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Flying High with Inferences

Resource ID: TXLSR1.001
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students integrate background knowledge and textual clues to respond to inferential questions that were generated by the students themselves. The lesson utilizes instructional strategies that have been identified as best practice for teaching inference such as: generating questions, identifying keywords, and activating prior knowledge. Additionally, the lesson is designed to support English learners and utilizes visuals, graphic organizers, sentence frames, and cooperative learning.

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What’s Your Feature?

Resource ID: TXLSR10.014
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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Stellar Sentences

Resource ID: TXLSR7.002
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a group of words, arrange them to make sense as a complete thought,  and recognize and use capitalization at the beginning and a period as the ending punctuation mark.

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Journalists Research, Too!

Resource ID: TXLS194
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will research information in order to create a newspaper article about the topic.

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Locating Facts and Details in Text Features

Resource ID: TXLSR3.005
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

First-grade students will rotate through engaging learning stations and read portions of expository texts to identify facts and details embedded within text features.

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Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences With Expository Text

Resource ID: TXLSR3.006
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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Analyzing Author’s Purpose: Argumentative Text

Resource ID: TXLSR14.045
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a pre-Civil War speech and write author’s purpose statements using the argumentative verbs explain, urge, convince, and encourage.

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Newton's Second Law

Resource ID: TXLSR13.047
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will work in partners to investigate Newton’s second law by testing a series of experiments with varying conditions.

 

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Syncing with Inferences

Resource ID: TXLSR1.010
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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Sensing Poetry

Resource ID: TXLS103
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students locate sensory details and create their own sensory detail poem.

Teacher discusses the sensory details that correspond with the five senses

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Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions in an Anne Frank Digital Challenge

Resource ID: TXLSR20.023
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work collaboratively on a digital challenge activity by reading short excerpts of nonfiction text and explore an online webpage where they will learn more about the life of Anne Frank and the World War II era. By answering inferential and organizational structure questions, regarding those topics, students will be in a race against each other to crack the code to a lockbox.

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What’s the Big Idea?

Resource ID: TXLSR3.014
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In cooperative groups, students rotate through stations to identify the main idea of selected passages while making inferences using expository text.

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Poetic Inferences

Resource ID: TXLSR3.009
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to make inferences about the structure and elements of poetry, and provide textual evidence to support their understanding.

 

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The Domino Effect of Cause and Effect

Resource ID: TXLSR14.056
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will identify explicit cause and effect relationships using keywords and phrases while reading relevant informational texts aligned with technology and current events.

Teacher Models Cause and Effect                   Relationships Within a Text

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Author’s Purpose in a Bag

Resource ID: TXLSR13.040
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will infer from text evidence the author’s purpose and explain their thinking.

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Did this make this happen? Is this why this happened? All About Cause and Effect Relationships

Resource ID: TXLSR20.021
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use a mentor text to identify cause and effect relationships. Students will also find the missing cause or effect. They will work collaboratively to complete a graphic organizer and use teacher-created anchor charts to help them in identifying the relationships.

 

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Text Features of Non-Fiction

Resource ID: TXLSR20.018
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will identify elements of nonfiction text by analyzing the importance of text features.

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Earth Day: Join the Fight, for Sentences That are Right!

Resource ID: TXLSR13.038
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students are initially captivated by Earth Day-themed pictures, thus providing them with ideas to prewrite, and will have meaningful writing to revise. The lesson utilizes a mentor text to demonstrate the necessity of subjects and predicates. Students apply their knowledge of sentence syntax by revising a chosen sentence and rewriting the sentence to be shared with the class during a gallery walk.

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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.

Teacher introducing lesson

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Planning a Draft

Resource ID: TXLS032
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will employ critical thinking skills to order details logically and become more effective at communicating their ideas to readers. The lesson will guide students toward using critical thinking in the planning phase of drafting to purposefully include details that interest readers. 

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