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Traditional vs. Contemporary: "The Three Little Pigs"

Resource ID: TXLS007
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will compare a contemporary version of "The Three Little Pigs" to a traditional version with respect to characters, setting, and plot. In a small group, students will analyze story elements on a t-chart to determine which parts of the stories are the same and which are different.

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Solving Equations and Inequalities

Resource ID: TXLSR08.005
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Math

Students will be divided into four groups and work on their assigned task to become an expert. They will match vocabulary terms with definitions and examples, use the “Pass the Pen” strategy to create and solve equations or inequalities, or write a real-world problem for an equation given. The experts will then teach these concepts to their peers.

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Analyzing Author’s Purpose: Argumentative Text

Resource ID: TXLSR14.045
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a pre-Civil War speech and write author’s purpose statements using the argumentative verbs explain, urge, convince, and encourage.

Teacher in Action

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Revision Rally

Resource ID: TXLS048
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will use the ARMS (add, remove, move, and substitute words and phrases) revision strategy to revise a procedural passage.

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Human Paragraphs

Resource ID: TXLSR13.014
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students assume roles of paragraph parts, including the main idea and supporting details, in order to reassemble a text that has been divided into pieces based on textual purpose.

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Communication in Space

Resource ID: TXLSR14.057
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will work in cooperative groups to create an accurate arrangement of mirrors that work together to relay a laser beam from a Mars space station to Earth’s Mission Control, which will model utilizing satellites in space for communication, an accommodation necessary for manned space exploration.

Teacher In Action

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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

Resource ID: TXLSR14.049
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will categorize cells as prokaryotic or eukaryotic by identifying the presence or lack of a nucleus.

Teacher Summing Up Lesson

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45-45-90 Triangles

Resource ID: TXLSR4.004
Grade Range: 10
Subject: Math

To learn the pattern of the side lengths of a 45-45-90 triangle, students complete a gallery walk, a card sort activity starting with using the Pythagorean theorem, and activity to locate if there is an error in a presented problem and if so to identify what the error is.

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Mission Possible—The Hierarchy of Polygons

Resource ID: TXLSR20.001
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Math

The students participated in three missions that required them to independently classify two-dimensional quadrilaterals in a hierarchy of sets and subsets using a graphic organizer based on their attributes and properties.

 

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Figuring out Figurative Language

Resource ID: TXLSR1.002
Grade Range: 4
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will work collaboratively to infer the implied meaning of a metaphor used in a poem. Students will complete a graphic organizer in which they discuss with their peers the two items being compared in the metaphor, write and illustrate the literal meaning of each word being compared, and use this information to infer the implied meaning of the metaphor. The lesson has a strong focus on vocabulary development and is designed with English learners (ELs) in mind.  
 

 

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Math at the Carnival

Resource ID: TXLS258
Grade Range: 2
Subject: Math

As students rotate through engaging learning stations, they utilize concrete objects, pictorial models, mnemonic devices, and strip diagrams to solve real-world, two and three-digit subtraction word problems, with and without regrouping.

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Resource ID: TXLSR7.004
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy by creating a real-world model through a movie.

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Get the Gist on the Main Idea

Resource ID: TXLSR1.006
Grade Range: 2
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use the Get the Gist Strategy to analyze text and identify the main idea. The lesson was designed with English learners in mind and utilizes strategies such as cooperative learning, visuals, graphic organizers, cloze reading, and sentence frames.   

 

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Which Organizational Pattern Is It?

Resource ID: TXLSR14.008A
Grade Range: 7
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a text, identify its organizational pattern, highlight signal words, create a visual representation/graphic organizer, and present to the class.

Students during Task

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Crime Scene Investigations through Text Structures

Resource ID: TXLSR7.001
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students participate in an activity where they must solve a crime. Students visit different stations that include surveillance tape, tips, eyewitness statements, and a crime scene. Each station is formatted as a different organizational pattern allowing students to practice creating summaries reflecting the structure used.

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PES of the West!

Resource ID: TXLSR14.009
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

: Students will analyze primary sources, images, and speeches to form opinions about causal relationships and compare and contrast those opinions with historical documents.

Students working

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Working with Literal Equations

Resource ID: TXLS083
Grade Range: 10
Subject: Math

The lesson will provide a conceptual basis for illustrating the parallelism between solving multi-step equations and translating literal equations into solutions for specified variables.

Students working together

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Reading Strategies: Choose, Monitor, and Comprehend with Nonfiction Texts

Resource ID: TXLSR11.021
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will engage in activities that allow them to take a book walk and use criteria to choose a good-fit book, use strategies to self-monitor their own comprehension while independently reading, and use partner talk criteria to reflect on their strategies collaboratively. 

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Organized Authors: Name That Structure

Resource ID: TXLSR14.008
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a text passage, looking for and highlighting key words that indicate the appropriate organizational pattern of the text.

Students working

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Voices from the Trail of Tears

Resource ID: TXLSR13.046
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

In this lesson, students will learn about the implementation of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears. Students will engage with primary and secondary sources to build a comprehensive understanding of the events.

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