Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts

Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-00589-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5 contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades three, four, and five.  

The lesson plans in this book incorporate the research-based best practices of grammar instruction and apply those practices to the teaching and learning of grammar instruction. They present grammatical concepts in the context of effective writing by using mentor texts. These mentor text examples, which students read from a writer’s perspective, deepen students’ metacognition of the importance of grammatical 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 book provides elementary school teachers with user-friendly lesson plans that they can easily use to put mentor text-based grammar instruction into action in their classrooms. These lesson plans feature published examples of grammatical concepts from contemporary children’s and middle-grade books, activities that help students connect their reading and writing experiences, and reflective activities that facilitate students’ metacognition of the importance of grammatical concepts. The thorough plans in this book will help teachers put the best practices of grammar instruction into action in concrete, practitioner-oriented ways.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruday, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

 

Introduction: Reimagining Elementary School Grammar Instruction with Mentor Texts

 

Section One: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Third-Grade Classroom

 

Lesson 3.1: Let’s Agree: Subject-Verb Agreement

 

Lesson 3.2: Descriptive Information: Adjectives

 

Lesson 3:3: The Power of Explanation: Adverbs

 

Lesson 3.4: Building Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

 

Lesson 3.5: In Dialogue: Using Commas and Quotation Marks When Writing Dialogue

 

 

Section Two: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Fourth-Grade Classroom

 

Lesson 4.1: A Big Deal: Capitalization

 

Lesson 4.2: Showing Conditions: Modal Auxiliaries

 

Lesson 4.3: Elaborating on Information: Prepositional Phrases

 

Lesson 4.4: Providing Detail: Relative Clauses

 

Lesson 4.5: Clear and Powerful Language: Strong Verbs and Specific Nouns

 

Section Three: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Fifth-Grade Classroom

 

Lesson 5.1: Linking and Connecting: Conjunctions

 

Lesson 5.2: Showing Emotion: Interjections

 

Lesson 5.3: Pronouns and Clarity: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

 

Lesson 5.4: Beyond the Literal: Figurative Language

 

Lesson 5.5: Towards Clarity: Using Commas for Clarity

 

 

 Section Four: Final Thoughts and Resources

 

Conclusion: Putting Mentor Text-Based Grammar Instruction Into Action in Grades 3-5

 

Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of Mentor Texts

 

Appendix B: Reproducible Graphic Organizers

 

Appendix C: Lesson Plan Template

Über Autor(innen)

Sean Ruday (he/him/his) is a professor and program coordinator of English education at Longwood University.