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Grammar and revision hands-on activities and printables for third, fourth, and fifth grade.
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on using commas in a series. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 18 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on contractions. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 17 pages
Help your students edit their writing with these printables and activities! Editing for spelling, capitalization, grammar, is tricky to teach but these editable tools help students edit their own writing!
This resource is a zip file that includes two pdfs. To edit the editable files, you will need Adobe.
This toolkit is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need in expository or informational writing and know exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! 80 strategy lesson cards help you intervene meaningfully at every step of the writing process.
ZIP File | 200 pages
Do your students fix their spelling on a word or two and call it revision? These expository revision guides can help students learn to evaluate their writing with a critical eye and make revisions that help the reader understand their message.
PDF | 20 pages
This resource has been updated to the new TEKS assessed curriculum! Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 95 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 92 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures
PDF | 93 pages
This resource has been updated to the new TEKS assessed curriculum! Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 94 pages
This bundle of new TEKS aligned mentor sentence units is a whole year purposeful instruction that blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following specific structures.
Zip File | 360+ pages
This document is an TEKS alignment for my Fourth Grade Mentor Sentences Program for Texas schools. There are four nine weeks in the program. Each nine weeks focuses on important skills and strategies for revision and editing and is aligned to the new 2023 TEKS assessed curriculum for the Texas ELA test!
PDF | 20 pages
This toolkit is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need in writing and know exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! 72 strategy cards help you intervene meaningfully at every step of the writing process.
Zip File | 160 pages
Each poster in this eleven poster set includes a part of speech, a simple, kid-friendly definition, and an example sentence with the part of speech marked clearly for easy reference.
PDF | 9 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids! Fun Christmas themes like gingerbread houses, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolph make this an engaging activity for the month of December!
PDF | 18 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 24 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing expository paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 30 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing narrative paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 30 pages
Help your students revise with these revision lesson ideas and printables! Revising is more than changing a word or two. With these activities, students will make revisions to their writing about sentence types, word choice, structure, and more!
Helping kids learn to revise each other’s writing can be so hard. These activities and forms make it easier! Revising partners and groups can learn to revise with these revising role cards and other tools!
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on spelling words with silent letters including wr and kn. Students analyze a sentence, learn new grammar skills, and revise and create new sentences including a compound predicate.
PDF | 17 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on spelling words with suffixes including -ed, -ing, and -y. Students analyze a sentence, learn new grammar skills, and revise and create new sentences including a participle phrase.
PDF | 17 pages
Are your kids facing the Texas RLA Writing test? Have a little fun and prepare for your test with this fun, hands on writing camp! These twelve stations activities meet all of the tested standards for the big test and include everything you need to prepare for a writing camp including the Extended Constructed Response and Revision & Editing sections!
PDF | 98 pages
Handy tools for teaching students to use transitional phrases in their writing! This lesson uses the mentor text, Pumpkin Jack.
PDF | 6 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on spelling words the sound /shun/ at the end, including words that end in sion, tion, and cian. Students analyze a sentence, learn new grammar skills, and revise and create new complex sentences.
PDF | 17 pages