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Teaching Grammar In Context

Teaching Grammar In Context. Grammar and Mentor Texts for Middle Grades. Common Core Standards. The Conventions of Standard English from p. 52 of the CCS Main Focus for each middle grade: 6 th : Pronouns- intensive, agreement, vagueness, and regional variation

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Teaching Grammar In Context

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  1. Teaching Grammar In Context Grammar and Mentor Texts for Middle Grades

  2. Common Core Standards • The Conventions of Standard English from p. 52 of the CCS • Main Focus for each middle grade: • 6th: Pronouns- intensive, agreement, vagueness, and regional variation • 7th: Sentences- simple, compound, and complex • 8th: Voice- active and passive

  3. 6th-8th Grade CCS Exemplars • Stories • Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women • Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time • Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising • Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings • Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • Hamilton, Virginia. “The People Could Fly.” • Paterson, Katherine. The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks • Cisneros, Sandra. “Eleven.” • Sutcliff, Rosemary. Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad

  4. 6th-8th Grade CCS Exemplars • Poetry • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Paul Revere’s Ride” • Whitman, Walt. “O Captain! My Captain!” • Carroll, Lewis. “Jabberwocky • Navajo tradition. “Twelfth Song of Thunder.” • Dickinson, Emily. “The Railway Train” • Yeats, William Butler. “The Song of Wandering Aengus” • Frost, Robert. “The Road Not Taken.” • Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago.” • Hughes, Langston. “I, Too, Sing America.” • Neruda, Pablo. “The Book of Questions.” • Soto, Gary. “Oranges.” • Giovanni, Nikki. “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.” • Sample Performance Tasks for Stories, Drama, and Poetry • Informational Texts: English Language Arts • Adams, John. “Letter on Thomas Jefferson.” • Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Written by Himself.

  5. 6th-8th Grade CCS Exemplars • Drama • Fletcher, Louise. Sorry, Wrong Number • Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett. The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play

  6. Alternative Mentor Texts • Newspapers • Magazines • Lyrics • Advertisements • Billboards • Menus • Brochures • …many more!

  7. Why use different mentor texts? • Shorter • More frequent use • Can be more relevant to students’ lives • Gives variation between CCS exemplars/curriculum reading

  8. 6thGrade - Pronouns Newspaper Article Instructions to students: Pick out an article and replace all of the pronouns, putting yourself in the article. Product: -Copy of original article -Copy of re-written article

  9. 7th Grade - Simple, Complex, & Compound Sentences Instructions to students: Pick out multiple simple sentences that you like from different articles. Then, combine your simple sentences, making compound and complex sentences from words cut out from the magazines. Organize your compound and complex sentences to form a story. If you need to add a few simple sentences to make the story flow, feel free! Product: Poster with story written out with cut-out words.

  10. 8th Grade - Active & Passive Voice Instructions to students: Pick a voice and write a narrative of what you see. When you finish, write it in the opposite voice. Product: One active voice narrative and once passive voice narrative.

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