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This speaking and listening lesson helps students prepare for discussions. In this lesson, students will read a text, take notes on the text, and consider questions to ask about the text for a later discussion.

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This speaking and listening lesson helps students practice participating in collaborative discussions. In this lesson, students will learn specific rules for discussion, examine certain discussion situations, and then determine which agreed-upon rule is being used or not used (such as the active listener, one speaker, focus, gain the floor, and golden rule). (Also aligns with 3.SL.6.) In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

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This language lesson covers the use of reciprocal pronouns (each other and one another). The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn when to use "each other" versus when to use "one another".

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This language lesson covers the use of abstract nouns in a sentence or paragraph. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. The nouns are grade-specific, and cover general, academic, and domain-specific words and phrases. Students should be reminded that abstract nouns cannot be experienced using the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste).

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This language lesson covers regular and irregular verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn to form and use regular and irregular verbs.

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This language lesson covers the subject-verb agreement. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn to identify and ensure correct subject-verb agreement in sentences and paragraphs.

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This language lesson covers coordinating conjunctions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using conjunctions to join words based on the relationship between words. It will be helpful if students are already familiar with complete simple and compound sentences prior to this lesson.

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This language lesson covers subordinating conjunctions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using subordinating conjunctions in sentences and paragraphs. It will be helpful if students are already familiar with complete simple and compound sentences prior to this lesson.

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This language lesson covers the proper use of commas and quotation marks. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice the correct placement of quotation marks and commas with dialogue.

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This language lesson covers the formation and use of possessive nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice forming and using possessive nouns. It will be helpful if students are already familiar with common, proper, possessive, collective and irregular plural nouns.

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This language lesson requires students to distinguish between language that is written and spoken. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice and compare the formal and informal uses of spoken and written English.

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This language lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify and use appropriate words and vocabulary based on subject matter and context.

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This language lesson requires students to distinguish between words with shades of meaning. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using content-specific vocabulary and distinguishing between closely related words (e.g. thin, slender, skinny).

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The language lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify clues within the sentence that help them determine the proper use of words that show time (such as during, after, etc.) and words that show location (such as beneath, against, etc.).

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This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing greetings, titles, and initials of people. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify words that should be capitalized and select the correct use in a sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

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This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying regular and irregular verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read both present and past tense verbs and identify the change. Then students determine the type and use both verbs correctly in a sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

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