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Author’s Purpose: Reading for Meaning

Resource ID: TXLSR1.004
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: 10 - 9
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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Which Organizational Pattern Is It?

Resource ID: TXLSR14.008A
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.

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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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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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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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What Can You Infer?

Resource ID: TXLSR10.020
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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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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"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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The Write Way

Resource ID: TXLSR4.010
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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The Bucket Brigade

Resource ID: TXLSR1.011
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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Analyzing and Using Organizational Patterns

Resource ID: TXLSR10.022
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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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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Character Analysis: Traits, Relationships, and Beyond

Resource ID: TXLS R20.014
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will be guided through exploring how actions affect characters and their decisions. Students will put themselves in the shoes of a character and think about how they feel and why.

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Can You Summarize?

Resource ID: TXLSR10.006
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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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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Crime Scene Inferences

Resource ID: TXLSR3.002
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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Summarizing Expository Text

Resource ID: TXLS226
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will watch the teacher model how to create a summary, and then work in groups to create a summary from an expository text.

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Remembering Leaders

Resource ID: TXLS179
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read expository text, categorize findings, and reformulate the text into an obituary.

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Tackling Expository Text

Resource ID: TXLS229
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will read and summarize expository text using a graphic organizer to aid the process.

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