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

Description

Daily spelling practice with mentor sentences. These TEKS-aligned 4th grade lessons cover homophones, prefixes, and more through explicit instruction and hands-on sentence building.

This resource has been updated to the new TEKS assessed curriculum! 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 spelling and 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.

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:

• Double consonants in the middle of words (Review skill: Participle phrases)
• Irregular plurals (Review skill: Adverbial clauses, regular plurals)
• Irregular verbs (Review skill: Past-tense verbs, complex sentences)
• Adding affixes (Review skill: Complex sentences)
• Homophones (Review skill: Complex sentences)
• Silent letters (kn-, wr-) (Review skill: Compound predicates)
• Ways to spell /shun/ (sion, tion, cian) (Review skill: Compound sentences)
• Superlative adjectives
• Reflexive pronouns (Review skill: Complex sentences)

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 1st nine weeks
• Mentor Sentences Grammar Notebook for the 2nd nine weeks
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