3rd Grade Mentor Sentences Grammar: Punctuation & Capitalization- STAAR Practice

Description

Punctuation and capitalization that sticks. Third grade mentor sentence lessons help students analyze and write sentences while practicing STAAR-style grammar skills.

With this Third Grade Mentor Sentence Punctuation & Capitalization Unit, students analyze and write sentences, learn new TEKS & STAAR based grammar skills in punctuation and capitalization, and create sentences following sentence structures and sentence types. Build your weekly anchor chart together and add to it all week long! This resource also works well for Grammar ELA Interactive Notebooks,

This product helps students connect grammar instruction to their own writing and testing situations too!

This resource 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:

• Adverbs (time and manner) and simple sentence review
• Compound sentence review
• Apostrophes in contractions
• Apostrophes to show possession
• Possessive pronouns
• Commas in a series
• Capitalization of proper nouns
• Capitalization of titles of people and holidays
• Capitalization of geographical names and places

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: build your anchor chart together!
• 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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