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Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School

Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom
 
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This book contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades six, seven, and eight which incorporate research-based best practices of grammar instruction. Plans in this book seek to help teachers put best practices of grammar instruction into action in their teaching in concrete, practitioner-oriented ways.

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Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades six, seven, and eight. The lesson plans in this book incorporate the research-based best practices of grammar instruction. They present grammatical concepts in the context of effective writing through the use of mentor texts. These mentor text examples, which students read from a writer?s perspective, deepen students? metacognition of the importance of these concepts and help them see the elements of grammar as tools for strong writing that authors use strategically to make their work as strong as possible. The thorough plans in this book are designed to help teachers put the best practices of grammar instruction into action in their teaching in concrete, practitioner-oriented ways that are informed by key research findings on the teaching of grammar. The ideas, examples, and instructional suggestions in this book will give teachers the necessary resources to incorporate mentor-text-based grammar lessons that develop students? metacognition of the tools of effective grammar and communication.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Power and Possibility of Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons


 Section One: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Sixth-Grade English Classroom


 Lesson 6.1: The Case of Communication: Pronoun Case


 Lesson 6.2: Bringing the Intensity: Intensive Pronouns


 Lesson 6.3: Adding and Clarifying: Punctuation that Sets Off Additional Information


 Lesson 6.4: Developing and Describing: Adjectives


 Lesson 6.5: Explanation and Impact: Adverbs


 Section Two: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Seventh-Grade English Classroom


 Lesson 7.1: Developing Ideas: Prepositional Phrases


 Lesson 7.2: A Descriptive Tool: Relative Clauses


 Lesson 7.3: Strong and Specific: Strong Verbs and Specific Nouns 


Lesson 7.4: Shades of Meaning: Connotation and Denotation 


Lesson 7.5: Intentional Sentence Construction: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences


Section Three: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Eighth-Grade English Classroom 


Lesson 8.1: Purposeful Structures: Active and Passive Voices 


Lesson 8.2: Time for a Break: Punctuation that Indicates a Pause or Break 


Lesson 8.3: Key Comparisons: Comparative and Superlative Degrees


 Lesson 8.4: Tools for Variety and Versatility: Using Verbals 


Lesson 8.5: The Many Moods: The Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative, Conditional, and Subjunctive Verb Moods


Section Four: Final Thoughts and Resources


Conclusion: Using This Book to Maximize Grammar Instruction


Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of Mentor Texts


Appendix B: Reproducible Graphic Organizers