Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete volume two, nine-week, third-quarter print and digital bundle of middle school mentor sentences and grammar activities. This bundle includes nine weeks of done-for-you digital and print mentor sentences grammar curriculum: teacher lesson plans and slide decks, examples and possible answers, interactive notebook lessons with examples and quick note versions, and self-grading weekly assessments.
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This grammar bundle has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences in your middle School ELA classroom using sentences from popular middle-grade and young-adult novels.
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Daily and weekly teacher lesson plans
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PDF and Digital Google Slides grammar lesson slide decks
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Printable and Digital Google Slides mentor sentence activities with answer keys.
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Printable and Digital Google Slides Grammar Interactive Notebook Activity with teacher examples and answer keys.
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Printable Grammar Quick Notes pages for all grammar lessons.
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Printable weekly assessments with answer keys.
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Google Forms SELF-GRADING weekly Friday assessments
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Student grammar reference sheets for parts of speech, punctuation, etc.
You will love watching your students authentically learn grammar because they will apply it to their writing.
Students will love that they learn grammar using sentences from novels and books they love. Even more so, you'll find that students will be introduced to new books that they'll BEG you to read.
Each interactive lesson has examples for teachers to use to teach each grammar concept, while each mentor sentence has answer keys and suggested grammar concepts and examples for every activity. The assessments are SELF-GRADING.
The third 9 weeks' mentor texts:
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
- Swing by Kwame Alexander
- Ungifted by Gordon Korman
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
The third 9 weeks' grammar concepts:
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Week 19: Verb moods
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Week 20: Verbals (Gerunds, Infinitives, Participles)
Week 21: Common and proper nouns
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Week 22: Plural nouns
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Week 23: Abstract and concrete nouns
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Week 24: The Seven Types of Pronouns
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Week 25: Vague pronouns
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Week 26: Determining the Meanings of Unknown Words
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Week 27: Homophones
Prep is quick and easy... Decide if you're going to use the digital version or the print version.
Printable version? Make copies of the mentor sentence activity, the interactive notebook lessons, and the weekly assessment. Spend 5-15 minutes each day doing grammar activities, interactive notebook lessons or quick notes, and assessments.
Digital? Just make a copy of the files and then make a copy for each student in Google Classroom and spend 5-15 minutes each day of the week doing the grammar activities, interactive lessons, and assessments. Even better? The digital assessments are self-grading Google forms.
Watch your students' grammar knowledge and writing abilities increase, building on each other every week.