Apple & Fall Mentor Sentence & Shared Reading & Emergent Readers | Letter A Book

Are you looking for alphabet emergent readers with mentor sentence activities that will excite and engage your Pre-K and Kindergarten students?  Then stop looking! This alphabet emergent readers resource comes complete with a colorful engaging alphabet story, teacher lesson plans and mentor sentence activities to support your students' letter knowledge and alphabet skills. This ABC emergent reader and mentor sentence resource is going to make your life easier and save you tons of planning time!

This Mentor Sentence Letter A Alphabet Emergent Reader resource includes these 3 products:

• “5 Red Apples” Alphabet emergent reader book with activities. Great for Letter of the Week learning or letter knowledge practice.
• Mentor Sentence printable pack for “5 Red Apples”
• Mentor Sentence Teacher’s guide that includes learning objectives, a lesson plan overview, teaching tips and so much more!  

The Mentor Sentence Letter A alphabet emergent reader comes complete with a full-color alphabet reader with 2 print options: full sheet and half-page. The full sheet reader is perfect for a class read-aloud. The half-page printable is great for story retelling or as a mini book to put on your bookshelf for students to enjoy. The black and white version also has the same 2 print options. The full sheet printable is great for students to color, take home and share with their families. The black and white mini printable story is perfect for students to color and add to their book boxes to enjoy reading over and over. Students will love the vocabulary pictures cards and sentence strips to retell the alphabet story and the movement suggestions for acting out this fun Letter A alphabet emergent reader story. 

⭐ The Letter A Emergent Reader “5 Red Apples” includes the following:

• Full-Color printable story: 2 sizes -full sheet and half-page 
• Student alphabet reader: black & white story printable in full sheet and half-page
• Pocket chart sentence strips
• Vocabulary cards (real and clip art pictures)
• Movement suggestions to go along with the story

Short A words included in this Letter A Alphabet Emergent Reader:

• a
• an
• and
• apple
• apples
• Anna
• Andy 
• Alice 
• Adam
• Abby

⭐ 5 Red Apples Mentor Sentence Printable includes: 

• Teaching Tips
• Mentor Sentence Cut & Paste: build the mentor sentence in the correct order
• Illustrate the Sentence: Students create and illustrate their own version of the mentor sentence. 2 options are included to differentiate:
  • Print the mentor sentence words for students to cut and glue in the correct order.
  • Students write the missing word and then trace the rest of the words in the mentor sentence.

• My Sentence: Students create their own sentence 
• Class Book Cover: students create and illustrate their own sentence. Teacher collects the pages to make into a class book for students to enjoy.

⭐ Teacher’s Guide includes:

• “What is a Mentor Sentence?”
• Learning Objectives 
• Lesson Plan overview for 5 days
• Instructions & Materials
• Teaching tips

❤️ Using the Letter A emergent reader, teachers can focus on the following skills:

• Letter knowledge
• Letter sounds
• Punctuation
• Parts of speech
• Touching and reading words in the mentor sentence
• Arranging the words in the correct order to reform the mentor sentence
• Discussing other words that can fit into the mentor sentence
• Helping students create their own sentence
• Illustrating the sentence
• Practice tracing and writing words
• Practice reading