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    Nonfiction Reading and Writing Grades 1-2 Companion -Informational ANIMAL Texts

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    Categories: ALL MENTOR SENTENCE UNITS, MENTOR TEXT UNITS, READING, SCIENCE, WRITING, 📓 1ST GRADE MENTOR SENTENCES, 📔 2ND GRADE MENTOR SENTENCES, 📝 BETTER THAN BASAL, 📜 NONFICTION MENTOR SENTENCES Tags: *1st, *2nd, *Informational Text, Activities, Graphic Organizers, Homeschool, Reading, Worksheets, Writing
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    This nonfiction companion to the Nonfiction K-2 Mentor Sentences Animal Unit is set up just like the Emergent Better Than Basal with 40 Mentor Texts with Common Core aligned activities, lesson ideas, graphic organizers, and writing prompts for some of your favorite informational mentor texts to use in grades 1-2! (See the complete list below.)

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    WHAT’S INCLUDED?
    There are eight organizers that can be used with ANY text, and then those organizers have been used with some of my favorite informational texts about animals as well to give you ideas of how to use them. (Answer keys are provided.)

    **Please LOOK AT THE PREVIEW to see all that is included!**
    Activities cover skills such as:
    asking and answering questions about a text
    retelling key details
    supporting the main idea
    describing connections between two animals
    determining the meaning of words
    using text features
    using illustrations to find information
    telling author’s purpose with proof
    supporting author’s reasoning
    compare and contrast texts

    There is also a writing prompt for each book that ties to the topic of the book.

    Activities are for the following books:
    Never Smile At A Monkey by Steve Jenkins

    What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? by Steve Jenkins

    Chickens Aren’t The Only Ones by Ruth Heller

    Owls by Gail Gibbons

    Spiders by Gail Gibbons

    Bats by Gail Gibbons

    One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies

    The Moonflower by Peter and Jean Loewer

    What If You Had Animal Ears!? by Sandra Markle

    What If You Had Animal Hair!? by Sandra Markle

    If you don’t own all these books, I encourage you to take advantage of your library! They are all wonderful texts to share with your students!

    DON’T FORGET to get the Nonfiction K-2 Mentor Sentences Animal Unit to go with this pack!

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    HOW DO I USE BETTER THAN BASAL?
    Want more information on how to use mentor texts in the classroom? You can check out my blog posts:
    Mentor Texts: Maximize Your Time!
    Using Mentor Texts in Primary Grades

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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!

    Copyright © 2016 Ideas By Jivey, LLC
    All rights reserved by author, Jessica Ivey.
    Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
    Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
    Not for public display.

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