Academic Standard: Component

Make inferences and draw conclusions based on evidence in text.
Initiative: 
Tennessee Diploma Project
Set: 
English Language Arts
Type: 
Component — State Performance Indicator
Code: 
SPI 3001.5.1
Grade range: 
9
Groupings:
Strand = Application
 
Resources aligned with this Component
 
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Academic Lesson
 
African American Medical Recognition
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
All Quiet on the Western Front
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Alpha Decay
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Analyzing Character Development Based on Historical Context
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Building a Better Argument. Author: Joe Miller.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
Composition Patterns: Cause and Effect
ELA / Literacy
Grades 8 - 12
 
Constructing a Logical Argument
ELA / Literacy
Grades 1 - 12
 
Current Electricity
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Current Issues and Critical Thinking: Informational Text Activities. Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Digitizing History
Social Studies
Grades 9 - 10
 
Distinguish Between Fact and Opinion
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Dragon Genetics
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Einstein and His Times: Informational Text, Science, and History. Cosmic Times lesson.
Science
Grades 9 - 10
 
Electrostatics Tutorial
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
FSA Photography: Creating a Local Archive
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Hooke's Law and Springs
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
How do you know if a claim is true?
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
How to Move the Crowd: The Persuasive, Powerful Rhetoric of Mark Antony
ELA / Literacy
Grades 7 - 10
 
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Nonfiction (emphasis on logic)
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Investigating an Icon of the Great Depression: the Migrant Mother
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Jim Crow Laws and African American Discrimination
Multiple content areas
Grades 8 - 12
 
Live Your Epitaph
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Logical Fallacies: An Encyclopedia of Errors of Reasoning
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Making Sense of Mental Health: Past and Present. Story and Research Project.
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 11
 
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Memphis- The Rebuilding of a Modern City in the Aftermath of Yellow Fever
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Models for the Hydrogen Atom
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Multimedia Heroes Analysis
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 11
 
Primary Source Analysis Tool
Multiple content areas
Grades 6 - 12
 
Public Speaking: Specific Purpose Statement
ELA / Literacy
Grade 9
 
Quick Lesson: A Lesson in Cause and Effect
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 10
 
Romeo and Juliet: Insight into Ourselves [Play analysis and project on current social issue]
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Signs of the Time Project [how time periods affect literature - coincides with choice novel studies]. Author: Intel Education.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Smarter Science
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Sophocles' Antigone: Ancient Greek Theatre, Live From Antiquity!
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Speech Analysis of MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech" with five different lesson ideas. Author: Andrew Dlugan.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Teaching Lord of the Flies with The New York Times. Author: Holly Oljavo and Shannon Doyne, The New York Times.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Goals of Government
Multiple content areas
Grades 4 - 12
 
The Land of Opportunity vs. Nativism
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Photoelectric Effect
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Political Dr. Seuss (themes in Dr. Seuss's writing)
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
The Rutherford (Nuclear) Atom
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Time Magazine's 2011 Person of the Year: The Protestor. Author: Jennie Spiegler, Teachable Moment.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
To Kill a Mockingbird: Real Women of Alabama
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
TVA Opportunities for African Americans
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
U.S. History: Revolution- The Bill of Rights
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Understanding language registers as a means to more effective communication. Author: Cheryl Carter
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Using Comics to Teach Inferencing. Author: Mr. C (Blogger)
ELA / Literacy
Grades 6 - 12
 
Waves on a String
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Writing Technical Instructions
ELA / Literacy
Grade 9
Academic Web Link
 
1D Kinematics Problem Set
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
AdLit.org's Strategy Library
ELA / Literacy
Grades 7 - 10
 
Biology Quizzes (from The Biology Corner)
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Cartoon Analysis Worksheet. Author: Education Staff, National Archives and Records Administration.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 5 - 10
 
Cause and Effect Paragraphs
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Cause and Effect: Teaching Method and Strategy
ELA / Literacy
Grade 9
 
Classroom Organization for Group Work. Author: MyRead.org (Commonwealth of Australia)
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Eighteen Literacy Strategies for Struggling Readers
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
English Study Quiz-Analogies
ELA / Literacy
Grades 8 - 10
 
Expository Text Structure
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Fact and Opinion Online Assessment. Author: Worley School
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Finding errors in cause and effect paragraphs
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Formal Versus Informal Logic
Multiple content areas
Grades 7 - 10
 
Graphic Organizers for Making Inferences
Multiple content areas
Grades 7 - 10
 
High School Reading Scoring Guide - Informational Text. Author: Oregon Dept. of Education
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 12
 
How to Design an Experiment
Multiple content areas
Grades 5 - 9
 
Human Genome Project
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Inference and Reading: A Practical Guide for School-Age Students
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Informational Text: What's It All About? Author: Rita Maddox, Language Arts Consultant
Multiple content areas
Grades 6 - 12
 
Logic in Argumentative Writing
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Logical Fallacies Handlist
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Logical Fallacies Handlist
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Newton's Laws Problem Set
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Online Onion Root Tip Activity
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Paraphrase Craze. Author: Beacon Learning Center.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Parts of a Cell-Kahn Academy
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Physics 2000
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Professor Garfield Fact or Opinion
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Rags to Riches
ELA / Literacy
Grades 8 - 10
 
Reader's Theatre Basics
ELA / Literacy
Grades 6 - 12
 
Scarlet Ibis Student Packet
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
SOAPSTone: A Strategy for Reading and Writing
ELA / Literacy
Grades 5 - 10
 
Social Studies Skills Tutor [informational text resource]. Author: Pearson Education.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 7 - 10
 
Ten Great Activities: Teaching with the Newspaper
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Ten Steps to Advanced Reading
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 10
 
The Art of Rhetoric: Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Multiple content areas
Grades 2 - 10
 
The Nizkor Project
ELA / Literacy
Grades 1 - 12
 
The Power of Fiction
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
Academic Unit
 
Edmondson Park
Multiple content areas
Grades 6 - 12
 
User's Guide for Argument and Methods Unit
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
User's Guide for Satire Unit
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
User's Guide for To Kill a Mockingbird Unit
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 10
 
Witness Walls: Interdisciplinary Unit
Multiple content areas
Grades 6 - 12