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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.

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This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying the main events of the plot. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage, and the bold problem and solution. Then, they identify the main events of the plot. 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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This number and operations in base ten lesson teaches students how to multiply multi-digit numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the standard multiplication algorithm to multiply two- and three-digit numbers.

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This writing strategies lesson focuses on writing a multi-paragraph narrative composition. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students create a graphic organizer that describes the introduction, the body, and the conclusion of their composition based on a given prompt. Then, they use the organizer to write a four-paragraph composition. In addition to the lesson, there are eleven pages of Independent Practice and review with prompts and organizers provided.

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This reading literature lesson requires students to describe the events in a story using specific details from the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students must answer specific questions about events in the story.

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This reading informational text lesson focuses on how an author uses rhetoric to express a point of view. In this lesson, students will read a text (usually an excerpt of a speech), and then identify when an author appeals to ethos, pathos, or logos. Finally, students will analyze how the author's use of these appeals advances his point of view.

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This number and operations in base ten lesson teaches students how to compare the value of multi-digit numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students determine which of a pair of multi-digit numbers is larger. The focus of this lesson is reinforcing differences between numbers based on place value.

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This ratios and proportional relationships lesson teaches students how to solve problems involving proportional relationships. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify a given ratio in a word problem, then the unknown ratio. They will represent the proportional relationship in a table and generate an equivalent ratio to solve for the unknown. Finally, they will interpret the solution.

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This reading literature lesson covers how to analyze the impact of rhyme and repetition of sounds in literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify rhyme, repetition, and alliteration in poems, and then analyze how these devices helped convey the message of the poem.

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This reading literature lesson focuses on how to determine the impact of analogies in a text, and see how they are related to metaphors and similes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify two things being compared in a poem, look for words that suggest the comparison, identify the qualities they have in common, and analyze the impact of the analogy.

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This circles lesson teaches students how to identify inscribed and circumscribed angles of a circle and to use the appropriate formula to determine the measure of the angle from the intercepted arcs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify given and unknown information and apply the correct formula to find the unknown angle.

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This reading comprehension lesson focuses on discerning stated main ideas and supporting evidence in a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text to determine how the sentences are related. They identify the topic and supporting evidence, and finally circle the main idea. 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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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.

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This language lesson covers how to form and use perfect tense verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a pair of sentences, identify the verbs, and then identify which sentence contains the perfecdt tense verb.

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This reading comprehension lesson focuses on citing evidence that supports an assertion in a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage, looking for evidence that supports the given assertion (these are labeled "supporting evidence"). Then they fill in the table with accurate, supporting citations. 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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This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying the conflict and resolution in a story. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the passage, and identify the conflict (or the problem a character is having). Then, they read further to determine the resolution and answer multiple choice questions about the conflict and its resolution. 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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This number system lesson teaches students how to represent quantities using positive and negative numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students expand their knowledge of positive and negative numbers. Students will plot given real-world values on a number line and explain their meaning.  This lesson should be taught after lesson 6.NS.6.1 Describe positive and negative numbers.

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Use Roots to Determine the Meaning of Words

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This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying idioms. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and underline the idiom. Then, they determine the meaning of the idiom using context clues and select the correct answer. 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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This language lesson covers how to form and use progressive tense verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a pair of sentences, identify the verbs, and then identify which sentence contains the progressive tense verb.

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