All Lessons

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.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on combining sentences with appositives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the noun in the first sentence and the noun phrase in the second. Then students are asked to combine the sentences with appositives. 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 types of simple sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences and label the subject and verb, noting whether there is a compound subject, a compound verb, or neither. 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 and using modifiers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences, identifying the descriptive word or modifier. Then, they draw an arrow to the word it is modifying, determine whether the modifier is an adjective or adverb, and use the modifier 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 writing conventions lesson focuses on combining sentences with participial phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students combine sentences by inserting a participial phrase and comma in the correct place. 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 identifying homographs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read three sentences that use the homograph with different meanings. Then, they read two possible meanings and identify context clues to help explain which meaning fits with which sentence. 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 explaining the use of figurative language. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify instances of figurative language and then use context clues to help them interpret the meaning of the phrase. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This Common Core language lesson covers how to avoid shift errors in verb tense, especially in the compound and complex sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to match the verb tense to the time a verb’s action takes place. 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 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 perfect tense verb.

This Common Core language lesson teaches students how to recognize and interpret frequently used idioms. This lesson is very impactful for English learners or ELD students. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students look at the literal and figurative meanings of the idioms side-by-side. Then in the activity they use the context of the text to interpret the meaning of idioms. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This Common Core language lesson teaches students how to interpret figurative language including similes and metaphors. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify a simile or metaphor in the context of a paragraph and how to use the context of the text to explain the meaning of the figurative language. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This Language lesson has students correctly use commas to separate different items in a sentence. Students will both insert commas where necessary and explain the reason that a comma is necessary there. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of independent practice and review.