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Organized Authors: Name That Structure

Resource ID: txlsr14008
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a text passage, looking for and highlighting key words that indicate the appropriate organizational pattern of the text.

Students working

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Teaming up with Transitions

Resource ID: txlsr1005
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students participate in an activity where they must link cause and effect statements using transition words. The lesson is designed with English learners in mind, and it includes instructional strategies designed to provide comprehensible input, such as visuals and collaborative learning.
 

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Intelligible Inferences

Resource ID: txlsr14011
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work in cooperative learning groups that foster empathy to make inferences from pictures and text. They will discuss the differences between inferences made from pictures and inferences made from text.

 

Students working on poster

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A Trip to the Hospital

Resource ID: txlsr7006
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students participate in a set of stations about the work done in different areas of a hospital. During each station, students revise paragraphs based on word choice, clarity, and transitions while also looking at introductions and adding or deleting sentences.

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Creating Connections Across Literary Texts

Resource ID: txlsr14098a
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will explore organizational patterns in short passages and use signal words/phrases as evidence to support the main idea and their understanding.

Teacher Introducing the Lesson

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Revising for Coherence

Resource ID: txlsr10009
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use a checklist to peer edit a composition. They will check for coherence through the proper use of transition words and conjunctions.

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Discovering the Power of a Complete Sentence

Resource ID: txls134
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will discover the necessary components of a complete sentence and use the complete subject and complete predicate in their own writing through a process called ratiocination.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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Fun with First Drafts

Resource ID: txls086
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

The lesson will support students’ writing a first draft of a personal narrative story by providing opportunities to listen to their previously recorded story, review their (graphic organizer) draft web, and add sticky notes with further details to their webs.

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A Reader’s Survival Guide: Connecting and Synthesizing Ideas in Nonfiction Texts

Resource ID: txls024
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson is designed to teach students to synthesize and make connections between ideas within a text and with previous texts students have read.

 

 

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Themes in Hamlet

Resource ID: txlsr08001
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will make inferences about themes from the play, use textual evidence from the play to support their inferences using the CASE model, and will make a praise and criticism for peer answers.

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How Authors Develop Complex Yet Believable Characters in Drama by Contrasting Characters

Resource ID: txls003
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will identify characteristics of characters from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, explain why the characters are foils to each other, and use text evidence to support their understanding.

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Introduction to Character Foils

Resource ID: txlsr4009
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

During this lesson, students will view video clips and read texts that have character foils examples. Students will complete a graphic organizer with evidence that supports their identification of foil characters. Once complete, students will use the information from the graphic organizer to discuss character foils. 

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Sparking Curiosity and Wonder: Making Complex Inferences

Resource ID: txls022
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will learn how to activate their curiosity and use questioning strategies to make complex inferences and connections across texts.

 

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Thesis Throwdown

Resource ID: txls065
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

After students watch a brief video introducing thesis statements, they will create a class thesis statement checklist, use a prompt to write a personal thesis, compare theirs to others in their group while working to craft and revise a group thesis to present to the class after participating in a Gallery Walk where they provide and incorporate revision suggestions. 

Teacher Introducing Lesson

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Summarizing Fiction

Resource ID: txlsr14050
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will analyze effective and ineffective summaries of a fictional text and identify the characteristics that classify the summaries as either effective or ineffective.

Teacher giving task

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The Battle Between Editing and Revising

Resource ID: txls014a
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will apply revision strategies to mentor texts. They also will have the opportunity to create a new book.

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Our Best Day

Resource ID: txlsr13004
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students will write about a classmate’s best day.  They will then add details to the writing to support the central idea. This lesson integrates the instruction of the main idea in reading and writing.

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Diggin’ for Revisions

Resource ID: txlsr13012
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson is focused on revising one sentence in isolation. The student and teacher choose a revision focus question before the lesson for the student to use as a guide for revising their sentence. Students provide feedback to their peers on how they could revise their sentence based on the selected focus question. Once feedback is completed, students begin revising their own sentence using toolboxes. At the end, students publish their revised sentence onto the online discussion tool and share out how they revised their sentence.

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Making an Inference

Resource ID: txls149
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

The class will review previous learning about how authors describe characters using speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks (STEAL). Students will make annotations on an excerpt using the STEAL strategy. We will talk them through making a guided inference. Students will complete a short-answer response on chart paper with evidence and inference for the focus question

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Inferring Through Imagery and Figurative Language

Resource ID: txls150
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students rotate to four posters which contain a single stanza from a common poem (“Digging” by Seamus Heaney), marking key literary elements (imagery, diction, figurative language) before rotating to explain the connotation of the words and phrases selected by the previous group. After text marking, students regroup to discuss the inferential connections between literary terms and their connotative meaning to theorize thematic meaning within the poem.

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