This resource is 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.

This resource links to the Write for Texas online resources and includes a short video overview.

This resource series is designed to enhance teachers' knowledge and skill so they can effectively teach grammar in context. Teaching grammar in context uses powerful models like sentences within mentor texts, rather than marking errors and correcting weak or wrong examples. 

Given a quadratic equation, the student will make connections among the solutions (roots) of the quadratic equation, the zeros of their related functions, and the horizontal intercepts (x-intercepts) of the graph of the function.

In this video, students learn about pie charts and how to read and construct one.

In this video, students learn about bar charts as well as how to read and construct one.

Given verbal and symbolic descriptions of problems involving exponents, the student will simplify the expressions using the laws of exponents.