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Quality Questioning

Resource ID: TXLSR11.019
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students analyze, rate, and revise questions generated in response to their reading of a short story. They use the questions in student-led conversations and activities, helping them understand the connection between strong questioning, inferring, and communicating during reading.

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Human Paragraphs

Resource ID: TXLSR13.014
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students assume roles of paragraph parts, including the main idea and supporting details, in order to reassemble a text that has been divided into pieces based on textual purpose.

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Crime Scene Investigations through Text Structures

Resource ID: TXLSR7.001
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students participate in an activity where they must solve a crime. Students visit different stations that include surveillance tape, tips, eyewitness statements, and a crime scene. Each station is formatted as a different organizational pattern allowing students to practice creating summaries reflecting the structure used.

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Uncovering Tone in Poetry

Resource ID: TXLSR09.005
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will interpret the tone of a poem, cite text evidence to justify their response, and research a synonym for the word they chose to expand their understanding of Tier 2 vocabulary.

Teacher introducing the poem

 

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Critiquing and Creating Compound and Complex Sentences

Resource ID: TXLSR14.005
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will create compound and complex sentences with proper comma usage and present their explanations to the class. 

Student work

 

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Layers to Understanding Poetry

Resource ID: TXLSR14.017
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will apply their analytical skills to different types of poems by reviewing the devices used in poetry, reading and analyzing two poems, and creating a poster to demonstrate their learning. 

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Connecting Author’s Purpose and Organizational Patterns

Resource ID: TXLSR4.006
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students explore and analyze how the author can achieve a specific purpose by using a variety of organizational patterns.

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Organized Authors: Name That Structure

Resource ID: TXLSR14.008
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.

Students working

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Syntax Shuffle

Resource ID: TXLSR4.021
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will analyze one of four ways to incorporate grammar and syntax into their everyday language through the use of technological instruction. Once students have comprehended their grammatical type, they will practice among their peers to master and share the lesson (grammar rule) in a Jigsaw activity.

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Conversations in Art

Resource ID: TXLSR5.001
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Fine Arts

In this lesson, students will learn the critique process using description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation. Students will create an evaluation of artwork using the critique process and communicate their understanding through written responses and discourse.

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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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Una Reseña de un Restaurante

Resource ID: TXLSR4.011
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students describe a restaurant in restaurant review form using simple phrases and sentences. As they write, students focus on noun-adjective agreement and sentence structure.

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A Reader’s Survival Guide: Connecting and Synthesizing Ideas in Nonfiction Texts

Resource ID: TXLS024
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson is designed to teach students to synthesize and make connections between ideas within a text and with previous texts students have read.

 

 

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Summarizing as a Reading Strategy

Resource ID: TXLS104
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students work collaboratively using reading and comprehension skills to demonstrate their mastery of summarizing a text or piece of literature. 

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The Key to Key Signature

Resource ID: TXLSR12.001
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Fine Arts

Students will review previous learning about half steps, whole steps, and enharmonics and will begin to learn the construction of tetrachords using the whole and half step sequence.

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Exploring Identity and Diving Deep into the Complex Meaning of Poetry

Resource ID: TXLS023
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson is designed to teach students to make complex inferences, choose specific text evidence that strongly supports the inference, and develop a coherent explanation of how the evidence strongly supports the validity of the idea within the genre of poetry.

 

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Using the Present Progressive Tense | No Nonsense Grammar

Resource ID: PBS387
Grade Range: 3 - 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Present progressives describe an action in progress, or something that started in the past and is still happening. It is formed with the helping "to be" verb in the present tense and the present participle of the verb.

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Edison: Boyhood and Teen Years

Resource ID: PBS401
Grade Range: 3 - 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Find out how young Thomas Edison’s curiosity got him into trouble, and how, during his teen years, he lost his hearing but gained confidence as an aspiring inventor, in this video adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Edison.

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Reflexive Pronouns and Subjects | No Nonsense Grammar

Resource ID: PBS411
Grade Range: 2 - 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Reflexive pronouns reflect the subject of the sentence. A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that is preceded or followed by the noun, adjective, adverb, or pronoun to which it refers within the same clause.

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Unforgettable Elephants

Resource ID: PBS457
Grade Range: 3 - 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this video segment from Nature, witness the joy an elephant family experiences when a new baby elephant is born. This birth was a celebration within elephant society. 

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