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Distinguish Between the Connotations of Words with Similar Denotations
This language lesson covers how to distinguish between connotations of words with similar denotations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will analyze sentences for context clues that suggest which of three similar words can be used in the sentence based on each word’s denotation and connotation.
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Punctuate Sentences with Appositives
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying appositives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence, looking for noun phrases. Then, they identify if the noun is followed by an appositive, insert a comma to separate the appositive from the rest of the sentence and read it aloud. 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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Interpret Metaphors
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on interpreting metaphors. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify metaphors in sentences and determine what qualities the two objects have in common. Then, they interpret the meaning of the metaphor. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
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Explain Shades of Meaning of Related Words
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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Spell Words Correctly
This writing conventions lesson focuses on spelling words correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students practice spelling words correctly using six different spelling rules about adding suffixes to the end of words. In addition to the lesson, there are 12 pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
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Use Effective Subordination to Write a Complex Sentence
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using effective subordination to write a complex sentence. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the relationship between sentences (time, cause and effect, opposition, condition, and place) to determine the correct subordinating conjunction. Then, they combine the sentences by linking them with the subordinating conjunction. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
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Use Correct Capitalization
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using correct capitalization. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage, identifying (underlining) all of the words that need to be capitalized based on the chart of capitalization rules. Then, the select the correct way the sentence should be written, using correct capitalization. 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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Spell Frequently Misspelled Words Correctly
This writing conventions lesson focuses on spelling frequently misspelled words correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the definitions of misspelled words. Using the help of context clues, students place the words in the correct sentence frame. Then, they read the sentences and write the words with their definitions. 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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Recognize the Origin and Meaning of Frequently Used Foreign Words in English
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on recognizing the origins and meanings of frequently used foreign words in English. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences that need a foreign word added from the word bank. Then, they use context clues to figure out which foreign word fits properly into each sentence and they read the sentence aloud using the foreign word. 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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Interpret Similes & Metaphors
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on interpreting similes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences that include similes. Then, they identify the two things being compared and determine what they have in common. Finally, students interpret the meaning of the simile. 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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Punctuate Quotations Correctly
This writing conventions lesson focuses on punctuating quotations correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence, identify the dialog tag, and then punctuate the quotation correctly. 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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Calculate Unit Rates
This ratios and proportional relationships lesson teaches students how to calculate unit rates. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will find various unit rates of real-world word problems.
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Solve Problems Involving Proportional Relationships
(B) Apply qualitative and quantitative reasoning to solve prediction and comparison of real-world problems involving ratios and rates
6.5.A(A) Represent mathematical and real-world problems involving ratios and rates using scale factors, tables, graphs, and proportions
6.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
6.RP.3.A6.RP.3.A Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.
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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Solve Problems Involving a Percent of a Quantity
6.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
6.RP.3.A6.RP.3.A Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.
6.RP.3.C6.RP.3.C Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
This ratios and proportional relationships lesson teaches students how to solve problems involving a percent of a quantity. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will solve problems using a percent of a quantity. This lesson uses real-world word problems. The lesson also includes an optional strategy development page for teachers who would like to formally introduce the strategy before proceeding to Skill Development.
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Show Common Decimal Numbers as Percents
This number sense lesson focuses on showing common decimal numbers as percents. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the question and change the decimal number into a fraction with a denominator of 100 using a place value chart. Then, they change the fraction into a percent and interpret the result. 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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Solve Problems Involving Rates
6.RP.1 Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, "The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak." "For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes."
6.RP.36.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
6.RP.3.A6.RP.3.A Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.
6.RP.3.B6.RP.3.B Solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed. For example, if it took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, then at that rate, how many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? At what rate were lawns being mowed?
This algebra and functions lesson focuses on solving problems involving rates. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the problem, identifying the given rate and the given and unknown quantities of the other rate. Then, they set up the proportion and solve it by cross-multiplying. Finally, they interpret the solution. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.