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Choose Your Words Wisely!

Resource ID: txlsr14006
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will create a collection using objects, participate in a read-aloud, create another collection using sight word cards, and present their collections to the class.

Teacher reviewing vocabulary words.

 

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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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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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Reading Strategies: Choose, Monitor, and Comprehend with Nonfiction Texts

Resource ID: txlsr11021
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will engage in activities that allow them to take a book walk and use criteria to choose a good-fit book, use strategies to self-monitor their own comprehension while independently reading, and use partner talk criteria to reflect on their strategies collaboratively. 

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Rhyming is Out of This World!

Resource ID: txlsr7007
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will participate in stations with board games that reinforce rhyming, onset, and rimes, and blending.

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Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment: Administering and Interpreting Results

Grade Range: 5 - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

This binder details how to score and interpret the results of the Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment (TMSFA). This course is Unit 4 of the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academy (TALA). These materials are available for view only; no credit or certificate is provided.

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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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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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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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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Mapping Out Our Learning

Resource ID: txlsr11002
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will participate in a workshop-style lesson that includes partner and small-group work, teacher modeling, and independent reflection to not only label and identify text features within informational text, but to also connect the feature to its purpose.

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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. 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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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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Reading on the Farm

Resource ID: txlsr3011
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

In learning stations, students collaboratively generate inferences and make predictions about expository text.

 

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What's in a Name?

Resource ID: txls087a
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

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

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Diving Deeper: Using Text Evidence to Support Inferences

Resource ID: txls184
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

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

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