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Flying High with Inferences

Resource ID: txlsr1001
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: 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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Stellar Sentences

Resource ID: txlsr7002
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: txlsr3005
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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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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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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Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment: Administering and Interpreting Results

Grade Range: 5 - 12
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: txlsr11031
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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It’s More Than Just Sounding It Out

Resource ID: txls266
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be able to understand vowel digraphs (ai/ay pattern).

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The "Moon" Idea

Resource ID: txlsr12002
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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Explore Revising and Editing with some Classroom Adventure

Resource ID: txls112
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

While “scooting” from one example to another, students will explore sentences in order to determine what end punctuation is necessary and why. Students will also collaborate to explore sentences in order to identify what edits are necessary and why.

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Understanding Text Features

Resource ID: txlsr12006
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: txlsr13003
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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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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One Thing Leads to Another

Resource ID: txls208
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students apply their understanding of the text in order to retell the plot sequence.
 

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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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