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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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Hooked on Inferring

Resource ID: TXLSR5.008
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use text evidence and schema to create an inference. Students read informational text and practice inferring with varying levels of support.

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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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Analyzing the Text for Summary and Connections

Resource ID: TXLSR20.009
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will critically think and communicate; they will summarize a text to understand and make connections to other texts, themselves, and the world.

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Thesis Throwdown

Resource ID: TXLS065
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

After students watch a brief video introducing thesis statements, they will create a class thesis statement checklist, use a prompt to write a personal thesis, compare theirs to others in their group while working to craft and revise a group thesis to present to the class after participating in a Gallery Walk where they provide and incorporate revision suggestions. 

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Sensing Poetry

Resource ID: TXLS103
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students locate sensory details and create their own sensory detail poem.

Teacher discusses the sensory details that correspond with the five senses

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Building Vocabulary with a Morphing Mindset

Resource ID: TXLSR14.034
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will explore vocabulary words from other content areas and apply their learning of word parts to find meaning.

Teacher working with students

 

 

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Stop, Collaborate, and Listen. Poetry is Our Mission! Thinking Deeply About Poetry

Resource ID: TXLSR4.008
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will actively engage with poetry in a blend of collaborative and independent analysis of poetic devices and an author’s use of devices to communicate a deeper meaning. Students will use their analysis to infer the meaning of a variety of poems.

 

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Author’s Purpose in a Bag

Resource ID: TXLSR13.040
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will infer from text evidence the author’s purpose and explain their thinking.

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Sound Effects, Poetic Elements, and Analysis, Oh My! Visualizing the Text to Gain Meaning Out of Poetry

Resource ID: TXLSR20.010
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be asked to use metacognition as they analyze a poem, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the overall meaning of a text.

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Planning a Draft

Resource ID: TXLS032
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will employ critical thinking skills to order details logically and become more effective at communicating their ideas to readers. The lesson will guide students toward using critical thinking in the planning phase of drafting to purposefully include details that interest readers. 

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Pack Your Bags!

Resource ID: TXLSR13.031
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students learn to determine the difference between topic, central idea, and details using mystery bags, graphic organizers, and short passages.

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Inference in the Real World: Using Clues to Identify Key Details

Resource ID: TXLS172
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will actively read as a critical component; they will infer in expository text.

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A Lesson in Kindness and Thematic Complexity

Resource ID: TXLS162
Grade Range: 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students explore their internal definition of kindness, using visual and textual evidence to collaboratively expand that definition and perform a close reading of a poem. Students then use internal text to express the author’s complex and subtle thematic message.

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Inferring Through Imagery and Figurative Language

Resource ID: TXLS150
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students rotate to four posters which contain a single stanza from a common poem (“Digging” by Seamus Heaney), marking key literary elements (imagery, diction, figurative language) before rotating to explain the connotation of the words and phrases selected by the previous group. After text marking, students regroup to discuss the inferential connections between literary terms and their connotative meaning to theorize thematic meaning within the poem.

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Making an Inference

Resource ID: TXLS149
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

The class will review previous learning about how authors describe characters using speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks (STEAL). Students will make annotations on an excerpt using the STEAL strategy. We will talk them through making a guided inference. Students will complete a short-answer response on chart paper with evidence and inference for the focus question

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Understanding Text Features

Resource ID: TXLSR12.006
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson guides students to use sentence stems to clarify their thinking as they identify and locate text features in isolation while using an interactive text features wall. Students will then transition to gaining information from text features as they search for text features in their books and share the information gained with their partners.  

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Inference Detectives

Resource ID: TXLSR13.003
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use mystery bags and graphic organizers to identify clues and use their schema to make an inference. Students conclude this lesson by connecting text as evidence and playing a context clue game with cucumber sentences.

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