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This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.

This writing strategies lesson focuses on maintaining focus in writing. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the central idea and details of a passage to determine other details that belong or do not belong in the passage. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing applications lesson focuses on how to write a friendly letter. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students practice using the parts of a letter (date, greeting, body, closing, signature) to write a letter to a friend or family member. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing strategies lesson focuses on grouping related ideas. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the central idea to correctly group related ideas. This lesson uses the grouping of ideas to write short paragraphs. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

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 will develop a planning chart that asks two questions about a given topic. The two questions identify their opinion on the topic, and then at least two reasons why they think that.

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.

This Common Core writing lesson focuses on students revising written work to make it better. In this lesson, students will read a text with the main idea identified. Then, they will add or delete sentences that support or don't support the main idea. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This Common Core writing lesson helps students practice writing a narrative. In this lesson, students will review given story details (character, setting, events, and ending) and place these in a graphic organizer. Then, the students will write a narrative in complete sentences based on the prewriting organizer. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This writing lesson covers how to plan informative text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the research and identify related information that is needed to complete a graphic organizer. Then they complete the graphic organizer which asks for a topic and three facts. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.

This writing lesson helps students practice writing informative text. In this lesson, students will read given research notes on a topic, then develop a topic sentence and supporting detail sentences.

This writing lesson is intended to guide students through the process of publishing writing using a word processor.

This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.

This grammar lesson covers the use of irregular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to form irregular plurals using patterns, such as –an to –en, -y to –ies, -f to –ves, and no change.

This grammar lesson covers the production of simple sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify the subject and verb as well as phrases that tell where and how. They will create and write new sentences that match pictures and words from a word bank.

This grammar lesson covers the capitalization of holidays, product names, and geographic names. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify words that should be capitalized and then recognize which of the three sentences is correct.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on reading contractions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. This lesson does not include any writing on the students part. It focuses on practicing to read words containing contractions. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.