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Would you like to use mentor sentences to engage students as they learn about grammar and vocabulary? Sentence Stalking takes beautifully-crafted sentences from popular middle school books and includes focus questions to guide students’ thinking and learning.
Grammar / Vocabulary
Let’s stop doing drill and kill grammar activities. What is the point of teaching grammar and vocabulary if it doesn’t help students in their actual reading and writing? If you love the idea of using mentor sentences, but need more ideas and guidance for how this actually looks in the classroom across the school year, check out the articles, video, and resources linked below.
My Favorite Grammar/Vocabulary Blog Posts
Six Reasons to Use Mentor Sentences to Build Student Writers
Sentence Stalking: The New DOL
Using Mentor Sentences to Improve Grammar and Mechanics
Sentence Stalking: The New DOL
Get a sneak peek inside my year-long curriculum for grammar and vocabulary instruction.
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My Favorite Grammar/Vocabulary Resources
Sentence Stalking: The New DOL (Year-Long Bundle)
Teaching Commas Through Mentor Sentences
Teaching Punctuation Through Mentor Sentences
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- I see and feel firsthand the demands and the pressures teachers face in the classroom every single day and know that sometimes curriculum and learning about instructional practices takes a backseat. Teachers should not feel guilty about attending to students’ needs first. There is not enough time in the day, much less the school day, to do it all.
- I am here to support teachers through providing engaging, intentional, and high-quality year-long curriculum for reading, writing, and grammar. My resources can fill in the gaps where you need them, but my true intention is to give you a year-long curriculum and not just a quick teaching activity.
- I am highly passionate about not just making curriculum for students, but also providing information and resources to teachers about why and how to implement that curriculum.
- I believe students need reading, writing, and grammar strategies that they can apply again and again to future situations where they have to read and write. Students need to see themselves as readers and writers who are competent to use their literacy skills to accomplish their goals.
