Grammar Matters: Lessons Tips & Conversations Using Mentor Texts K-6

"Grammar Matters" is a comprehensive guide for teachers of grades K-6 on how to effectively teach grammar in their classrooms. The book emphasizes the use of mentor texts to engage and excite students about learning grammar. Divided into four parts, the book provides practical teaching tips, assessment ideas, grammar definitions, and specific mentor texts for different types of writing. It also includes a "Treasure Chest of Children's Books" with a list of recommended books for grammar instruction. The book is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and includes additional resources such as checklists, comma rules, and help for ELL students. Overall, "Grammar Matters" offers teachers valuable tools to help their students develop strong grammar skills and improve their overall literacy.

If you are a teacher of grades K-6, you might be asking, 'Should I teach grammar in my class on a daily basis? How would I go about doing this? And how can I teach grammar so it isn't boring to my kids?' InGrammar Matters, Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty answer these questions and more. Using mentor texts as the cornerstone for how best to teach grammar, this book provides teachers with almost everything they need to get kids not only engaged but excited about learning grammar.

Divided into four parts--Narrative Writing, Informational Writing, Opinion Writing, and Grammar Conversations--this handy reference provides practical teaching tips, assessment ideas, grammar definitions, and specific mentor texts to help students learn about parts of speech, idioms, usage issues, and punctuation. Through 'Your Turn Lessons,' conversations, conferences, and drafting, revising, and editing exercises, students will learn not only specific concepts but also how to reflect upon and transfer what they have learned to other writing tasks, no matter the subject.

The 'Treasure Chest of Children's Books' provides an extensive list of both fiction and nonfiction books that fit naturally into grammar instruction. Eight appendices provide even more resources, including information on homophones, using mentor texts to teach grammar and conventions, checklists, comma rules, help for ELL students, and a glossary of grammar terms.

Grammar Matterslinks instruction to the Common Core State Standards and features quality, classroom-tested tools that help teachers provide their students with the gifts of grammar and literacy.