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Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, especially speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text. The...
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Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
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Texas Gateway: The Arrangement of Elements: The Periodic Table
In this tutorial, students will investigate the arrangement of the Periodic Table by watching videos, completing interactive activities, and quizzes.
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Texas Gateway: Teaching Appositives in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach appositives with explicit instruction, systematic instruction, practice and feedback.
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Texas Gateway: Teaching Simple and Compound Sentences in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.
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Texas Gateway: Thinking Like an Expert: Teacher Modeling and Thinking Aloud
This resource explores instructional practices for using think-aloud in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes. Think-Aloud examples are provided in both science and math. Download and print a resource...
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Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Well Developed Conflict and Resolution
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Understanding the Essence, Getting an Idea, Structuring Plot, Building Conflict, and Outlining Your Own Story.
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Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Reciprocal Pronouns
A learning module that teaches students about reciprocal pronouns in three mini-lessons: Introduction, Each Other and Each Other's, and One Another and One Another's.
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Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
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Texas Gateway: Tone Is in the Fear of the Beholder:using Multimodal Mentor Texts
A demonstration lesson presented at the 2014 Write for Texas Summer Institute. It provides a snapshot of a four to five week unit that engages students in the reading and writing workshop model.
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Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English I Reading)
Learn how to summarize a text in contrast to writing a critique that takes a position.
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Texas Gateway: What's Your Point (Of View)? Practice 6 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify point of view and understand how it shapes fiction.
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Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.
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Texas Gateway: Development of Characters Through Literary Devices
Rcognize how literary devices such as character foils can create complex characters in a short story.
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Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
Analyze the factual, quantitative, and technical data in graphs and charts.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze an Argument: Practice 1 (English I Reading)
Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices
Analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze the Relevance, Quality, and Credibility of Evidence
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
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Texas Gateway: Season Fitness
Students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students learn about the...
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Texas Gateway: How to Capitalize Titles | No Nonsense Grammar
Capitalizing titles of books, movies, etc. can be tricky at first glance, but is easy to figure out. Remember to capitalize the first word, last word, and any important words within the title.
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Texas Gateway: Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity: Key Terms
This is a list of key terms and definitions covered in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 3: Introduction to Demand and Supply
This is an introduction to demand and supply. In this chapter, you will learn about the following: demand, supply, and equilibrium in markets for goods and services; shifts in demand and supply for goods and services; changes in...