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    Social Studies Mentor Text: Island of the Blue Dolphins

    April 28, 2013

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    I’m linking up with Collaboration Cuties on this rainy Sunday!

    The book I want to share with you today was one of my very favorite books when I was in elementary school. I love being able to share books with my kiddos that I read when I was their age!

    Island of the Blue Dolphins is historical fiction. It is based on the story of an Indian girl who lived on an island off the coast of California by herself for 18 years. Karana is the name of the girl in the book. She loses her tribe and her family, and has to learn to survive alone on the island. Our curriculum requires us to teach about six different tribes, one of which are a Northwest tribe, very much like Karana’s, so it goes along perfectly with our Native American unit.

    The story is beautifully written. The time and place of the book are described in such great detail- I use it as a mentor text to help students incorporate setting into their own writing. It also has some great similes, metaphors, and personification in it! You can download a freebie I created here or by clicking on the image below.

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    I also found a great (free!) Scholastic unit that you can download here to go with the book that has some great lesson ideas!

    I was so excited that my kiddos loved this book as much as I did! This is the first chapter book of the year that I read to them, and even just last week, one of my kiddos was still making connections with it!

    What are your favorite books to read with Social Studies integration? Go link up with Collaboration Cuties to share, and get some other great ideas!

    I also want to link this up to Fifth In The Middle’s awesome SS linky! 🙂

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    😍 For today's Mentor Text Monday, let's look at a book you should use this week to celebrate National Crayon Day on Friday! 🖍 The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons by Natascha Biebow is a fabulous picture book to read when teaching text structure. 🔎 It is not only a fantastic example of a narrative biography, but contains the elusive problem/solution text structure! (This one is always hard to find good examples of in picture books.) Get a weeklong #mentortext unit to use with the book in my TPT store: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Crayon-Man-Mentor-Text-Unit-for-Grades-3-5-7391557Or in my website shop: www.ideasbyjivey.com/product/the-crayon-man-mentor-text-unit-for-grades-3-5/ ... See MoreSee Less

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    🤷‍♀️Why do I recommend students complete their mentor sentence work in a notebook?🤷‍♂️📓It becomes a perfect “living resource” to use during writing time! It will contain a collection of amazing sentences, skill practice, and sentence structure practice that they can apply to their own writing.Read more about the way my students set up notebooks here: www.ideasbyjivey.com/mentor-sentence-notebooks/ ... See MoreSee Less

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    Surprise! 🥳 TPT is having an early spring sale Surprise! 🥳

TPT is having an early spring sale! 🌷🌸

If you've been saving a big bundle on your wishlist, now is the time to add it to your cart! 🛒

👩‍🏫Everything in my store is 20% off, even already-deep-discounted bundles, then use code FORYOU23 to get the extra 5% off at checkout!

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    😍 For today's #mentortextmonday, let's look at 😍 For today's #mentortextmonday, let's look at a book you should use this week to celebrate #nationalcrayonday on Friday! 

🖍 The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons by Natascha Biebow is a fabulous picture book to read when teaching text structure. 

🔎 It is not only a fantastic example of a narrative biography, but contains the elusive problem/solution text structure! (This one is always hard to find good examples of in picture books.) 

Get a weeklong #mentortext unit to use with the book in my TPT store, or at the link in my profile! https://www.ideasbyjivey.com/product/the-crayon-man-mentor-text-unit-for-grades-3-5/

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    🤷‍♀️Why do I recommend students complete 🤷‍♀️Why do I recommend students complete their #mentorsentences work in a notebook?🤷‍♂️

📓It becomes a perfect “living resource” to use during writing time! It will contain a collection of amazing sentences, skill practice, and sentence structure practice that they can apply to their own writing.

Read more about the way my students set up notebooks at the link in my profile!

#ideasbyjivey #teacherspayteachers #iteach345 #iteachtoo #mentortexts 

https://www.ideasbyjivey.com/mentor-sentence-notebooks/
    🤓Teachers are aware that understanding vocabula 🤓Teachers are aware that understanding vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but we want students to do more than just “know it when they read it.” 

💬✍️We hope our students can adopt these words into their repertoire and improve their writing and speaking vocabulary as well.

🥰With over 150 mentor text units with contextual vocabulary lessons included in the All-Access Membership, you'll have everything you need to help students do just that! (Link in profile.)

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    🤩Just ONE reason that I never looked back once 🤩Just ONE reason that I never looked back once I started the mentor sentence routine in my classroom:

My students were having these super deep conversations and even DEBATES about grammar and language. I’d never heard students be able to explain the functions of words so well before, or analyzing craft like actual authors! 🤯

👀Read more in the post at the link in my profile!

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    😍Teachers LOVE using the paired texts I've writ 😍Teachers LOVE using the paired texts I've written! 

📖With original passages (differentiated for two reading levels) and multiple-choice & constructed response questions that require students to go back into the text for the answers (not basic-level comprehension), you are able to tackle rigorous reading standards while integrating social studies and science content into ELA to maximize much-needed time!

Plus, bonus!! Students actually enjoy the passages' topics (no yawns through lessons)! 🚫😴

Check out this set for Westward Expansion at the link in my profile!

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Need a ready-to-teach close-reading poetry resource? Grab it at the link in my profile! 

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    🦎Here's another fantastic book you won't want t 🦎Here's another fantastic book you won't want to miss for #womenshistorymonth  on this #mentortextmonday!

🐉Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles by Patricia Valdez is the inspiring biography of the pioneering female scientist who loved reptiles.

Get the resource I've made to go along with the book to have:
★a mentor sentence lesson for the book

★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach abstract nouns

★eight reading ideas suggested with three activities provided: supporting an inference, key details and main idea, and vivid verbs

★one writing idea suggested with a writing prompt given

★contextual vocabulary activities

This is just one of over 150 books in the All-Access Mentor Text Membership! Join at the link in my profile! https://members.ideasbyjivey.com/all-access

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    When do YOU teach grammar? 🤓 📓If you're usi When do YOU teach grammar? 🤓

📓If you're using the #mentorsentences routine, I suggest beginning your writing time with it! You want grammar and language to be directly connected to their writing.

This also helps get students into a writing frame of mind, and often gives them a purpose for writing that day! ✏️

Read more about the mentor sentences routine at the link in my profile!

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