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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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Get the Gist on the Main Idea

Resource ID: TXLSR1.006
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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Reading Strategies: Choose, Monitor, and Comprehend with Nonfiction Texts

Resource ID: TXLSR11.021
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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The Next Steps to Great Writing

Resource ID: TXLSR16.002
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

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

Teacher introducing lesson

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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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Rhyming is Out of This World!

Resource ID: TXLSR7.007
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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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: TXLSR1.007
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: TXLSR11.018
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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Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment: Administering and Interpreting Results

Grade Range: 10 - 9
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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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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Write Right

Resource ID: TXLSR5.010
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

This research lesson encourages students to become better illustrators and authors. Students will work in collaborative groups and independently to develop drafts.

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Rhyming with Visuals

Resource ID: TXLS013
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

The teacher will model how to recognize rhyming words by hearing them, seeing them, reading them, and writing them. Then the students will practice hearing, seeing, reading, and writing “at” word family words. 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Related to the Unit

This unit connects to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) by fostering a continuance in the area of phonological awareness as begun in previous lessons and introducing the exploration of nursery rhymes, poetry, and lullabies through literature and language play.

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Revising Sentences

Resource ID: TXLS013A
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will revise a simple sentence by copying it on a series of sticky notes and adding new words using glitter pens and star-shaped sticky notes. 

 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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The Characteristics of the Mystery Letter "H"

Resource ID: TXLS063
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will identify and apply characteristics of an alphabetical letter (mystery letter Hh) through various hands-on activities and cooperative group work.

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Character Traits

Resource ID: TXLS200
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be able to identify characters, their traits, and the reason for their actions.

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Reading on the Farm

Resource ID: TXLSR3.011
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

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

 

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Retelling Fiction with Logical Order

Resource ID: TXLSR10.002
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be able to understand how to retell a fictional story in logical order using transitional words.

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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.

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