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Rhyming is Out of This World icon
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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Introduction to Character Foils

Resource ID: TXLSR4.009
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

During this lesson, students will view video clips and read texts that have character foils examples. Students will complete a graphic organizer with evidence that supports their identification of foil characters. Once complete, students will use the information from the graphic organizer to discuss character foils. 

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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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Choose Your Words Wisely!

Resource ID: TXLSR14.006
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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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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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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Metacognitive Approaches to Student-based Learning

Resource ID: TXLSR5.002
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students will learn how to make complex inferences and draw conclusions about a work of literary fiction using a combination of text evidence and background knowledge. Using a graphic organizer and a short story, students will record both text evidence and their prior knowledge, and combine these elements to make an inference about the character. 
 

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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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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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Sparking Curiosity and Wonder: Making Complex Inferences

Resource ID: TXLS022
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will learn how to activate their curiosity and use questioning strategies to make complex inferences and connections across texts.

 

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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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Themes in Hamlet

Resource ID: TXLSR08.001
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will make inferences about themes from the play, use textual evidence from the play to support their inferences using the CASE model, and will make a praise and criticism for peer answers.

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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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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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How Authors Develop Complex Yet Believable Characters in Drama by Contrasting Characters

Resource ID: TXLS003
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will identify characteristics of characters from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, explain why the characters are foils to each other, and use text evidence to support their understanding.

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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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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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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. 

 

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Linguistic Roots and Affixes (English 8 Reading)

Resource ID: E1RdM1L1
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

You will be able to recognize linguistic roots and affixes to use in determining the meanings of academic English words and in other content areas.

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