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Texas Gateway: Writing a Series
This resource is designed to enhance the teaching of grammar in the context of reading and writing by using mentor sentences. In this resource, mentor sentences, or sentences that highlight a grammatical point, were chosen primarily from...
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Texas Gateway: Teaching Colons in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach colons with mentor sentences.
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Texas Gateway: Teaching Capitalization in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach capitalization with mentor sentences.
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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: Teaching Active and Passive Verbs in Context
Thse instructional practices use model or mentor sentences to help students learn how authors use conventions to clarify and convey meaning in their writing. These instructional practices are described in detail in Handout 14: Teaching...