3rd Grade Grammar ELA Mentor Sentences: Sentence Writing & STAAR Practice

Description

Daily grammar that builds real sentence writers. These third grade mentor sentence lessons walk students through parts of speech and sentence types while giving them steady STAAR-style practice.

With these third grade Mentor Sentence lessons, students analyze sentences for parts of speech and types of sentences, learn new TEKS & STAAR based grammar skills, revise and write sentences following sentence structures. These lessons are perfect for your ELA Interactive Notebook!

This product helps students connect grammar instruction to their own writing and testing situations! Teach grammar authentically and effectively through the use of mentor sentences and a thoughtful approach to conventions instruction.

This product includes nine weeks of grammar instruction and all the tools you’ll need to make it stick! These tools have made a difference in so many students’ writing. I know they’ll make a difference in yours! By bridging the grammatical skills in context to revision and editing in a testing format, students will learn what’s important about grammar instruction as well as how to apply it in a variety of contexts.

Nine weeks of grammar instruction:

• Week One: Simple sentence: subject, predicate, and parts of speech
• Week Two: Past-Tense verbs
• Week Three: Future-Tense Verbs
• Week Four: Plural Nouns
• Week Five: Subjective & Objective Pronouns
• Week Six: Compound Subjects
• Week Seven: Compound Predicates
• Week Eight: Compound Sentences
• Week Nine: Compound Sentences

In all, that’s a total of…

• 9 weeks of lesson plans
• 9 grammar hunts
• 9 sets of word cards
• 9 grammar worksheets
• 9 skill-focused grammar quizzes

For each week, five days of lessons are included, as well as…

• Day One: Sentence strips to cut and glue into a notebook
• Day Two: Grammar hunt tables to cut and glue into a notebook
• Day Three: Word/phrase cards to cut out and manipulate, and a handout to practice the skill (with answer key included)
• Day Four: Dictation – what do we check for?
• Day Five: Sample sentences to use as models, and a three- to four- question quiz on the skill, in Texas Writing test format.

Also included in this resource:

• Step-by-step guide for teaching grammar through mentor sentences
• Printable notebook cover
• Pictures of mentor sentence lessons

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.

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