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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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Communication in Space

Resource ID: txlsr14057
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will work in cooperative groups to create an accurate arrangement of mirrors that work together to relay a laser beam from a Mars space station to Earth’s Mission Control, which will model utilizing satellites in space for communication, an accommodation necessary for manned space exploration.

Teacher In Action

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Which Organizational Pattern Is It?

Resource ID: txlsr14008a
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a text, identify its organizational pattern, highlight signal words, create a visual representation/graphic organizer, and present to the class.

Students during Task

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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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Newton's Second Law

Resource ID: txlsr13047
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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How Newton's Laws Apply Every Day

Resource ID: txlsr11023a
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students collaboratively determine how the characteristics of a real-world job correlate with each of Newton’s Laws and why that is relevant to their own lives.

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The Write Way

Resource ID: txlsr4010
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use a graphic organizer to draft the introduction paragraph of their expository essays.

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Analyzing and Using Organizational Patterns

Resource ID: txlsr10022
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students used organizational patterns (compare and contrast, argumentative, cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological) to create anchor charts. Students then worked in groups to analyze text and plan a composition, using the anchor charts to complete the tasks. Ultimately, students created a plan from a self-generated topic to demonstrate an understanding of the use of organizational patterns. 

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Stages of Ecological Succession

Resource ID: txlsr20022
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will collaborate on a electronic slideshow presentation and observe, record, and describe the role of ecological succession including both primary and secondary succession.

 

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Are You Speaking Greek?

Resource ID: txlr10004
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be able to determine the meaning of words using Greek, Latin, or other linguistic roots and affixes.

 

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The Golden Touch

Resource ID: txlsr10007
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will practice using a protocol to create a summary of an expository text.

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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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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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Can You Summarize?

Resource ID: txlsr10006
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work with partners, as well as independently, to create and evaluate summaries of expository text.

 

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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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Convergent Plate Boundaries

Resource ID: txls135
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will design and test models that will identify crustal features formed by convergent plate boundaries.

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Full Speed Ahead

Resource ID: txls006
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will use hover pucks to measure speed over a distance of six meters. Once speed has been calculated, students will determine velocity using the same data. Finally, students will be able to label all points of acceleration.

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Building a Watershed

Resource ID: txls122
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will model the effects of human activity on watersheds.

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Modeling the Path of Digestion

Resource ID: txls139
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students model the path of digestion using household items.

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Crime Scene Inferences

Resource ID: txlsr3002
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to generate inferences, make generalizations, and draw conclusions to support understanding about expository text.

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