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Strategies at Work: The Bear Ate Your Sandwich (K-2)

I am teaming up with The Reading Crew to bring you all you need to teach some amazing mentor text lessons this fall! The Bear Ate Your Sandwich is the story of a bear, lost in a city. He comes across many things in this “strange new forest,” and one of them is YOUR SANDWICH! But […]

Use Enemy Pie To Maximize Your Teaching Time

  I absolutely LOVE getting the most bang for my buck, don’t you? Time is such a precious commodity in the classroom, so any time I can maximize that time by using a mentor text, I do! Today, I’m going to share how I use the book, Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. You can get […]

The Importance of Differentiation in Reading

If you’ve been a teacher within the last decade, you know the word “DIFFERENTIATION” isn’t just the latest and greatest buzzword. It’s crucial across all subjects to be able to meet the needs of the different learners in your class. For a teacher just starting to differentiate, the idea of it can sometimes seem overwhelming. […]

Getting Started With Mentor Sentences

Some common emails I get when people are ready to start mentor sentences, or are in the first week and feel like it’s not going like it should, go something like this: “Help! My students aren’t able to write anything down the first week!” or “What do you do if students don’t know anything?”   […]

Setting Up Mentor Sentence Notebooks

Have you been wondering how you should set up student mentor sentence notebooks?   **Disclaimer: How you set up your notebook should match your organizational style in your classroom. This blog post contains ideas of ways that worked for me!**   My students used their writing notebook for mentor sentences as well. All of the […]

Look who has been featured!

I am so excited to share that one of my favorite blog posts has been featured on the TPT blog! Check it out!