Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 35 [Paperback]

Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5 contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades three, four, and five.?The thorough plans in this book will help teachers put the best practices of grammar instruction into action in concrete, practitioner-oriented ways.

Contents

 

Introduction: Reimagining Elementary School Grammar Instruction with Mentor Texts

 

Section One: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Third-Grade Classroom

 

Lesson 3.1: Lets Agree: Subject-Verb Agreement

 

Lesson 3.2: Descriptive Information: Adjectives

 

Lesson 3:3: The Power of Explanation: Adverbs

 

Lesson 3.4: Building Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

 

Lesson 3.5: In Dialogue: Using Commas and Quotation Marks When Writing Dialogue

 

 

Section Two: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Fourth-Grade Classroom

 

Lesson 4.1: A Big Deal: Capitalization

 

Lesson 4.2: Showing Conditions: Modal Auxiliaries

 

Lesson 4.3: Elaborating on Information: Prepositional Phrases

 

Lesson 4.4: Providing Detail: Relative Clauses

 

Lesson 4.5: Clear and Powerful Language: Strong Verbs and Specific Nouns

 

Section Three: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Fifth-Grade ClassrlóN