Mentor Sentences

Have your seen your student come home with a sentence strip with an odd sentence on it? Those are called mentor sentences. Each week, students read a sentence from the text we are working with in class. Over the course of three days they dissect the sentence by looking closely at it, labeling the parts of speech, and revising and editing the sentence. On the final day they imitate the sentence and produce great writing of their own! Check some examples of them out here!

This week our sentence was from Letters From Rifka. Our focus was on personification or when nonhumans have human qualities of traits. Check out some of the best from last week!

• Pieter held on to me as the water sucked at my body, trying to pull me overboard.