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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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Revising and Editing Escape Room

Resource ID: TXLSR08.006
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will collaboratively apply revising and editing skills to make their way through passages and a series of questions to decode a lock. If groups successfully complete the tasks, they will escape the room and win a prize.

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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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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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Revising for Coherence

Resource ID: TXLSR10.009
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use a checklist to peer edit a composition. They will check for coherence through the proper use of transition words and conjunctions.

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Analyzing Author’s Purpose: Argumentative Text

Resource ID: TXLSR14.045
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a pre-Civil War speech and write author’s purpose statements using the argumentative verbs explain, urge, convince, and encourage.

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Figuring out Figurative Language

Resource ID: TXLSR1.002
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work collaboratively to infer the implied meaning of a metaphor used in a poem. Students will complete a graphic organizer in which they discuss with their peers the two items being compared in the metaphor, write and illustrate the literal meaning of each word being compared, and use this information to infer the implied meaning of the metaphor. The lesson has a strong focus on vocabulary development and is designed with English learners (ELs) in mind.  
 

 

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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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Composing Like Beethoven

Resource ID: TXLSR14.028
Grade Range: 4
Subject: Fine Arts

Students will review music vocabulary, name notes using flashcards, and create and present a 4/4 composition using rhythm sticks and other available instruments.

Music flash cards

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Creative Motivation

Resource ID: PBS419
Grade Range: 1 - 3
Subject: Fine Arts

In these segments, artist Mark Ecko discusses what motivates him to create his art, and what "creativity" means to him. This resource teaches students what "motivation" and "creativity" mean, and empowers students to create their own art.

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Unmuffins | The Electric Company

Resource ID: PBS420
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Learn about the vocabulary words unsure, unbelievably, undo, unfriendly, and unusual with The Electric Company in an undeniably exciting adventure. Something funny is going on. The Pranksters are being very helpful and The Electric Company is being awfully unfriendly. 

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Waddle

Resource ID: PBS421
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Get your students up and moving in this Kindergarten through 5th grade activity that connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book “Waddle” as the teacher reads aloud. 

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A Clubhouse Mystery | IPTV Kids Clubhouse

Resource ID: PBS422
Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this clip from IPTV KIDS Clubhouse, Dan Wardell and DanBot receive a mysterious letter in the mail and must follow clues to discover what the letter is communicating and who it is from!

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Minute to Win It

Resource ID: PBS423
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

This Kindergarten through 5th grade activity is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It! Students form into groups of 4-5 and perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points. 

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Fitness Bingo

Resource ID: PBS424
Grade Range: 1 - Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

This activity is similar to traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Creating space between them and their peers, students will act out the exercise if they have it on their bingo card. 

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Junk or Treasure: A Clubhouse Story | IPTV Kids Clubhouse

Resource ID: PBS425
Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this clip from IPTV KIDS Clubhouse, DanBot thinks Dan Wardell’s stuff is useless junk and gets rid of it! Dan teaches DanBot how seemingly useless junk can be repurposed or reused in valuable ways!

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Read a Good Book: Creature Craft | IPTV KIDS Clubhouse

Resource ID: PBS426
Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: ELA & Reading

Clubhouse friends visit their local library to read and discover more about birds. In this segment, kids take on the role of a bird and create a nest. Working in teams, kids apply their problem solving skills to create birds' nests without using their hands.

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