2/5/09

UICRC Mentor Texts









Use this post to offer mentor texts. Include the following:

Title

Grade-level appropriateness (e.g., grades k-2)

Trait alignment (i.e., word choice, sentence fluency, organization, ideas, conventions, voice)

10 comments:

Samantha Richardson said...

Text: Teammates by Peter Golenbock

Purpose: Great for memory writing because it uses photographs of real people and places to tell a story.

Samantha Richardson said...

Text: Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill

Purpose: Great for teaching poems about colors that invokes all of the senses. Uses similes and metaphors to compare colors to other common things that we know.

Grade: K-6

Samantha Richardson said...

Text: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

Purpose: Great for teaching students how to write a story about a family member or friend’s journey to America.

Grade: K-6

Anonymous said...

Text: Home Run

Purpose: Great to teaching how to write about a small moment and how to drag that moment out with descriptive language.



Grades: K-6

Anonymous said...

Text: Amazing Grace


Purpose: Great for an example of how to begin a narrative text by describing a character.

Grades: K-6

Anonymous said...

Text: Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Purpose: The first page is a great example of all of the elements needed to start a story including dialogue examples and interesting word choice. In addition, most students have been introduced to this book by third grade so they have some familiarity with it.

Grades: Even PK can enjoy this story - 6th

Samantha Richardson said...

Text: Cleary, Brian. 2007. Quirky, jerky, extra perky: more about adjectives. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

Purpose: Great for teaching adjectives and helping students use these words to create more descriptive pieces of writing.

Grade: Inside the book they say it is appropriate for kids aged 7-9

Anonymous said...

Text: Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill

Purpose: Great for Word choice and great for a good beginning to a story. Furthermore, you could use the book to teach about patterned beginning and ending. Lastly, it is an example of how a character and her personality is introduced early on in the book. I loved this book!

Grade" k-4

Anonymous said...

Text: If you Give a Mouse a Cookie

Purpose: Great for scaffolding writers in a cyclical book. Students would be able to write their own stories following the text for guidance.

Grades: k-2 and struggling 3

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