Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this growing bundle of print and digital middle school and upper elementary mentor sentences and grammar activities. This bundle currently includes thirty-six 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. 

Volume Three was created to align with the fifth and sixth-grade language and grammar standards.  

Here's what's included:

• Daily and weekly teacher lesson plans
• PDF and Digital Google Slides grammar lesson slide decks
• Printable and Digital Google Slides mentor sentence activities with answer keys.
• Printable and Digital Google Slides Grammar Interactive Notebook Activity with teacher examples and answer keys.
• Printable Grammar Quick Notes pages for all grammar lessons.
• Printable weekly assessments with answer keys.
• Google Forms SELF-GRADING weekly Friday assessments
• 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 nine weeks' mentor texts:

1. Holes by Louis Sachar
2. Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
3. Front Desk by Kelly Yang
4. Blended by Sharon Draper
5. The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
6. Blended by Sharon M. Draper
7. Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
8. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
9. Starfish by Lisa Fipps

The first nine weeks' grammar concepts

• Week One: Parts of Speech 
• Week Two: Punctuation- periods, commas, apostrophes
• Week Three: Types of Sentences- Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory
• Week Four: Sentence Structure- Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex
• Week Five: Subjects and Predicates
• Week Six: Dependent and Independent Clauses
• Week Seven: Capitalization
• Week Eight: Capitalizing the Titles of Works
• Week Nine: Punctuation- Commas, Parentheses, Dashes

The second nine weeks' mentor texts:

1. Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes
2. Eb and Flow by Kelly J. Baptist
3. Red, White, and Whole by Rajani Larocca
4. The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis 
5. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
6. The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
7. The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
8. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
9. Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

The second nine weeks' grammar concepts:

• Week 10: Apostrophes
• Week 11: Quotation Marks 
• Week 12: Periods, Commas, Apostrophes, Dashes, Parentheses, Quotation Marks, Capitalization
• Week 13: Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections
• Week 14: Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
• Week 15: Correlative Conjunctions
• Week 16: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• Week 17: Prepositional Phrases + Objects of the Preposition
• Week 18: Action, Helping, and Linking Verbs

The third nine weeks' mentor texts:

1. The Perfect Score by Rob Buyea
2. Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
3. Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
4. Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
5. Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
6. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
7. The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
8. Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
9. Amina's Voice by Hena Khan

The third nine weeks' grammar concepts:

• Week 19: Active and Passive Verbs
• Week 20: Verb Tenses
• Week 21: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and 7 Types of Adjectives
• Week 22: Common and Proper Nouns
• Week 23: Plural Nouns
• Week 24: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
• Week 25: Pronouns
• Week 26: Antecedents
• Week 27: Intensive Pronouns

The fourth nine weeks' mentor texts:

1. El Deafo by Cece Bell
2. We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
3. Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
4. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
5. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
6. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
7. Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf by Jennifer Holm
8. Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
9. The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez

The fourth nine weeks' grammar concepts

• Week 28: Vague Pronouns
• Week 29: Subjective, Objective, and Possessive Pronouns (Proper Pronoun Case)
• Week 30: Pronoun Number and Person
• Week 31: Determine Word Meanings
• Week 32: Greek and Latin Affixes and Roots
• Week 33: Connotation and Denotation
• Week 34: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homographs
• Week 35: Figurative Language
• Week 36: Idioms, Adages, and Proverbs

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."