Counting on Katherine Mentor Text Unit for Grades 3-5

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker is a mentor text that highlights one of the famous "Hidden Figures" women! 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!

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?

• a week of plans that teach about famous Black women, main ideas and details, using outlines in writing, and compound predicates using the book, Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker (book not included)
• detailed explicit lessons, including teacher samples
• a week-at-a-glance plan
• digitally converted activities in Google Slides and Forms, when applicable
• mentor sentence lesson teaching compound predicates
• reading and writing lessons integrating main idea and supporting details with topic/subtopic/details on a writing outline
• a pair of original articles about Shirley Chisholm and Bessie Coleman, written by me, Jessica Ivey
• printables for skill practice
• constructed response checklist for students
• constructed response rubric
• short assessments

You will notice that the units align in best practices with my other resources, so if you are already using other components like Mentor Sentences, Better Than Basal, or Everything But The Books, they can easily be incorporated into your plans without breaking stride.

In fact, this unit follows the exact same structure as my Everything But The Books resources!

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*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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