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Retelling with Confidence

Resource ID: TXLS195
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students learn how to use the pictures in their books to retell a story in sequence. The teacher models how to use the pictures to retell the story Stellaluna by Janell Cannon. The students and teacher complete a graphic organizer using picture representations from the book. The graphic organizer is a frame for all the elements of a strong retell and requires students to include new vocabulary; the characters and setting; and the beginning, middle, and end of the book, Stellaluna. Students will apply the picture retell strategy by completing a graphic organizer for their own book and retelling the story to peers and their teacher.

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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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What’s Your Feature?

Resource ID: TXLSR10.014
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will learn how to use text features to locate information and verify answers within an expository text.  

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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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Syncing with Inferences

Resource ID: TXLSR1.010
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students integrate relevant text evidence and background knowledge to generate valid inferences when reading a historical fiction text. The lesson was designed with English learners in mind, so it includes instructional strategies designed to make linguistic and content input comprehensible: a focus on vocabulary, visuals, cooperative learning, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and sentence stems/frames.

 

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Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences With Expository Text

Resource ID: TXLSR3.006
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Third grade students will identify and discuss facts and details from expository text and draw conclusions using textual evidence in learning stations.

 

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Bulldogs “Paws” for a Good Summary

Resource ID: TXLS132
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson helps students summarize information in expository text using logical order. The lesson begins with students using a T-chart to categorize information as they summarize a text. By the end of the lesson, students will independently summarize information. As students transition through activities in the lesson, they will work both in groups and independently using a variety of best practices and a checklist to heighten intrinsic motivation, increasing chances for success.

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Author’s Purpose: Reading for Meaning

Resource ID: TXLSR1.004
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use text evidence and background knowledge to generate and evaluate inferences about the author's purpose for specific sections of a passage as well as the entire passage. The lesson is designed with English learners (ELs) and students from families that speak nonstandard dialects of English in mind. The lesson provides scaffolded instruction through the use of strategies designed to make input comprehensible: visuals, graphic organizers, sentence frames, hand gestures, and collaborative learning.

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Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment: Administering and Interpreting Results

Grade Range: 10 - 9
Subject: ELA & Reading

This binder details how to score and interpret the results of the Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment (TMSFA). This course is Unit 4 of the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academy (TALA). These materials are available for view only; no credit or certificate is provided.

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Revision is in the Details

Resource ID: TXLSR11.031
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students receive the same pre-generated sentence and discuss with a partner how to revise that sentence, adding details either by writing or drawing. 

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What Can You Infer?

Resource ID: TXLSR10.020
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will learn how to use textual evidence to make inferences and to support their understanding.

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Welcome to the Jungle!

Resource ID: TXLS126
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson offers an engaging format for fourth graders to spend time working with different cause-and-effect situations and text to help move them toward the objective of correctly identifying an implicit cause-and-effect relationship within a text.

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The "Moon" Idea

Resource ID: TXLSR12.002
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will observe the teacher sorting details that she read from a book about a dog. The teacher is making groups with the details and models her thinking. Students to help determine a title for each group. The students replicate that work in collaborative small groups using details they provided to the teacher after reading a book about the moon the previous day.

 

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Text Features are a Bear

Resource ID: TXLSR12.003
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students are expected to work with partners and then in groups to complete a text feature (scavenger) hunt activity using the same nonfiction text.

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Where am I going?

Resource ID: TXLSR08.004
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

The teacher will engage the students to make inferences through visuals, pictures, and informational text using problem-solving and self-questioning strategies.

 

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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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Writing Summaries with Get the Gist

Resource ID: TXLS141
Grade Range: 3
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson teaches students to use the Get the Gist strategy to find the main idea of a section. Students will then put those Get the Gist statements together to begin a written summary of their text.

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