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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!
This unit is just what you need if you have upper grade students without grammar background knowledge.
All of the lessons in this set cover foundational, basic skills and are compiled from Volumes 1, 2, and 3. I have had requests for this from teachers who teach special education or students with very low grammar and writing skills.
THESE ARE NOT BRAND NEW MENTOR SENTENCE LESSONS.
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 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
This set includes 10 lessons for the following books:
-Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
adjectives
-Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
adjectives and subject/predicate
-Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
conjunctions in compound sentences
-If You Find a Rock by Peggy Christian
adjectives and simple/compound identification
-Animals Nobody Loves by Seymour Simon
conjunctions in compound sentences
-OWLS by Gail Gibbons
simple/compound identification
-Fireflies! Julie Brinckloe
subjects/predicates in compound sentences
-The Empty Pot by Demi
simple/compound identification
-The Memory String by Eve Bunting
simple/compound identification
-Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
adjectives and adverbs
I chose books that would be in most personal libraries or school media centers. All of these are personal favorites of mine! Ideally, this unit would work best mid-to-end year (based on the books especially), but it could really be started at any point.
If you want to get all of the sets now to save money, you can buy the BUNDLE FOR THE WHOLE YEAR!
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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?
★ Just the Basics: Unit 3 Interactive Language Arts Notebook Companion: includes an interactive activity for each focus skill in this mentor sentence set.
★ Just the Basics: Unit 3 Vivid Vocabulary Companion: includes vocabulary activities to use the words IN CONTEXT from the same books in this mentor sentence set.
★ Just the Basics 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 Just the Basics 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 Just the Basics!
★ 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 to cover skills that you can insert throughout the year.
There is a free download of the “At-A-Glance” for all 40 books in Just the Basics! This download will help you see all of the skills covered in the Just the Basics units if you’d like to “bounce around” within the units.
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER GRADE LEVELS?
There is a Volume 1, Volume 2, and 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 1!
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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