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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 will be a great way to integrate grammar and language during your novel study of Number the Stars by Lois Lowry! It does not include explicit directions of how to implement mentor sentences in your room- these directions are in the Volume 1, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, Volume 2, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, or Volume 3, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit products for sale.
Not familiar with mentor sentences? Read all about them here!
**Watch a video of Mentor Sentences in ACTION!**
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WHAT’S INCLUDED?
I walk you through each day’s lesson for 5 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, an interactive activity with the focus skill, and a quiz aligned with CCSS with answer key.
Skills covered in this unit:
➤appositives
➤prepositional phrases
➤figurative language
➤complex sentences
➤adjectives
Please download the preview file to see the layout. There are 5 lessons. I have broken the book apart into “chunks” for each lesson, stopping at natural points. You could do these lessons the week you are reading that section, or complete them the week AFTER you read that section. It is up to you!
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WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?
For under $20, get everything you need for ELA for this book! Get the novel unit for Number the Stars from Where the Wild Things Learn to also complete reading comprehension activities!
Check out the Holocaust Mini-unit to integrate with other mentor texts!
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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.
Not for public display.
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Great resource
These mentor sentences were engaging and a great lesson for my students! Thank you
Grammar Assignments
This is a great addition to the novel study to add grammar skills and mentor sentences.
A great support to the text
This resource was well organized, engaging, and easy to implement. The directions were clear and the materials supported strong understanding and independence. I appreciated how simple it was to prep while still providing meaningful practice. My students stayed focused and the activity led to thoughtful work. I would definitely use materials from this creator again.
great resource
As always this was a great resource to add to our Number the Stars Unit.
Great Alignment with Number the Stars
This is a great resource to use along with my class' novel study of Number the Stars. It gives solid examples of sentences and activities to complete to analyze them and the parts of speech they're written with.
Nice resource
Unique way to teach writing. My students enjoy this method.
Great resource
I really enjoyed using the mentor sentences alongside reading the novel to my class.
Thank you for a great resource to use in my classroom!
This is a great resource to go along with the mentor sentence instruction.
Have used this resource a number of times at various stages of reading Number the Stars. Excellent resource.
I have used your mentor texts for a long time and this is another great product.
Thank you for your mentor sentences specific to this novel! I love using your mentor sentences with my fifth graders.
I stumbled across the idea of Mentor Sentences two years ago and have loved using them with my class! This year, I decided to make our reading of Number the Stars a more cohesive unit and was thrilled to find a set of PREMADE Mentor Sentences. My students are loving them - THANK YOU!!!
Thanks so much. Helpful in helping me to plan my unit.
This is a great resource! My students enjoyed it and were very engaged!
Great resource! I'll be using this every year with my students.
This is an wonderful extension activity for my Number the Stars unit. My students enjoyed making connections between the novel and the sentences used in the activities.
Love mentor sentences and this product worked so well!
This was an excellent resource to use with our Number the Stars novel unit. It was great grammar p[ractice and they did a great job imitating the sentences.
