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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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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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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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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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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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Reading Between the Lines

Resource ID: txls068
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students will expand their critical thinking skills by making inferences found in a short film and listening to a literary fictional text on tablets. Working collaboratively in groups, students will create anchor charts to demonstrate their understanding of making inferences and present their detailed anchor charts to their classmates. 

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Inferring with Dr. Seuss

Resource ID: txls025b
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work collaboratively in groups as they practice their inferring skills using children’s literature books.

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Main Idea

Resource ID: txls009
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will identify supporting details and the main idea in a passage.

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Inference in the Real World: Using Clues to Identify Key Details

Resource ID: txls172
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will actively read as a critical component; they will infer in expository text.

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Analyzing Online Sources for Credibility

Resource ID: txlsr13025
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

The students will analyze online sources for credibility and reliability while respecting others opinions through collaboration.

 

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It’s All in the Details

Resource ID: txlsr13005
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson demonstrates a small group intervention that scaffolds instruction of main idea for native English or Spanish speaking students. This lesson is scripted in both languages.

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Sound Effects, Poetic Elements, and Analysis, Oh My! Visualizing the Text to Gain Meaning Out of Poetry

Resource ID: txlsr20010
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will be asked to use metacognition as they analyze a poem, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the overall meaning of a text.

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Tone is in the Fear of the Beholder: Reading and Writing Using Multimodal Mentor Texts

Resource ID: dl0001
Grade Range: 5 - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

This resource is a demonstration lesson presented at the 2014 Write for Texas Summer Institute. It provides a snapshot of a four to five week unit that engages students in the reading and writing workshop model.

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Teaching Sentence Skills

Resource ID: tss0000
Grade Range: 5 - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

This resource series is designed to enhance teachers' knowledge and skill so they can effectively teach grammar in context. Teaching grammar in context uses powerful models like sentences within mentor texts, rather than marking errors and correcting weak or wrong examples. 

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Target 2% Lessons to Support Comprehension for Grades K through 5

Resource ID: t2p0005
Grade Range: Kindergarten - 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

These comprehension activities are designed to enhance the instruction of all teachers of reading and to meet the learning needs of all students, as indicated by data.

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TSLP—0–SE—Leadership—L2—Matching Instruction to Needs

Resource ID: tslp_0-se_l2
Grade Range: PreK - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

The goal of the Texas State Literacy Plan (TSLP) is to ensure that every Texas child is strategically prepared for the literacy demands of college or career by high school graduation.

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Write for Texas Overview Video

Resource ID: w4tx0000
Grade Range: 5 - 12
Subject: ELA & Reading

This resource links to the Write for Texas online resources and includes a short video overview.

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