Lessons tagged with "structure"
Write a Friendly Letter
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
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.
Compare Myths and Fables
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on describing structural differences between myths and fables. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage and identify characteristics of either a myth (humans, gods & goddesses, etc.) or a fable (animal characters, moral, etc.). Then, they determine if the passage is a myth or a fable. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Describe Cause & Effect Text Structure
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson teaches students how to analyze text that has a cause and effect text structure. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students have to identify the cause and effect within a paragraph and then select from four options the option which best summarizes the main cause and effect of the passage.
Compare & Contrast Text Structure (4 Types of Text Structure)
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers how to compare texts based on different text structures. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify a chronological, comparison, cause/effect, or problem/solution text structure, and then compare two texts with different structures.