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Hey, That’s My Monster!: Free Mentor Sentence Lesson for K-2

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This sequel to “I Need My Monster” by Amanda Noll is sure to be as big of a hit with your students as the original! I have provided activities for K-1 AND 2nd grade – please pick and choose what is appropriate for the level of your students!!

These mentor sentences are part of a balanced literacy approach. Students will listen to you read the mentor text, identify/notice words, punctuation, and parts of a sentence, read the words of the mentor sentence, arrange the words to re-form the sentence, learn about past and present tense verbs and talk about other words that could fit into the sentence, imitate the sentence by writing in their own words, read their sentence, illustrate their sentence, and even create a class book that can be read over and over again. There is also a “quiz” for the week over the skill you worked on (two are provided- one is lower level).

This is a bonus lesson you can try out in your classroom with the book Hey, That’s My Monster by Amanda Noll.

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

**Watch a video of Mentor Sentences in ACTION with ELL students in Kindergarten!**

**Watch a video of Mentor Sentences in ACTION with first graders!**

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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
Second Grade

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!

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On Day Four of the mentor sentence routine, students write like the author. They should change the meaning and context of the mentor sentence, while keeping the style and structure that the author used.EVERY SINGLE WEEK, not just in the beginning when you introduce the routine, you will want to provide a model to hit those ever-important higher-order thinking skills. They will evaluate what it is that you did in your sentence that was the same as the author, and determine how you changed that sentence to make it your own.Read more about Time to Imitate: www.ideasbyjivey.com/mentor-sentences-routine-day-four-imitate ... See MoreSee Less

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Once I started implementing mentor sentences in my classroom over ten years ago, there was no turning back to the “old” way of grammar PowerPoints and boring worksheets.1️⃣ I already used children’s literature to teach my mini-lessons in reading and writing. Why not use those books for grammar, too?2️⃣ My students were having these super deep conversations and even DEBATES about grammar and language. I’d never heard students be able to explain the functions of words so well before, or analyzing craft like actual authors! 3️⃣ It only takes 10-15 minutes per day! In a world where there just isn’t “extra” time, this was easy to manage – plus it took the place of grammar lessons that weren’t effective.Come read more about the why and how to implement mentor sentences in your own class on my blog: www.ideasbyjivey.com/taking-it-back-to-archives-mentor/ ... See MoreSee Less

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I once heard there was some controversy around my including this step in the mentor sentence routine.👀When I first implemented the routine in my classroom over ten years ago, my students desperately needed revision practice. I thought this would be the perfect way to make sure they dig in weekly!Students (and even adults!) often think revision means the writing is bad and needs to be fixed… but revision really is about making adjustments to the writing, or improvements to the language……which is what led to the controversy. 🤔 In no way was I implying that the published author wasn’t “good enough” or that the sentence NEEDS to be better.By showing students that even the mentor sentence could be revised, you are helping them understand that there are always things that can be done to revise their own writing, too. (That’s right; no more “I’m done!” in writing workshop 😆)Check out the tips for this day in the mentor sentence routine: www.ideasbyjivey.com/mentor-sentences-routine-day-three-revise ... See MoreSee Less

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