Find an extensive list of primary Mentor Texts for Common Core Literature Standards to help compliment your lessons in the classroom.
Teach elementary students how to identify the central idea/main topic/main idea and relevant/supporting details with picture books
Find an extensive list of primary Mentor Texts for Common Core Literature Standards to help compliment your lessons in the classroom.
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!
Since it is summertime and so many of us are already in planning mode for next year, I wanted to utilize my Mentor Text series post this month to share books to help you teach your students about THEME! If you like any of the books you see in this blog post, you can click […]
Looking for the right picture book to teach inferences? Check out my list of making inference mentor texts for the elementary classroom!
Check out my 14 picture book recommendations. These are the best mentor texts for teaching personal narratives.
I just finished up my Literature mentor texts blog post, check that out here. Now, it's time for the informational texts! My ELA packs for k, 1, and 2 include 3 mini lessons, printables, passages, i
Check out an extensive list of informational ELA mentor texts to help ELA teachers whether teaching kindergarten, 2nd grade, or 3rd grade.
Find an extensive list of primary Mentor Texts for Common Core Literature Standards to help compliment your lessons in the classroom.
Use mentor text children's books to teach sensory description and model for our kids how good writers use all their five senses in their writing to show, not tell.
Need to help bring text structure to life for your students? Check out these unique mentor texts that I've picked out just for you!
Since it is summertime and so many of us are already in planning mode for next year, I wanted to utilize my Mentor Text series post this month to share books to help you introduce 10 basic reading skills to your students. If you like any of the books you see in this blog post, […]
Show young writers how to create change with written words.
Homophones can be tricky to teach and even trickier for students to grasp. Discover homophone lessons and activities students enjoy!
This is one of those perfect novels to share with your upper elementary and middle school students. It is rare to find a story that connects with so many
There are so many great plot structure mentor texts out there! It was incredibly difficult to narrow it down to these. In an effort to keep the post short, I
Need to help bring text structure to life for your students? Check out these unique mentor texts that I've picked out just for you!
Teaching a narrative nonfiction unit in the upper elementary grades is so engaging with mentor texts and paired passages!
Teaching themes in literature made easy and effective! Read how I teach theme and the theme activities I use on this post, free resource included!
Understanding story elements are important skills in both reading and writing. In lower graders, we often use the words beginning, middle, and end. We even briefly talk about describing the characters. But in upper elementary, we need our students to begin understanding that there is MORE than just these simple words. What is rising action? […]
Picture books make wonderful mentor texts to quickly teach middle school and high school students expository writing creatively. Great lesson ideas here!
ideas for teaching sequence in upper elementary
This blog post describes how to teach setting and story elements in your classroom. You will find lessons, mentor texts, activities, and more!
Teach students to practice inferring with this mentor text lesson using the mentor text The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg.
Use picture books personification examples as mentor texts for your writing workshop in the classroom at home to introduce figurative language.
If you are looking for theme mentor texts or read alouds for teaching theme, this post shares 6 read alouds with summaries and possible themes for each.
Are you looking to learn more about how to use a mentor text for your reading instruction?
Find an extensive list of primary Mentor Texts for Common Core Literature Standards to help compliment your lessons in the classroom.
Check out my 14 picture book recommendations. These are the best mentor texts for teaching personal narratives.
Looking for memoir mentor texts for your middle school students? This list will help you introduce this genre to them as they prepare to write their own.
Using picture books and social emotional topics, teachers can help students analyze character development as it relates to literary themes.
Teaching synthesizing? Here are some great books for teaching synthesis that can help you model and practice it with your kids or students. Synthesizing is one of those comprehension strategies that may seem a little abstract. Simply put, synthesis just means your thinking changes as you read and add more information from the text. You may ... Read More about Great Books for Teaching Synthesizing
Teachers and parents, use picture books as mentor texts to teach perspective. Stories like these help you model for your students and children that our perspectives and the perspectives of different characters, including the narrator, is how we see the world and the events in it.
Check out this post for point of view mentor texts or read alouds for teaching point of view, including how point of view affects a story.
Do you ever read your students' writing and go, "Ummm... I wonder what language this is written in, because it's sure not English." I ...
I absolutely love to embrace the chaos of the Christmas season and tie the holidays into my December lessons! I love to find ways to make learning engaging for my students and still focus on my grade level reading standards. Below are a few books that are perfect mentor texts for teaching various reading comprehension […]
