Westward Expansion Mentor Sentences & Interactive Activities Mini-Unit (4-6)
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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 Social Studies in with your mentor sentences during your Westward Expansion Unit! 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! :) Just think, what a deal- $1 per week! 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. ★ The quizzes and interactive activities are included as printables and also digital-classroom-ready, provided as Google Slides. ★
Please download the preview file to see the layout. There are 5 lessons for the following books:
-You Wouldn’t Want to Explore With Lewis And Clark by Jacqueline Morley (compound sentences)
-Lewis and Clark and Me by Laurie Meyers (vivid verbs)
-If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine (prepositional phrases)
-Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson (similes)
-Locomotive by Brian Floca (figurative language)
I chose books that would be in most personal libraries or school media centers. All of these are personal favorites of mine!
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WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?
You might also be interested in these Paired Texts about Westward Expansion!
Check out these other separate mentor sentence units to integrate other content!
The Holocaust Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
The Underground Railroad and Civil War Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
Civil Rights Movement Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
American Revolution Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
Animals Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
Wonder (the novel) Mentor Sentences and Interactive Activities Mini-Unit
Math Mentor Sentences and Interactive Notebook Activities Unit
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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.
Mentor Sentences can be done in ALL grades! Please tell your teacher friends about mentor sentences for their grade:
Kindergarten & ELL (Early Emergent Readers)
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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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