Mentoring at secondary school No. 9 named after R.Sanatbaev

On November 13, 2025, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Philology at ZhAGU, A.A. Kalmurzayeva, conducted a master class on the topic “The Dash Between the Subject and the Predicate” in the 8th grade of Secondary School No. 9 named after R. Sanatbaev. Goal: To develop students’ ability to correctly place a dash between the subject and the predicate and to improve their skills in analyzing sentence structure.

Lesson Structure:

• Organizational moment. (Motivation: “Why do we need this topic? What mistakes occur most often?”)
• Activation of prior knowledge: Mini-warm-up with 3–4 sentences with missing punctuation.
• Theoretical block: Short, visual explanation — when the dash is used… A brief reference table.
• Practical part: Pair work — cards, slide, cinquain, Venn diagram, role-playing activities, mini-analysis.
• Creative task: Presentation of 2–3 students’ works.
• Reflection: “Traffic Light” method.
• Summary of the master class.
• Homework: Write a short text of 5–6 sentences, including 2 sentences that contain a dash between the subject and the predicate.