Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5

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.

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Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5

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.

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Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5

Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5

by Sean Ruday
Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5

Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5

by Sean Ruday

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040399859
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/22/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 236

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

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