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Environmental Print and Vocabulary Development

Environmental Print and Vocabulary Development

This writing conventions lesson focuses on using quotation marks around the exact words of a speaker. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the dialog tag. Then, they punctuate the sentence with quotation marks and read the sentence again, paying attention to the quotation marks. 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 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.

Use Roots to Determine the Meaning of Words

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.

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.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying and using adjectives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and use words that describe a noun. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on correctly using commonly misused verbs, such as lie/lay, sit/set, teach/learn, and rise/raise. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences, noting the choice of verbs. Then, they underline who or what the verb is affecting, and thus identify the correct verb. Finally, they write a new sentence with the correct verb. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.