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Better Lesson: What the Heck Is That? Inferring the Purpose of an Object Lesson PlanBetter Lesson: What the Heck Is That? Inferring the Purpose of an Object Lesson Plan
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Better Lesson
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5th
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English Language Arts
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Lexile Measures
1260L
Lesson Plan

Better Lesson: What the Heck Is That? Inferring the Purpose of an Object

Curated by ACT

In this instructional activity, 5th graders use their prior knowledge and inference skills to determine uses of unfamiliar objects. They participate in group discussions and analyze the key information they have in order to reach conclusions.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Additional Tags

group communication, participate in discussions, provide descriptive details to support main ideas, report on a topic or present an opinion, review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions, better lesson, better lesson: what the heck is that? inferring the purpose of an object sl.5.1.d, better lesson: what the heck is that? inferring the purpose of an object sl.5.4, betterlesson, betterlesson: what the heck is that? inferring the purpose of an object, ccss.ela, sl.5.1.d, sl.5.4, group discussion, inference, communicating in groups

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

SL.5.1.d SL.5.4 SL.5.1.a SL.5.1.c SL.5.3 SL.5.1.b RI.5.6

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