GRAMMARINTERACTIVE

NOTEBOOK

Take note-taking to the next level. The templates and lessons in these books will make teaching grammar skills a revolutionary hands-on, interactive experience that will engage students and actively involve them in the learning process. As they complete the interactive templates, students will build an invaluable resource that they can refer back to throughout the year. Perfect for introducing new topics, as well as reviewing new information, I’m Lovin’ Lit’s Interactive Grammar Notebook will be a valuable addition to any grammar curriculum.

Erin Cobb is an educator, blogger, professional developer, and curriculum designer with 12 years of teaching experience in grades PreK to 8. Her favorite teaching years were spent teaching middle school reading and ELA. She believes that active learning is the key to happy, motivated, and challenged students. Erin uses interactive notebooks in her classroom and provides professional development

for teachers who want to reach all learners by infusing more interactivity into their lessons. She specializes in creating lessons and activities that adapt to a wide variety of learning styles and provide numerous accommodations and modifications as needed. She enjoys traveling with her family and all things football.

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GRAMMARINTERACTIVE

NOTEBOOKGRADES

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• Includes complete assembly instructions and photos

• No research or extra work involved— just copy and go!

• Works with your existing curriculum

• Truly interactive, dynamic templates

Grades 4-8 I’m Lovin’ Lit: Interactive Gram

mar Notebook

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Table of Contents

FAQ/Getting Started Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

ReviewLesson 0 .5: Parts of Speech Overview . . . . 6

Unit 1 - Hard & Fast Rules for GrammarTeacher’s Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Lesson 1-1: Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Lesson 1-2: Using Commas . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Lesson 1-3: Using Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . 14Lesson 1-4: Using Quotation Marks . . . . . 16Lesson 1-5: Using Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Lesson 1-6: Using Plurals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Lesson 1-7: Using Commonly Confused Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Unit 2 - SentencesLesson 2-1: Four Types of Sentences . . . . 24Lesson 2-2: Subject & Predicate . . . . . . . . 27Lesson 2-3: Compound Subjects & Compound Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Lesson 2-5: Independent & Dependent Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Lesson 2-6: Sentences, Fragments, & Run-Ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Unit 3 - NounsLesson 3-1: Common & Proper Nouns . . . 45Lesson 3-2: Concrete & Abstract Nouns . . 47Lesson 3-3: Plural Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Lesson 3-4: Possessive Nouns . . . . . . . . . . 52

Unit 4 - VerbsLesson 4-1: Action, Linking, & Helping Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Lesson 4-2: Predicate Nominatives & Predicate Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Lesson 4-3: The Perfect Tense Fence . . . . 59Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles . . . . . 62Lesson 4-5: Direct & Indirect Objects . . . . 67

Unit 5 - PrepositionsLesson 5-1: Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Lesson 5-2: Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . 72Lesson 5-3: Adverb Phrases & Adjective Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Unit 6 - PronounsLesson 6-1: Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Unit 7 - Adjectives Lesson 7-1: Kinds of Adjectives . . . . . . . . . 80Lesson 7-2: Degrees of Comparison . . . . . 82

Unit 8 - Adverbs Lesson 8-1: Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Lesson 8-2: More Adverb Phrases . . . . . . . 87Lesson 8-3: Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . 89

Unit 9 - Conjunctions & Interjections Lesson 9-1: Coordinating Conjunctions . . 91Lesson 9-2: Correlative Conjunctions . . . . 93Lesson 9-3: Interjections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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INTERACTIVE GRAMMAR NOTEBOOKLesson 0.5: Parts of Speech Overview

Purpose: Identify and define the seven main parts of speech and give examples of each .

Notes for Templatenouns – words that name people, places, things, and ideas (ex . man, museum, leash, love)verbs – words that express an action or state of being (ex . jump, hide, seem, is, are)adjectives – describing words; words that modify nouns or pronouns (ex . pretty, brown, lazy, awesome)adverbs – words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (ex . softly, always, very, too)prepositions – words that show a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence (ex . about, at, before, in, under)conjunctions – words that join other words or groups of words (ex . and, but, or, so, yet)interjections – words used to express emotion (ex . Wow! Ouch! Hooray!)

Procedures 1 . Start by coloring (I’m a color coder!) and cutting out the pieces

as shown . It’s important to cut out the little notches between each tab so that it functions right when it’s put together .

2 . Fold each tab over so that only the colored part shows . It should look like the photo .

3 . Put glue dots on the back sections only (the gray glue sections) .4 . Glue in both pieces, placing them close as if they were all one

piece .5 . Notice that nouns and adjectives are on the right, and

verbs and adverbs are on the left . This is to emphasize their connection, as one modifies the other .

6 . Under each tab, write the definition for each part of speech . I use the most basic definitions—see the Notes for Template section . You may also choose to write examples on the back side of each tab .

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