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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 kindergartners and first graders, too! Teachers will just need to provide a lot more scaffolding and guidance in the lower grades than they would withthe upper grades. This nonfiction unit is just what you need to continue mentor sentences in your Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade classroom while studying nonfiction and/or all about plants. You will actually be able to teach some science THROUGH your mentor sentence lesson with these activities! 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 a part of speech 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 versions 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 ELL students in Kindergarten!**
**Watch a video of Mentor Sentences in ACTION with first graders!**
Do you have EARLY emergent readers? Check out these units!
Mentor Sentences for Early Emergent ReadersSpring Mini-Unit for Early Emergent Readers!Fall and Winter Mini-Unit for Early Emergent Readers!
Snowy Winter Mini-Unit for Early Emergent Readers!
Not sure if you should get the Early Emergent or Emergent Mentor Sentences? Read this post to see which set you should get!
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WHAT’S INCLUDED?
I walk you through each day’s lesson for 4 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), the student sentence that can be glued into a notebook, a flap activity for the skill of the week, 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 versions provided: one for emergent students and one for second graders).Please download the preview file to see the layout!
There are 4 lessons for the following books:
The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller (plurals)
The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons (categories)
How Do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro (categories)
From Seed To Plant by Gail Gibbons (adjectives)
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?
Make sure to grab the FIRST set for K-1 Emergent Readers, complete with detailed directions and pictures.
Do you do an author study of Robert Munsch?
Check out the Robert Munsch Mentor Sentences Mini-Unit!
Do you do an author study of Kevin Henkes?
Check out the Kevin Henkes Mentor Sentences Mini-Unit!
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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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My kindergartners and I love the mentor texts and sentences. This unit was a great way to work in some science too!!
This brought science and ELA together with fun books!
Always love all of the mentor sentences you create. Read Patterns of Power but having it done for you is nice!
This was a great tool to use during our plant unit. We are looking forward to using this next year with the different books in this resource.
Mentor sentences was a game changer for me. It was exciting to see the kids take off with both reading and writing.
Great for working with my English language learners! Thank you for an engaging resource!
We used these as small group mentor sentences during our plants unit in 3rd grade. My emerging EL students were engaged and it helped build vocabulary of our science content. Thank you!
I love the mentor sentences collection and have found them really useful. This is perfect now that I am teaching STEAM.
