Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete nine-week, fourth-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.
This grammar bundle has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences in your middle School ELA classroom using sentences from popular middle-grade novels.
Volume Two was created to align with the seventh and eighth-grade language and grammar standards.
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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 fourth nine weeks' mentor texts:
- It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
- House Arrest by K.A. Holt
- An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
- The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
- Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
The fourth nine weeks' grammar concepts
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Week 28: The Eight Types of Adjectives
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Week 29: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
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Week 30: Dangling Modifiers
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Week 31: Express ideas precisely and Without Redundancy
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Week 32: Punctuating Non-Restrictive Elements
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Week 33: Using Dashes
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Week 34: Connotation and Denotation
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Week 35: Irony
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Week 36: Who vs. Whom