Everything But The Books Narrative Integration Unit for 4th and 5th grade provides you with complete writing, reading, and mentor sentence lesson plans - you’ll get the standards-aligned integrated lesson plans, activities, checklists, rubrics, additional short story/poetry/folktale readings, outlines, and text-based writing and response to literature prompts; and all you need to get your hands on are the mentor texts! #mentortexts #4thgrade #5thgrade

Higher order thinking questions should also be used in grammar instruction. Download this free higher order thinking questions poster to guide you in transforming your classroom conversations!

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Mentor Texts are one of the best ways to maximize your teaching time. And now, you can join the club for upper elementary teachers who love to use newer-released picture books as mentor texts in their classroom (or are looking to start)! We are going to work alongside each other all year to make sure you ROCK your lessons! I can't WAIT to get teacher input for each unit, plus do giveaways of all the books used for members only! #mentortexts #teacher

Free editable parts of speech posters to support students vocabulary during Mentor Sentences.

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Ideas by Jivey walks you through a reading comprehension lesson with the mentor text, Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco, and includes a free activity to use!

Spring classroom activities and resources for kids, including ideas for teaching art, poetry, literacy and life sciences. Check out the spring book and video list and grab FREE spring resources! #springactivities #springart #springcrafts #craftsforkids #artforkids

Learn test prep strategies you can implement all year to help improve standardized testing scores without worksheets and drill-and-kill methods. This is a series of posts and video episodes with explanations, freebies, modeling, and more!