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Ensure Subject-Verb Agreement
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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Use Coordinating Conjunctions
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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Use Subordinating Conjunctions
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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Use Commas and Quotation Marks in Dialogue
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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Form and Use Possessive Nouns
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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Spoken and Written English
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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Identify Connections Between Words and Their Use
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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Shades of Meaning
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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Use Signal Words to Show Relationships
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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Capitalize Greetings, Titles, and Initials of People
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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Identify Regular & Irregular Verbs
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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Use a Table of Contents to Locate Information
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Use an Index to Locate Information
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Use Antonyms to Determine the Meaning of Words
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on using antonyms to determine the meaning of words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use contrast signal words (but, not, however, while, and yet) to identify antonyms and determine the meaning of words. 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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Determine the Meaning of Homographs
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on using homographs to determine the meaning of words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use word definitions and clues from the text to determine the meaning of homographs. 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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Distinguish Between Meanings of Homophones
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on using homophones to determine the meaning of words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use spelling and definitions of homophones to use the word correctly in a sentence. 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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Use Synonyms to Determine the Meaning of Words
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Determine the Meaning of Words Using Context Clues
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on determining the meaning of unknown words using context clues. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use nearby words (context clues) to determine the meaning of an unknown word in a sentence. 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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Produce Complete Sentences (Subject and Predicate)
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using subjects and verbs to write complete sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the verb that describes the action of a character in a picture. Then, writes a complete sentence using the verb and the subject shown in the picture. 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 Onomatopoeia
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on recognizing onomatopoeia. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the use of onomatopoeia in poetry and short passages. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.