Mentor Sentences for Revising and Editing {Fifth Grade Bundle}

If you're looking for a better way to model and teach your fifth graders revising and editing, mentor sentences are the perfect tool. These pages students take the grammar concepts they are learning about and apply it in their own writing, right away. Updated for 2020: I've included Google Slides versions for no additional cost during distance learning. The link is on page 3 of each pdf (with the exception of the free samples, which have links in a separate bonus file).

❶ Unit 1: Verbs

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1.b Form and use the perfect verb tenses.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1.c Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1.d Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Complete sentences with subject verb agreement
2. Past perfect verb tense
3. Present perfect verb tense
4. Future perfect verb tense
5. Flashbacks
6. Correctly applied shifts in verb tense
7. Consistent use of past tense verbs
8. Consistent use of present tense verbs
9. Consistent use of future tense verbs

❷ Unit 2: Correlative Conjunctions

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1.a Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function of particular sentences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1.e Use correlative conjunctions.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Either…or
2. Neither…nor
3. Whether…or
4. Not only…but also
5. Both…and

❸ Unit 3: Expand, Combine, and Reduce Sentences

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.3.a Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Combine sentences with a comma, conjunction, and independent clause
2. Combine sentences with a semicolon
3. Expand sentences using transition words and dependent clauses
4. Expand sentences with two dashes and a dependent clause in the middle
5. Expand sentences with a dash and a dependent clause at the end
6. Expand sentences with parentheses and a dependent clause
7. Expand sentences with a colon
8. Expand sentences with an appositive between two commas
9. Expand sentences with a participial phrase and a comma
10. Combine parallel objects with a conjunction
11. Combine predicates with a conjunction
12. Combine subjects with a conjunction
13. Use short sentences with long sentences to draw the reader’s attention.

❹ Unit 4: Commas and other Punctuation

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2.a Use punctuation to separate items in a series.* This includes commas to separate nouns, verbs, present participles, infinitives, subordinate clauses, and the use of semicolons to separate larger phrases.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2.b Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2.c Use a comma to set off the words yes and no (e.g., Yes, thank you), to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence (e.g., It's true, isn't it?), and to indicate direct address (e.g., Is that you, Steve?).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2.d Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Use of commas to separate nouns in a series
2. Use of commas to separate verbs in a series
3. Use of commas to separate present participles in a series
4. Use of commas to separate infinitives in a series
5. Use of commas to separate subordinate clauses in a series
6. Use of semicolons to separate items in a series
7. Use of commas to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence
8. Use of commas to set of the words “yes” and “no”
9. Use of commas to indicate direct address
10. Use of underlining to indicate titles of works
11. Use of quotation marks to indicate titles of works.

*(I have included pages that include the Oxford comma as well as pages that omit the Oxford comma, depending on your preference. Although this brings the actual page count higher, I’ve lowered the price accordingly).

❺ Unit 5: Prepositions

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1.a Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Prepositions that show time (before)
2. Prepositions that show time (after)
3. Prepositions that show time (during)
4. Prepositions that show place (under)
5. Prepositions that show place (on)
6. Prepositions that show place (in)
7. Prepositions that show place (near)
8. Prepositions that show place (over)

❻ Unit 6: Greek and Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.4.b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Use of the prefix: semi-
2. Use of the prefix: super-
3. Use of the prefix: multi-
4. Use of the prefix: poly-
5. Use of the prefix: tele-
6. Use of the prefix: mis-
7. Use of the prefix: inter-
8. Use of the prefix: mid-
9. Use of the prefix: sub-
10. Use of the prefix: deca and deci
11. Use of the prefix: kilo
12. Use of the prefix: milli and mille
13. Use of the prefix: centi
14. Use of the suffix: -able, -ible
15. Use of the suffix: -ian, -an
16. Use of the suffix: -ship
17. Use of the suffix: -ist
18. Use of the suffix: -logy, -ology
19. Use of the suffix: -ism
20. Use of the suffix: -ence, -ance
21. Use of the suffix: -ess
22. Use of the root: max, maxi
23. Use of the root: meter, metr
24. Use of the root: photo
25. Use of the root: port
26. Use of the root: phobia, phobic, phobe
27. Use of the root: rupt
28. Use of the root: scrib, script
29.Use of the root: gram, graph
30. Use of the root: dict
31. Use of the root: ject
32. Use of the root: spect, spec

❼ Unit 7: Interjections

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1.a Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function of particular sentences.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Interjections used for greetings
2. Interjections used to show surprise
3. Interjections used to congratulate
4. Interjections used to show disappointment
5. Interjections used to show excitement
6. Interjections uttered to show pain, fear, or anger

❽ Unit 8: Transition Words and Phrases

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Coordinating Conjunctions
2. Transitional words and phrases that show addition
3. Transitional words and phrases that show comparison
4. Transitional words and phrases that show emphasis
5. Transitional words and phrases that show details
6. Transitional words and phrases that show example or illustration
7. Transitional words and phrases that show summary
8. Transitional words and phrases that show contrast
9. Transitional words and phrases that show cause and effect
10. Transitional words and phrases that show time sequence

❾ Unit 9: Synonyms and Antonyms

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.5.c Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Synonyms
2. Antonyms

❿ Unit 10: Figurative Language

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.5.a Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.

The topics for each worksheet include:
1. Similes

2. Metaphors

3. Personification

4. Hyperbole

5. Alliteration

6. Onomatopoeia

❶❶ Unit 11: Homographs

These pages cover fifth grade Common Core State Standards for:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.5.c Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

The topics for each worksheet include:
Homographs

Each product includes:
✅ Mentor Sentences worksheets: Each worksheet has 2 Mentor Sentences for students to analyze and compare, and room to write their own.
✅ Definitions and Examples boxes: These can either be glued onto the page itself or into an Writing/Editing/GUM notebook as a study guide for future reference. These come 8 to a page in order to conserve copy paper.

✅ An answer key: You won't see these in the previews because, well, 5th graders can be very clever and otherwise it would free and easy to preview! To mitigate this better, you can view them on the free products.

Disclaimer: Any claims of correlation or alignment to the CCSS are solely those of Amber Thomas and have not been evaluated or endorsed by the NGA. Amber Thomas is the sole creator of this product and does not claim endorsement or association with the creators of the CCSS.

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