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Mentor Texts in the Classroom: Why Mentor Texts Work: The Consume, Critique, Produce Model by Pamela Brunskill
Welcome back to Pam Brunskill! Pam is an author and educator and I’m happy that she’s sharing some of her mentor text experience with us! As teachers, we know that students engage in the classroom when they are involved in designing their own learning experiences. They gain…
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Mentor Texts in the Classroom: A Second Person Point of View Writing Challenge
I love it when my day job and my writing life merge together–when research and studying in one feeds the other. I was working on a post for ReFoReMo on second person point of view (which you can read here) in my writing life. In my teaching life, I…
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Mentor Texts for Teachers: Resources for You to Use in the Classroom
Check out some of the new resources for writing teachers. Professional Books The Writing Thief by Ruth Culham This new book on using mentor texts in the classroom is full of great ideas for using mentor texts in the classroom. In the fall, Ruth, Kate Messner, Lisa Yee, and…
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Help Me, Help You (Mentor Text Resources Survey)
Summer is approaching, and while I’m knee deep in deadlines at the moment, I’m still thinking about what cool mentor text resources I can start providing. I have ideas about mentor text resources I’d like to create, and I’ve even started on many of these ideas. However, with time…
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Mentor Texts for Teachers Workshop
The month of March has been really busy for me as a writer and a teacher. I’ve attended three teacher conferences and one writing retreat. All of them were incredibly beneficial for me. I presented at two of the teacher conferences (one for my local school district and one…
