Poetic Inferences
In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to make inferences about the structure and elements of poetry, and provide textual evidence to support their understanding.
Making Inferences to Solve a Mystery
In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry, and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Spying Evidence Through Text
Students will identify ideas in a text that are important to its meaning and write a letter demonstrating their understanding of the text.
Research Lesson TEKS
Earth Day: Join the Fight, for Sentences That are Right!
In this lesson, students are initially captivated by Earth Day-themed pictures, thus providing them with ideas to prewrite, and will have meaningful writing to revise. The lesson utilizes a mentor text to demonstrate the necessity of subjects and predicates. Students apply their knowledge of sentence syntax by revising a chosen sentence and rewriting the sentence to be shared with the class during a gallery walk.
Character Analysis: Traits, Relationships, and Beyond
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.
Informational Inferences
In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to identify and generate inferences, to support understanding of an expository text.
Did this make this happen? Is this why this happened? All About Cause and Effect Relationships
Students will use a mentor text to identify cause and effect relationships. Students will also find the missing cause or effect. They will work collaboratively to complete a graphic organizer and use teacher-created anchor charts to help them in identifying the relationships.
Text Features of Non-Fiction
The students will identify elements of nonfiction text by analyzing the importance of text features.
Using Text Features in Everyday Life
Students will use text features in a nonfiction passage to locate information, make and verify predictions about content and purpose of the text, and identify author’s purpose.
The Domino Effect of Cause and Effect
Students will identify explicit cause and effect relationships using keywords and phrases while reading relevant informational texts aligned with technology and current events.
Teacher Models Cause and Effect Relationships Within a Text
5 TPRI Kindergarten Administration
This binder describes the purpose of the Texas Primary Reading Instrument (TPRI), when and how to administer the TPRI, and allows you to practice giving parts of the assessment. It explains what is included in the TPRI kit and what it assesses.
5 TPRI Grade 1 Administration
This binder describes the purpose of the Texas Primary Reading Instrument (TPRI), when and how to administer the TPRI, and allows you to practice giving parts of the assessment. It explains what is included in the TPRI kit and what it assesses.
5 TPRI Grade 2 Administration
This binder describes the purpose of the Texas Primary Reading Instrument (TPRI), when and how to administer the TPRI, and allows you to practice giving parts of the assessment. It explains what is included in the TPRI kit and what it assesses.
4 OnTRACK English I Writing: Writing the Expository and Procedural Essay
OnTRACK English I Writing, Module 3, Lessons 1–4. Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes
6 Targeting the 2 Percent
This resource provides reading intervention lessons for teachers who work with students in grades K–5. Targeting the 2 Percent (T2%) aims to improve the instruction, content knowledge, and academic achievement of Texas students transitioning from assessments based on modified standards to the general state assessment, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®).
For more information about this project and other materials available, visit the T2% Support Center.
4 Complete "Red Book Series" Focused on Reading Instruction
This binder provides copies of the original "Red Book Series" titles and links to online resources created for today's classrooms. Educators can access basic research about reading, view videos, download lesson plans, and learn how to adapt materials to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Apply the P.I.E.
This lesson is a review of the author's purpose, and also the first look into selecting textual evidence to support the purpose. The lesson will review a selected text as a group and then break into smaller groups so that each student is able to have hands-on experience evaluating the author’s purpose.
Matchup Mashup
Students will join like text features by reassembling a deconstructed nonfiction text.
Text Features Detectives
Students will work together to answer questions about an expository text containing no text features. Then, students will justify their answers using the same text but with text features.