Also, when you practice pentatonic scales or modal shapes, try going up one box, and down the next e.g G Ionian ascending, A Dorian descending, B Phrygian ascending and so on....

I found it helped me 'see' the patterns as I was playing - it took me much longer to start hearing what I was going to play in my head. I think visualising scales on the fretboard is the next step