…students to make are from text to self. Sharing their own experiences makes the text more relatable and understandable. Text to text connections come next because students sometimes naturally think…
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…of her own ideas. While we use mentor text to help guide our writing and give us ideas for the genre we are working on, we have to take from…
Interactive read alouds go one step further than simply reading stories to children. A mentor text is carefully selected and is read aloud to a group of students. The teacher…
…a writing workshop mini-lesson? So, now we know all about mini-lessons and planning, but what do we actually DO in the writing mini-lesson? Use a mentor text Reading a mentor…
…week in small reading groups, so you can re-target the skill. How can you avoid going over time? Mentor Text Reading a mentor text during a mini-lesson is a great…
…writing. Both pages fit in journal size notebooks to add to student writer’s notebooks. You will also get a free list of persuasive writing mentor text to help plan your…
You can grab a free set of exit tickets for visualizing lessons and a list of some of my favorite mentor text for visualizing mini-lessons. I’d love to see your…
You can grab a free set of exit tickets for predicting lessons and a list of some of my favorite mentor text for making predicitons mini-lessons. I’d love to see…
Are you diving into nonfiction text with your students? Teaching nonfiction text structures is an important part of the nonfiction text puzzle that many times is overlooked. Teaching nonfiction text…