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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.

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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.

 

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Author’s Purpose, Text Features, Informational Text, and Daily Three

Resource ID: txls193
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will follow the Daily Three structure to engage in mini-lessons regarding author’s purpose, text features, guided reading, work on writing, read to self, and word work. The students will also infer the author’s purpose for writing a book using a book order form.

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Who is My Neighbor?

Resource ID: txlsr14021
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will make inferences using evidence gathered from a collection of objects and a text.

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Retell Me Something Good!

Resource ID: txlsr14052
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Using previous knowledge of the story elements: characters, setting, problem, and solution, students will determine the key events of a story and logically sequence those events in order to create a retelling.

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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.

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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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Traditional vs. Contemporary: "The Three Little Pigs"

Resource ID: txls007
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will compare a contemporary version of "The Three Little Pigs" to a traditional version with respect to characters, setting, and plot. In a small group, students will analyze story elements on a t-chart to determine which parts of the stories are the same and which are different.

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Revision Rally

Resource ID: txls048
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use the ARMS (add, remove, move, and substitute words and phrases) revision strategy to revise a procedural passage.

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Super Sequencing Strategies

Resource ID: txls049
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will explore the informational text structure of sequencing in multiple contexts, as a reader and a writer, in order to improve their comprehension of informational text and their ability to analyze the author’s purpose. They will make connections between sequencing and events in their everyday life and use pictures and time order words to write their own informational text using sequencing.

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Too Hot for Main Idea

Resource ID: txls072
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will collaborate and examine a reading passage to determine the topic and main idea of the passage.

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What Does the “Text Feature” Say?

Resource ID: txls102
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will apply knowledge of text features to locate information in specific text to help better understand what they are reading.

Teacher reviews text features with the class

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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.

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Click below to learn about the TEKS related to the unit and Research Lesson. The highlighted student expectation(s) is the chosen focus for the Research Lesson.

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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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Tone is in the Fear of the Beholder: Reading and Writing Using Multimodal Mentor Texts

Resource ID: dl0001
Grade Range: 5 - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

This resource is a demonstration lesson presented at the 2014 Write for Texas Summer Institute. It provides a snapshot of a four to five week unit that engages students in the reading and writing workshop model.

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Building Blocks for Teaching Adolescents with Reading Difficulties

Resource ID: bb0000
Grade Range: 5 - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

This online resource is designed to enhance teachers’ knowledge and skills so they can effectively teach adolescent students who struggle with reading.

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Teaching Sentence Skills

Resource ID: tss0000
Grade Range: 5 - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

This resource series is designed to enhance teachers' knowledge and skill so they can effectively teach grammar in context. Teaching grammar in context uses powerful models like sentences within mentor texts, rather than marking errors and correcting weak or wrong examples. 

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Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes (English 6 Reading)

Resource ID: e6rdm1l1
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

You will learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.

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