Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom

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.

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Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom

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.

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Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom

Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom

by Sean Ruday
Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom

Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom

by Sean Ruday

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040257180
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/10/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 234
File size: 955 KB

About the Author

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

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

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