Using Mentor Texts: Dreamers
This post is dedicated to Jorge Calvillo Garcia. He was one of the 22 victims in the terrorist attack in El Paso on August 3,
This post is dedicated to Jorge Calvillo Garcia. He was one of the 22 victims in the terrorist attack in El Paso on August 3,
It’s not just a hashtag. It’s not just the latest buzzword. Incorporating diverse books into your lessons is important for so many reasons. And it’s
Mentor texts are pieces of literature that are read (and re-read) in order to be understood, studied, and used as models. A good mentor text
Annotation in the lower grades will look a bit different than it does in the upper grades. It definitely won’t be quite as detailed, but
This time of year, it’s no secret that most kids have Santa on the brain… …so don’t fight that feeling! You definitely can’t beat ’em on
We don’t often think of using higher order thinking questions, or Bloom’s Taxonomy above level 1 and 2, within grammar and writing instruction. In fact,
Teachers are aware that understanding vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but we want students to do more than just “know it when they read
Honest talk here. Close reading turns those mini-lessons into MAXI-lessons if you try to fit in all that you want to do with a text
How many times as an adult have you been reading a book and realize at the end of the page, you didn’t really READ any
When I first started teaching, I would sit down at the beginning of every school year with a blank calendar, and I’d map out what
A question I am asked frequently, because of my use of picture books as mentor texts, is: “Are picture books really complex enough for my
As you learned in my previous post, it’s time to throw the vocabulary list OUT! Students need the words in context, and they need practice