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National Constitution Center

Fourth of July (Grades 3-5)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Bring history to life for your young scholars with a Fourth of July lesson series. After a class reading of the Declaration of Independence, students translate this pivotal document into layman's terms before working in small...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text and understand that a summary does not include opinions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to evaluate a summary of the original text for accuracy of the main ideas, supporting details, and overall meaning.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Texts

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use different organizational patterns as guides for summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text while distinguishing factual claims from...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Woolly Mammoth Sparks Debate Over Cloning

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...