Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School

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