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This yearlong mentor sentences and reading curriculum for 3rd, 4th, and 5th 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 Volume 1 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. Reading activities cover skills such as:
Using evidence to describe, infer, and draw conclusions
Summarizing
Identifying and supporting theme
Identifying and supporting character traits
Explaining figurative language
Identifying vivid language
Visualizing
Supporting opinions
Comparing characters
Comparing texts to media and other texts
Defining words using context clues
…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.
★ ALL activities are also provided as links to Google Slides for Digital Learning! ★
VOLUME 1 BOOK LIST:
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, or even as online read-alouds!
-First Day Jitters By Julie Danneberg
-Enemy Pie By Derek Munson
-Saturdays and Teacakes By Lester Laminack
-My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother By Patricia Polacco
-Fireflies! By Julie Brinckloe
-Come On, Rain! By Karen Hesse
-The Man Who Walked Between The Towers By Mordicai Gerstein
-Verdi By Janell Cannon
-Stellaluna By Janell Cannon
-I Need My Monster By Amanda Noll
-If You Find a Rock By Peggy Christian
-The Wretched Stone By Chris Van Allsburg
-Knots on a Counting Rope By John Archambault
-How Many Days to America? By Eve Bunting
-Grandpa’s Teeth By Rod Clement
-Owl Moon By Jane Yolen
-Polar Express By Chris Van Allsburg
-Trouble With Trolls By Jan Brett
-The Three Snow Bears By Jan Brett
-Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs By Judi Barrett
-Groundhog Gets a Say by Pamela Curtis Swallow
-Olive My Love by Vivian Walsh
-The True Story of The Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
-I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
-I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff
-Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
-Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
-My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
-Dandelions by Eve Bunting
-Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney
-Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee
-Shortcut by Donald Crews
-Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter
-Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
-Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel
-The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey
-The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
-Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
-The Raft by Jim LaMarche
-The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco
BONUS UNITS:
-Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia Valdez
-Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
-The Boy Who Grew a Forest by Sophia Gholz
-The Leaf Detective by Heather Lang
-Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER GRADE LEVELS?
There is a Volume 2 and a Volume 3 for grades 3-5 to help prevent repetition of mentor sentence lessons among grades in the same school.
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.*
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