Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete nine-week, first-quarter print and digital bundle of middle school mentor sentences and grammar activities. This bundle includes nine weeks of done-for-you digital and print mentor sentences grammar curriculum: teacher lesson plans and slide decks, examples and possible answers, interactive notebook lessons with examples and quick note versions, and self-grading weekly assessments.
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This grammar bundle has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences in your middle School ELA classroom using sentences from popular middle-grade and young-adult novels.
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Daily and weekly teacher lesson plans
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PDF and Digital Google Slides grammar lesson slide decks
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Printable and Digital Google Slides mentor sentence activities with answer keys.
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Printable and Digital Google Slides Grammar Interactive Notebook Activity with teacher examples and answer keys.
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Printable Grammar Quick Notes pages for all grammar lessons.
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Printable weekly assessments with answer keys.
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Google Forms SELF-GRADING weekly Friday assessments
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Student grammar reference sheets for parts of speech, punctuation, etc.
You will love watching your students authentically learn grammar because they will apply it to their writing.
Students will love that they learn grammar using sentences from novels and books they love. Even more so, you'll find that students will be introduced to new books that they'll BEG you to read.
Each interactive lesson has examples for teachers to use to teach each grammar concept, while each mentor sentence has answer keys and suggested grammar concepts and examples for every activity. The assessments are SELF-GRADING.
The first 9 weeks' mentor texts:
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
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Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
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Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
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The Absolute True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The first 9 weeks' grammar concepts
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Pre-Lessons: Parts of Speech, The Four Sentence Structures (Simple Sentences, Complex, Compound, and Compound-Complex), Figurative Language, and Types of Phrases (Absolute, Appositive, Gerund, Infinite, Noun, Participle, and Prepositional)
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Week One: The other four types of sentences (interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory).
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Week Two: Independent and Dependent Clauses
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Week Three: Subjects and predicates
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Week Four: Action, helping, and linking verbs
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Week Five: Verb tenses
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Week Six: Verb moods
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Week Seven: Common and proper nouns
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Week Eight: Active and passive verbs
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Week Nine: Verbals (gerunds, infinitives, and past and present participles)
Prep is quick and easy... Decide if you're going to use the digital version or the print version.
Printable version? Make copies of the mentor sentence activity, the interactive notebook lessons, and the weekly assessment. Spend 5-15 minutes each day doing grammar activities, interactive notebook lessons or quick notes, and assessments.
Digital? Just make a copy of the files and then make a copy for each student in Google Classroom and spend 5-15 minutes each day of the week doing the grammar activities, interactive lessons, and assessments. Even better? The digital assessments are self-grading Google forms.
Watch your students' grammar knowledge and writing abilities go through the roof and build on each other every week.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angelique C. says, "AMAZING! One word is really all this review needs, but I wanted to let prospective purchasers know that they won't be disappointed with this resource. It is so detailed, with plenty of examples, and the students thoroughly enjoyed the interactive notebook work that was associated with it. I love how we were able to refer back to those notebooks throughout the summer even when we weren't working on our mentor sentences. Thank you for an AMAZING resource!!!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Annie S. says, "I loved using Mentor sentences when I taught elementary ELA, so I was really excited to find a similar resource for the secondary classroom. The mentor text choices are excellent, and the layout of the digital versions works perfect with google classroom. It's exactly what I was looking for. I'm already talking to my team about purchasing more units. Thank you!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Claire C. says, "Hand down the best resource I have ever bought! Mentor sentences have become a staple in my literacy block and the language development of the students has improved out of sight. It is so comprehensive. Thank you so much!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Christine V. says, "So as I sit here in my classroom trying to manage this plan of hybrid teaching...I have to say: During the last three zoom meetings with my team, I was able to participate in the meeting while still setting up the resource in my 6th-grade google class. For the first time in YEARS of teaching, I have the first six weeks of lessons already posted! I cannot believe how easy it was. I'm looking forward to using this with my middles this year. As much as I hoped we would be done with this pandemic, I, like others educators need all the help we can to make things work. We have been digital since late March 2020. These resources will be worth the cost (hella low) and make my life easier. Auto-graded?? #signmeup."
