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Hooked on Inferring icon
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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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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Uncovering Tone in Poetry

Resource ID: TXLSR09.005
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will interpret the tone of a poem, cite text evidence to justify their response, and research a synonym for the word they chose to expand their understanding of Tier 2 vocabulary.

Teacher introducing the poem

 

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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. 

Teacher Introducing Lesson

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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

 

 

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

 

Sound Effects Poetic Elements and Analysis Oh My Visualizing the Text to Gain Meaning Out of Poetry icon
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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Syntax Shuffle

Resource ID: TXLSR4.021
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will analyze one of four ways to incorporate grammar and syntax into their everyday language through the use of technological instruction. Once students have comprehended their grammatical type, they will practice among their peers to master and share the lesson (grammar rule) in a Jigsaw activity.

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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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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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Sparking Curiosity and Wonder: Making Complex Inferences

Resource ID: TXLS022
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will learn how to activate their curiosity and use questioning strategies to make complex inferences and connections across texts.

 

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Civil War Inferring

Resource ID: TXLSR13.032
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.

Put on Your Detective Cap Making Inferences icon
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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Themes in Hamlet

Resource ID: TXLSR08.001
Grade Range: 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will make inferences about themes from the play, use textual evidence from the play to support their inferences using the CASE model, and will make a praise and criticism for peer answers.

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Summarizing as a Reading Strategy

Resource ID: TXLS104
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students work collaboratively using reading and comprehension skills to demonstrate their mastery of summarizing a text or piece of literature. 

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Who Is the Culprit?

Resource ID: TXLSR8.002
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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Exploring Identity and Diving Deep into the Complex Meaning of Poetry

Resource ID: TXLS023
Grade Range: 10
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson is designed to teach students to make complex inferences, choose specific text evidence that strongly supports the inference, and develop a coherent explanation of how the evidence strongly supports the validity of the idea within the genre of poetry.

 

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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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