Each Kindness Mentor Sentence and Interactive Activity: Free Sample for Grades 3-5

Description

Want to try mentor sentences with your 3rd, 4th, or 5th graders before you buy a full unit? This free sample gives you a mentor sentence and an interactive activity for Each Kindness: one week of mentor sentence work built on one sentence from Jacqueline Woodson’s book, plus the interactive activity that practices the same skill, possessive nouns.

How the week works

• Monday, notice: students read the sentence and talk about what they notice. Your plan lists what to look for, with the focus skill marked.
• Tuesday, label: students label the parts of speech and the subject and predicate.
• Wednesday, revise: students revise the sentence, and the plan gives you a sample revision.
• Thursday, imitate: students write their own sentence in the author’s style, with a sample imitation in the plan.
• Quiz: a short assessment with editing practice shows you which skills to bring back.

What’s included:

• A daily plan for Monday through Thursday, with what to notice, how to label the sentence, a sample revision, and a sample imitation
• A quiz with editing practice on possessive nouns, with an answer key
• An interactive activity: a flap activity that sorts singular and irregular plural possessive nouns

The book is not included. It’s a favorite most school libraries already have.

This lesson is week 7 of my Volume 3, Unit 2 mentor sentences, so if it works for your class, that unit has nine more weeks ready to go. The full introduction to the routine is in Volume 3, Unit 1.

Why mentor sentences in grades 3-5?

A sentence full of mistakes only helps students who already know the rule. A mentor sentence starts with a strong model instead: one sentence from a book students know, studied for a few minutes a day, so the grammar shows up in context and not on a worksheet.

The Thursday imitation is where it carries over, because students use the same structure in a sentence of their own. New to mentor sentences? My Mentor Sentences for 3-5 page walks through the routine.

Keep going with this book

• Free Each Kindness vocabulary activities: one week of words in context
• Free Each Kindness Better Than Basal activities: reading and writing for the same book

Want the whole year? The Volume 3 Bundle has all 40 weeks of mentor sentences, and the Yearlong Mentor Text Curriculum, Volume 3 adds vocabulary and reading and writing activities for every book.

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