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 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt! 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:
➤adjectives and adverbs
➤past tense verbs
➤adverbs vs. prepositions
➤dialogue
➤personification
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 Tuck Everlasting from Where the Wild Things Learn to also complete reading comprehension activities!
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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 to accompany other work
An excellent, practical resource that worked exactly as described.
Another great resource
I have purchased a lot of Ideas by Jivey resources, so when I decided to teach "Tuck Everlasting," I knew I had to include mentor sentences. Another great resource by this seller!
I love using mentor sentences and this was a perfect companion to our unit on Tuck.
These activities are engaging for my students. They are easy to use and it's great have materials that already prepared.
I love Mentor Sentences and have used them for years. This was such a nice addition to tie in with our novel using quotes from the text. Thank you
A great tool for student notebooks!A great tool for student notebooks!
These were a great addition to our Tuck Everlasting unit! Grammar instruction is one of the first sacrifices made in the ELA classroom and these sentences are a great way to pull it back into the lessons in an authentic way.
I love these mentor sentences and my students do too!
Great resource! This resource was very engaging. My students loved interacting with it.
I love the mentor sentence units created by Jivey. I am a huge fan of the mentor sentences and have found her resources to be very helpful.
My students loved this story and this is a great added resource with this story.
This product is an amazing resource! :) The students were engaged and loved this activity! Thank you so very much for sharing this!
