Description
Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete year-long digital bundle of middle school mentor sentences. This double bundle includes 72 weeks of done-for-you digital 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 100% digital two-volume grammar bundle has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences in your middle School ELA classroom and was designed for teachers who teach two-three grade levels of middle school ELA. These mentor sentences used to teach grammar will make grammar everyone’s favorite subject because you will be using sentences from popular middle-grade and young-adult novels.
Here’s what you’ll get:
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Google Slides Interactive Mentor Sentences for students to type into.
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Google Slides Interactive Tuesday Grammar Lesson note pages for students to type right into
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Google Forms SELF-GRADING Friday Assessments
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Google Slides Mentor Sentences to Display
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Google Slides Mentor Sentences Answer Keys for Teachers
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Google Slides Tuesday Lesson Examples and Answers for Teachers.
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Student grammar, parts of speech, punctuation, etc. reference sheets (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.
Prep is quick and easy… Just make a copy of the files and then make a copy for each student in Google Classroom. Even better? The assessments are self-grading Google forms. Assign to students, display my examples, teach the lesson, and you’re ready for middle schoolers who can apply grammar to their writing.
VOLUME ONE:
The first 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
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HP Book One by J.K. Rowling
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
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The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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The Fault in our Stars by John Green
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner
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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The second 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles
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All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
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Noggin by John Corey Whaley
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The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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White Fang by Jack London
The third 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
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Matched by Ally Condie
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Me, Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
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Middle School- The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
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Schooled by Gordon Korman
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The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The fourth 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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Booked by Kwame Alexander
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
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Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt
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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The first 9 weeks’ concepts
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Parts of Speech
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Simple Sentences, Complex, Compound, and Compound-Complex
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
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Figurative Language: Hyperboles
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Types of Phrases: Absolute, Appositive, Gerund, Infinite, Noun, Participle, and Prepositional
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Colons and Semicolons
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Types of Pronouns: Possessive, Reflexive, Reciprocal, Demonstrative, Interrogative, and Indefinite
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Subordinating and Coordinating Conjunctions
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Using Quotation Marks Correctly
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Verb Moods: Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative, Conditional, and Subjunctive
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Figurative Language: Personification
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Common Prefixes and their Meanings
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Using Context Clues to determine word meanings
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Connotation and Denotation
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Verbs: Infinitive, Present Participle, Past Participle, and Past Tense
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Common and Proper Nouns
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Common Homophones
The second 9 weeks’ concepts:
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Intensive and Vague Pronouns
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Direct and Indirect Objects
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Object of the Preposition
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Figurative Language: Metaphor and Simile
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Punctuation Nonrestrictive Elements
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Author Style and Tone
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
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Benefits of using the four different types of sentence structure (variety)
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Proper Noun Rules
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Dangling Modifier Rules
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Expressing Ideas Precisely and eliminating wordiness and redundancy
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Plural Noun Rules
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Verbals, Gerunds, and Infinitives
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Past and Present Participle
The third 9 weeks’ concepts
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Abstract Nouns
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Concrete Nouns
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Punctuating and Capitalizing Titles of Works
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Subjects and Predicates
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Simple Subjects and Predicates
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Compound Subjects and Predicates
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Verb Tenses (12 Different Verb Tenses)
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Verbs: Action, Helping, and Linking
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Figurative Language: Allusion
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Rules for Using Numbers in English
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Rules for Using Apostrophes in English
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Rules for Using Commas in English
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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
The fourth 9 weeks’ concepts
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Direct and Indirect Objects
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Object of the Preposition
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Commonly Confused Words
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Irony: Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal
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Active and Passive Verbs
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Sentences: Imperative, Exclamatory, Interrogative, and Declarative
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Adjectives: Descriptive, Quantitative, Demonstrative, Possessive, Distributive, Interrogative, and Articles
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Antonyms and Synonyms
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Figurative Language: Idioms
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Differences between Who and Whom
VOLUME TWO:
The first 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
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HP Book Three by J.K. Rowling
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Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
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The Selection by Kiera Cass
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They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
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Ungifted by Gordon Korman
The second 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
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Refugee by Alan Gratz
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The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
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Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman
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Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
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Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
The third 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
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Restart by Gordan Korman
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The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry
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Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
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The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
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House Arrest by K.A. Holt
The fourth 9 weeks’ mentor texts:
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Swing by Kwame Alexander
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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli
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Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal… by Steve Sheinkin
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
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Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
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The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
The first 9 weeks’ concepts
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Parts of Speech
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Sentences: Simple, Complex, Compound, and Compound-Complex
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Sentences: Imperative, Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
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Simple and Complete Subjects and Simple and Complete Predicates
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Phrases: Appositive, Gerund, Infinitive, Noun, Participle, Prepositional, and Absolute
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Verbs: Action, Helping, Linking
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Verbs Tenses: Present Tense, Past Tense, Future Tense
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Verb Moods: Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative, Conditional, and Subjunctive
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Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns
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Figurative Language: Similes and Personification
The second 9 weeks’ concepts:
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Concrete and Abstract Nouns
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Vague Pronouns
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Proper Nouns
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The Different Types of Pronouns
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Figurative Language: Hyperboles, Metaphors, and Allusions
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Active and Passive Verbs
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The Different Types of Adjectives: Descriptive, Quantitative, Possessive, Demonstrative, Interrogative, Distributive, Predicate, Noun Modifier (Determiner), Comparative, and Superlative
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Dangling Modifiers
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Expressing Ideas Precisely and Without Redundancy
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Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
The third 9 weeks’ concepts
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Prepositions
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Prepositional Phrases
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Object of the Preposition
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Indirect and Direct Objects
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Quotation Mark Rules
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Determining the Meanings of Unknown Words
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Using Dashes
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Using Commas
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Capitalization Rules
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Colons
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Semi-Colons
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Punctuating Non-Restrictive Elements
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Figurative Language: Idioms and Alliteration
The fourth 9 weeks’ concepts
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Verbals
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Using apostrophes
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Using numbers In English
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Using words and context clues to determine their meanings.
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Homophones
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Using commas
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Connotation and denotation
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The Three Types of Irony
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Who vs. whom
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!”
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You may also like…
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Volume One Digital and Print Middle School Mentor Sentences
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Volume Two Digital and Print Middle School Mentor Sentences
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Other helpful links…
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Middle School Mentor Sentences Volume 1: Two Free Weeks
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Middle School Mentor Sentences Volume 2: Two Free Weeks
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