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Using Mentor Texts To Teach Writing With The Traits: Middle School - Annotated By Ruth Culham & …James Blasingame & Raymond Coutu (Paperback)
Our primary unit is space themed, but I like to incorporate creative narrative into our reading block as well with some great mentor texts! Without further ado, here are my 10 favorite books to …
Teaching Writing With Mentor Texts In The Primary Classroom By Groeneweg, …Nicole By Thriftbooks
If you want your creative writing students to really think and construct engaging opening lines for their short stories, you might show them some famous opening lines. That’s using mentor …
Mentor texts are books that model for students what good readers and writers do — the craft and skills involved in reading and writing. Mentor texts give children authentic, real-world examples of different kinds of writing from which they can …
Effective mentor texts inspire students to experiment with new writing techniques, structure, or plotlines, but they should also provide windows and mirrors—in the metaphor popularized by Rudine Sims Bishop—for …
Here is a list of my favorite books to use as mentor texts for teaching writing and writer’s workshop. I selected these texts based on my own experiences teaching writing in the classroom and to intentionally incorporate diversity.
Using mentor texts can be as simple as giving students a sentence or excerpt from a text and talking through how it’s a great example of a specific skill. A lot of times, I will pull these mentor texts from novels that the class is reading …
So far, we’ve shared our community’s recommendations for mentor texts to teach argument writing and chapter books to teach narrative writing. In the second part of this blog on mentor texts for narrative writing, …
Students first do a "Close reading" of text, to break down text exploring style, literary devices, patterns, and general elements of the text. Provide different coloured pens, highlighters and sticky-notes!