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.
 

Students will practice using a protocol to create a summary of an expository text.

Students will work with partners, as well as independently, to create and evaluate summaries of expository text.

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

Students will read a text, identify its organizational pattern, highlight signal words, create a visual representation/graphic organizer, and present to the class.

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.

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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.

Students will identify different types of sentence structures within a mentor text and demonstrate the understanding of varying sentence types by creating correctly structured and punctuated compound and complex sentences from simple sentences given by the teacher.

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

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.

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.

In this lesson, students will learn how to effectively use transition words. These will be used to connect ideas and organize the flow of their writing so it is coherent.

Students will discover and use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to determine the meaning of unknown words.

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Students will create compound sentences from simple sentences.

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Students will work together and problem-solve in a timed breakout session to gather clues and answer questions involving cause-and-effect, sequential, and comparative relationships in text. 

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Students learn new ways to evaluate their thinking when making local and global inferences and justifying their validity.

Students will read expository text, categorize findings, and reformulate the text into an obituary.

Students will participate in hands-on activities to extend their knowledge of the parts of speech. 

Students will collaboratively apply revising and editing skills to make their way through passages and a series of questions to decode a lock. If groups successfully complete the tasks, they will escape the room and win a prize.

The purpose of this lesson is to sequence the events of a story chronologically and be able to summarize the major events.

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