Your students are going to need a TON of modeling, prompting, and explanation the first few weeks of school, just as with any other routine. And they AREN’T going to just magically know everything. But if you start out slow and gradually build up to “grade level expectations,” students will feel more successful, and you will be helping them establish the routine necessary for the whole year. And one of the BEST parts of mentor sentences… the spiral review every week! Students who aren’t “getting it” the first few times will get it down the road after seeing it several more times.
If you want to skip over the written explanation and JUST SEE THE VIDEO, scroll to the bottom of this post!
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Don’t forget to check out Jeff Anderson’s books! I adapted his ideas to make them work in my elementary classroom!