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 thorough plans in this book will help teachers put the best practices of grammar instruction into action in concrete, practitioner-oriented ways.

List 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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Sean (Longwood University Ruday, Ruday Sean
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041005896
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4100589-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Teaching of a specific subject, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Primary & middle schools, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts