A Long Walk to Water Mentor Sentences & Interactive Activities Mini-Unit

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Description

Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author’s craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! This unit will be a great way to integrate grammar and language during your novel study of Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli! It does not include explicit directions of how to implement mentor sentences in your room- these directions are in the Volume 1, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, Volume 2, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, or Volume 3, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit products for sale.

Not familiar with mentor sentences? Read all about them here!

**Watch a video of Mentor Sentences in ACTION!**

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WHAT’S INCLUDED?

I walk you through each day’s lesson for 5 weeks- all the work is done! I’ve even done all the thinking for you when it comes to revising and imitating!

Each lesson includes the teacher sentence page, the student sentence page, a lesson plan page with possibilities for all 4 days, an interactive activity with the focus skill, and a quiz aligned with CCSS with answer key. ★ The quizzes are included as printables and also digital-classroom-ready, provided as Google Slides. ★

Skills covered in this unit:

➤vivid verbs
➤order of adjectives
➤comparative adverbs
➤figurative language

There are 5 lessons. I have broken the book apart into “chunks” for each lesson, stopping at natural points. You could do these lessons the week you are reading that section, or complete them the week AFTER you read that section. It is up to you!

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WHAT ABOUT OTHER GRADE LEVELS?

There are three volumes for grades 3-5 to help prevent repetition of mentor sentence lessons among grades in the same school.
Check out what’s in Volume 1!
Check out what’s in Volume 2!
Check out what’s in Volume 3!

Mentor Sentences can be done in ALL grades! Please tell your teacher friends about mentor sentences for their grade:

Kindergarten & ELL (Early Emergent Readers)
First Grade
Second Grade

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Please remember, this purchase is for the use of one teacher. It is not intended to be shared. Please use the ‘additional license’ purchase if more than one teacher will be using it. Thank you!

*The mentor sentence lessons I have created are adapted from the ideas of Jeff Anderson. These lessons were born from the routine that worked well in my classroom, and the demos and examples I present are variations of Jeff Anderson’s methods. This is not the only way to “do” mentor sentences in your classroom.*

Copyright © 2020 Ideas By Jivey, LLC
All rights reserved by author, Jessica Ivey.
Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
Not for public display.

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Great Grammar Connection

Great resource to connect grammar lessons to the novel.
Lauren E. Grades taught: 3, 4, 5, 6 · May 13, 2026
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A long walk to water

This made grammar practice more fun and helped reinforce comprehension!
Katie W. Grades taught: Pre-K, 5 · August 31, 2025
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We read this book at the start of every school year. Incorporating grammar activities into the reading helps to set up the format for the rest of the year.
Dana T. Grades taught: 6 · July 15, 2025
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Thank you for a great resource to use in my classroom!
Rocky Mountain firsties Grades taught: 5 · July 5, 2025
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This was a great resources to aide my students' understanding of the novel. Thank you
Lauren A. Grades taught: 4 · May 1, 2025
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This was just what I needed to fill in some gaps with a programming project I wanted to share with my students.
Rebecca E. August 28, 2024
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Used these to supplement a packet that I created and it was perfect!
Teaching ELA with Flair Grades taught: 7 · April 25, 2024
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This is a great novel study, very inclusive. Will continue to use!
Educ8 with Edwards Grades taught: 6, 7, 8 · December 12, 2023
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Was a great change of pace from our weekly mentor sentences. The kids enjoyed that the sentences went with our story.
Math with Mrs. Sturgill Grades taught: 4 · August 1, 2023
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Set up very nicely. I like using mentor sentence activities as bellringers and these worked great as we read the novel.
Kacey M. Grades taught: 6 · February 26, 2023
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Worked great for my middle school special education students!
Stacey L. Grades taught: 7 · February 21, 2023