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What’s Your Feature?

Resource ID: txlsr10014
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will learn how to use text features to locate information and verify answers within an expository text.  

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Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences With Expository Text

Resource ID: txlsr3006
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Third grade students will identify and discuss facts and details from expository text and draw conclusions using textual evidence in learning stations.

 

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Author’s Purpose: Reading for Meaning

Resource ID: txlsr1004
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use text evidence and background knowledge to generate and evaluate inferences about the author's purpose for specific sections of a passage as well as the entire passage. The lesson is designed with English learners (ELs) and students from families that speak nonstandard dialects of English in mind. The lesson provides scaffolded instruction through the use of strategies designed to make input comprehensible: visuals, graphic organizers, sentence frames, hand gestures, and collaborative learning.

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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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Bulldogs “Paws” for a Good Summary

Resource ID: txls132
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson helps students summarize information in expository text using logical order. The lesson begins with students using a T-chart to categorize information as they summarize a text. By the end of the lesson, students will independently summarize information. As students transition through activities in the lesson, they will work both in groups and independently using a variety of best practices and a checklist to heighten intrinsic motivation, increasing chances for success.

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Syncing with Inferences

Resource ID: txlsr1010
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students integrate relevant text evidence and background knowledge to generate valid inferences when reading a historical fiction text. The lesson was designed with English learners in mind, so it includes instructional strategies designed to make linguistic and content input comprehensible: a focus on vocabulary, visuals, cooperative learning, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and sentence stems/frames.

 

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Uncovering Tone in Poetry

Resource ID: txlsr09005
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.

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What Can You Infer?

Resource ID: txlsr10020
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will learn how to use textual evidence to make inferences and to support their understanding.

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"C" to the "E" Can't Conquer Me

Resource ID: txls094
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will explore cause and effect relationships by creating different representations of a cause or an effect from a given scenario.

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Syntax Shuffle

Resource ID: txlsr4021
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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The Bucket Brigade

Resource ID: txlsr1011
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students rotate to various learning stations and work with a partner to complete tasks that require them to generate inferences, infer the theme of short reading passages, write personal narratives or stories that exemplify a selected theme, and develop Tier Two high utility vocabulary. The lesson incorporates best practices for English learners (ELs) and at-risk students such as the use of collaborative learning, graphic organizers, anchor charts, and technology applications.

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Welcome to the Jungle!

Resource ID: txls126
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson offers an engaging format for fourth graders to spend time working with different cause-and-effect situations and text to help move them toward the objective of correctly identifying an implicit cause-and-effect relationship within a text.

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Text Features are a Bear

Resource ID: txlsr12003
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students are expected to work with partners and then in groups to complete a text feature (scavenger) hunt activity using the same nonfiction text.

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Where am I going?

Resource ID: txlsr08004
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

The teacher will engage the students to make inferences through visuals, pictures, and informational text using problem-solving and self-questioning strategies.

 

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Writing Summaries with Get the Gist

Resource ID: txls141
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson teaches students to use the Get the Gist strategy to find the main idea of a section. Students will then put those Get the Gist statements together to begin a written summary of their text.

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Analyzing Context Clues to Understand the Meaning of a Word

Resource ID: txlsr20011
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will focus on context clues in a vocabulary lesson.

 

 

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Cause and Effect: The Story of Wangari Maathai

Resource ID: txlsr12005
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be able to identify cause and effect relationships using an expository text.

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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. 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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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.

 

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

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Write, Revise, Repeat!

Resource ID: txls235
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students develop their perseverance skills as they continue to revise their writing for coherence. The teacher focuses on providing students with three tools to develop the students’ paragraphs for sentence-to-sentence connectedness and clarity. 

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