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At Educeri.com, we are committed to providing lessons – awesome ones – that are ready for you to teach, anytime, and at an affordable price (Because we know those last minute runs for more glue sticks and pencils start to add up). We are a team of educators, editors, graphic designers, grammar snobs, and math nerds who are passionate about providing top-notch educational materials. We believe that by eliminating those 1 a.m. lesson-planning nightmares, we can make a difference in teachers’ lives – your lives, so you can get back to being your engaging, inspiring selves (Maybe with only three cups of coffee today instead of four. You never know. Miracles can happen!). www.educeri.com.
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Trace and Evaluate an Author's Argument
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to trace and evaluate an author’s argument in informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students identify the author’s claims and determine if each claim is supported by relevant evidence. A final judgment is made on whether the argument has sound reasoning. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questi
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RI.6.8
, RI.7.1
, RI.7.8
Evaluate the Claims in an Author's Argument
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to evaluate the claims in an author’s argument. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will determine if an author’s claims are supported or unsupported based on reasons and evidence from the text. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
This lesson is a
5th - 7th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading Strategies
CCSS
RI.5.8
, RI.6.6
, RI.6.8
+1
Analyze the Impact of Specific Word Choices on Meaning and Tone
This Common Core reading informational text lesson covers the impact of word choice on a text. In this lesson, students will identify uses of specific words, determine the tone suggested by the author, and analyze the impact of these choices on meaning and tone. ( It is helpful if students are already familiar with standards 9-10.RI.4 Determine the figurative meaning of words and phrases, and 9-10.RI.4 Determine the connotative meaning of words and phrases.) In addition to the initial lesson, t
8th - 11th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
CCSS
RI.9-10.4
Analyze How an Author Acknowledges Conflicting Viewpoints
This Common Core reading comprehension lesson covers determining an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyzing how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will practice identifying conflicting viewpoints in expository texts. This is a great lead in to persuasive text. In addition to the lesson, there a
7th - 9th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
CCSS
RI.7.6
, RI.8.1
, RI.8.6
Compare and Contrast Overall Structure in Two or More Texts
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to compare texts based on different text structures. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify a chronological, comparison, cause/effect, or problem/solution text structure, and then compare two texts with different structures. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled a
4th - 6th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading
CCSS
RI.4.5
, RI.5.5
, RI.5.10
Determine the Meaning of Unknown Words Using Context Clues
This Common Core 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 Common Core 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. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled a
5th - 7th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.5.4a
, L.6.4a
, L.6.6
Determine the Central Idea and Analyze Its Development
This Common Core reading informational text lesson asks students to determine the central idea and analyze its development. This lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will practice determining the central idea of a text, and then use the text to analyze the development. In addition to the lesson, there are numerous pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Commo
8th - 10th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.8.2
, RI.9-10.1
, RI.9-10.2
Determine a Central Idea of a Text
This Common Core reading comprehension lesson practices determining a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will practice identifying central ideas in expository text. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of ind
7th - 9th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
CCSS
RI.7.2
, RI.8.2
, RI.8.10
Determine the Meaning of Words using Roots and Affixes
This Common Core vocabulary lesson practicing the use of common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., precede, recede, secede). The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn identify context clues to discover the meaning of the word. The 5th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade standards for L.4b are the same; however, the words used in
7th - 9th
English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.7.4b
, L.8.4a
, L.8.4b
Describe the Distribution of a Data Set
This Common Core statistics and probability lesson teaches students how to describe the distribution of a data set. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will describe the distribution of data sets. This lesson focuses on describing a variety of statistical distributions in different situations. Students are asked to describe different related data sets and describe what that means. In
5th - 7th
Algebra, Other (Math), Statistics
CCSS
6.SP.A.1
, 6.SP.A.2
, 6.SP.A.3
+3
Cite Textual Evidence to Support Inferences
This Common Core reading comprehension lesson covers how to cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using subordinating conjunctions in sentence and paragraphs. This skill and concept should expand into larger works of informational text
7th - 9th
Informational Text, Reading, Writing
CCSS
RI.7.1
, RI.8.1
, RI.8.10
Determine the Meaning of Unknown Words Using Context Clues
This Common Core language lesson covers how to determine the meaning of unknown words by using context clues. In this lesson, students will find the meaning of selected words in nearby individual sentences, paragraphs, or the text as a whole. Prior to this lesson,students should already have worked with context clues as definitions, examples, restatements, relationships, and comparisons (as they have been addressed in lower grades). In addition to the initial lesson, there are numerous pages of
8th - 10th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Vocabulary
CCSS
RL.9-10.6
, L.8.4a
, L.9-10.4a
Analyze a Theme in Literature
This Common Core reading comprehension lesson covers determining a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot, and providing an objective summary of the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. Underlining within the passages may vary by student. Student explanations should use textual evidence to suppo
7th - 9th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.7.3
, RL.8.1
, RL.8.2
Cite Textual Evidence to Support Inferences
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to cite textual evidence to support inferences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will read the informational text and identify phrases that support a given inference. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
This Common Core reading lesson covers ho
6th - 8th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.6.1
, RI.7.1
, RI.7.10
Determine Theme
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to infer the theme of a text by using textual evidence. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to determine the theme by analyzing and identifying in the text how characters respond to challenges. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
4th - 6th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
Assess the Evidence that Supports an Author's Argument
This Common Core reading 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 Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students identify whether the evidence is accurate, appropriate, or adequate. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
This lesson is a shockwav
6th - 8th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.7.8
, RI.7.10
Distinguish Among the Connotations of Words with Similar Denotations
This Common Core language lesson covers how to distinguish between connotations of words with similar denotations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will analyze sentences for context clues that suggest which of three similar words can be used in the sentence based on each word’s denotation and connotation. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with qu
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.6.5c
, L.7.5c
, L.7.6
Construct Triangles
This Common Core geometry lesson covers how to construct triangles using a ruler, protractor, and compass. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, the teacher constructs the triangle with the given conditions, labeling the sides and angles. Then, students do a different construction of the same triangle, and check it by measuring the three side lengths and angles. An animated demonstration is provide
6th - 8th
Geometry, Math, Measurement
CCSS
7.G.A.2
, MP1
, MP3
+4
Determine the Meaning of Multiple-meaning Words
This Common Core language lesson covers how to determine which meaning is correct for a multiple-meaning word by using context clues. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will read a passage that uses a multiple-meaning word. Then they will compare the context clues in the passage to the context clues in four sentences that use the word to determine the correct meaning. In addition to the
5th - 7th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.5.4a
, L.6.4
, L.6.4a
Determine the Meaning of Words using Context Clues
This Common Core vocabulary lesson covers 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. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will identify word meaning within expository passages. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice and review with questions m
7th - 9th
English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.7.4
, L.8.4a
, L.8.6
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About the store
Experience
At Educeri.com, we are committed to providing lessons – awesome ones – that are ready for you to teach, anytime, and at an affordable price (Because we know those last minute runs for more glue sticks and pencils start to add up). We are a team of educators, editors, graphic designers, grammar snobs, and math nerds who are passionate about providing top-notch educational materials. We believe that by eliminating those 1 a.m. lesson-planning nightmares, we can make a difference in teachers’ lives – your lives, so you can get back to being your engaging, inspiring selves (Maybe with only three cups of coffee today instead of four. You never know. Miracles can happen!). www.educeri.com.
Teaching style
Explicit Direct Instruction for the
Common Core State Standards
Awards & shining teacher moments
2016 Corwin Press Million Dollar Author - Explicit Direct Instruction
2016 Featured Presenter for the China-USA International Conference on Education Leadership
2007 Central California Excellence in Business Awards
Presented to DataWORKS Educational Research for Professional Services From The Fresno Bee
2006 California Family Business Award
Presented to DataWORKS Educational Research
From the Institute for Family Business
2005 Top Ten Business Professional Women of the Year
Presented to Silvia Ybarra
From the Marjoree Mason Center, Fresno, CA
2004 Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Presented to John Hollingsworth
From the Union Bank of California Salute to Small Business Program
My own education history
At Educeri, we are grateful to be able to stand on the shoulders of some of the greatest minds in education and research. Our lessons are founded on the work of pedagogues and cognitive researchers, such as Hattie, Rosenshine, Marzano, Sousa, Hunter, and we could go on. We're kind of education fan-girls. Really, our lessons provide accurate, standards-based content with real-time feedback made possible through checking for understanding. When combined with basic delivery strategies, our lessons are proven to improve student performance… drastically. They’re basically the unicorn of lessons.
Additional biographical information
As the parent company of Educeri, DataWORKS Educational Research was founded in 1997 with the single purpose of improving student learning. Since then, DataWORKS has rapidly expanded in working with over 600 schools from around the world. Fundamentally, DataWORKS supports teachers and school administrators as instructional leaders and believes they are the keys to success. That’s why DataWORKS offers various professional development trainings, workshops, and tools to monitor, maintain, and measure their classroom, school, and district. www.dataworked-ed.com
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