Mentor texts : teaching writing through children's literature, K-6
Summary
This practical resource demonstrates the power of learning to read like writers. It shows teachers and students how to discover the ways that authors make writing come alive, and how to use that knowledge to inspire and improve their own writing. Full description
- Reinventing the writer with mentor texts
- Digging for treasure: discovering personal stories by connecting with read alouds
- What are you really writing about? Discovering the inside story
- When writers use a magnifying lens
- Creating powerful beginnings and satisfying endings
- Using scaffolds to organize texts
- Poetry: everybody can be a writer
- Choice, voice, and all that jazz
- Walk around in the author's syntax
- A treasure chest of books.