Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6

Additional Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6 Information

How do children's book authors create the wonder that we feel when reading our favorite books? What can students and teachers learn from these authors and books if we let them serve as writing mentors? In Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as their foundation.

The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing focus, content, organization, style, and conventions and includes:mentor texts that can be used to scaffold student work;student writing examples to demonstrate how students take risks as writers;teacher writing examples to show the power of teacher as writer;a comprehensive annotated list of children's literature that includes specific suggestions for teaching points; Your Turn lessons at the end of each chapter that show how to put the ideas into practice.

Rose and Lynne write in a friendly and conversational style, employing numerous anecdotes to help teachers visualize the process, and offer strategies that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. Each Your Turn lesson is built around the gradual release of responsibility model, offering suggestions for demonstrations and shared or guided writing. Reflection is emphasized as a necessary component to understanding why mentor authors chose certain strategies, literary devices, sentence structures, and words.

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.

What Customers Say About Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6:

Any teacher who is struggling with teaching writing to their students, needs a deeper understanding of the value of mentor texts, and how to use them should have this book.It is worth every penny. I love this book.

It has also given me the confidence to implement this method of teaching writing. I am so glad I purchased this text. Thank you. I am grateful to these ladies and their interest in sharing their ideas. No matter how often you hear about mentor texts you can never hear enough. Reading this book has enabled me to fill in all the missing pieces.

Teachers can choose books their students pick to incorporate into the lesssons, but one of my favorite features of the book is the huge list of books that are put into categories of what they can be used to teach. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6This book has lots of ideas to create great lessons. Definitely a better way to learn about grammar and writing than just teaching rules through worksheets.

You can pick the lessons you want to teach and go from there. This is a very teacher friendly text.

The books and strategies in the book lend themselves to helping students take risks in their writing. It has lists of mentor texts that can be used to share the craft of writing and show children how authors use writing for many different purposes. Great book. This book is an excellent resource for anyone teaching writing to children (K-6). It has easy-to-read formatting and has lots of examples woven throughout.