This book contains detailed grammar lesson plans for English teachers who are teaching grades nine through twelve. It provides high school English teachers with concrete lesson plans that they can easily use to put mentor text-based grammar instructions into action in their classrooms
Teaching High School Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 9-12 contains detailed grammar lesson plans for English teachers who are teaching grades nine through twelve.
The lesson plans in this book incorporate the research-based best practices of grammar instruction by presening grammatical concepts in the context of effective writing through the use of mentor texts. These mentor text examples, which students read from a writer’s perspective, deepen students’ metacognition of the importance of these concepts and help them see the elements of grammar as tools for strong writing that authors use strategically to make their work as effective as possible. Th lesson plans feature published examples of grammatical concepts from works of literature aligned with grades nine through twelve. These texts include works written recently as well as those that have been taught in high school English classrooms for longer periods of time. In addition to these published works, the book includes activities that help students connect their reading and writing experiences and reflective opportunities designed to facilitate students’ metacognition of the importance of grammatical concepts.
This is a stellar resource for high school English teachers, and it is packed with concrete lesson plans that you can easily use to put mentor text-based grammar instruction into action in your classroom.
Introduction Section One: Lesson Plans Recommended For Grades 9 and 10
1. Enhancing Understanding: Absolute Phrases
2. Descriptive Tools:
Participial Phrases
3. Providing Detail: Prepositional Phrases
4. Elaboration
and Information: Relative Clauses
5. Context and Explanation: Subordinate
Clauses
6. Linking Ideas: Semicolons
7. Opposing Terms: Oxymorons
8. Language
Choices: Euphemisms Section Two: Lesson Plans Recommended For Grades 11 and
12
9. Varying Sentence Construction: Simple, Compound, Complex, and
Compound-Complex Sentences
10. Getting Active and Passive: The Active and
Passive Voices
11. Making Big Statements: Hyperbole
12. Contradiction for a
Reason: Literary Paradoxes
13. Hyphenation Station: Hyphenation Conventions
14. Knowing Nuance: Nuances in the Meanings of Words With Similar Denotations
15. Getting Specific: Specific Nouns and Verbs Section Three: Final Thoughts
and Resources Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
Sean Ruday is a professor and program coordinator of English education at Longwood University.
