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What’s In Your Pocket? Mentor Text Unit for Grades 1-2

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Description

What’s In Your Pocket? by Heather L. Montgomery is such a great book to help students see that “grown-up” scientists started out as curious children. If you don’t own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search!

Using mentor texts is one of the best ways to maximize your teaching time. You are able to teach multiple skills, subjects, and topics with just one book!

With this unit, you’ll be able to integrate science into language arts while also teaching about the way authors support points with reasons and examples, identifying and using vivid verbs and past tense verbs, and discovering- then supporting- what a scientist is.

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?

  • a week of plans that help define scientists, identify supporting reasons for an author’s points as well as write to support a point, and use vivid verbs and past tense verbs using the book, What’s In Your Pocket? by Heather L. Montgomery (book not included)
  • detailed explicit lessons, including teacher samples
  • a week-at-a-glance plan
  • digitally converted activities in Google Slides, when applicable
  • mentor sentence lesson teaching past tense verbs in first grade AND second grade formats (choose one version, or use both for differentiation!)
  • reading lessons to teach about authors using reasons to support points, as well as connecting two events
  • writing lessons to teach vivid verbs, as well as writing to support a point
  • anchor chart for what good scientists do
  • one original nonfiction article about Mary Anning, female paleontologist
  • samples for models or teacher reference
  • printables for skill practice, with two versions when necessary for a lower level of the standards
  • short assessments

You will notice that the units align in best practices with my other resources, so if you are already using other components from the First Grade Mentor Text Curriculum or the Second Grade Mentor Text Curriculum, they can easily be incorporated into your plans without breaking stride.

Check out the detailed preview to see inside this unit!

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GET THE ENTIRE MENTOR TEXT CLUB (PRIMARY EDITION) BUNDLE!

This unit is part of the PRIMARY version of the Mentor Text Club (previously, only available for grades 3-5).

When you make the one-time purchase of the club bundle, you’ll receive twelve weeklong mentor text units with integrated grammar, reading, and writing lessons, one of which is an exclusive bonus unit not available for sale. That’s 12 weeks of COMPLETE lessons that you will be able to use now, and in years to come!

Every unit in the Mentor Text Club has a week of grammar, reading, and writing plans that also integrate other subjects when applicable (science, social studies, or social/emotional skills) with detailed explicit lessons, teacher samples, printables for skill practice, and short assessments.

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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.*

Copyright © 2022 Ideas By Jivey, LLC
All rights reserved by author, Jessica Ivey-Smith.
Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
Not for public display.

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