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    Workshop Wednesday: Mentor Texts!

    March 27, 2013

    It’s another Workshop Wednesday! Today: Tell us all about your favorite mentor texts you use to teach author’s craft!


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    Ok, seriously. I think I may have to do this linky topic again, and again, and again, because there are just TOO many books I could rant and rave about, so I know you feel the same!! I’m going to try to share some of the “not so obvious” ones that people may not already use in hopes that you can get some new ideas from this post! 🙂

    Today, I’m going to focus on books I use to teach WORD CHOICE. There are so many of course, but here are a couple of my favorites:

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    I think I’ve probably shared this one with you before… maybe? It is one of my all time favorites. The story is about a little girl living in a city in the summer, totally hot and dried out, begging for rain. It describes those moments before rain-you know them, where it starts to cool, the wind picks up, and the smell of rain is in the air. There is soooo much you can use this book for. I actually use it during reading and writing for a whole week! For teaching word choice in writing though, I like to use this book for figurative language, awesome adjectives, and vivid verbs. Here are some example sentences from the book that I make sure to focus on:

    I am sizzling like a hot potato.
    The smell of hot tar and garbage bullies the air as I climb the steps to Jackie-Joyce’s porch.
    Everyone, everywhere, everything is misty limbs, springing back to life.

    Want my unit for this book? 🙂 Click here or on the preview to get it from my TPT store!

    This next book, I’m actually using this week. I am in love. The fabulous Amanda at Collaboration Cuties found this book last year and realized how amazingly perfect it was for our Westward Expansion Unit. It’s called Dandelions. 
    Click on the book to visit Amazon!
    The story is about a family moving to the Nebraska Territory in a covered wagon. Mama’s emotions make it very apparent that she is not happy about leaving her former home to live in a soddie (a dirt home), pregnant, away from all her friends and other family, although this is definitely an inference. She is lonely, but these feelings remain unspoken while the author describes her actions. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, too!
    As for word choice, this book is FULL of language and imagery that provide the students with opportunities to visualize. In fact, when I read it to my kiddos for the first time yesterday, I did NOT show them the pictures. Instead, I had them write down everything they could vizualize using their five senses. This helps them to “show, not tell” in their own writing. Some of the sentences that are excellent examples to focus on from this book are:

    Then, on a morning when the roar of the grass seemed quieter, Papa jumped from the wagon and shouted, “We’re here!”
    The town was lifting itself as if by magic out of the distance.
    The sky was a burning blue and the grass seemed tinged with red fire.

    Want an amazing unit aligned for reading and writing skills for this book? Check it out here at Collaboration Cuties TPT store or by clicking on the title page below

    I can’t wait to see the awesome books you all link up!! Make sure to grab the button from the top to include in your post, link back to blog posts only please, and kindly follow the rule of 3! 🙂 

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    by Jessica Ivey 
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    Workshop Wednesday!

    March 6, 2013

    What is your must-have in Writer’s Workshop? In other words, your Writer’s Workshop would not be successful without… <fill in the blank>.
    **Even if you don’t feel it’s a formal “Workshop” – you can share whatever you use that you can’t live without! Others can incorporate it into their “workshops!” You can link up anytime before next Wednesday, when we’ll have a new topic!**

    In my room, my kiddos have two things that we use consistently.

    Their Writer’s Collection Notebook is used for almost everything. It is a composition notebook where they collect ideas to write about, where they take notes or do activities that go along with my mini-lessons, and where they brainstorm for their writing pieces. It keeps me from going insane with papers falling out of a folder or getting lost…!

    This is an idea I stole borrowed from another teacher a few years ago. I give all of my students a yellow legal pad to do their rough drafts. I like for them to skip lines on their drafts for editing and revising purposes later, so I love these because the sheets are bigger and they aren’t “wasting” as much paper by skipping lines. The kids can keep up with what is a rough draft and what is a final by the color…and, the kids love it because it’s “different.”

    You know you’re a teacher when……………….

    being given a book like this excites you! I will be leading some Literacy Professional Development this summer, so the Language Arts Office bought all the leaders this book! I can’t wait to get in it! I bet it will improve my Writer’s Workshop too with all the awesome information that is in it! I love Lucy Calkins. 🙂

    I can’t wait to see what you all use in your Writer’s Workshop!!

    Please grab this image and link back to this post when you link up!! 🙂

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