Tag: Mentor
Teaching Writing With Mentor Texts in the Primary Classroom: 20 Lessons Based on Favorite Picture Books That Introduce Story Structure, Nonfiction Text Features & Author’s Craft
From selecting a mentor text and matching it to a writing topic to teaching the focus lesson and inviting students to write on their own, Nicole Groeneweg shows teachers
Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits: K-2: An Annotated Bibliography of More Than 150 Mentor Texts With Teacher-Tested Lessons
Good teachers have long recognized the power of using picture books as models of good writing. The short, focused, and tightly woven text mirrors the kind of writing they
Mentor Texts, 2nd edition: Teaching Writing Through Children’s Literature, K-6
It’s been a decade since Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli wrote the first edition of Mentor Texts and helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children’s
Nonfiction Mentor Texts: Teaching Informational Writing Through Children’s Literature, K-8
In their first book, Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli demonstrated how teachers can use children s literature to guide and inspire student writers of narrative fiction and