Texas Gateway: Reading Like a Writer: Text Types

Encourage your young readers to become true detectives in their next literary adventure! Here you'll find an attractive display that will prompt your learners to constantly be looking for clues, asking questions, making cases...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations.

You will learn skills necessary for reading and writing to a prompt.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations. It includes a variety of practice exercises.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...

In this lesson students learn how to develop an overview of the material using information gained from text organization to help predict content and make connections. They also to gather information from reading the introduction,...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to pinpoint the controlling idea, which not only identifies the main idea, but also answers questions about the author's goal or...

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...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to analyze differences in texts that use visual techniques to present narrative and informational content. You will also look at how information...

Evaluate changes in audience, purpose, and tone in two different texts.