4th Grade Mentor Sentences for Grammar – TEKS Aligned Daily Lessons

Description

Daily grammar practice that sticks. These TEKS-aligned 4th grade mentor sentence lessons blend explicit grammar instruction with hands-on sentence building, revising, and editing to prepare students 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 in English.

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.

To check out the TEKS and state of Texas RLA Writing Test alignment, download this free TEKS Alignment Document

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Nine weeks of grammar instruction:

• Simple sentence: subject, predicate, and parts of speech
• Past-Tense verbs
• Future-Tense Verbs
• Plural Nouns
• Compound Subjects
• Compound Predicates
• Compound Sentences
• Complex Sentences (subordinate clause first)
• Complex Sentences (subordinate clause last)

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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Mentor Sentences Grammar Notebook for the second nine weeks