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Edit Writing
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.
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Revise Writing
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.
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Plan and Write a Narrative
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.
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Plan and Write Informative Text
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.
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Write Informative Text
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.
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Use Technology to Produce and Publish Writing
This writing lesson is intended to guide students through the process of publishing writing using a word processor.
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Gather Information from Sources
This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.
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Form and Use Irregular Plural Nouns
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.
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Produce Simple Sentences
L.2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.2.1.FL.2.1.F Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
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.
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Capitalize Holidays, Product Names, & Geographic Names
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.
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Read Contractions
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.
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Distinguish Between Complete and Incomplete Sentences
L.2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.2.1.FL.2.1.F Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
This writing conventions lesson focuses on distinguishing between complete and incomplete sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify verbs and subjects within a sentence and determine if the sentence in complete or incomplete. 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 Verbs
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify action words in sentences. 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 Syllabication Rules
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on the use of syllabication rules. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use syllabication rules to divide words into syllables. 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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Identify Irregular Plural Nouns
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying irregular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students change nouns to irregular plural nouns based on the spelling pattern. 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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Identify Regular Plural Nouns
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying regular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students change singluar nouns to plural nouns based on the spelling rules. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.