4th Grade Mentor Sentences Bundle – Year-Long TEKS Grammar Lessons

Description

A whole year of 4th grade mentor sentences. This bundle includes four TEKS-aligned units of daily grammar practice that blend explicit grammar instruction with sentence building, so students are ready for STAAR writing.

This bundle of new TEKS aligned mentor sentence units is a whole year of purposeful daily grammar practice and instruction that blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence writing and analyzing for the whole school year. In these four grammar units, students analyze sentences, learn new grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.

This resource 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.

Fourth Grade TEKS and Texas STAAR Writing Test aligned!

Four nine-week units have been bundles together to help you align your instruction and be prepared to address all your fourth grade TEKS, all year!

This product includes:

First Nine Lessons: Grammar Focus

Second Nine Lessons: Capitalization, Punctuation, and Grammar Review

Third Nine Lessons: Spelling Patterns and Grammar Review

Fourth Nine Lessons: Figurative Language and Grammar Review

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Read on for details about the skill focus for each week!

The Daily Instructional Sequence:

Day One: Sentence strips to cut and glue into a notebook. Introduce a new grammar skill and provide doodle notes.

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.

What skills are included in this year-long 4th grade TEKS-aligned curriculum?

• Sentence structure & grammar concepts
• Capitalization
• Punctuation
• Spelling Rules
• Figurative Language

First Nine Weeks: sentence structure & types

• 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)

Second nine weeks: grammar, punctuation & capitalization

• 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

Third Nine Weeks: spelling patterns, homophones, & affixes

• Double consonants in the middle of words
• Irregular plurals
• Irregular verbs
• Adding affixes
• Homophones
• Silent letters (kn-, wr-)
• Ways to spell /shun/ (sion, tion, cian)
• Superlative adjectives
• Reflexive pronouns

Fourth Nine Weeks: author’s purpose, transitions & figurative language

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

Also included in this resource:

• A TEKS Alignment Guide to help you plan your lessons
• 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.