All Lessons

This writing applications lesson focuses on writing a problem and solution essay. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the topic or problem. Then, they list three possible solutions and persuasive evidence to support each solution. Next, they select the best solution of the three and defend their answer. Last, students write a problem and solution essay that includes an intro, body, and conclusion. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing strategies lesson focuses on revising writing to improve the organization of ideas within paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage and identify the main idea in each paragraph. Then, they identify any details that do not relate to the main idea. Finally, students answer the corresponding questions. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing strategies lesson focuses on writing a concluding paragraph for expository text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage and identify the main idea and supporting details. Then, they select the best sentence to add to the end of the text to build a better conclusion and write a conclusion. In addition to the lesson, there are six pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

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 topic and decide their position about it. Then they identify three appeals for their position, focusing on logical, emotional, and ethical. They also restate their position for a summary. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of new topics for review.

This writing lesson covers how to write an opinion piece. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students write an introduction that introduces the topic and states their position. Then, they write paragraphs that use logical, emotional, or ethical appeals to the audience. Finally, they write a summary paragraph that restates their position. These sentences are based on the planning charts created in the Plan an Opinion Piece lesson. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of new topics for review.

This writing lesson covers how to plan informative text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the research and identify related information that is needed to complete a graphic organizer. Then they complete the graphic organizer which asks for topic, three facts and details, and a conclusion. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.

This writing lesson covers how to recognize descriptive details, such as adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the descriptive phrase, then identify which word the phrase describes. Finally, they will determine what the descriptive phrase gives more details about. Also, passages of descriptive text are provided with questions about the descriptive phrases.

This writing lesson covers how to use descriptive phrases, such as adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases to be more precise. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students are given a basic sentence along with instructions for adding a type of feeling, color, motion, shape, etc. Students select the most precise descriptive phrase and rewrite the sentence with the new phrase.

This writing lesson requires students to write a previously planned narrative. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, Students take their notes from the previous lesson and write a first draft of their narrative and edit their composition.

This language/vocabulary lesson covers how to determine the meaning of words using roots and affixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to analyze words in a sentence based on given root definitions.

This language lesson covers the use of pronouns in the proper case. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn when to use subjective, objective, and possessive case forms of pronouns.