Daily Grammar Mentor Sentence Units (VOLUME 1) Bundle (Grades 3-5): 40 Weeks!

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Teaching your daily grammar lessons with the mentor sentences routine is the only way students will truly learn to apply grammar and language skills to their writing! No boring worksheets, lectures, sentences filled with mistakes, or rote drills that don’t stick…

This yearlong bundle of ready-to-teach mentor sentence lessons will have students working with one sentence from a favorite read-aloud mentor text in a different way each day for just 10-15 minutes!

Teachers who enjoy using mentor texts to cover content and maximize teaching time will love adding these mentor sentence lessons to their toolbox.

For each week’s lesson, you will guide students in discussion of the main focus on one or two grammar and language skills, but they are also exposed to new and previous grammar skills, too! This spiral learning truly makes an impact on their retention of grammar understanding and writing abilities. Students of ANY ability can use mentor sentences; because of the consistency, students know what to expect each day, and the spiral learning keeps those important skills in front of them week after week.

Students will work on revision skills each week. They will also imitate the author’s style and structure. Both of these steps in the mentor sentence routine help cement the transition of grammar, language, and style they’ve learned to their own writing.

Finally, use the formative assessments provided to find out what should be reviewed in future weeks.

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WHAT’S INCLUDED?

You don’t need to be a grammar guru to implement mentor sentences. When you purchase mentor sentences from Ideas by Jivey, you get a “cheat sheet” for all 40 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 for display
• the student sentence page to glue into notebooks
• a lesson plan page with answers for each day’s routine
• a formative assessment/quiz with answer key (provided in print and digital format) which also includes editing practice

There is a 9-page introduction in the FIRST unit with pictures included of how I use mentor sentences in my room (VERY detailed, day-by-day).

This download also includes the “At-A-Glance” for all 40 books in Volume 1!

All of the books and lessons in this bundle are:
-First Day Jitters By Julie Danneberg
simple sentences, possessives
-Enemy Pie By Derek Munson
adjectives, subjects and predicates
-Saturdays and Teacakes By Lester Laminack
proper nouns
-My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother By Patricia Polacco
commas in a series, subjects and predicates
-Fireflies! By Julie Brinckloe
compound sentences
-Come On, Rain! By Karen Hesse
vivid verbs
-The Man Who Walked Between The Towers By Mordicai Gerstein
compound sentences, vivid verbs
-Verdi By Janell Cannon
comparative/superlative adjectives
-Stellaluna By Janell Cannon
apostrophes, quotation marks and dialogue
-I Need My Monster By Amanda Noll
quotation marks and dialogue
-If You Find a Rock by Peggy Christian
simple sentence, adjectives
-The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg
conjunctions, compound sentence
-Knots on a Counting Rope by John Archambault
similes and personification
-How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting
description for visualization
-Grandpa’s Teeth by Rod Clement
complex sentences
-Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
compound predicate, possessive pronouns
-Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
compound predicate, similes
-Trouble With Trolls by Jan Brett
quotation marks, adverbs
-The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
complex sentences
-Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
complex sentences
-Groundhog Gets a Say by Pamela Curtis Swallow
relative pronouns, compound sentences
-Olive My Love by Vivian Walsh
adjectives
-The True Story of The Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
long simple sentences
-I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
contractions vs. possessives
-I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff
compound predicates
-Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
personification and onomatopoeia
-Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
compound predicates
-My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
complex sentences
-Dandelions by Eve Bunting
prepositional phrases
-Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney
compound sentences
-Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee
prepositions
-Shortcut by Donald Crews
relative pronouns
-Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter
compound sentences
-Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
complex sentences
-Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel
prepositional phrases
-The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey
relative adverbs
-The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
adjectives
-Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
compound subjects and predicates, I or me
-The Raft by Jim LaMarche
vivid verbs
-The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco
quotation marks

I chose books that would be in most personal libraries or school media centers. All of these are personal favorites of mine!

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WHY USE MENTOR SENTENCES FOR DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE?

Studies have shown that the “traditional method” of grammar workbooks, lectures, and diagramming is not only ineffective but can be detrimental to student writing! Grammar should be taught in context, NOT isolation.

Mentor sentences also help improve craft by revealing fantastic models of figurative language, descriptive words and phrases, and interesting sentence variation that they use as models for their own writing.

Mentor sentences allow students to soak up the language and grammar skills through noticing, conversation, and imitation, which in turn transfers to their writing.

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

**Watch a video of Mentor Sentences in ACTION!**

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.

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WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?

★ Volume 1 Interactive Language Arts Notebook Companion Bundle: includes an interactive activity for each focus skill in the mentor sentence sets.

★ Volume 1 Vivid Vocabulary Companion Bundle: includes vocabulary activities to use the words IN CONTEXT from the same books in all the mentor sentence sets.

★ Volume 1 Mentor Sentences Modifications ADD-ON Pack: supports students with disabilities, English as a Second Language, or slow writers.

★ You’ll also love to use these mentor texts in reading and writing, too! Make sure to get BETTER THAN BASAL: Complete NO PREP Reading & Writing Units for 40 Popular Mentor Texts!

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★ Get the BIG bundle with all Volume 1 Mentor Sentences, Interactive Notebooks, Modifications, Vocabulary Activities, and Reading and Writing activities for all 40 mentor texts in the volume! Check out the Biggest and BEST Yearlong Bundle for Volume 1!

★ Check out these other separate mentor sentence mini-units to integrate other content!

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HELP ME PLAN!
You don’t need to do all of the mentor sentence lessons in the order they come in the units. When I created units 1, 2, and 3, I put them in the order I used them in my classroom, so these lessons are in an order that spirals and gets progressively more difficult, but it is not necessary to stay in that order. Unit 4 was created a year later as “extra” lessons with more of my favorite books that I used throughout the year.

Included in this bundle, there is an “At-A-Glance” document for all 40 books in Volume 1! This download will help you see all of the skills covered in Volume 1 units if you’d like to “bounce around” within the units.

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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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All rights reserved by author, Jessica Ivey.
Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
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