1st Edition
Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom
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
Biography
Sean Ruday (he/him/his) is a professor and program coordinator of English education at Longwood University.
