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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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Circuit Designers

Resource ID: TXLSR12.007
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will work in small groups of two to three on a structured challenge around circuits which includes requirements such as including using a switch or a conductor. They will then use that knowledge to work on a collaborative challenge to solve a relevant problem related to elephant poaching. Students will create a containment system that will have an alarm system, a lighting system, and a way to pass through. Finally, they will review the other projects and discuss similarities and differences in the design.

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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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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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Newton's Second Law

Resource ID: TXLSR13.047
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will work in partners to investigate Newton’s second law by testing a series of experiments with varying conditions.

 

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Building Vocabulary with a Morphing Mindset

Resource ID: TXLSR14.034
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will explore vocabulary words from other content areas and apply their learning of word parts to find meaning.

Teacher working with students

 

 

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Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions in an Anne Frank Digital Challenge

Resource ID: TXLSR20.023
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work collaboratively on a digital challenge activity by reading short excerpts of nonfiction text and explore an online webpage where they will learn more about the life of Anne Frank and the World War II era. By answering inferential and organizational structure questions, regarding those topics, students will be in a race against each other to crack the code to a lockbox.

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Stop, Collaborate, and Listen. Poetry is Our Mission! Thinking Deeply About Poetry

Resource ID: TXLSR4.008
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will actively engage with poetry in a blend of collaborative and independent analysis of poetic devices and an author’s use of devices to communicate a deeper meaning. Students will use their analysis to infer the meaning of a variety of poems.

 

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

Resource ID: TXLSR20.010
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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Manifest Density

Resource ID: TXLSR14.018
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will design a foil boat and add mass to test relative density.

Students describing how they got their boat to float.

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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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Civil War Inferring

Resource ID: TXLSR13.032
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: TXLSR8.002
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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Paired Passages with a Purpose

Resource ID: TXLSR11.008
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will make inferences about the author’s purpose after reading paired passages involving the same subject.

 

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Poetry With Purpose

Resource ID: TXLSR11.003
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students collaborate in small groups to discuss their peers’ poetry and assess the poetry according to the student-created rubric. The rubric assesses students’ ability to make meaningful connections to the poetic devices in their poetry. Through collaboration, they are building a culture of receptiveness among their peers.

 

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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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