4th Grade Mentor Sentences for Author’s Craft and Figurative Language – TEKS

Description

Teach figurative language through mentor sentences. In this 4th grade grammar unit, students review grammar skills while identifying and writing similes, metaphors, and other types of figurative language.

In this mentor sentence grammar unit, students will review grammar skills and practice writing and identifying types of figurative language such as simile, metaphor, alliteration, and more! Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.

Teach grammar authentically and effectively through mentor sentences and a meaningful approach to instruction.

This Mentor Sentences Notebook includes nine weeks of grammar instruction and all the tools you’ll need to make it stick! These tools have made a difference in my 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:

• Transitions
• Imagery (sensory details)
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Idioms

The Daily Instructional Sequence:

• Day One: Sentence strips to cut and glue into a notebook. Introduce a new grammar skill.
• Day Two: Hunt for examples of the skill in literature
• Day Three: Students manipulate the sentence to create different structures. A skills practice page is also included (with answer key included)
• Day Four: Dictation: Students listen to the sentence read aloud and write it correctly. You check it together using the criteria provided.
• Day Five: Students write their own sentence using the mentor sentence as a model. There is also a short quiz (3-5 questions) focused on the skill in STAAR format or a graphic organizer and an opportunity to try the figurative language skill.

Also included in this product:

• Tips for teaching grammar through mentor sentences
• Printable notebook cover
• Pictures from actual mentor sentence lessons

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