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Retelling with Confidence

Resource ID: TXLS195
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students learn how to use the pictures in their books to retell a story in sequence. The teacher models how to use the pictures to retell the story Stellaluna by Janell Cannon. The students and teacher complete a graphic organizer using picture representations from the book. The graphic organizer is a frame for all the elements of a strong retell and requires students to include new vocabulary; the characters and setting; and the beginning, middle, and end of the book, Stellaluna. Students will apply the picture retell strategy by completing a graphic organizer for their own book and retelling the story to peers and their teacher.

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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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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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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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Revision is in the Details

Resource ID: TXLSR11.031
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students receive the same pre-generated sentence and discuss with a partner how to revise that sentence, adding details either by writing or drawing. 

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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 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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It’s More Than Just Sounding It Out

Resource ID: TXLS266
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be able to understand vowel digraphs (ai/ay pattern).

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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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Text Feature Fun!

Resource ID: TXLSR13.030
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will locate and identify text features in non-fiction books while matching the purpose to the appropriate text feature.  

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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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Adventures in Inferring

Resource ID: TXLS002
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will infer the message the author is trying to convey using schema and evidence from the text. Readers use this strategy, known as making inferences, to think about what they are reading.

Students progress from a surface-level understanding of text to a deeper understanding by processing and expressing details and examples to support their understanding of observations through background knowledge and textual evidence.

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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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