Grammaropolis
Claude for Teachers in Grammaropolis

Official tools, from the Mayor's desk to your classroom.

From the desk of the Mayor

Claude skills for teachers of Grades 1 through 8: a pacing guide and a lesson planner, a daily sentence and exit tickets, and a prewriting toolkit and writing rubrics, plus a connector that lets your Claude look things up in the live catalog while it works. Everything runs inside your own Claude, no Grammaropolis account required. Put the whole town to work.

The Mayor of Grammaropolis

Issued by the Mayor's office

Skills you download

Install only the ones you'll use. They know about each other, too: installed together, the lesson planner can offer an exit ticket for its Assess step, and a week of daily sentences can end with one.

Plan

Plan the year, then the lesson

Pacing guide

The Mayor's calendar for your grammar year

What it does

Give it a grade, your standards, and your school calendar, and it plans the year week by week: which topic each week teaches, the exact standards that week covers, and how. Topics land after the ones they build on and before your state test, with spiral review and checkpoints along the way. It ends with a coverage check that shows its math and a copy-ready version for Google Sheets. Common Core and Texas TEKS are built in; other states get matched to Common Core and labeled for you to verify.

What it does not do

It plans across weeks for Grades 1 through 8. It won't write the day's lesson, a quiz, or a rubric, and it cites a standard only for a week that actually teaches it.

Works with the catalog connector
Download the pacing guide skill

grammaropolis-pacing-guide.skill

Lesson planner

Plan a lesson with the Mayor

What it does

Name a topic, a standard, or just a grade and a general idea, and it builds one complete lesson: a character-led hook, the full Learn, Assess, Practice, Create, and Certified cycle, the real standard cited, and a materials list, sized to one class period. Common Core codes are built in, Texas TEKS codes are looked up through the catalog connector, and other states are matched to Common Core.

What it does not do

It plans English language arts lessons for Grades 1 through 8, one lesson at a time. It doesn't grade student work, build rubrics, or give essay feedback.

Works with the catalog connector
Download the lesson planner skill

grammaropolis-lesson-planner.skill

Every day

Warm up, then check what stuck

Daily sentence

Five minutes a day with the character who owns the rule

What it does

Ask for a sentence of the day, a fix-it sentence, or a bell ringer, and it writes a five-minute warm-up: a mentor sentence to notice or a flawed one to fix, a short prompt from the character who owns that rule, and a key with a one-line why for every answer. Ask for a week, and it builds from noticing the rule on Monday to using it in students' own sentences on Friday.

What it does not do

It covers Grades 1 through 8. It won't grade students' sentences, write a full lesson, or build a vocabulary word list.

Works with the catalog connector
Download the daily sentence skill

grammaropolis-daily-sentence.skill

Exit tickets

A quick check that tells you what to reteach

What it does

Name a grade and a topic or a standard, and it writes an exit ticket of three to five items or a short quiz of up to ten, opened by the character who owns the topic. The separate answer key gives the rule behind each answer, the standard each item checks, and what each wrong answer reveals, so you know what to reteach. Bring back the class's results, and it'll help you read them.

What it does not do

It covers Grades 1 through 8. It won't grade or comment on individual students, write a unit test, or build a spelling test.

Works with the catalog connector
Download the exit tickets skill

grammaropolis-exit-tickets.skill

Writing

Before the draft, and after it

Prewriting toolkit

Eight Mayor-approved prewriting techniques

What it does

Give it a grade and, if you have one, your class's own story, and it runs that single story through all eight Grammaropolis prewriting techniques. Because every technique starts with the same story, students see how one set of material becomes eight different starting points. You get worked examples with teacher framing, or a script to perform live.

What it does not do

It works one grade at a time, Grades 1 through 8, and it produces worked examples and a demonstration script, not a graded assignment or finished student essays.

Download the prewriting toolkit skill

grammaropolis-prewriting-toolkit.skill

Writing rubrics

Writing rubrics straight from the desk of the Mayor

What it does

Name a writing mode, persuasive, narrative, descriptive, and four more, plus a grade, and it builds a complete rubric in the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Not Yet format, scored in the Mayor's own voice. Every category is calibrated to the grade and aligned to a CCSS writing standard, with an optional "Before You Turn It In" student self-check.

What it does not do

It covers Grades 1 through 8 and builds rubrics for a paragraph, not for a multi-paragraph essay or a research paper. It won't grade the writing or produce the student work itself.

Works with the catalog connector
Download the writing rubrics skill

grammaropolis-writing-rubrics.skill

Installing a skill Takes about a minute Install each skill once, and it's ready the moment the upload finishes. There's no review queue and nothing to approve on our end.
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Download a skill file from its card above.

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In Claude, open Customize, then Skills, then Add, and upload the file.

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Start a new chat and ask for what you need. Claude picks up the right skill on its own; if it reaches for the wrong one, name the one you want.

Also for Claude

Or connect Claude straight to the catalog

The skills above are files you upload. The connector you add once by web address, and from then on your Claude can look things up in the live Grammaropolis catalog while it works, so plans are built on the real concepts and standards. It reads only, and it never asks for an account or anything about your students.

Adding it takes a moment

In Claude, open your connector settings, choose to add a connector, and paste this address. There is no account to make and nothing to sign into.

https://mcp.grammaropolis.com/api/mcp

What your Claude can look up

list_pillars

See the five departments of the catalog: Parts of Speech, Punctuation, the Sentence Factory, the Writing Company, and Wonderful Words, each with its free Arcade games, no sign-in required.

list_lessons

Browse lessons by department, grade, or a topic in your own words.

get_lesson

Open one lesson. One whole lesson in each department is free at every grade and comes back complete; any other comes back as the details plus a link to the lesson on grammaropolis.com. It never hands Claude paid lesson content.

find_lessons_for_standard

Find every Grammaropolis lesson that teaches a Common Core or Texas TEKS standard, and the ones that touch it without teaching all of it.

about_grammaropolis

A quick tour of the town, the Mayor, and how the teaching cycle works.

Better together

Add the connector, and the skills that use it pick it up on their own. The pacing guide, lesson planner, and exit tickets check a topic's grades and free lessons against the live catalog, the writing rubrics link each rubric to its Writing Company lesson, and the lesson planner, exit tickets, daily sentence, and writing rubrics look up Texas TEKS codes through it.

Where these come from

Each skill draws on the Grammaropolis catalog: Parts of Speech, the Punctuation Department, the Sentence Factory, The Writing Company, and Wonderful Words, Grades 1 through 8. The same five departments are behind our print workbooks and our free lessons at grammaropolis.com.

Fifteen years of the town, counted up, on our by the numbers page.

Parts of Speech seal Parts of Speech
Punctuation Department seal Punctuation
Sentence Factory seal Sentence Factory
The Writing Company seal Writing Company
Wonderful Words mark Wonderful Words