Lessons tagged with "support"
Plan and Write an Opinion Piece
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson focuses on writing an opinion piece. In this lesson, students will introduce a topic or text, state their opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists appropriate reasons. (Also aligns to standard 3.W.1b.)
Determine the Main Idea
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson focuses on determining the main idea in a text. In this lesson, students will determine the main idea of a text and then the key details that support that main idea. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. (Also aligns with 3.RI.1 and 3.RI.10.)
Support Answers
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on supporting answers by using clues from the text and prior knowledge. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use clues from the text and prior knowledge to answer questions about the text. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Write a Response to Literature
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing applications lesson focuses on writing responses to literature. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students are provided a prompt and reading passage. Students underline details in the passage that support the prompt then write a response that includes an intro, body, and conclusion. In addition to the lesson, there are three more of the same activity in Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Create Supporting and Concluding Paragraphs
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on creating supporting and concluding paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read an introductory paragraph and identify the main idea. Then, they identify supporting sentences and create a supporting paragraph for each one. Last, students write a concluding paragraph. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Proposition and Support Patterns in Text
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying the proposition-and-support pattern in the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text and identify the proposition of the author by identifying and details in the text. Then, they determine if the text uses proposition-and-support and defend their answers. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Revise Writing (Add & Delete Sentences)
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to revise writing by adding or deleting sentences based on how they support the main idea. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to change the written text to improve it by determining which details support the main idea and which don’t.
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.
Make Assertions
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on making reasonable assertions about text through accurate supporting citations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text and identify the topic and supporting citations. Then, they make a reasonable assertion and support their answer with evidence from the text. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Cite Textual Evidence to Support Inferences
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Reading Informational Text lesson focuses on citing textual evidence to support inferences. In this lesson, students will read a short text and identify the textual evidence to support a given inference. Students will also justify why a sentence may or may not support the inference.
Cite Textual Evidence to Support Inferences
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers how to cite textual evidence to support inferences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the informational text and identify phrases that support a given inference.
Assess the Evidence that Supports an Author's Argument
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers how to assess the evidence that supports an author’s argument in informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify whether the evidence is accurate, appropriate, or adequate.
Revise Writing
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to revise writing by adding or deleting sentences based on how they support the main idea. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to change written text to improve it by determining which details support the main idea and which don’t.
Evaluate the Logic of Text
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on evaluating the logic of text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text and identify the sentence that states the author's argument. Then, they identify other sentences that provide consistent support for the argument. If all examples support the argument, then they can determine that the argument has logic. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing methods.
Analyze Proposition-and-Support Patterns in Text
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on analyzing proposition-and-support patterns in text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text and identify the proposition. Then, they determine words or phrases that support the author's proposition and those that do not support it. Finally, they explain how the author's proposition was supported. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing methods.
Rotation Stations (Two-Syllable Words with Prefixes and Suffixes & Other Activities)
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Development
Rotation Stations (Schwa Words & Letter l & Other Activities)
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Development
Rotation Stations (Two-Syllable Words & Other Activities)
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Development