Lessons tagged with "clues"
Describe Time Relationships in Text (Chronological Order)
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson focuses on time relationships in text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify time clue words (month, day, year, time, age) and then identify the time order of events in a text.
Determine the Central Message in a Story
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading literature lesson explains how to determine the central message of a text. In this lesson, students will discuss the main events of a text and choose which of several possible sentences would best show the central message.
Identify Chronological Order in Informational Text
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying chronological order in the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify chronological clue words (months, days, years, time, age, etc.) and determine if the text is in chronological order. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Draw Conclusions
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on drawing conclusions from a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the question identifying the topic. Then, they underline evidence in the text that may lead to a conclusion about the topic. Finally, they choose one of four conclusions and then justify it. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine the Meaning of Unknown Words using Roots & Affixes
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts