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• Archive: http://archive.is/zEXkp Master Mentor Sentences K-2Learn the why and how of using mentor sentences and mentor texts!As a mentor, a professional development leader, and a fellow teacher, these are a few of the common complaints I hear:"Teaching grammar is boring.
• The students hate it and, honestly, so do I.""My students don't make the reading-writing connection.""My students make little progress in style and conventions over the course of the year.""I'm tired of the basal, but I don't know what else to do to cover the standards."I imagine you landed on this course page because you share some (or all) of those sentiments.
• You are ready to make a change, just like I was several years ago.
• I thought, I am already using children's literature to teach my mini-lessons in reading and writing.
• Why not use those books for grammar, too?It made sense to me that students needed to learn from amazing, well-written sentences... giving them a sentence filled with mistakes and telling them to "fix it" wasn't working since they didn't even know what it was supposed to look like to begin with!After I implemented the mentor sentence routine with my students, not only was I enjoying teaching grammar through these skill-spiraling, discussion-filled lessons, but my students were also having fun, treating this time as a scavenger hunt, or a game, or a challenge.