Today's focus will be literary mentor texts - using one text with paired reading and writing standards to maximize our class time, increase student engagement with the content, and create learning that lasts.

One picture book can tackle authors craft moves, author's voice, tone of the story, point of view, sentence structures, and research for writing, to analyzing literary elements, word choice, narrative text features, tone of the story, and more for reading.

• Mentor text for narrative writing in this episode:
  • fiction novels,
  • poetry,
  • fictional narrative picture books,
  • narrative nonfiction picture books,
  • wordless picture books
• For a similar episode about informational mentor texts, head to episode 29

Resources and Links

5 Keys to Increasing Student Engagement in Upper Elementary FREE video training

Informational Mentor Texts for Nonfiction Writing - Episode 29

Novel Study No-no's and How to Avoid Them - Episode 46

Using a Reading Lesson Plan for Writing - Episode 48

Placing Text at the Center of the Standards-Aligned ELA Classroom

*By Meredith Liben and Susan Pimentel on Achieve the Core

The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction

*By Nell K. Duke, Alessandra E. Ward, P. David Pearson

*The Reading Teacher Journal, V.74 Issue 6

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