In this lesson, students will use compare/contrast and question/answer text structures to analyze how nonfiction text is structured, identify transitions that support text structures, and cite evidence to support the identification of text structures.

In this lesson, students will learn about the use of argumentative strategies by discovering and identifying them in stories and essays.

In this lesson students will identify the effective use of imagery and practice analyzing and creating imagery in particular selections.

In this lesson, students learn the elements of biography and autobiography, determine what information is included in each genre, identify the text structures to explain why it is used, and compare/contrast the use of point of view and text structures in biographies and autobiographies.

In this lesson, students will explore ways an author's use of text structures convey meaning and the purpose of the text.

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This lesson uses mathematical and real-world problems to teach students to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system. Students will: learn to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system given the coordinates of both points; learn that the formula used to find the distance between two points is an alternate form of the Pythagorean theorem.

In this lesson, students will read and discuss two poems to explore the use of figurative language. Students will identify tone and examples of imagery and metaphor in poems. They will also explain how imagery and metaphor work together to create tone and create images to describe a scene.

In this lesson, students are introduced to opinion writing and begin to create a list of topics about which they have a stron opinion to share.

In this lesson, students analyze within and across texts. Students will compare characters in a story and identify who is telling a story at various points in a text. They will also analyze two texts on the same topic and tell how they are similar and different.

In this lesson, students analyze two informational texts on the same topic. They will compare and contrast information in the texts, illustrations, or features.

In this lesson, students will compute and solve problems using rational numbers. They will: multiply and divide rational numbers and solve real-world problems by multiplying and dividing rational numbers.

This lesson covers simple square root and cube root equations such as x2 = 10 and x3 = ?8. Students will: solve simple square root equations, listing both solutions where appropriate; solve simple cube root equations; identify equations of both types with whole number solutions, irrational solutions, and no real solutions.

In this lesson, students will explore text structures of nonfiction texts, identify transitions and text structures to draw conclusions and make inferences about the author's purpose, and identify relevant parts of a text to reflect the author's purpose.

In this lesson, students explain how authors use illustrations to support the key ideas presented in an informational text. They will also use illustrations and details to describe the key ideas in an informational text.