Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete nine-week, fourth-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 for each week, examples and possible answers for each day of the week, teacher lessons and interactive notebooks lessons with all examples and answer keys, self-grading weekly assessments, projection slides, worksheets, or interactive notebook option for each week's sentence.
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This grammar bundle has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences in your middle School ELA classroom for nine weeks by using sentences from popular middle-grade and young-adult novels.
Here's what you'll get:
- Printable mentor sentence activities for each week in three different teaching formats, plus all examples and answer keys.
- Google Slides Interactive Mentor Sentences for students to type into and answer keys for teachers
- Printable Tuesday Grammar Interactive Notebook Activity and Teacher Examples
- Google Slides Interactive Tuesday Grammar Lesson note pages for students to type right into and Examples and Answers for Teachers.
- Printable weekly assessments with all answer keys.
- Google Forms SELF-GRADING weekly Friday assessments
- Printable PDF Mentor Sentences to Display
- Google Slides Mentor Sentences to Display
- Student grammar reference sheets for parts of speech, punctuation, etc. (8 reference pages in all). Color and black and white options. (PDF)
You will love watching your students actually learn grammar in a way that is authentic because they will apply it to their writing. Students will love that they are learning grammar by 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 fourth nine weeks' mentor texts:
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Simon and the Homo Sapien's Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Booked by Kwame Alexander
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The fourth nine weeks' grammar concepts
- Week 28: Determining Unknown Word Meanings + Connotation and Denotation
- Week 29: Homophones
- Week 30: Commonly Confused Words
- Week 31: Synonyms and Antonyms
- Week 32: Who and Whom
- Week 33: The Three Types of Irony
- Week 34: Idioms
- Week 35: Personification
- Week 36: The Benefits of the Different Sentence Types
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.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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."