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Answer Questions Referring to the Text
This Common Core reading informational text lesson focuses on reading comprehension. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
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Describe Cause & Effect Relationships
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on describing the relationship between cause and effect. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use clues from the text they read, as well as prior knowledge to determine which event is the cause and which is the effect. 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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Describe Text Using Information From Illustrations and Words
This reading informational text lesson explains how pictures add information to a text. In this lesson, students will describe where particular kinds of information are located within a text and its illustrations.
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Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic
This reading informational text lesson covers how to compare two texts on the same topic. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to compare texts by determining whether the information is in one text, the other, or both.
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Distinguish Between the Author's Point of View and Our Own
This reading informational text lesson focuses on distinguishing between the author's point of view and our own. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.
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Plan and Write an Opinion Piece
This writing lesson focuses on writing an opinion piece. In this lesson, students will introduce a topic or text, state their opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists appropriate reasons. (Also aligns to standard 3.W.1b.)
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Plan and Write Informative Text
W.3.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
W.3.2.AW.3.2.A Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
W.3.2.BW.3.2.B Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
W.3.2.CW.3.2.C Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
W.3.2.DW.3.2.D Provide a concluding statement or section.
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, supporting detail sentences, and a concluding sentence using a graphic organizer. (Also aligns with standard 3.W.7.)
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Write a Paragraph
This writing lesson uses teacher guidance and support to help students write a paragraph that is appropriate to the task and purpose. In this lesson, students will review a topic, write a topic sentence, add details, and a concluding idea in a graphic organizer. Then, they will write a paragraph.
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Revise Writing
This 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.
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Use Technology to Produce and Publish Writing
In this writing lesson, students will practice using technology to produce and publish the text. In this lesson, students will format text on a computer (such as center, bold, font size, indent, double space) and then use a publishing checklist to review formatting before printing. The teacher will need to provide students with the practice texts in a document on their own computer.
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Prepare for a Discussion
This speaking and listening lesson helps students prepare for discussions. In this lesson, students will read a text, take notes on the text, and consider questions to ask about the text for a later discussion.
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Follow Agreed-upon Rules for Discussions
This speaking and listening lesson helps students practice participating in collaborative discussions. In this lesson, students will learn specific rules for discussion, examine certain discussion situations, and then determine which agreed-upon rule is being used or not used (such as the active listener, one speaker, focus, gain the floor, and golden rule). (Also aligns with 3.SL.6.) In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
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Write Sentences with Reciprocal Pronouns
This language lesson covers the use of reciprocal pronouns (each other and one another). The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn when to use "each other" versus when to use "one another".