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Hooked on Inferring

Resource ID: txlsr5008
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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Analyzing the Text for Summary and Connections

Resource ID: txlsr20009
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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Civil War Inferring

Resource ID: txlsr13032
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

 

Students will use Social Studies Weekly newspaper to make inferences about historical events using schema and text evidence.

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Sticky Note Summarizing

Resource ID: txls120
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will determine the important parts of a story and recognize and compose an individual summary by using color-coordinated sticky notes and the Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then (SWBST) strategy. Students will practice correctly identifying the parts of the SWBST strategy during a read-aloud. Students will work in groups and read a short story together, identify key components, and compose a written summary. Students will demonstrate their ability to recognize a good summary by writing two components of summarization on an exit ticket.

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Put on Your Detective Cap: Making Inferences

Resource ID: txls100
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students pretend to be detectives while being presented with various pictorial and textual clues that lead them to make an overall inference about what happened on Tuesday.

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Who Is the Culprit?

Resource ID: txlsr8002
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Engaging in a crime scene investigation, students will collaboratively examine the evidence, make inferences about their observations, and write a detailed description of the crime. Students will then read an informational text about investigating a crime scene and answer inference questions.

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Did You Get the "Text" Message?

Resource ID: txls079
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work independently and collaboratively to recognize the theme within a variety of texts. Students will create theme topics and theme statements from texts read.

 

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Reading Between the Lines

Resource ID: txls068
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students will expand their critical thinking skills by making inferences found in a short film and listening to a literary fictional text on tablets. Working collaboratively in groups, students will create anchor charts to demonstrate their understanding of making inferences and present their detailed anchor charts to their classmates. 

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Inferring with Dr. Seuss

Resource ID: txls025b
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work collaboratively in groups as they practice their inferring skills using children’s literature books.

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Main Idea

Resource ID: txls009
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will identify supporting details and the main idea in a passage.

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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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Analyzing Online Sources for Credibility

Resource ID: txlsr13025
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will analyze online sources for credibility and reliability while respecting others opinions through collaboration.

 

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It’s All in the Details

Resource ID: txlsr13005
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson demonstrates a small group intervention that scaffolds instruction of main idea for native English or Spanish speaking students. This lesson is scripted in both languages.

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

Resource ID: txlsr20010
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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Stop, Collaborate, and Listen. Poetry is Our Mission! Thinking Deeply About Poetry

Resource ID: txlsr4008
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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Building Vocabulary with a Morphing Mindset

Resource ID: txlsr14034
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.

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Sound Detectives

Resource ID: txlsr13028
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Through the application of mentor text, various poetry, cooperative learning, self and peer-evaluation, and sound devices, students will build self-motivation to better appreciate and understand the author’s usage of sound devices in poetry.

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Reread, Revise, Revive!

Resource ID: txlsr20002
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use the revision process to turn simple sentences into compound sentences.

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