Teaching ELA Content through these Teach-and-Task Lessons!

Have you ever felt bogged down with keeping all of the components of your upcoming lessons organized? I know I often did! I would have piles for each lesson. The pile might include a book I was planning to reference, a few papers or posters that I was going to display using the document camera, and of course, a set of clipped worksheets that would allow for independent practice.

I created a new line of ELA resources that could help reduce the number of stacks on your desk. They are paperless and compatible with Google Slides. I have been calling them my "teach-and-task lessons" because each lesson includes instructional slides and matching activities to follow up the content that you have just taught. I have teach-and-task lessons for twelve important ELA topics. (All of the topics are listed near the end of this post.) Let me show you how they are structured by sharing images and explanations from my main idea set. 

Main Idea Lesson #2: Teaching Slides (Slides 1-7)

The first two slides are used to introduce the ice cream cone graphic organizer. 

Next, students watch as you guide them through reading a passage, identifying the main idea, and writing it in the cone section of the graphic organizer. The speech bubbles make it so that the answers are right on the slides for you, and you (as the teacher) don't have to try to come up with the main idea while you are teaching.

After identifying the main idea, you and your students can reread the passage, and view the important details that support the main idea sentence. When you advance to the seventh slide, they will see how the details have been added to the graphic organizer. 

Main Idea Lesson #2: Task Slides (Slides 8-11)

After working through the teaching slides, now it is the students' turn to practice with these two practice passages. They read the passages and fill out the graphic organizers independently. (The yellow boxes are text boxes.) If they want to refer to the teaching slides, they are readily available for easy reference.

This is just one of the lessons in my main idea set. Teachers who purchase the main idea set will receive four lessons. The lessons advance from basic content to more complex. You can use these lessons over the course of four days to provide lots of targeted main idea instruction to your students.

A Complete List of Topics

As I mentioned earlier, I currently have lessons like this for twelve ELA topics! Click on the links below to view each topic.

• ​Text Evidence: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Main Idea: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Making Inferences: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Figurative Language: Seven Digital Lessons​
• ​Plot Elements: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Context Clues: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Themes in Reading: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Author's Purpose: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Cause and Effect: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Summarizing Nonfiction: Four Digital Lessons​
• ​Summarizing Fiction: Four Digital Lessons

Access a FREE Character Traits Teach-and-Task Lesson

Are you intrigued? Would you like to try out a few lessons before you spend money on them? I created a set of character traits lessons so that you can do just that! Please add these two lessons to your Google Drive, review them, and try them out with your students to see if you like the teach-and-task structure! Click on the image below to access them!

I hope you enjoy using these teach-and-task lessons as much as I enjoyed creating them! 

Deb 

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