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Want 2nd grade daily grammar that lasts the whole school year and actually shows up in your students’ writing? This mentor sentences bundle gives you 40 weeks of ready-to-teach lessons: all four 2nd grade units, with one sentence from a popular picture book for each week.
Each day, students spend 10 to 15 minutes with the same sentence, working with it in a new way: noticing, labeling, revising, and writing their own. You don’t need to be a grammar expert to teach it. I’ve already done the thinking for every day, right down to sample revisions and imitations, so you can open the lesson plan and go!
The books are not included. I chose favorites that most school libraries already have.
Unit 1 opens with a 9-page introduction to the routine, with photos and day-by-day directions.
Unit 1 (beginning of the year)
Unit 2 (Thanksgiving through winter)
Unit 3 (100th day through Earth Day)
Unit 4 (any time of the year)
Fix-the-sentence drills hand students a sentence full of mistakes. If they don’t already know the rule, they can’t spot the errors, and fixing someone else’s mistakes doesn’t show them what a strong sentence looks like. That’s why the practice so rarely shows up in their own writing.
Mentor sentences flip that! Each week starts with a model sentence from a published author, and students soak up the grammar by noticing it, talking about it, and trying it in a sentence of their own. They pick up craft along the way, too: strong verbs, describing words, and sentence patterns they can borrow for their own writing.
The routine stays the same every week, so students of any ability know exactly what to expect. Each week focuses on one or two skills, but students also meet new and earlier skills in every sentence, and that spiral review keeps them in front of students all year!
New to mentor sentences? My Mentor Sentences for K-2 page walks through how they work in the primary grades.
2nd grade has four 10-week units. I put Units 1 to 3 in an order that builds in difficulty, so the skills spiral, and they follow the seasons: beginning, middle, and end of the year. Unit 4 has anytime books that can fill gaps in between the seasonal books throughout the year. You don’t have to follow the unit order. The included At-A-Glance lists every book and skill so you can plan out your year.
Mentor sentences work in every grade! Check out 1st Grade and Kindergarten Mentor Sentences and Volume 1 for grades 3-5.
This purchase is for one teacher. Please don’t share the files with other teachers. Thank you!
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Great review
This is just what my students needed- thanks so much!
Great resource
These are fantastic extra practice for my students.
Love this!
This has been such a great resource for making grammar practice meaningful and engaging! I love that the lessons are quick, consistent, and connected to books my students already enjoy. The spiral review really helps students retain grammar skills, and I’ve noticed them applying what they learn in their own writing. It takes the guesswork out of planning grammar instruction and is definitely a resource I’ll continue using!
Excellent English Practice
This resource is great. I love how easy it is to understand and use. It is very engaging and fun for the class. Perfect tie in to actual usage of grammar.
Love these!!
I love these packs to help supplement our ELA curriculum! They offer much more accessible activities for my students and the stories keep them more engaged! This is my favorite way to practice grammar skills.
Great Resource
I use this to teach grammar to my second graders. They are very engaged.
A well-crafted resource
This resource has many helpful ideas. I use a lot of it for grammar practice daily.
Excellent grammar resource
I use this with my 2nd graders and they are so engaged! It's an easy and quick way to get grammar instruction into an already busy day.
Simple and effective
Simple for me, effective for my students. It gives them clear examples of good sentences and why.
Daily Grammar
The class loved it! I taught kindergarten for 19 years and am now in 2nd grade. I can use the product for both grades. Thanks so much!
Great Resource
So helpful for my students! I found that it really solidified the different parts of speech and I see them applying it in their writing as well.
Great Mentor Sentences
I use this resource to cover my grammar standards in second grade! The students are highly engaged!
I am in LOVE
I am O SESSED with this resource. I am on week two with my class and we are taking it slow. It’s been great for my MLL students to focus on grammar and vocabulary. I have added in some sentence frames when we revise since my students are still getting the hang of it. By the second week they were already identifying proper nouns independently! I’m really looking forward to seeing where this resource takes it and the effects it has on my writers.
Teachers resource
I love having mentor texts right at my fingertips now. The kids really enjoy searching for grammar in each sentence.
Daily Grammar practice
This product says 2nd grade but worked great for 3rd grade! Thank you for a great product.
a well crafted resource
a well crafted resource that was helpful with small group instruction
Best Resource
I found a resource that will explicitly teach 2nd graders how to write. First step is sentence structure. I will use this resource yearly. Very valuable
Well Organized
This mentor sentence bundle is really well thought out and very clearly organized!
I love using these every week to help my students understand more grammar skills!
This unit will change my grammar teaching. My title teacher used this last year with my ELL kiddos and the improvement was so much more than my class, just using a grammar interactive notebook. This will be more explicit teaching by far. Thank you!
This resource is very well organized. My students love using this as a way to practice grammar skills.
This English language resource was clear, engaging, and easy to use. It helped reinforce key skills and kept my students interested throughout the lesson. A great addition to my teaching materials!
I love using mentor sentences. Mentor sentences are great for teaching students how to write sentences. It reinforces spelling and reading skills also.
My students loved this product. It was engaging and reinforced the skills.
I loved this resource, however I found it difficult to do in whole group. I had a very diverse class, so it was easier to do in small groups for grammar practice.
I absolutely love mentor sentences! Thank you!!
This is such a great resource! It is such a great spiral review for grammar and writing.
Mentor sentences are a great way to help teach grammar. If you are unsure of where to start, this bundle gives you a great resource!
My students love these. Lots of discussion and learning. Great resource.
This has really helped my students see grammar in writing and replicate it.
This is a great resource to help young students transition into more fluent writing.
Who would have thought that one sentence could provide so much learning for kids? This may be my favorite way to engage my students in grammar. They are actually paying attention and retaining concepts. I love it!
This was exactly what I needed in the classroom! Worked wonders with my students!
The best way to teach parts of speech, new vocab words, sentence structure, etc!!! So engaging!
My students have been highly engaged when we are working with mentor sentences! This resource helps them to analyze writing and I have seen that skill transfer to their own writing as well. Thanks!
This is helped my students improve their writing skills. I like the way it is all there for you to just print as you need.
I love using mentor sentences to teach grammar! Reading great literature and talking about parts of speech weekly really helps cement these concepts in the kids heads. I also enjoy the revising and imitating parts of the lessons.
Jivey's resources are always good. This one is a great place to start with Mentor sentences with grade 3s. Grateful for this resource.
This has changed my morning language routine! I love that it is all planned out so well already and follows a predictable routine. My students are on week 2 and already have shown progress in their understanding of sentence structures. It also is great that they know what to expect, which helps with the behaviour management part too. Thank you!
I love these mentor sentences units. They add consistency and routine to my morning language periods. Students love the read alouds and are able to complete the daily tasks.
This is my favorite new resource. I serve a multi-age classroom and mentor texts are the absolute best way to teach lots of standards to a variety of ability levels. Thank you so much for this!
My students love the stories and the practice activities. This is engaging and they are learning their grammar skills in an applied way.
I used it in Grade 4 in the past. Now I am palnning for Grade 2, I am really glad there is Grade 2 Mentor sentences. It is so easy to use it to start a lesson.
These units have been really helpful for focusing on grammar topics.
My students love trying to guess what the mentor sentence may be from each book. This has become a favorite activity that we do daily. So excited to see their growth in grammar!
My students loved the read alouds and daily mentor sentence activities.
Thank you for making this! I loved using it with my students! It was so engaging and easy! Beautiful work!
Loved using this to help students improve their grammar.
Absolutely the BEST grammar resource that I have used. Loved how it integrates with books that we can read as read- alouds.
A fun way to sneak in some grammar. My 2nd graders looked forward to this each week.
I love using this mentor sentence resource! It is easy to choose which concept I want to focus on and print the activities. The students look forward to writing their own sentences and sharing them with the class. Ideas by Jivey, thanks for making my job so easy!
We love using mentor sentences to engage in grammar. Thank you for such a comprehensive tool to help us learn such tricky concepts.
It worked very well for all of my second graders.
I began using Mentor Sentences from this educator with my oldest during homeschool and loved how naturally it allowed us to look at great books and grammar hand in hand. I began using this program with my youngest for the K-1 and we are now completing the 2nd grade level. She looks forward to the weekly book and easily has fell into the routine of finding parts of speech in sentences and practicing her skills with the quiz. We do not always own the books but have found many online as well for read aloud time. I am excited to continue to use this to enrich our grammar studies.
I like using this with my students during writing time. They enjoy rewriting the sentence to make it more interesting.
This resource was very useful. My students enjoyed it.
This is a great resource! Very helpful! Thank you so much!
Amazing! Thank you :) This was a great resource I enjoyed using it!
Thank you so much for this resource! My students have grown quite a bit using it in the classroom!
This product helped my students understand grammar.
I love using these Mentor Sentences! It's an easy way to look at writing and have students thinking about what is happening in sentences. Thank you!
My students like that they can find their mistakes quickly and rewrite the sentence. They are engaged during lessons.
My students look forward to reading our mentor text and reviewing our mentor sentence this week. Their understanding of conventions and grammar rule has improved drastically. The texts are engaging and the resource is easy to follow each week.
This is a great resource. It is well laid out and easy to use. The students enjoyed this resource for enriching their learning. These are great for teaching grammar
This has made grammar engaging for my students! Thank you for creating it!
I have used Jivey's Mentor sentence for grades 3,4,5 for years and now I teach 2nd grade and purchased her Second Grade Bundle. So far the kiddos love the daily routine and the mentor text that goes with each lesson.
I have been using these Mentor Sentences for a month now and I just love them. I love to read good stories to my students and this program gives me every excuse to squeeze them in. The students love the routine of having a notebook and knowing what short activity they will do each day. Their sentences at the end of the week are already improving. I love the literature/grammar/writing connection we get in just a few minutes a day.
I love all things Jivey does with mentor sentences! I purchased this to supplement my 3rd grade instruction, as I have all the 3-5 volumes as well. Some of the skills I needed for 3rd weren't in the upper grade level volumes, so I purchased this to use in for those specific skills.
This was one of my favorite resources I used in my classroom last year. My students loved the stories and I appreciated the variety of text types used. The easy to implement routines provided structure for my resource room and my students were always engaged in the lessons. This transformed how I teach grammar and proved to be very effective in my students writing. I will definitely use next year and I plan on purchasing other sets.
I am so excited about using this this upcoming year. I have a hard time teaching writing since there is so much in writing that can be taught. I am using this in conjunction with the Four Square Writing method and I think this is going to be a great combination. I love this packet and I am so excited to be using it.
These mentor sentences are my favorite! Such a great activity to practice grammar and expose students to so many different stories!
I was unsure on mentor sentences before, but now I will never go without them! Thank you!
Amazing! I love this resource. I have the first grade one and love it so I had to buy the second grade one too. I love how everything is done for you and it's such a great way to teach kids about grammar and being a great writer at the same time. Thank you so much!!
It is great! My students were very engaged in this activity!
Best resource for developing student ability to write a better sentence. So well set out and easy to use.
I have only just started using this resource and already I can see my students thinking more carefully about their word choices and the parts of speech used during writing time. This resource covers everything you need to get mentor sentences up and running in your classroom. Love how everything is already planned for a whole year. My students are also liking being exposed to books they haven't heard of before.
This was helpful in supporting my students with their writing.
Thank you for making and publishing this resource.
My school requires us to do mentor sentences daily and this was nice to have already created materials, especially since the books used go with our curriculum.
I loved using this to sentence stalk! My students really enjoyed being able to identify parts of speech and correct sentence structure.
I love this resource and how it connects grammar to authentic texts. I miss the page for a class book a bit. I have the grade 1 package too and my grade 1 students love reading the class book over and over, discussing each other's work. Would you consider adding it?
This resource was useful to use with a fifth grade student with learning difficulties. This student's reading/writing ability was at the second grade level. This resource was useful to model correct sentence structure and review/introduce parts of speech.
My students enjoyed using this resource to help with their writing.
This resource was EXACTLY what I was looking for to use mentor sentences. Our 4th grade recommended Jivey and they were absolutely correct. This resource has everything you need to implement mentor sentences. Thank you!
I like these mentor sentences. I use them in small group and whole class. I use this during grammar time.
