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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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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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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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Traditional vs. Contemporary: "The Three Little Pigs"

Resource ID: TXLS007
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will compare a contemporary version of "The Three Little Pigs" to a traditional version with respect to characters, setting, and plot. In a small group, students will analyze story elements on a t-chart to determine which parts of the stories are the same and which are different.

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Revision Rally

Resource ID: TXLS048
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use the ARMS (add, remove, move, and substitute words and phrases) revision strategy to revise a procedural passage.

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Get the Gist on the Main Idea

Resource ID: TXLSR1.006
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use the Get the Gist Strategy to analyze text and identify the main idea. The lesson was designed with English learners in mind and utilizes strategies such as cooperative learning, visuals, graphic organizers, cloze reading, and sentence frames.   

 

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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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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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The Next Steps to Great Writing

Resource ID: TXLSR16.002
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will write a draft that is sequenced and logical after brainstorming.

Teacher introducing lesson

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Creative Motivation

Resource ID: PBS419
Grade Range: 1 - 3
Subject: Fine Arts

In these segments, artist Mark Ecko discusses what motivates him to create his art, and what "creativity" means to him. This resource teaches students what "motivation" and "creativity" mean, and empowers students to create their own art.

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Unmuffins | The Electric Company

Resource ID: PBS420
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Learn about the vocabulary words unsure, unbelievably, undo, unfriendly, and unusual with The Electric Company in an undeniably exciting adventure. Something funny is going on. The Pranksters are being very helpful and The Electric Company is being awfully unfriendly. 

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Waddle

Resource ID: PBS421
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Get your students up and moving in this Kindergarten through 5th grade activity that connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book “Waddle” as the teacher reads aloud. 

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A Clubhouse Mystery | IPTV Kids Clubhouse

Resource ID: PBS422
Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this clip from IPTV KIDS Clubhouse, Dan Wardell and DanBot receive a mysterious letter in the mail and must follow clues to discover what the letter is communicating and who it is from!

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Minute to Win It

Resource ID: PBS423
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

This Kindergarten through 5th grade activity is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It! Students form into groups of 4-5 and perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points. 

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Fitness Bingo

Resource ID: PBS424
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

This activity is similar to traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Creating space between them and their peers, students will act out the exercise if they have it on their bingo card. 

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Junk or Treasure: A Clubhouse Story | IPTV Kids Clubhouse

Resource ID: PBS425
Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this clip from IPTV KIDS Clubhouse, DanBot thinks Dan Wardell’s stuff is useless junk and gets rid of it! Dan teaches DanBot how seemingly useless junk can be repurposed or reused in valuable ways!

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Read a Good Book: Creature Craft | IPTV KIDS Clubhouse

Resource ID: PBS426
Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: ELA & Reading

Clubhouse friends visit their local library to read and discover more about birds. In this segment, kids take on the role of a bird and create a nest. Working in teams, kids apply their problem solving skills to create birds' nests without using their hands.

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Chinese Folktale: The Little Rabbits

Resource ID: PBS428
Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: ELA & Reading

This video features the Chinese story "The Little Rabbits" in both English and Chinese. The story has elements of the Western stories “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs.” 

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