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 Frindle by Andrew Clements! 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!
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WHAT’S INCLUDED?
I walk you through each day’s lesson for 4 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:
➤similes
➤compound sentences
➤dialogue
➤dash punctuation for effect
Please download the preview file to see the layout. There are 4 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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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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Mentor Sentences are a great teaching tool
I love all the mentor sentence resources and appreciate that I could combine a class favorite read aloud with mentor sentences.
Perfect way to compliment my novel study. We use mentor sentences all year long
This product is amazing. Everything is right there for you and you are able to begin right away with students. We use this the first three days of school, paired with our summer reading book. Students learn the routines of mentor sentence work and we enjoy reviewing the book.
I used this resource multiple times this year with multiple small groups. Friendle is a favorite of mine and I enjoyed the mentor sentences chosen from this book. My small groups were all able to have great learning conversations around each of the mentor sentences. My students learned a lot about grammar and writing strong sentences from this resource. I also found they referred back to these sentences when working independently.
Mentor sentences are wonderful ways to incorporate engaging discussions of grammar, wonderful literature, and excellent writing! This resources is so helpful in doing those things with Frindle, which my students loved reading. It's a great resource to have and use!
This product was thoroughly by all the students. They were fully engaged.
