Modifiers & Concise Writing Unit, Grades 6-8: 5 Middle School Grammar Lessons

Five days of middle school modifiers and concise writing, ready to teach. Students learn how a limiting word such as only changes meaning by where it sits, move misplaced phrases and clauses next to the words they describe, fix dangling modifiers by naming the doer, cut wordiness, and remove redundancy, finishing with a capstone paragraph where students find and fix a misplaced phrase, a dangling opening phrase, padded phrases and repeated words.

What's inside

• 5 complete lessons (Days 1 to 5), 75 slides in all: 15, 15, 16, 14 and 15 slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each, each with a 25-minute version and a Watch For list
• 5 Rule Notes student pages, 1 page each
• 5 student worksheets, 2 pages each: 78 numbered items in all (16, 18, 18, 13 and 13), plus a 2-item exit ticket on every day
• 5 teacher answer keys, 1 page each
• 5 print-all PDFs, 6 pages each

Answer key included

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