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Use these six mentor text read-alouds during the back-to-school season to establish routines, set expectations, and build community in your 3rd, 4th, or 5th-grade classroom!
Teachers who enjoy using mentor texts to cover content and maximize teaching time will love adding these units to their plans to teach grammar with mentor sentence lessons, incorporate gradual release with reading activities, and work with tier-2 vocabulary words.
This special bundle pricing is a “Buy 4, Get 2 Free” deal!
The activities in the included units are companions to the following books:
You’re Finally Here! by Melanie Watt
School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex
Do Unto Otters by Laurie Keller
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi
(books not included)
Within each unit for all six books, you will receive:
a mentor sentence lesson for the book
an interactive notebook activity to review/teach the focus grammar skill
suggested reading and writing ideas for each mentor text
reading activities
a writing prompt aligned with the theme of the book
contextual vocabulary activities using tier 2 words from the mentor text
★ Activities are also provided as links to Google Slides for Digital Learning! ★
Below you’ll find the books in the suggested order of teaching (but of course, use them in any order you prefer!), along with skills covered and activities listed.
You’re Finally Here! Mentor Text Unit:
★a mentor sentence lesson for the book
★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach types of sentences (declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory)
★six reading ideas suggested with three activities provided: character changes, character traits, and making comparisons
★two writing ideas suggested with a writing prompt given
★contextual vocabulary activities
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School’s First Day of School Mentor Text Unit
★a mentor sentence lesson for the book
★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach possessive pronouns
★seven reading ideas suggested with three activities provided: infer feelings through “show, don’t tell,” describe character feelings throughout book, and character trait evidence
★one writing idea suggested with a writing prompt given
★contextual vocabulary activities
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Do Unto Otters Mentor Text Unit
★a mentor sentence lesson for the book
★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach adjectives
★six reading ideas suggested with two activities provided: using text evidence and character traits
★two writing ideas suggested with a writing prompt given
★contextual vocabulary activities
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The Name Jar Mentor Text Unit
★a mentor sentence lesson for the book
★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach common and proper nouns
★seven reading ideas suggested with three activities provided: summarizing, using text evidence for inferences, and character traits
★one writing ideas suggested with a writing prompt and brainstorm page given
★contextual vocabulary activities
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Red: A Crayon’s Story Mentor Text Unit
★a mentor sentence lesson for the book
★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach possessives
★six reading ideas suggested with three activities provided: inferring, theme, and character.
★two writing ideas suggested with one writing prompt given
★contextual vocabulary activities
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The Magical Yet Mentor Text Unit
★a mentor sentence lesson for the book
★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach sentence types (declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory)
★six reading ideas suggested with three activities provided: citing explicit evidence, theme, and integrating texts
★two writing ideas suggested with a writing prompt given
★contextual vocabulary activities
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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!
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