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Make Generalizations About Text
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on making generalizations from a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the question identifying the topic. Then, they identify common traits or features in the text that may lead to a generalization about the topic. Finally, they make a generalization and then justify it. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
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Determine Cause-and-Effect Relationships
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on distinguishing between cause and effect. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use clues from the text they read, as well as prior knowledge to determine which event is the cause and which is the effect. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
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Analyze Compare-and-Contrast Text Organization
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on analyzing text that uses the compare-and-contrast organizational pattern. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use a graphic organizer to sort details from a passage to determine if they are comparing or contrasting information from the passage. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
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Determine Different Perspectives When Making Assertions
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Explain How Reasons and Evidence Support Point of View
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Determine the Figurative Meaning of Words & Phrases (Reports)
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Revise Writing (Add & Delete Sentences)
This writing lesson covers how to revise writing by adding or deleting sentences based on how they support the main idea. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to change the written text to improve it by determining which details support the main idea and which don’t.
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Write a Narrative (Multi-Paragraph Composition)
W.5.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.5.3.AW.5.3.A Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
W.5.3.BW.5.3.B Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
W.5.3.CW.5.3.C Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
W.5.3.DW.5.3.D Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
W.5.3.EW.5.3.E Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
This writing strategies lesson focuses on writing a multi-paragraph narrative composition. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students create a graphic organizer that describes the introduction, the body, and the conclusion of their composition based on a given prompt. Then, they use the organizer to write a four-paragraph composition. In addition to the lesson, there are eleven pages of Independent Practice and review with prompts and organizers provided.
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Write a Concluding Paragraph for Expository Text
This writing strategies lesson focuses on writing a concluding paragraph for expository text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text, noting the bold main idea and the underlined important details. Then in complete sentences, they re-word the main idea and important details as well as develop a lasting impression by asking why the main idea is important. Finally, they write a concluding paragraph. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with text and organizers provided.
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Revise Writing
This writing strategies lesson focuses on identifying an effective transition between paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the question to determine what they are looking for in the text. Then they read both paragraph of the passage and identify the main idea of each one. Finally, they identify the best transition between paragraphs -- the sentence that combines the main ideas of both. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive test items.
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Revise Writing by Consolidating Sentences
W.5.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 5 here.)
L.5.3.AL.5.3.A Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
This writing strategies lesson focuses on revising writing by consolidating sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a pair of sentences, and identify the relationship between them. Then, they revise the writing by consolidating the sentences using a coordinating conjunction. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive test items.
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Develop a Topic in Writing
W.5.2.A Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
W.5.2.BW.5.2.B Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
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Plan and Write Informational Text
W.5.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
W.5.2.AW.5.2.A Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
W.5.2.BW.5.2.B Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
W.5.2.CW.5.2.C Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).
W.5.2.DW.5.2.D Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
W.5.2.EW.5.2.E Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.
This writing unit covers how to write informational text. It includes planning and writing; revising by adding transitions; adding quotations; and rearranging, adding, or deleting sentences.
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Plan and Write an Opinion Piece
W.5.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
W.5.1.AW.5.1.A Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer's purpose.
W.5.1.BW.5.1.B Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
W.5.1.CW.5.1.C Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
W.5.1.DW.5.1.D Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
This writing lesson covers how to plan an opinion piece. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the prompt and decide their position about it. Then they organize their ideas in a planning chart by answering questions about their position and three reasons for it. They make sure their reasons appeal to the audience by using pronouns and modal verbs. They also restate their position for a summary. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of new topics for review.
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Edit Writing
In this Common Core writing lesson, students will practice rereading and editing texts. In this lesson, students will edit texts for proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
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Write a Paragraph
This Common Core writing lesson uses teacher guidance and support to help students write a paragraph that is appropriate to the task and purpose. In this lesson, students will review a topic, write a topic sentence, add details, and a concluding idea in a graphic organizer. Then, they will write a paragraph. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
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Plan and Write a Narrative
W.5.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.5.3.AW.5.3.A Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
W.5.3.BW.5.3.B Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
W.5.3.CW.5.3.C Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
W.5.3.DW.5.3.D Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
W.5.3.EW.5.3.E Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
This Common Core writing lesson requires students to plan and write a narrative. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students are given a prompt and must plan a situation, setting, characters, events, and resolution. Students then take their notes and write a first draft of their narrative. Lesson also includes a checklist for students to reference and a printable graphic organizer for repeated use. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
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Plan and Write a Main Idea Essay
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