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 The Wild Robot by Peter Brown! 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:
➤compound sentences
➤dialogue and quotation marks
➤adverbs
➤transitional adverbs
➤similes
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?
The Wild Robot is a great book to integrate with science (animals and adaptations) as well as STEM projects.
Check out these other separate mentor sentence units to integrate other content!
Animals Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
Gail Gibbons Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
Check out the other novel mentor sentences in my store!
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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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Great resource
My students enjoyed the text and this provided an opportunity to practice grammar skills.
Highly Recommended!
Great companion to our unit based on this novel. Highly Recommended!
Great product
This fitted perfectly with our class reading of the Wild Robit...thanks for sharing.
We love this book!
i was dreading having to come up with Mentor sentence activities for this book. Thank you for doing it for me!
Great Resource!
This was engaging and my scholars have loved working through their packet every day.
Solid Resource
I've used this resource for the past three years. It includes interactive notebook pages and quizzes that go along with each mentor sentence. Solid resource.
Helped make my mentor sentence section alligned
It was my first time teaching the book and I liked having this resource for themed mentor sentences.
LOVE MENTOR SENTENCES!
Mentor sentences are THE BEST way to teach students how to use rich vocabulary to build their writing skills!
This was a great addition to our Wild Robot novel study!
This worked great with my ELLs during summer school! It was easy and low/no prep!
This is a great way to weave grammar and writing skills into my read-aloud block!
The 5th grade students were highly engaged throughout the lesson, participating actively and collaborating well. Their work showed clear progress toward mastery of the targeted standards.
We love using these mentor sentences paired with our novel studies. We have used a few now and will continue to do so next year with my 6th grader.
This resource was helpful when reading The Wild Robot! Using text and sentences from the book made it interesting and engaging for the kids.
Thank you for providing such a valuable resource to help me plan relevant, rigorous, and engaging lessons for my students.
Thanks so much, appreciate the time taken to create it!
Thank you for this great resource! They were very engaged!
This is a great resource, just what I was looking for. Thank you!
My students loved this! It was highly engaging ... great resource!
This was a great resource, my students loved it! It was highly engaging!
This was a great addition to our class. Thanks so much for a great resource!
I am always looking for engaging resources to teach students and to keep me organized. Love this! I highly recommend this resource.
Great resource to teach skills with the novel we are reading in class.
I love all of Jivey's mentor sentences. I have purchased them for several novels.
This was the first of many mentor sentences that I've purchased. Wonderful way to teach a variety of skills in an engaging way. Lots of practice.
Students engaged in sentences they recognized from the book.
Thank you, Jivey, for the Mentor Sentences linked with great classroom novels!
This is a great resource to use for a novel study, best book ever!
My students were engaged and ejoyed lessons that included this resource.
My daughter enjoyed using this while reading The Wild Robot with her friends. I love that it is simple yet effective and comes with an answer key :)
As with all of your mentor sentences-AMAZING! Thank you.
Excellent resource highly recommended! They were easy to use.
My students have loved this resource so far. It goes along with our current read aloud. The sentences are just the right amount of challenge and engagement. I can't wait to use the other mentor sentences as we reach that point in the book.
This was an excellent addition to our Wild Robot unit!
Using mentor sentences is such a great way to teach grammar. I am so happy that we can use this as we read The Wild Robot. It adds even more depth to our discussions.
Students loved these engaging activities and were proud to show off their work!
Great grammar resource to coincide with our novel study.
We used this to go along with our read-aloud. My students benefited from this unit.
I love using mentor sentences and was happy to find this resource to go with Wild Robot. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this great resource! My students loved it and it was easy to prep!
This resource is a terrific addition to my library. It's well-written and relevant to my planning and programming.
Great resource. This resource kept my students engaged.
This is one of my favorite novels to teach and my kids were so excited to get to connect our mentor sentences to their novel! I wish I had a set for every novel I teach! Thank you!
All the mentor sentence resources are amazing! Students are so engaged.
I was looking for a mentor sentence to teach compound sentences. I am glad I found this resource!
This is a great way to incorporate language skills into the novel study and still keep it relevant to the book.
This is a great resource. Students love it when they recognize the sentence from the book. This is truly an engaging strategy to teach grammar, and build writing skills.
