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This yearlong mentor sentences and reading curriculum for 2nd grade gives you 45 weeks of complete, integrated ELA instruction built around high-quality mentor texts. You’ll have hundreds of read-aloud book activities and lessons for grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension practice, plus writing prompts.
This second grade bundle brings together everything you need to teach grammar through mentor sentences, vocabulary in context, and reading comprehension skills, all anchored to the same picture books you already love reading aloud. (See the book list below!)
Instead of teaching ELA skills in isolation, every component in this bundle connects back to a shared mentor text, so your students encounter language, meaning, and craft together.
WHAT IS IN THIS BUNDLE?
★ Mentor Sentence Lessons | Grammar and author’s craft in context
Mentor sentences are an evidence-based approach to grammar instruction that teaches students to notice, discuss, revise, and imitate sentences drawn directly from your read-alouds. This is not grammar in isolation… it is grammar in context, connected to real writing! Each lesson includes a teacher sentence page, a student sentence page, a four-day lesson plan, and a CCSS-aligned quiz with an answer key.
If you need more proof that the numerous volumes of mentor sentence curricula created by Ideas by Jivey are a best practice in the classroom, download the case study! The download presents the data collected over the 2016-2017 school year in the form of a case study.
★ Scaffolded Modifications | Support for students who need it
Sentence frames for revision and imitation days give extra support to students with disabilities, English language learners, and/or slow writers without removing the thinking from students who are ready to work independently.
★ Interactive Language Arts Activities | Skill reinforcement for the mentor sentence focus
Companion activities give students additional practice with the grammar skill from each mentor sentence lesson.
★Reading Comprehension Activities | 100+ reading comprehension activities
Every activity includes an answer key. Generic versions of all graphic organizers are also included so you can use them with any text. Activities cover skills such as:
identify key details
answer the 5 W’s
summarize the story
main idea and details
find the moral/central message with details
identify lessons learned
identify/describe character feelings
identify character challenges and their responses
make lists of rhyming words
understand beginning, middle, end
problem/solution
relate through two points of view within a story
describe characters and setting through illustrations
compare two books
…and more!
★ Writing Prompts | One per week, tied to each book’s theme or topic
Every book has a corresponding writing prompt that connects to the theme, idea, or content of that specific text. Prompts give students a purposeful reason to write in response to what they just read.
★ Contextual Vocabulary Activities | Tier 2 and Tier 3 words from each book
Vocabulary is taught directly from the mentor texts, not from isolated word lists. Activities are grounded in research on vocabulary acquisition and designed for repeated exposure across multiple formats.
BOOK LIST FOR SECOND GRADE:
You will want to make sure you have access to the books listed below to complete the lessons properly. They are not included, but most can likely be found in your library!
-First Day Jitters By Julie Danneberg
-Officer Buckle and Gloria By Peggy Rathmann
-Memoirs of a Goldfish By Devin Scillian
-Chrysanthemum By Kevin Henkes
-Scaredy Squirrel By Melanie Watt
-Skippyjon Jones By Judy Schachner
-If You Give A Mouse A Cookie By Laura Joffe Numeroff
-The Paperboy By Dav Pilkey
-Stellaluna By Janell Cannon
-The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything By Linda Williams
-The Day The Crayons Quit By Drew Daywalt
-Diary of a Worm By Doreen Cronin
-Diary of a Fly By Doreen Cronin
-‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving By Dav Pilkey
-Snowmen at Night By Caralyn Buehner
-Snowmen at Christmas By Caralyn Buehner
-The Polar Express By Chris Van Allsburg
-Gingerbread Baby By Jan Brett
-The Three Snow Bears By Jan Brett
-Three Cheers for Tacky By Helen Lester
-100th Day Worries by Margery Cuyler
-Substitute Groundhog by Pat Miller
-Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink by Diane de Groat
-Duck For President by Doreen Cronin
-What If You Had Animal Teeth!? by Sandra Markle
-Sweet Tooth by Margie Palatini
-Moosetache by Margie Palatini
-Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
-The Umbrella by Jan Brett
-Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel
-The Important Book by Margeret Wise Brown
-Parts by Tedd Arnold
-Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
-Corduroy by Don Freeman
-Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
-A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams
-Stone Soup by Ann McGovern
-Smelly Socks by Robert Munsch
-Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
-Don’t Let The Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems
BONUS UNIT:
-Blackout by John Rocco
-Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
-Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
-Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson
-We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER GRADE LEVELS?
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
There are THREE volumes for grades 3-5 to help prevent repetition of lessons and books within the same school:
Volume 1 for Grades 3-5
Volume 2 for Grades 3-5
Volume 3 for Grades 3-5
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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.*
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