Mentor texts

Are you looking for picture book ideas for your next writing unit? Perhaps you’re about to teach personal narrative writing to your students and you’re in need of ideas and recommendations for story books. Check out the best mentor texts for teaching personal narratives! Here are some of the storybooks - Saturday by Oge Mora, Ralph Tells A Story By Abby Hanlon, A Moment In Time By Jennifer Butenas, Knuffle Bunny By Mo Willems, Roller Coaster, The Snowy Day, & Nothing Ever Happens On 90th…

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!

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

Looking for some excellent examples of themes in mentor texts for reading lessons? This post is filled with 10 picture books that have clear examples of themes to use for Reading Workshop or Guided Reading mini-lessons. Since upper elementary students sometimes find that identifying the theme can be tricky, these mentor texts will help teachers reinforce examples of themes using high-quality literature. Click the pin to hop over and task a look at these mentor texts for themes.,

Read on to see my list of the 12 best mentor texts for teaching fictional narratives to 3rd grade students. You'll love these picture books!

Using picture books and social emotional topics, teachers can help students analyze character development as it relates to literary themes.

Growth Mindset Mentor Texts | Elementary Engagement | These five mentor texts are just what you need to model a growth mindset in your classroom. Read on to see how you can use all five and find other teaching tips about fostering a growth mindset in your elementary students.

Click through to see my favorite mentor texts to use during narrative nonfiction lessons! Great read-alouds for a literary nonfiction unit in the elementary classroom!

Looking for new and diverse personal narrative mentor texts? These books will have readers connecting with a variety of small moments.

Helping upper elementary students truly understand how to identify the main idea and key details can be challenging! This post has 10 mentor texts you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using quality picture books allows you to model this reading skill effectively with informational text. The nonfiction picture books will help your students master main idea to increase their reading comprehension. To find out more, click on the picture to hop over and take a…

This post is filled with ready to use teaching ideas and activities to help you teach students to identify the central message. One of my favorite ways to teach the central message during reading lessons is to use mentor texts. These picture books make a great reading activity for students to practice finding the central message. If you'd like to learn more about how to teach the central message, you'll want to click over to read this post!

Learn how to start effectively using mentor texts for writer's workshop to help boost all of your kindergarten, first garde, and second grade students.

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

Get elementary students interacting with all of your amazing mentor texts with this simple strategy. Use mentor texts as inspiration for writing ideas! This writing activity is perfect for centers, or as a mini-lesson teachers can use with every mentor te

This unit teaches the types of conflict (person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. nature, person vs. society) using mentor texts in literature. The students fill out a graphic organizer telling which conflict it is and then use evidence from the text to support their answer. These stories can be read aloud or the students can read them independently on YouTube.

Are you looking for the best mentor texts to teach narrative writing? In this blog post we cover mentor texts that can be used for personal narratives or story writing which are perfect for your writer's workshop! The list of texts contains brief descriptions about each story and topic they teach (e.g., setting, sensory details, generating ideas, POV, characters, perspective, plot, and more). These are sure to enhance your writing workshop and level up your student's skills! Click to read…

Books for teaching inferencing- strategies and ideas for modeling making inferences with these mentor texts!

Just about any fiction text or poem you select can be used to teach visualizing in reading. But which books have the best descriptive language and are the most effective for practicing this reading comprehension strategy? Check out these 10 picture books for visualizing that will spark elementary students' creativity as they make their own mental images! Plus be sure to download the FREE printable list of mentor texts for your reading instruction!

I LOVE using mentor texts to teach reading skills in upper elementary! In this blog post, I talk about four of my favorite mentor texts that I like to use when teaching predictions and inferences with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. 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}

Point of view can be a tricky skill for students. We want to make sure that we are teaching point of view in a very explicit, yet memorable way. I decided to revamp my whole point of view unit with a fun, retro theme which is sure to be engaging and unforgettable for students. In this post, I will share some teaching tips, my favorite mentor texts for point of view, and some groovy activities for point of view with a fun room transformation idea! Before teaching point of view, look at your…