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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Discovering the Power of a Complete Sentence

Resource ID: TXLS134
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will discover the necessary components of a complete sentence and use the complete subject and complete predicate in their own writing through a process called ratiocination.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Vertical Alignment

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Painting With Expository Writing

Resource ID: TXLSR11.005
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

After students examine an image by Faith Ringgold, they will write supporting sentences when given a central idea sentence.

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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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Summarizing with Sarah at the ER

Resource ID: TXLS099
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

The purpose of this lesson is to sequence the events of a story chronologically and be able to summarize the major events.

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Mapping Out Our Learning

Resource ID: TXLSR11.002
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will participate in a workshop-style lesson that includes partner and small-group work, teacher modeling, and independent reflection to not only label and identify text features within informational text, but to also connect the feature to its purpose.

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Rolling into Compound Sentences

Resource ID: TXLS138
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will create compound sentences from simple sentences.

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