Lessons tagged with "explain"
Performance Task - ELA Explanatory
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts, Other Resources
These guides help teachers understand how federal assessments have evolved by showing in-depth analysis of assessment questions in math. Teachers will understand the new types of questions presented to students and how classroom instruction should be modified to prepare students for these questions.
Write an Explanatory Text
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to write explanatory text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students write sentences that describe each of several steps. Then, they use an editing checklist to identify and correct any errors. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of topics for review and extended thinking.
Explain Multiplication Using Area Models
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- Math
This number sense lesson focuses on using the relationship between multiplication and division to check answers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students write both factors in expanded form. Then, they set up the box model to perform multiplication in. Then, students find the answer by adding up all the box values. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and Periodic Reviews with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Analyze Informational Text
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
In this Reading Informational Text lesson, students are asked to interpret information from a passage and its related images, diagrams, and maps. Students must identify both the information and where it comes from. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.
Explain the Function of Conjunctions in Simple Sentences
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
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.
Explain How the Author Develops Point of View
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on contrasting points of view. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage and identify who is telling the story and their point of view (1st person, 3rd person). Then, if the narrator is 3rd person, students scan the text again identifying keywords that signal whether the narrator is 3rd person omniscient or limited. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.