Mentor texts

Procedural writing or "How-to" is one of my favorite units! Read this post to discover some fantastic mentor texts to use in your classroom!

Are you wondering how to teach fiction narratives? You'll love these storybook recommendations. These 12 narrative read alouds are perfect for your writing unit. These picture books are ideal as fictional narrative mentor texts during writing lessons. Some of the books are - Giraffes Can’t Dance, The Gruffalo, Creepy Carrots, Harold And The Purple Crayon, Idea Jar, and The Plot Chickens. Perfect for teaching suspense, point of view, story arcs, and for reluctant writers to think of story…

When I changed grade levels from second grade to 4th/5th, one of the things I really thought I would miss was all of my amazing picture books. I used to love to read and re-read them to the kids, to look at their beautiful illustrations, and to use them to get kids excited about the […]

Mentor texts are an amazing way to model and teach students a reading strategy! These are a few of my favorites to teach summarizing!

Find 25 mentor texts to teach grammar and parts of speech that are the perfect way to introduce your lessons and make teaching grammar more fun!

I LOVE using mentor texts to teach reading skills in upper elementary! In this blog post, I talk about five of my favorite mentor texts that I like to use when teaching my 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders about asking questions. You can find descriptions of the texts and links to the books found on Amazon. I have even included a FREE Mentor Text Cheat Sheet to help you organize your mentor texts & the reading skills you teach with them! {third, fourth, fifth grade, reading comprehension}

Find lots of ideas for mentor texts and activities to teach central message. #centralmessage #mentortextsforreading #readingcenters

Check out these examples of mentor texts for teaching students to write engaging personal narratives.

Want to teach your upper elementary students to make meaningful Text to World Connections? This post has lots of mentor texts you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using quality picture books allows you to model this reading strategy effectively to help your students engage with the text and increase their reading comprehension. Text to World Connections are also great for class discussions! To find out more, click on the link to hop over and take a look!

Looking for the best mentor texts to teach How To Writing in primary? These Procedural Writing books are a favorite in my Kindergarten class!

Discover the best mentor texts, both picture and chapter books, to teach (model) description using sensory images, vivid verbs, and figurative language.

Mentor texts are one of my favorite tools to use in the classroom and I love using them to teach grammar. To me, grammar is just one of those subjects that needs some spicing up. It’s kind of like mashed potatoes without any salt. Sure, it’s functional, but it’s so much better when you take […]

Picture books make amazing mentor texts for making connections! These books can help kids make text to self, text to text, or text to world connections!

Personal Narrative Books Kids Love. My students loved these and they were great mentor texts to get them excited about writing.

Mentor texts are an amazing way to model and teach students a reading strategy! These are a few of my favorites to teach asking questions!

Upper Elementary Mentor Texts for Teaching Theme & Main Idea

Personal Narrative Mentor Texts

23 Mentor Texts for Opinion Writing. As teachers, we want our students to write honestly and authentically when writing to persuade others. Sometimes getting your students inspired to do this can be difficult, so we put together a list of opinion writing mentor texts to help them out. #reading #classroom #teaching

My top 10 favorite mentor texts to use when modeling writing for kids! A helpful book list for teaching kids to write.

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