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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.
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
• an interactive notebook activity to practice the focus skill (provided in print and digital format)
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:
-The Golden Rule By Ilene Cooper
proper nouns
-The Name Jar By Yangsook Choi
proper nouns
-Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun By Maria Dismondy
possessives
-When Lightning Comes in a Jar By Patricia Polacco
vivid verbs
-Firefly Mountain By Patricia Thomas
vivid verbs (personification)
-14 Cows For America By Carmen Agra Deedy
subjects and predicates
-Those Shoes By Maribeth Boelts
conjunctions in compound sentences
-The Memory String By Eve Bunting
compound sentences
-The Adventures of Spider:How Spider Got a Thin Waist By Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
compound predicates
-The Spider and the Fly By Mary Howitt
Similes
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 at the beginning of the school 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?
★ Volume 2, Unit 1 Vivid Vocabulary Companion: includes vocabulary activities to use the words IN CONTEXT from the same books in this mentor sentence set.
★ Don’t forget these Bats, Owls, and Spiders Paired Texts which includes activities to go along with The Spider and the Fly!
Finish the year! Want to try this first set to see how it goes? Get Units 2, 3, and 4 in their own bundle!
★ Volume 2, Unit 2: Mentor Sentence Unit
★ Volume 2, Unit 3: Mentor Sentence Unit
★ Volume 2, Unit 4: Mentor Sentence Unit
★ Volume 2 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 30 Popular Mentor Texts!
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★ Get the BIG bundle with all Volume 2 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 2!
★ 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 provide more nonfiction choices through the year.
There is a free download of the “At-A-Glance” for all 40 books in Volume 2! This download will help you see all of the skills covered in Volume 2 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 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 1!
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.
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Great Resource
Thank you so much for this great resource! Exactly what I was looking for!
Grammar Practice
Very simple to use and my students grammar has improved drastically.
Mentor sentences have made a real difference in my classroom.
I absolutely love this resource and use Mentor Sentences with my students each week. The Monday reading is a great way to start the week and my students have gained a better understanding of parts of speech and editing through the use of this resource.
I'm loving the book choices and the work that my students are doing to master grammar skills.
Just like the other volumes...amazing product! My students learned and grew so much!
This was a great, engaging resource to use with my students.
Mentor Sentences are the best way to teach grammar. Love this set. Great book choices.
The books used for each mentor sentence was very relatable and grade appropriate.
I love how the resource is easy to use and low prep however some of the books had some sensitive content in them. For example the memory string, was about a girl who's mom has died. I have some students who have lost their parents and it was a little triggering to read. I was hoping that the content of the books didn't necessarily tackle topics that can be tough to discuss with my students. Other than that I really enjoy using this on a weekly basis, it's a great way to go over sentence structure parts of words.
This is such a great resource, I found it so easy to use in class and the students have responded really well to learning grammar in this way. Thank you
This resource is wonderful! My students love using this and are so engaged!
I needed to have a lot of books that I didn't have. I thought it would be what I needed, but I needed a bit more.
I love this! I saw my fifth-grade teachers using it and so started using it with my 4th graders.
