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Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[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

For Students 7th - 9th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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)

For Students 9th - 10th
[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)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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)

For Students 9th Standards
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)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
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

For Students 11th - 12th
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

For Students 11th - 12th
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...