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This reading literature lesson explains how to determine the central message of a text. In this lesson, students will discuss the main events of a text and choose which of several possible sentences would best show the central message.

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This Common Core reading informational text lesson focuses on reading comprehension. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. 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 literary response and analysis lesson focuses on determining plots of legends. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the characteristics of legends (a real/imaginary hero, exaggerated details, etc.) to comprehend the plot of legends. 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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This Common Core operations and algebraic thinking lesson covers how to memorize multiplication facts. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will practice the multiplication facts of numbers with products over 45 by a combination of reading aloud and writing each fact many times in horizontal and vertical formats. In addition to the lesson, Independent Practice provides practice with random problems for each number, while periodic review provides practice with random problems for all the numbers together. The intent of this lesson is to provide additional practice for the multiplication facts that are more difficult for students to remember.

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This number and operations in base ten lesson teaches students how to round numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. The focus of this lesson is to look at the two possible rounding values, then decide whether to round down or round up. This lesson uses a variety of strategies including number lines to visualize the number being rounded.

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This language lesson focuses on forming and using simple tense verbs. In this lesson, students will read pairs of sentences, identify the verbs, and then identify which sentence contains the present, past, or future tense verb.

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This writing lesson focuses on planning an opinion piece. In this lesson, students will read the text prompt, decide what their position is on the topic, and then organize their ideas in a planning chart by answering questions that will help them identify their position and reasons for it. They will also restate their position for a summary.

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This writing lesson focuses on writing an opinion piece. In this lesson, students will write an introduction sentence that gives their position, write at least one sentence for each of their reasons, and write a summary sentence that restates their position. These sentences are based on the planning chart created in the Plan an Opinion lesson.

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This is a brief overview of how to teach an EDI lesson for use with our EDI workshops.

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In this Reading Literature lesson, students distinguish between what a character thinks and feels and their own thoughts and feelings on the story. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. 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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This Language lesson requires students to produce simple sentences on given topics. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, Students use a sample all of the major components of a sentence to describe a picture using a complete simple sentence.

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This reading comprehension lesson focuses on describing the relationship 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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This Language lesson focuses on having students identify complex sentences. Students will be asked to identify the clauses and determine the structure of the sentence based on the subordinating conjunction. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.

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This language lesson focuses on producing compound sentences using a word bank to describe a picture. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. 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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This language lesson focuses on producing complex sentences using a word bank to describe a picture. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. 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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This reading informational text lesson explains how pictures add information to a text. In this lesson, students will describe where particular kinds of information are located within a text and its illustrations.

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This reading informational text lesson covers how to compare two texts on the same topic. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to compare texts by determining whether the information is in one text, the other, or both.

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This language lesson has students distinguish between various forms of figurative language and standard literal language.

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This language lesson focuses on the use of reflexive pronouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

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This language lesson focuses on ensuring the pronoun-antecedent agreement of subjective pronouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

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