Middle School Grammar Curriculum | Grades 6-8 Language Arts

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This Middle School Grammar Curriculum is Right For You If…

• You have limited time for grammar and want every minute to count.

• You’re tired of students acing the worksheet but never using the skill when they actually write.

• You want to teach grammar in context, using best practices that stick.

• You want to save prep time with a ready-to-use routine that runs the same way every week.

A Predictable 5-Day Routine (10 Minutes a Day!)

Every skill follows the same simple five-day routine, one short step a day, so students always know what comes next:

• Day 1: Notice the Skill. Students notice the skill in a mentor sentence and discuss how it works, before any formal instruction.

• Day 2: Teach the Skill. Students learn the terms and rules using an anchor chart you build together.

• Day 3: Practice the Skill. Students write imitation sentences that follow the mentor sentence’s structure with their own words.

• Day 4: Apply the Skill. Students use the skill in their own authentic writing, with an optional Revising Challenge to take it further.

• Day 5: Assess the Skill. Students respond to a short writing prompt so you can see how well they apply the skill on their own.

Note: A short video demonstration is included for each step, so you can see exactly how the routine works before you teach it.

Everything Included in This Middle School Grammar Curriculum:

This complete 125-page PDF gives you everything you need for all 30 skills, with no add-ons to buy or hunt down online:

• Scope and Sequence: All 30 skills with student-friendly objectives and standards alignment, so you always know what you’re teaching and why.

• Mentor Sentence Slides: A link to Google Slides with a mentor sentence to introduce each skill.

• Teach Pages with Anchor Charts: A page for every skill that lays out the terms, rules, and examples to build together as a class.

• Practice Pages: Imitation sentence worksheets where students practice each skill by modeling the mentor sentence.

• Apply Pages: Worksheets that move the skill into students’ own real writing, with an optional Revising Challenge.

• Assessments with Rubrics: A short writing-prompt assessment and rubric for each skill to measure how well students apply it.

• Video Demonstrations: Short how-to videos that walk you through each step of the routine.

Skills Covered in This Middle School Grammar Curriculum:

All 30 skills come with student-friendly objectives aligned to sixth, seventh, and eighth grade Common Core language standards:

1. Simple Sentences
2. Compound Sentences (and, or, nor)
3. Compound Sentences (but, yet)
4. Compound Sentences (for, so)
5. Complex Sentences
6. Compound-Complex Sentences
7. Coordinate Adjectives & Commas
8. Appositive Phrases
9. Gerund Phrases
10. Infinitive Phrases
11. Participial Phrases
12. Relative Clauses
13. Adverbial Clauses
14. Noun Clauses
15. Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers
16. Parallel Structure
17. Active & Passive Voice
18. Shifts in Verb Voice
19. Indicative, Imperative & Interrogative Mood
20. Conditional & Subjunctive Mood
21. Types of Pronouns
22. Intensive Pronouns
23. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
24. Shifts in Pronoun Number & Person
25. Vague Pronouns
26. Punctuating Nonrestrictive Elements
27. Punctuation for Breaks
28. Ellipsis for Omission
29. Semicolons & Colons
30. Homophones

What Other Classroom Teachers Are Saying

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“I just finished my first week using this grammar curriculum and I’m in love! The lessons were easy to implement and so clear for students. The Google Slides, the anchor charts, the assessment rubric, my kids enjoyed every piece.” — Cindy

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“I’m over the moon with this purchase. ELA Skill Builder has broken down the learning process and made it so engaging. After only a few weeks, I can already see results, my students are growing in confidence daily and writing more carefully. I would never have had time to put all this together.” — Angela

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