Lesson Designs for Explicit Teaching
Auburn University * Fall 2000
Ideas for
teaching blending
Ashley Clanton, Give a
Dog a Bone
Lori Gatling, Blending
Is Fun
Christie Grover, The
See-Saw: How to Blend
III. Growing
Independence and
Fluency
Ideas for teaching faster reading
Christie Davis, Racing to
Read Fast
Joy Gettys, I Can
Read Fast, Smooth, and Expressively!
Jacque Mills, Moving
From I Think I Can to I Can Read!
Brooke Simmons, Rapid
Reading
Ideas for
teaching smoother or
more expressive reading
Hilary Brannon, Express
Yourself
Ashley Clanton, Now I
Can Read
Verlissa Echols, Fishy Fun
Shea Fant, Express
Yourself
Lori Gatling, I Can
Read With Expression
Christie Grover, Watch Out
for the Wasp!
Bobby Owen, The Better
to Eat You, Dear!
Mary Rouse, Loud or
Soft? Quick or Slow?
De Shealey, Let's Be
Tacky
Amy Spurlock, Express
Your Reading
Debbie Troha, Books Have
Feelings Too!
Ideas for
teaching silent
reading
Jennifer Ames, Listen to
the Pin Drop
Dara Davis, Words in
my Head
Sharon Gull, Shhh!
Karissa Lang, Silent
Reading Is Fun!
Ideas for
teaching children to
read voluntarily and avidly
Blair Brewer, Reading
Easy for Independent Fluency
Kesha Floyd, Reading,
Reading, and More Reading
Michelle Harris, Plot the
Story
Nikki Montgomery, Book
Nook
IV. Reading to
Learn
Ideas for teaching summarization
Jennifer Ames, Did You
Hear Me?
Hilary Brannon, The Five
W's
Blair Brewer, Summarize
This!
Ashley Clanton, Mapping
Out the Story
Shea Fant, Predicting
and Summarizing Leads to Comprehension
Christie Grover, Digging
for Comprehension
Sharon Gull, A Short
Story!
Karissa Lang, Outlines
Are Fun and Easy
Mary Rouse, Whooz-z-z
Can Summarize
Brooke Simmons, Learning
What We Read
Debbie Troha, Let's Get
to the Point
Ideas for
teaching children
about
story grammar
Christie Davis, Searching
for Strega Nona Facts
Lori Gatling, I Can
Comprehend What I Read
Joy Gettys, Story
Structures Help Comprehension
Jacque Mills, Read and
Remember!
De Shealey, Musicians
and Vampires
Ideas for
teaching children to
ask or answer questions
Dara Davis, Who,
What, Where, and Why Not?
Verlissa Echols, Reading
Comprehension
Michelle Harris, Question-Answer
Nikki Montgomery, Eggs
Ideas for
teaching other
comprehension
strategies
Kesha Floyd, Read It
and Remember It!
Bobby Owen, What a
Brave Little Girl
Amy Spurlock, Reading
Comprehension Jobs
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