All Lessons

This writing lesson covers how to plan an opinion piece. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the prompt and decide their position about it. Then they organize their ideas in a planning chart by answering questions about their position and three reasons for it. They make sure their reasons appeal to the audience by using pronouns and modal verbs. They also restate their position for a summary. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of new topics for review.

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.

This Common Core 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. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This Common Core writing lesson requires students to plan and write a narrative. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students are given a prompt and must plan a situation, setting, characters, events, and resolution. Students then take their notes and write a first draft of their narrative. Lesson also includes a checklist for students to reference and a printable graphic organizer for repeated use. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This language lesson covers the use of conjunctions (coordinating and subordinating) in terms of how they connect words, phrases, or clauses by showing different relationships. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn when to use various conjunctions by explaining the relationship of the two parts they are connecting.

This language lesson covers the use of prepositional phrases (defined as a group of words that begins with a preposition) by how their relationship to other words or phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn when to use prepositional phrases that show time, place or direction, and means or agency (how).

This language lesson covers how to separate items in a series, using commas and semicolons. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify a series of items, where to put the commas, and when to use a semicolon.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying independent and dependent clauses. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the independent clause, if any, by labeling SV and underlining. Then, they identify the dependent clause, if any, by labeling cSV and double underlining. Common subordinating conjunctions are provided for reference. 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 identifying prepositional phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and determine the preposition (based on a given table). Then, they identify the full prepositional phrase and whether the phrases shows position in space or time. 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 using roots to determine the meaning of unknown words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the root in a bold word in a sentence. They note the origin and meaning from a given table and then determine the best meaning of the word based on context clues. In addition to the lesson, there are 11 pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on explaining frequently used synonyms. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a sentence with a bold word. They identify context clues in the sentence that explain its meaning and then determine the correct synonym for the bold word. Finally, they write and read the synonyms. 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 using prefixes to analyze the meaning of words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a sentence and identify the word with the prefix. Then, they divide the word between base and prefix and then determine the meaning of the prefix from a table. Finally, they combine the meanings of the prefix and the base to determine the meaning of the whole word. In addition to the lesson, there are fifteen pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying complex sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the subject and verb in the independent clause, and the subject, verb, and subordinating conjunction in the dependent clause. Then they identify the type of complex sentence (cSV, SV or SV cSV), and finally write how the clauses are related. 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 using quotation marks around titles. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read each sentence, looking for a title. Then, they insert quotation marks around the title of the work, if needed. Finally, they select the correctly punctuated sentence from four choices. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.