Digging in with Text Features
Resource ID: TXLS088
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading
Students will read an expository text and apply text features by comparing and contrasting information regarding two animals’ homes.
Teacher models how to use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast two things
Summarizing Fiction
Resource ID: TXLSR14.050
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading
Students will analyze effective and ineffective summaries of a fictional text and identify the characteristics that classify the summaries as either effective or ineffective.
Teacher giving task
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Resource ID: TXLSR3.007
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading
First-grade students will discuss, identify, and compare the physical and emotional traits of two characters from the fictional book, The Recess Queen. In stations, students will generate inferences about character motivation and describe characters and their actions while making personal and logical connections.