The Targeted Independent Practice: Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics program has been designed to diagnostically target and help students learn the grammar, usage, and mechanics concepts and skills they have not yet mastered.

The program is simple to implement and has been designed for independent work.

1. The teacher administers, grades, and records the whole-class diagnostic assessments. Each assessment item corresponds to a well-crafted worksheet, each with a formative assessment.
2. Students complete targeted Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics worksheets, indicated as concept and skill deficits, according to the assessment data. 
3. Students self-correct each assigned worksheet to learn from their mistakes and use this knowledge to complete the written formative assessment.
4. The teacher grades the formative assessment and records mastery on the progress monitoring matrix.
5. This easy-to-use program provides efficient and effective differentiated instruction that fills instructional gaps, accelerates learning, and equips students to master the requisite grammar, usage, and mechanics skills to improve their writing and speaking sophistication.
   

Easy classroom management. Perfect for independent work during small groups, ideal for sub plans, a quick go-to for rainy days, nothing better for early finishers.

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The 45 grammar and usage worksheets and 32 mechanics worksheets include definitions, examples, skill practice, and writing hints about how to apply the skill within authentic writing. Students complete only those worksheets which the diagnostic assessments determine to be un-mastered skills.

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Worksheets

1. Common Nouns 
2. Proper Nouns
3. Pronouns
4. Adjectives 
5. Verbs 
6. Adverbs 
7. Prepositions 
8. Coordinating Conjunctions                 
9. Subordinating Conjunctions                              
10. Correlative Conjunctions
11. Simple and Complete Subjects
12. Compound Subjects
13. Simple and Complete Predicates
14. Compound Predicates
15. Simple Sentences / Types of Sentences
16. Compound Sentences
17. Complex Sentences
18. Compound-Complex Sentences
19. Fragments
20. Run-Ons                            
21. Subject Case Pronouns
22. Object Case Pronouns 
23. Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns
24. Pronoun-Antecedents
25. Who, Whose, Whom, That, Which
26. Indefinite People Pronouns
27. Indefinite Size or Amount Pronouns
28. Past Participles
29. Present Participles
30. Dangling / Misplaced Modifiers        
31. Short Comparative Modifiers
32. Short Superlative Modifiers
33. Long and __ly Comparative Modifiers
34. Long and __ly Superlative Modifiers 
35. Linking and Helping Verbs
36. Modals
37. Past Tense Verbs
38. Past Progressive Verbs
39. Past Perfect Verbs
40. Present Tense Verbs
41. Present Progressive Verbs
42. Present Perfect Verbs
43. Future Tense Verbs
44. Future Progressive Verbs
45. Future Perfect Verbs                                 
46. Commas with Speaker Tags
47. Commas with Appositives
48. Commas with Series
49. Commas with Introductions
50. Commas with Geography     
51. Commas with Nouns of Direct Speech
52. Commas with Conjunctions
53. Commas in Letters    
54. Commas with Coordinate Adjectives            
55. Capitalization of People / Characters
56. Capitalization of Places
57. Capitalization of Things
58. Capitalization of Holidays and Dates
59. Capitalization of Organizations and Businesses
60. Capitalization of Language and People Groups
61. Capitalization of Events and Historical Periods                     
62. Movie and Television Show Titles
63. Books / Magazine / Newspaper / Website Titles
64. Song / Poem Titles
65. Play / Work of Art Titles
66. Book Chapter Titles
67. Article Titles
68. Short Story / Document Titles            
69. Direct Quotations
70. Apostrophes (Contractions)
71. Semicolons
72. Parentheses / Dashes
73. Apostrophes (Singular Possessives)
74. Apostrophes (Plural Possessives)
75. Colons
76. Periods with Abbreviations / Initials / Acronyms
77. Exclamation Points 

Note that the full contents of this program are included in the comprehensive grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and high school Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics and the Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Interactive Notebook programs. 

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The Targeted Independent Practice Series:

• Reading Fluency and Comprehension
• Spelling
• Phonics
• Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
• Literacy Knowledge
• Executive Function and Study Skills

Quality, targeted independent practice programs to enhance any teacher's instructional toolkit. Each program is only $29.99 (lifetime license one teacher). Buy three; get one free!