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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…
These 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.
Making sure students feel represented in culture, gender, race, religion, and family structures is so important. This unit is just what you need to integrate some books into your lessons that also celebrate diversity and help your students see themselves in the story.
These can be used as either an add-on to your year of mentor sentences, or used to get started with mentor sentences in your classroom. They do NOT have to be done in the order they are presented in this unit, although I did choose several foundational skill lessons in case you do start the year with this set.
Looking for this unit in a Grades 1-2 version? CLICK HERE!
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 10 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 this FIRST unit with pictures included of how I use mentor sentences in my room (VERY detailed, day-by-day), followed by 10 lessons for the following books:
-Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
possessives
-The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania and Kelly DiPucchio
adjectives
-Ruby’s Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges
proper nouns
-The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
adverbs
-The Water Princess by Susan Verde
compound predicates
-One Green Apple by Eve Bunting
ordering adjectives
-The Rainbow Tulip by Pat Mora
compound sentence
-I Dissent by Debbie Levy
gerunds
-Mr. Lincoln’s Way by Patricia Polacco
appositives
-Nadia’s Hands by Karen English
prepositional phrases
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?
There are COMPANION SETS to get the most bang for your buck with these mentor texts!
★ Celebrating Diversity Interactive Language Arts Notebook Companion: includes an interactive activity for each focus skill in this mentor sentence set.
★ Celebrating Diversity Vivid Vocabulary Companion: includes vocabulary activities to use the words IN CONTEXTfrom the same books in this mentor sentence set.
★ You’ll also love to use these mentor texts in reading and writing, too! Make sure to get BETTER THAN BASAL: Celebrating Diversity Reading & Writing Units for 10 Popular Mentor Texts!
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★ Get the BUNDLE with all Mentor Sentences, Interactive Notebooks, Vocabulary Activities, and Reading and Writing activities for all 10 mentor texts in the companion sets! Check out the BUNDLE for Celebrating DIVERSITY here!
★ Check out these other separate mentor sentence mini-units to integrate other content!
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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.
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