Mentor Sentence Resources

Mentor sentences are sentences from real books that students study closely to learn grammar, punctuation, and author’s craft. Over a week, students notice what the author did, label the parts of speech, revise the sentence, and imitate it in their own writing. This page gathers my mentor sentence resources by grade level, plus the posts I’d read first if you’re new to the routine.

• The why and how of mentor sentences: the who, what, when, where, and why, then the weekly routine broken down day by day.
• The ABCs of mentor sentences: an A to Z guide to the daily routine, plus a free week to try.
• Getting started with mentor sentences: mentor sentence examples for the first week, with directions, photos, and videos for each step.
• Time to notice: how to help students notice “the good” on day one.
• Setting up mentor sentence notebooks: how students keep their sentences organized and use the notebook during writing time.