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Choose Your Words Wisely!

Resource ID: txlsr14006
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will create a collection using objects, participate in a read-aloud, create another collection using sight word cards, and present their collections to the class.

Teacher reviewing vocabulary words.

 

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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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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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Rhyming is Out of This World!

Resource ID: txlsr7007
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will participate in stations with board games that reinforce rhyming, onset, and rimes, and blending.

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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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Decomposing Number Exploration

Resource ID: txlsr14023
Grade Range: 1
Subject: Math

Students will decompose a number up to 20 using manipulatives and graphic organizers.

Teacher Giving Instructions

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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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Balancing Act

Resource ID: txls205
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: Math

Students use a pan balance model and manipulatives to identify a total that balances two parts. The use of the pan balance will help to develop the concept of equality. Students will develop the language of equality by reading and identifying the following expressions; balances, is the same as, is equal to, and equal before the symbol for equality is introduced. Students will identify an unknown part in a balance situation. Students will communicate ideas, explain, and justify how they solved problems.

Students participating and listening to teacher instructions

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Adventures in Inferring

Resource ID: txls002
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will infer the message the author is trying to convey using schema and evidence from the text. Readers use this strategy, known as making inferences, to think about what they are reading.

Students progress from a surface-level understanding of text to a deeper understanding by processing and expressing details and examples to support their understanding of observations through background knowledge and textual evidence.

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Drumming Up Some Sound Energy!

Resource ID: txls096
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: Science

Students will explore sound energy by creating their own drums using a variety of materials. Then, students will listen for the loud and soft sounds that each of the drums creates.

Introduction of Lesson using a video of drums

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Planning a Draft

Resource ID: txls032
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will employ critical thinking skills to order details logically and become more effective at communicating their ideas to readers. The lesson will guide students toward using critical thinking in the planning phase of drafting to purposefully include details that interest readers. 

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The Shapes Around Us

Resource ID: txlsr14040
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: Math

Students will make connections between real-world objects and the attributes of two-dimensional shapes.

Students working in their group

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Are Letters Important?

Resource ID: txlsr14026
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use alphabet cards to create consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words and encode and decode given CVC words.

Teacher doing Introduction

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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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Centers in Subtraction

Resource ID: txlsr7008
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: Math

Students will participate in multiple centers including a guided math center that reinforces subtraction concepts.

 

 

 

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Reading Strategies: Choose, Monitor, and Comprehend with Nonfiction Texts

Resource ID: txlsr11021
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will engage in activities that allow them to take a book walk and use criteria to choose a good-fit book, use strategies to self-monitor their own comprehension while independently reading, and use partner talk criteria to reflect on their strategies collaboratively. 

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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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Sensing Poetry

Resource ID: txls103
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students locate sensory details and create their own sensory detail poem.

Teacher discusses the sensory details that correspond with the five senses

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Using Captions to Infer

Resource ID: txls267
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will be shown a picture with a caption. The students will partner up and discuss what they see and have read in the caption. The students must make an inference based off of the evidence and write an inference statement. Students will upload image and inference statements to a class sharing app for others to read and comment on.

 

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Inferences with Wolfie and Dot

Resource ID: txlsr5006
Grade Range: 1
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use text evidence and background knowledge to make inferences. Students infer during each phase of the lesson using a variety of literary sources and activities. 

 

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