Description
Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author’s craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! This unit is just what you need to continue with mentor sentences in your classroom. This unit does not include explicit directions of how to implement mentor sentences in your room- these directions are in the FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit.
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WHAT’S INCLUDED?
I walk you through each day’s lesson for 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, the student sentence page, a lesson plan page with possibilities for all 4 days, and a quiz aligned with CCSS with answer key.
★ Please download the preview file to see the layout.
This set includes 10 lessons for the following books:
-Salt In His Shoes by Deloris Jordan
correlative conjunctions
-Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
adjectives
-Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
ordering adjectives
-Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull
vivid verbs
-Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
compound predicates
-Fiona’s Luck by Teresa Bateman
figurative vs. literal language
-The Royal Bee by Frances and Ginger Park
adverbs
-Hey, Little Ant by Phillip M. Hoose
interjections
-My Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba Gray
compound adjectives
-Up North at the Cabin by Marsha Wilson Chall
metaphors and 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 end 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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WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?
★ Volume 3, Unit 3 Interactive Language Arts Notebook Companion: includes an interactive activity for each focus skill in this mentor sentence set.
★ Volume 3, Unit 3 Vivid Vocabulary Companion: includes vocabulary activities to use the words IN CONTEXT from the same books in this mentor sentence set.
★ Volume 3 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 Volume 3 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 3!
★ 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 3! This download will help you see all of the skills covered in Volume 3 units if you’d like to “bounce around” within the units.
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER GRADE LEVELS?
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!
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.
Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
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