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This language/vocabulary lesson covers how to determine the meaning of words using roots and affixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to analyze words in a sentence based on given root definitions.

This language lesson covers the use of pronouns in the proper case. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn when to use subjective, objective, and possessive case forms of pronouns.

This language lesson covers how to identify and interpret hyperbole. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will develop the skill of looking for an exaggerated phrase in a text that stretches the truth about something, and then interpreting its meaning.

This language lesson covers how to distinguish between connotations of words with similar denotations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will analyze sentences for context clues that suggest which of three similar words can be used in the sentence based on each word’s denotation and connotation.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying appositives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence, looking for noun phrases. Then, they identify if the noun is followed by an appositive, insert a comma to separate the appositive from the rest of the sentence and read it aloud. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on interpreting metaphors. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify metaphors in sentences and determine what qualities the two objects have in common. Then, they interpret the meaning of the metaphor. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on interpreting shades of meaning. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the definitions of closely related words and the sentences that follow. Then, they use context clues to place the correct word in its proper sentence. Last, students explain their answers. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on spelling words correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students practice spelling words correctly using six different spelling rules about adding suffixes to the end of words. In addition to the lesson, there are 12 pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on using effective subordination to write a complex sentence. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the relationship between sentences (time, cause and effect, opposition, condition, and place) to determine the correct subordinating conjunction. Then, they combine the sentences by linking them with the subordinating conjunction. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on using correct capitalization. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage, identifying (underlining) all of the words that need to be capitalized based on the chart of capitalization rules. Then, the select the correct way the sentence should be written, using correct capitalization. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on spelling frequently misspelled words correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the definitions of misspelled words. Using the help of context clues, students place the words in the correct sentence frame. Then, they read the sentences and write the words with their definitions. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on recognizing the origins and meanings of frequently used foreign words in English. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences that need a foreign word added from the word bank. Then, they use context clues to figure out which foreign word fits properly into each sentence and they read the sentence aloud using the foreign word. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on interpreting similes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences that include similes. Then, they identify the two things being compared and determine what they have in common. Finally, students interpret the meaning of the simile. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on punctuating quotations correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence, identify the dialog tag, and then punctuate the quotation correctly. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.