Fourth Grade Mentor Sentences for Capitalization & Punctuation NEW TEKS aligned

**ALIGNED TO NEW TEKS!** Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.

This product helps students connect grammar instruction to their own writing and testing situations! Teach grammar authentically and effectively through the use of mentor sentences and a thoughtful approach to conventions instruction.

These tools have made a difference in my students' writing! I know they'll make a difference in yours! By bridging the grammatical skills in context to revision and editing in a testing format, students will learn what's important about grammar instruction as well as how to apply it in a variety of contexts.

To check out the TEKS and Texas State Writing Test alignment, download this free TEKS Alignment Document.

This is the second product in the series. The sentences and skill work in this product rely on students' understanding of lessons taught in the first nine weeks unit. It is recommended that you begin with the first nine weeks unit (a focus on grammar) and then move on to this product, which includes a focus on more grammar, punctuation, and capitalization, and then the 3rd nine weeks, which focuses on spelling patterns and grammar review.

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Nine weeks of grammar instruction:

Week One: Adverbs & prepositions as modifiers

Week Two: Adverbs of frequency and degree

Week Three: Participle phrases (-ed, -ing)

Week Four: Reflexive pronouns

Week Five: Apostrophes to show possession

Week Six: Quotation marks

Week Seven: Capitalization of proper nouns

Week Eight: Capitalization of titles, historical events, and documents

Week Nine: Capitalization of languages, races, and nationalities

For each week, five days of lessons are included, as well as...

Day One: Sentence strips to cut and glue into a notebook

Day Two: Grammar hunt tables to cut and glue into a notebook

Day Three: Word/phrase cards to cut out and manipulate, and a handout to practice the skill (with answer key included)

Day Four: Dictation - what do we check for?

Day Five: Sample sentences to use as models, and a three- to four- question quiz on the skill, in Writing test format.

Also included in this product:

Tips for teaching grammar through mentor sentences

Printable notebook cover

Pictures from actual mentor sentence lessons

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.

You may also be interested in:

• Mentor Sentences Grammar Notebook for the 1st nine weeks
• Mentor Sentences Grammar Notebook for the 3rd nine weeks
• Expository Revision Guides
• Camp-Write-a-Lot Texas State Test Prep Stations

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