Mentor Texts:WW-P 3-5 by Susan Totaro https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4 Using Mentor Texts in Reading and Writing June 2015 en-us 2015-06-22 21:29:43 UTC 2026-02-13 04:06:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/notebook.jpg One Green Apple by  susan_totaro https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700532 by Eve Bunting Uses: to create classroom culture, ELL, communicates using body language

]]> 2015-06-24 18:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700532 I'm in Charge of Celebrations lizbeth_reil https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700707 by Byrd Baylor

Finding ideas and looking 

at what it is like to live as a writer by noticing the small things that happen around you.

]]> 2015-06-24 18:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700707 Secrets, Lies and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman kara_kleckner https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700743 -Unit: Social Issues

-Cross Curricular Tie-In's with math conepts

]]> 2015-06-24 18:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700743 Chrysanthemum susan_totaro https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700761 2015-06-24 18:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700761 Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco carolmurphy2 https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700828 social issues, realistic fiction, memoir

]]> 2015-06-24 18:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700828 Chowder https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700858 by Peter Brown

Classroom culture - fitting in and acceptance of others.

]]> 2015-06-24 18:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700858 The Summer My Father was Ten https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700908 by Pat Brisson

social issues, personal narrative

]]> 2015-06-24 18:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700908 Those Shoes https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700915 2015-06-24 18:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700915 Fly Away Home  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700928 by: Eve Bunting 

Uses: social issues, family

]]> 2015-06-24 18:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700928 Crow Call by Lois Lowry carolmurphy2 https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700967 memoir, historical fiction WW II

]]> 2015-06-24 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700967 Fiona's Lace by Patricia Pollacco mariebresnahan1 https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700991 Immigration

]]> 2015-06-24 18:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63700991 Thank you, Mr. Falker https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701033 by Patricia Polacco

Memior

Social issues

Realistic fiction

Character Ed.

]]> 2015-06-24 18:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701033 Six Crows https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701035 by: Leo Lionni

Compromise and putting differences aside.

]]> 2015-06-24 18:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701035 B https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701078 2015-06-24 18:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701078 The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen kara_kleckner https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701079 -Folk Tale/Fairy Tale

]]> 2015-06-24 18:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701079 The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701107 Personal Narrative - Descriptive language, circular story, family ties author's voice

]]> 2015-06-24 18:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701107 Hurricane by Henri Sorensen carolmurphy2 https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701144 narrative, realistic fiction, circular story, figurative language

]]> 2015-06-24 18:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701144 B https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701215 2015-06-24 18:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701215 Spaghetti in a Hotdog Bun https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701221 by Maria Dismondy

Classroom culture - bullying, taking turns

dialogue, perspective

]]> 2015-06-24 18:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701221 Each Kindness  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701322 by: Jacqueline Woodson

Social Issues

Literary Essays - Opinion Writing

]]> 2015-06-24 18:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701322 B https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701327 Brave Irene

By William Steig

Use for specific language

plot/theme/structure

social issues

personification, similes,metaphors

]]> 2015-06-24 18:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701327 Because of Winn-Dixie https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701349 by Kate DiCamillo

Character traits, setting, inference, author's voice

]]> 2015-06-24 18:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701349 A Chair for My Mother https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701387 2015-06-24 18:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701387 Kindness is Cooler https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701464 by Margery Cuyler

Classroom community, sharing, taking turns, doing your best

]]> 2015-06-24 18:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701464 The Worst Best Friend  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701477 by: Alexis O'Neill

Uses: community, friendship

]]> 2015-06-24 18:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701477 When I Was Young in the Mountains kara_kleckner https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701503 Unit: Memoir

]]> 2015-06-24 18:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701503 The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701532 by Patricia MacLachlan

Uses: Growth mindset

]]> 2015-06-24 18:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701532 Mean Jean the Recess Queen  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701551 By: Alexis O'Neill

Uses: community, being a good friend

]]> 2015-06-24 18:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701551 Every Living Thing https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701575 by: Cynthia Rylant

Literary Essays

Character change over time

]]> 2015-06-24 18:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701575 Ish https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701667 by Peter H. Reynolds

Beginning of writer's workshop, keep trying, drafting, builds writing confidence

]]> 2015-06-24 18:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701667 The Other Side https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701738 by Jacqueline Woodson

Historical Fiction, social issues, inference and interpretation

]]> 2015-06-24 18:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701738 Peter's Chair  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701759 by: Ezra Jack Keats

Uses: character study

]]> 2015-06-24 18:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701759 Miss Malarkey Leaves no Reader Behind  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701817 Uses: start off Reader's Workshop

]]> 2015-06-24 18:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701817 First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701882 First day of school read aloud

]]> 2015-06-24 18:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701882 Shark Attack  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701887 Uses: nonfiction mentor text, structure

]]> 2015-06-24 18:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701887 The Trouble With Chickens https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701895 by Doreen Cronin

Intro to mysteries - mystery vocabulary and strategies, red herrings

]]> 2015-06-24 18:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701895 "When I Was Young in the Mountains" by James Howe (included in this anthology) kara_kleckner https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701910 -Unit: Memoir

-Craft Move: flashback

]]> 2015-06-24 18:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701910 The Tiger Rising https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701940 by Kate DiCamillo

-Unit: Following Character into Meaning

]]> 2015-06-24 18:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63701940 The Teddy Bear https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702005 by David McPhail

social issues

]]> 2015-06-24 18:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702005 Testing Miss Malarkey  https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702020 uses: test prep unit

]]> 2015-06-24 18:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702020 You Have to Write https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702041 by Janet S. Wong

Intro to writer's workshop; persistence, gathering ideas, drafting

]]> 2015-06-24 18:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702041 The Ravenmaster's Secret by Elvira Woodruff kara_kleckner https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702104 Unit: Historical Fiction

]]> 2015-06-24 18:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702104 Bed https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702122 The Name Jar

By Yangsook Choi

]]> 2015-06-24 18:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702122 Going Places susan_totaro https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702247 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KMM387HNQk

]]> 2015-06-24 18:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702247 Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad kara_kleckner https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702264 Unit: Historical Fiction

]]> 2015-06-24 18:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/susan_totaro/2to9wgt0zgh4/wish/63702264