1. Details that Inform

2. Polar Opposites Mentor Sentences
Unlike football bowls, there had been no season tallies for the academic teams.
-E. L. Konigsburg, from the View from Saturday
Few people are entirely honest. Many people lie once in a while. Heinrich Schliemann lied more often than that.
-Laura Amy Schlitz, form the Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy
But most babies didn’t have nineteen older brothers and sisters to watch over them. Most babies didn’t have a mother who knew home remedies and a father who worked several jobs. Most babies weren’t Wilma Rudolph.
-Kathleen Krull, from Wilma Unlimted: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastes Woman

3. What’s Next? Mentor Sentences
This book investigates different mummies discovered around the world.
-Harriet Griffey, from DK Readers: Secrets of the Mummies
The point of this book is to take the strong impulse we all feel - our hunger for sweet, salty, fatty fast foods - and make you think about it.
-Charles Wilson and Eric Schlosser, from Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food
In this book, three of the issues will be covered in more detail: Should people have the right to smoke? Should smoking be banned? Are tobacco companies responsible for smoking-related health problem?
-Peggy Parks, from Matters of Opinion: Smoking

4. Sweet and Sour Mentor Sentences
But our successes have not come without consequences.
-John Johnson, Jr. from Living Green
In every century, black discovers and inventors have made their marks on history. Yet their inventiveness and ingenuity are known to only a few.
-Otha Richard Sullivan, from Black Stars: African American Inventors
The UCLA football team was not expected to be very good that year. They did, however, have two outstanding players.
-Barry Denenberg, from Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson

5. Big Deals and Famous First
Mentor Sentences
The summer after the hearings, on June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space.
-Tanya Lee Stone, from Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dearm
At forty-two, he became the youngest president in the history of the country.
-Michael Burgan, from Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?
Amelia set many records. She was the first woman to fly solo across the United States. She was the first person to fly alone from Hawaii to California.
-Cynthia Chin-Lee, from Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World

6. Define It Mentor Sentences
In many places in the United States during the 1950s, black and white people were forced to stay separated. This separation was called segregation.
-Belinda Rochelle, from Witness to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights
It took years for struggle of women in the United States to be granted suffrage, a new term coined during the Civil War meaning the right to vote.
-Frieda Wishinsky, from Profiles #4: Freedom Heroines
Forensics is the science of finding that evidence and analyzing it for clues.
-Carla Mooney, from Forensics: Uncover the Science and Technology of Crime Scene Investigation

7. Name an Example Mentor Sentences
The ramp is an example of an inclined plane.
-David Macaulay, from The New Way Things Work
There are a great many scary stories to tell. There are ghost stories. There are tales of witches, devils, bogeyman, zombies, and vampires. There are tales of monstrous creatures and other dangers. There are even stories that make us laugh at all the scariness.
-Alvin Schwartz, from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Barbara talked about Moton’s inadequacies and Farmville High’s superior facilities. Farmville High, the school for white students, had modern heating, an industrial-arts shop, locker rooms, and infirmary, a cafeteria, and a real auditorium complete with sound equipment.
-Teri Kanefield, from The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

8. AKA – Also Known As Mentor Sentences
This war is called the “American Revolution.” Some call it the “War of Independence” or the “Revolutionary War.”
-Kay Moore, from If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution
The Northern states (the Union) had developed and industrial economy, while the Southern states (the Confederacy) remained largely agricultural.
-Laurie Halse Anderson, from Thank You, Sarah: The Women Who Saved Thanksgiving
My real name is John. John Coogan. But everybody calls me Crash, even my parents.
-Jerry Spinelli, from Crash

9. In Other Words Mentor Sentences Rube was a master. A brilliant man.
-Kadir Nelson, from We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Abuela is my grandma.
She is my mother’s mother.
-Arthur Dorros, from Abuela
By the end of the 1800’s, people could travel from New York to California, or across the continent, by train.
-John Perritano, from the Transcontinental Railroad

10. So Important Mentor Sentences
History is especially important for Americans.
-Joy Hakim, from a History of US: The First Americans: Prehistory-1600
Lincoln is an important man in America’s history.
-Caroline Crosson Gilpin, from National Geographic Readers: Abraham Lincoln
Each part of the Tree of Life is important.
-Rochelle Strauss, from Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth

11. Share the Love, Love, Love
Mentor Sentences
Ben found real joy in reading and writing - skills that could turn a lowly apprentice into a gifted printer.
-Brandon Marie Miller, from Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities
But Henry’s greatest love was studying mechanical objects.
-Michael Burgan, from Who Was Henry Ford?
From the very beginning little Jacques loved water-the way it felt on his hands, face, his body.
-Jennifer Berne, from Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau