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Take Back Your Time With Mentor Texts

Time is precious. There is NEVER enough of it!! But, what if there was a way you could take back some of that time? Would you take it? I have your answer! Before we dive in, let’s talk about what a mentor text IS and what it IS NOT. A mentor text is a picture […]

Suggestions For Making Mentor Sentences STICK In Writing

I am often asked by people who use mentor sentences, “How can I get the kids to carry these skills over into their writing?” Remember, the idea of using mentor sentences is to move AWAY from teaching grammar in isolation. This means, don’t have a “mentor sentence time” in isolation either! Mentor sentences must be […]

Close Reading And Writing Love Poems

**This post contains Amazon affiliate links. The few cents I earn on affiliate purchases is used to fund awesome giveaways!** When I read Molly’s blog post (Lessons with Laughter) where she described using the book, Vulture Verses with her students to create a class book of poems for the unloved… …I immediately thought of a fun Seymour Simon […]

Gleam and Glow: Helping Students Understand Refugees

In light of recent events, I felt this post was an important one to write. This is definitely a tricky topic that I’m going to tackle here, but I think it is essential to help students understand current events happening in their world. Of course, if you know me, you know I LOVE using a […]

Kindness Nation: Use Mentor Text, Terrible Things, to Teach About Upstanders

  At a time where our nation is very divided, we as teachers must impress upon our students that WE CAN spread kindness and love to combat the hatred and bullying. For this reason, hundreds of Teachers Pay Teachers authors have joined a movement. We want to support classrooms across the country (and world) in […]

Snowmen at Night for BIG KIDS!

This post contains an affiliate link to Amazon. If you use my link, Amazon pays me a few cents, which I use to fund my giveaways!    Typically, you probably think of the book, Snowmen at Night, as a book for “little kids.” But this is a fun book to use with the big kids […]