Contents Introduction: Reimagining Elementary School Grammar Instruction with Mentor Texts Section One: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Third-Grade Classroom Lesson 3.1: Let's Agree: Subject-Verb Agreement Lesson 3.2: Descriptive Information: Adjectives Lesson 3:3: The Power of Explanation: Adverbs Lesson 3.4: Building Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Lesson 3.5: In Dialogue: Using Commas and Quotation Marks When Writing Dialogue Section Two: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Fourth-Grade Classroom Lesson 4.1: A Big Deal: Capitalization Lesson 4.2: Showing Conditions: Modal Auxiliaries Lesson 4.3: Elaborating on Information: Prepositional Phrases Lesson 4.

4: Providing Detail: Relative Clauses Lesson 4.5: Clear and Powerful Language: Strong Verbs and Specific Nouns Section Three: Lesson Plans Recommended for the Fifth-Grade Classroom Lesson 5.1: Linking and Connecting: Conjunctions Lesson 5.2: Showing Emotion: Interjections Lesson 5.3: Pronouns and Clarity: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Lesson 5.4: Beyond the Literal: Figurative Language Lesson 5.5: Toward Clarity: Using Commas for Clarity Section Four: Final Thoughts and Resources Conclusion: Putting Mentor Text-Based Grammar Instruction Into Action in Grades Three to Five Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of Mentor Texts Appendix B: Reproducible Graphic Organizers Appendix C: Lesson Plan Template.