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Revising and Editing Escape Room

Resource ID: txlsr08006
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

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.

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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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Figuring out Figurative Language

Resource ID: txlsr1002
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work collaboratively to infer the implied meaning of a metaphor used in a poem. Students will complete a graphic organizer in which they discuss with their peers the two items being compared in the metaphor, write and illustrate the literal meaning of each word being compared, and use this information to infer the implied meaning of the metaphor. The lesson has a strong focus on vocabulary development and is designed with English learners (ELs) in mind.  
 

 

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Get the Gist on the Main Idea

Resource ID: txlsr1006
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use the Get the Gist Strategy to analyze text and identify the main idea. The lesson was designed with English learners in mind and utilizes strategies such as cooperative learning, visuals, graphic organizers, cloze reading, and sentence frames.   

 

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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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Giving Meaning to Multiple Meaning Words

Resource ID: txlsr1007
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students identify and use keywords in a paragraph to infer the relevant meaning of multiple-meaning words. Students build a deep understanding of words by creating semantic maps that show relationships among words. The lesson was designed with English learners in mind and utilizes instructional strategies such as cooperative learning, visuals, graphic organizers, and sentence frames.   

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Growing Our Vocabulary Goals

Resource ID: txlsr11018
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use a variety of vocabulary strategies to apply their knowledge of unknown and multiple-meaning words.

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The Next Steps to Great Writing

Resource ID: txlsr16002
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will write a draft that is sequenced and logical after brainstorming.

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Text Evidence and the Moral Lesson

Resource ID: txls123
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Teacher will read How Spiders Got Eight Legs as a read-aloud. Students will write notes about what they think the moral is. Students will collaborate in groups to determine what they think the moral lesson is. Students will reread, highlight, and write the text evidence that identifies the moral lesson.

 

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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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Many Stripes of Inferring

Resource ID: txls137
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will infer character feelings and motivations and support their inference with text evidence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Morphology Mania

Resource ID: txls114
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

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

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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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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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Painting With Expository Writing

Resource ID: txlsr11005
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

After students examine an image by Faith Ringgold, they will write supporting sentences when given a central idea sentence.

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Summarizing with Sarah at the ER

Resource ID: txls099
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

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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Rolling into Compound Sentences

Resource ID: txls138
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will create compound sentences from simple sentences.

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It's a Maniac Breakout

Resource ID: txls064
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

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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