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Decode Words with Prefixes
This reading foundational lesson covers the decoding of words with prefixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will write a new word by adding a prefix, decode the meaning of the new word, and then complete sentences using the new word made with the prefix. (Focus is on prefixes re-, un-, and over-.)
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Decode Words with Suffixes
This reading foundational lesson covers the decoding of words with suffixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will write a new word by adding a suffix, decode the meaning of the new word, and then complete sentences using the new word made with the suffix. (Focus is on suffixes -less, -ing, and -ly.)
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Read Words With Diphthongs
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Answer Who, When, & Where Questions (Literature)
This reading literature lesson covers the answering of who, when, and where questions about narrative or literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, answer questions about the characters and setting, and verify the answer by referring back to the text.
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Determine the Central Message of a Story
This reading literature lesson covers how to determine the central message in a narrative or literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, identify a character, and then identify a clue word that shows the character learned a lesson about life. What the character learns is then identified as the central message.
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Compare & Contrast Characters
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting characters. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students compare and contrast what is the same and different between characters in a story. 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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Compare & Contrast Plots
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting plots. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students compare and contrast what is the same and different between the plot in two stories. 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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Compare & Contrast Settings
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting setting. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students compare and contrast what is the same and different between the settings in two stories. 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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Identify the Beginning, Middle, and End of a Story
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying the beginning, middle, and ending of a story. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify parts of a story by labeling them as B, M, or E. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying the beginning, middle, and ending of a story. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify parts of a story by labeling them as B, M, or E. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying the beginning, middle, and ending of
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Identify Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry
This language and literature lesson has students read poetry while emphasizing rhyme and rhythm. Students will identify rhyme schemes and rhythm patterns. The class should discuss the impact of these patterns.
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Compare Similar Stories
This reading literature lesson has students reading two similar stories and finding similarities and differences. Students will read the stories and determine the major similarities and differences
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Answer Who, When, & Where Questions (Informational)
This reading informational lesson covers the answering of who, when, and where questions about the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, answer questions about key details, and verify the answer by referring back to the text.
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Identify the Main Purpose of a Text
This reading informational lesson covers identifying the main purpose of the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, and then determine if the purpose of the text is to answer, explain, or describe.
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Identify the Author's Purpose
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying an author's purpose for writing a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify if the author's purpose for writing a text is to entertain, inform or persuade the reader. 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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Restate Details from Text (Where, When, & How Questions)
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on how to restate details from the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students answer where, when, and how questions to restate details from the text. 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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Recognize Cause-and-Effect Relationships
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on recognizing cause-and-effect relationships. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the cause and effect in sentences and use the clue word "because" to check if they are correct . In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.