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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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Creating Connections Across Literary Texts

Resource ID: txlsr14098a
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will explore organizational patterns in short passages and use signal words/phrases as evidence to support the main idea and their understanding.

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Quality Questioning

Resource ID: txlsr11019
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students analyze, rate, and revise questions generated in response to their reading of a short story. They use the questions in student-led conversations and activities, helping them understand the connection between strong questioning, inferring, and communicating during reading.

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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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Human Paragraphs

Resource ID: txlsr13014
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students assume roles of paragraph parts, including the main idea and supporting details, in order to reassemble a text that has been divided into pieces based on textual purpose.

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Crime Scene Investigations through Text Structures

Resource ID: txlsr7001
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students participate in an activity where they must solve a crime. Students visit different stations that include surveillance tape, tips, eyewitness statements, and a crime scene. Each station is formatted as a different organizational pattern allowing students to practice creating summaries reflecting the structure used.

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Organized Authors: Name That Structure

Resource ID: txlsr14008
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a text passage, looking for and highlighting key words that indicate the appropriate organizational pattern of the text.

Students working

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Connecting Author’s Purpose and Organizational Patterns

Resource ID: txlsr4006
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students explore and analyze how the author can achieve a specific purpose by using a variety of organizational patterns.

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Critiquing and Creating Compound and Complex Sentences

Resource ID: txlsr14005
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will create compound and complex sentences with proper comma usage and present their explanations to the class. 

Student work

 

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Layers to Understanding Poetry

Resource ID: txlsr14017
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will apply their analytical skills to different types of poems by reviewing the devices used in poetry, reading and analyzing two poems, and creating a poster to demonstrate their learning. 

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Una Reseña de un Restaurante

Resource ID: txlsr4011
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students describe a restaurant in restaurant review form using simple phrases and sentences. As they write, students focus on noun-adjective agreement and sentence structure.

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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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A Reader’s Survival Guide: Connecting and Synthesizing Ideas in Nonfiction Texts

Resource ID: txls024
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson is designed to teach students to synthesize and make connections between ideas within a text and with previous texts students have read.

 

 

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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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