Special Program: EDI Lesson Certification Steps 4-5 Grades: 5&6

EDI Lesson Certification Steps 4-5 Grades: 5&6

These lessons are pre-selected lessons for lesson demonstration and certification.

Discern Main Idea (Stated)

RI.5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

TEKS ELA: 5(9)(D)(i)

5(9)(D)(i) Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including the central idea with supporting evidence.

This reading comprehension lesson focuses on discerning stated main ideas and supporting evidence in a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text to determine how the sentences are related. They identify the topic and supporting evidence, and finally circle the main idea. 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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Determine the Meaning of Figurative Language

AU ELA: ACELT1606

(Y4) Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns (ACELT1606)

CCSS ELA: RL.5.4

RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

TEKS ELA: 4(9)(B)

4(9)(B) Explain figurative language such as simile, metaphor, and personification that the poet uses to create images.

This reading literature lesson covers how to identify figurative language, and then use context clues to determine its meaning. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify similes, metaphors, and idioms and then explain the meaning based on textual evidence.

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Provide a Summary of the Text

AU ELA: ACELY1687

(Y4) Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information (ACELY1687)

CCSS ELA: RI.6.2

RI.6.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

TEKS ELA: 6(6)(D)

6(6)(D) Paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order.

This reading informational text lesson covers how to write a summary of a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the central idea and key details of a passage, then write a brief summary using a checklist of what to include or not include.