improve fluency and build comprehension.

In this activity, students will acheive greater fluency in speech while learning about the history of chocolate.

In this lesson, students will find patterns when counting by related numbers and explain the relationship of multiplication and division. This may be remixed to add additional supports to meet the needs of all learners.

This resource provides an overview and background information about multiplication fact fluency. This is not remixable.

The Cafeteria Manager at your school has decided to offer a Salad Bar. The Salad Bar will be open for all students and staff at the school. You love all sorts of yummy things on your salad. You get a bowl that holds 568 pieces in it. You want to put as much as you can on your salad without going over the 568 pieces. However, the toppings come in sets and you have to use the whole set. The Cafeteria Manage is allowing you to try out the Salad Bar before it is open to all students. After you determine what toppings you can put on your salad, the Cafeteria Manager wants to hear from you. What are the pros and cons of the Salad Bar? Be sure to offer any suggestions. You feedback is greatly appreciated.

This cross-curricular lesson combines Social Studies and Language Arts to demonstrate how the study of an historical topic can be developed to make learning nonfiction more exciting, and also improve fluency and comprehension. This project about Benjamin Franklin includes a series of lessons in which the students: 1) read for information from multiple texts, 2) write a script for a Readers Theater play, 3) read for expression and fluency by using their script, 4) enhance their reading with visual arts, and 5) demonstrate dramatic interpretation through role-play. This approach engages students throughout in active participation and collaboration. Included are many supporting resources, such as a read-aloud rubric, an audition sheet, and ideas for student assessment and reflection.

This document provides ideas to increase fluency and confidence for emerging readers.  These ideas can be used during whole-group or small-group reading sessions, guided reading groups, or independent practice.

Students will build speaking and listening skills through discussion, develop fluency and literary understanding, and will build skills in written expression.This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners. This is a full lesson plan focusing on the poem "I'm Nobody." The plan includes activities in all language domains with multiple opportunities for student interaction.

These are the NCDPI Grade 3 Games. This is a document from NCDPI so it cannot be remixed.

This retelling of the Greek myth "Pandora's Box" includes accompanying audio and graphic illustrations. This resource can be used as scaffolding for reading comprehension, as differentiation for a multileveled classroom, and can build listening comprehension skills and vocabulary development. This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners.

In this lesson, students will use a weekly poem to explore meaning, sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts. After studying the poem, students are given a copy of the poem to illustrate and share their understanding. All of the poems explored are then compiled into a poetry portfolio for students to take home and share with their families. To further connect home to school, a family poetry project is suggested.

This lesson is designed to engage students through reader's theater during the guided reading lesson. Students can practice fluency using an alternative format.

In this activity, students will read a piece that is uploaded to SeeSaw by the teacher. The teacher may want to have students use the piece again in the year to measure growth.

Designed to help prevent summer reading loss, this set of printable books is for Grade 2 students getting ready to move into Grade 3. There are seven books, one for each week of summer, and each book has three chapters. These informational texts include information about summer activities and themes. Each book starts with guidelines on how to use the book. There are also comprehension questions at the end of each book, and each book has a place where students can keep records of their reading of chapters within books. If students have access to computers (e.g., the library), they can access a recording of each book that allows them to monitor and check their reading.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  In this lesson, students will be figuring out the addends that add up to the correct sums.  They will also be creating and solving equations with more than two addends.Extension and differentiation ideas are provided.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers. This file contains a set of 4 tasks (including scoring rubric and student recording sheet).  The tasks may be used for instruction or assessment.Remix this resource to include student work samples or addtional tasks.