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 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli! 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. ★ The quizzes are included as printables and also digital-classroom-ready, provided as Google Slides. ★
Skills covered in this unit:
➤compound vs. complex sentences
➤dialogue
➤figurative language
➤modifiers
➤vivid verbs
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 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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I love using mentor sentences, especially when it is a book we are actually reading. Thank you!
This was a great activity to analyse some of the sentences in Th Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and encourage the students to write similar sentences.
I am confused about the example sentence for compound sentences. Why doesn't it have a comma before the coordinating conjunction? I get what you're saying and thank you for your response. I just wish the sentence would've been a traditional compound sentence. I am afraid it will be confusing to students trying to grasp the concept of two sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction. I hate to drill that into them only to provide an exception as a mentor sentence. I love your stuff and have been using your mentor sentences with picture books this year. I am just disappointed because I was so excited to use this with the novel. I agree it is worthwhile to teach kids the exceptions to the rules, but I just don't feel like my kiddos are ready for that. Thank you.
A great resource with lots of useful activities ready to print and go.
Excellent companion to the novel! My students enjoyed the activities.
It was great to use these memories sentences alongside our novel study.
This was a great grammar and writing resource to use during our novel study!
This was a wonderful addition to our novel study. I love using the mentor sentences and was delighted to be able to have the resource to continue using it during our novel!
A great resource to use with a fantastic book! Love it!
This is a great tool to integrate reading, grammar and writing together. I love using mentor sentences. My students understand grammar, vivid verbs and have learned how to use it in their own writing.
