4th Grade Mentor Sentences for Capitalization and Punctuation – TEKS Aligned

Description

Daily practice with capitalization and punctuation. These TEKS-aligned 4th grade mentor sentence lessons and worksheets blend explicit instruction with hands-on sentence building so students master conventions for STAAR writing.

**ALIGNED TO TEKS!** 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.

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.

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:

• Adverbs & prepositions as modifiers
• Adverbs of frequency and degree
• Participle phrases (-ed, -ing)
• Reflexive pronouns
• Apostrophes to show possession
• Quotation marks
• Capitalization of proper nouns
• Capitalization of titles, historical events, and documents
• Capitalization of languages, races, and nationalities

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.

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.

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