Official tools, from the Mayor's desk to your classroom.
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.
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 the year, then the lesson
The Mayor's calendar for your grammar year
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.
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.
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Plan a lesson with the Mayor
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.
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.
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Warm up, then check what stuck
Five minutes a day with the character who owns the rule
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.
It covers Grades 1 through 8. It won't grade students' sentences, write a full lesson, or build a vocabulary word list.
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A quick check that tells you what to reteach
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.
It covers Grades 1 through 8. It won't grade or comment on individual students, write a unit test, or build a spelling test.
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Before the draft, and after it
Eight Mayor-approved prewriting techniques
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.
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.
grammaropolis-prewriting-toolkit.skill
Writing rubrics straight from the desk of the Mayor
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.
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.
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Download a skill file from its card above.
In Claude, open Customize, then Skills, then Add, and upload the file.
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.
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
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.
Browse lessons by department, grade, or a topic in your own words.
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 every Grammaropolis lesson that teaches a Common Core or Texas TEKS standard, and the ones that touch it without teaching all of it.
A quick tour of the town, the Mayor, and how the teaching cycle works.
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
Punctuation
Sentence Factory
Writing Company
Wonderful Words