Dinosaur Lady Mentor Text Unit for Grades 3-5

Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers is a fun biography of Mary Anning. If you don't own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search!

Using mentor texts is one of the best ways to maximize your teaching time. You are able to teach multiple skills, subjects, and topics with just one book!

With this unit, you'll be able to work with students on shades of meaning as well as main idea, key details, and context clues. You'll also learn about another fascinating woman pioneer, Nellie Bly, for extra practice with the skills!

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?

• a week of plans that teach shades of meaning, main idea and key details, response to literature, and context clues using the book, Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers (book not included)
• detailed explicit lessons, including teacher samples
• a week-at-a-glance plan
• digitally converted activities in Google Slides and Forms, when applicable
• mentor sentence lesson teaching shades of meaning
• reading lessons to teach about main ideas and key details
• language lessons to teach about shades of meaning and context clues
• primary sources from Mary Anning to analyze
• original article by me, Jessica Ivey-Smith, about Nellie Bly
• printables for skill practice
• samples of all writing activities
• short assessments

You will notice that the units align in best practices with my other resources, so if you are already using other components like Mentor Sentences, Better Than Basal, or Everything But The Books, they can easily be incorporated into your plans without breaking stride.

In fact, this unit follows the exact same structure as my Everything But The Books resources!

Check out the detailed preview to see inside this unit!

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GET THE ENTIRE MENTOR TEXT CLUB (2ND EDITION) BUNDLE!

This unit is part of the SECOND BUNDLE in the Mentor Text Club.

When you make the one-time purchase of the club bundle, you'll receive twelve weeklong mentor text units with integrated grammar, reading, and writing lessons, one of which is an exclusive bonus unit not available for sale. That's 12 weeks of COMPLETE lessons that you will be able to use now, and in years to come!

Every unit in the Mentor Text Club has a week of grammar, reading, and writing plans that also integrate other subjects when applicable (science, social studies, or social/emotional skills) with detailed explicit lessons, teacher samples, printables for skill practice, and short assessments.

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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!

*The mentor sentence lessons I have created are adapted from the ideas of Jeff Anderson. These lessons were born from the routine that worked well in my classroom, and the demos and examples I present are variations of Jeff Anderson's methods. This is not the only way to "do" mentor sentences in your classroom.*

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All rights reserved by author, Jessica Ivey-Smith.

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