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Why Would They Say That?

Resource ID: txlsr14042
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will analyze multiple texts on the same topic to identify the text structures used and find each author’s purpose.

Teacher compares author's purpose in text to the purposes of eating utensils.

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Poetry With Purpose

Resource ID: txlsr11003
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students collaborate in small groups to discuss their peers’ poetry and assess the poetry according to the student-created rubric. The rubric assesses students’ ability to make meaningful connections to the poetic devices in their poetry. Through collaboration, they are building a culture of receptiveness among their peers.

 

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Home Is Where the Heart Is

Resource ID: txlsr13013
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Through teacher modeling, blended learning stations, self-monitoring, and developing and responding to questioning strategies of reciprocal teaching, students will be able to examine a variety of visual and written expository texts and compare how the authors achieved similar or different purposes.

 

 

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Evaluating Inferences

Resource ID: txlsr1003
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will evaluate a set of inferences to determine if they are valid or invalid and use text evidence to support their stance. The lesson incorporates best practices for English learners (ELs) and at-risk students such as the use of graphic organizers, anchor charts, and cooperative learning.  

 

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Analyzing Author’s Purpose: Argumentative Text

Resource ID: txlsr14045
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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Paired Passages with a Purpose

Resource ID: txlsr11008
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will make inferences about the author’s purpose after reading paired passages involving the same subject.

 

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Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions in an Anne Frank Digital Challenge

Resource ID: txlsr20023
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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Santa Timeline Breakout

Resource ID: txls078
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students collaborate and critically-think to analyze resources from informational texts of various disciplines and unlock a breakout box. Once the box is unlocked, students receive a final text to summarize.

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