Special Program: Sonoma Elementary School
Sonoma Elementary School

Produce Rhyming Words
This phonics lesson gives students practice in producing rhyming words with short and long vowel sounds. Teacher instructions are included throughout the lesson.

Use Verbs
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify action words in sentences. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

Interpret Similes and Metaphors
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying figurative language - specifically similes and metaphors. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify examples of similes and metaphors in a short passage and explain the meaning. 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 Words Using Context Clues
L.6.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.6.4.AL.6.4.A Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
This language lesson covers the use of context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will develop the skill of using textual evidence to identify both sentence and paragraph context clues that suggest the meaning of an unknown word.