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This reading comprehension lesson focuses on using titles and chapter headings to locate information in text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use in titles and headings in a table of contents to answer questions about how and where to find information in a book. 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on using a table of contents to find information. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use in information in a table of contents to answer questions about how and where to find information in a book. 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying an author's purpose for writing a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify if the author's purpose for writing a text is to entertain, inform or persuade the reader. 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on how to restate details from the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students answer where, when, and how questions to restate details from the text. 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on recognizing cause-and-effect relationships. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the cause and effect in sentences and use the clue word "because" to check if they are correct . 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on how to follow written instructions The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students follow steps that tell how to make or do something using steps or clue words such as first, next, then, last, etc. 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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This writing strategies lesson focuses on identifying the purposes of reference materials. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify when to use an atlas, dictionary, or thesaurus. 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on interpreting information from charts. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students learn the organization of a chart and how to interpret the information provided. 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on interpreting information from diagrams. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students learn the organization of different diagrams and how to interpret the information provided. 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 reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying text that uses sequential order. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students look for clue words that identify sequence (first, last, then, next), and then circle yes or no if the sentence uses sequence. 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 Common Core reading informational text lesson focuses on determining the main topic in a text. In this lesson, students will determine the main topic of a text and then the key details that support that main topic. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

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This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.

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This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.

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This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.

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This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy Program.

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This writing strategies lesson focuses on maintaining focus in writing. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the central idea and details of a passage to determine other details that belong or do not belong in the passage. 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 applications lesson focuses on how to write a friendly letter. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students practice using the parts of a letter (date, greeting, body, closing, signature) to write a letter to a friend or family member. 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 strategies lesson focuses on grouping related ideas. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the central idea to correctly group related ideas. This lesson uses the grouping of ideas to write short paragraphs. 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 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 will develop a planning chart that asks two questions about a given topic. The two questions identify their opinion on the topic, and then at least two reasons why they think that.

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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 will write at least one complete sentence for each section of the planning chart that they developed in the Plan an Opinion Piece lesson. Then, they will use an Editing Checklist to identify and correct any errors. In addition to the lesson, there are three pages of additional topics for review.

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