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Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author’s craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! Mentor sentences can absolutely be done with first graders, too! Teachers will just need to provide a lot more scaffolding and guidance in the lower grades than they would with the upper grades.This mini-unit is just what you need to continue mentor sentences in your First Grade or Second Grade classroom while doing a Goldilocks Fairy Tales Study. The lessons provided are great for emergent readers, but second grade teachers, you can adapt this to your mentor sentence time as well by having students do more independently in their notebook instead of on the provided pages. (Read more here about mentor sentences in second grade.)
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 adjectives, vivid verbs, and adverbs 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 each week over the skill you worked on (two version provided: one for emergent students and one for second graders). Your emergent readers WILL BE reading AND writing every week!
Not familiar with mentor sentences? Read all about them here!
**Watch a video of Mentor Sentences in ACTION with first graders!**
TRY ONE WEEK FOR FREE with The Kissing Hand.
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WHAT’S INCLUDED?
I walk you through each day’s lesson for 5 weeks- all the work is done! Each lesson includes the teacher sentence page, directions/guidance for each day for the teacher, the student sentence page with words out of order (students cut and glue them back in order), an activity to review the language skill (five flap activities for interactive notebooks), the sentence frame for the teacher imitation, the student imitation page provided with handwriting assistance and without, a class book cover in color and black and white, and a quiz over the week’s focus skill (two version provided: one for emergent students and one for second graders).
Please download the preview file to see the layout!
There are 5 lessons for the following books:
*The first two books are used in other units but are NOT the same lesson!*
*Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall (adjectives)
*The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett (superlatives)
Dusty Locks and the Three Bears by Susan Lowell (vivid verbs)
Goldilocks & the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems (adverbs)
Goldilocks Returns by Lisa Campbell Ernst (adverbs)
I have ordered them to get progressively harder, but you could do them in any order you feel necessary.
As a former first and second grade teacher, I used to LOVE reading these books, so I know many of you do, too! They are definitely some of my favorites. If you don’t have them in your personal library, check your school media center!
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WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?
Grab the NONFICTION Animal Mentor Sentence Pack!
Get the Kevin Henkes Mini-Unit for K-2, too!
Make sure to grab the FIRST set for K-1 Emergent Readers, complete with detailed directions and pictures.
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DO YOU LOVE TO SAVE MONEY?
If you want to get all of the sets now to save money, you can buy the BUNDLE FOR THE WHOLE YEAR!
Don’t forget to download this Bonus Lesson for the book, The Snow Globe Family!
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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 the numbered units, I put them in an order that progressed in difficulty, so these lessons spiral, but it is not necessary to stay in that order. The seasonal unit was created with holiday-themed books that can be used throughout the year.
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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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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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