Mentor Text Library for Teaching Writing by

Goose by Molly Bang

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:22:14 UTC

Goose by Molly Bang is a fantastic mentor text for presentation and accurate writing. It has an engaging storyline and illustrations to keep students interested.

Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:24:25 UTC

Honey, I Love is a great mentor text of poetry for students to find their voice in constructing poetic pieces of writing. There are great lessons within the poems to be learned and demonstrate how writing can be meaningful and personal.

Dare To Dream To Change The World by Jill Corcoran

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:27:13 UTC

This poetry book is a great mentor text to model proper organization of writing. It also has a great message about inspiration and conquering dreams. It is suitable for Kindergarten- 2nd grade.

Charlotte's Web by E.B White

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:33:21 UTC

Charlotte's Web has a great storyline and is a great introduction to chapter books. It is a good starter for students to see how stories can flow with more complexity.

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:34:44 UTC

Brown Girl Dreaming is an award winning picture book that is a great way to demonstrate how great pieces are put together.

Honey by David Stein

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:37:19 UTC

Honey by David Stein is a great mentor text for word choice by demonstrating how words can enhance the meaning and message of a book.

The Web Files by Margie Palatni

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:39:32 UTC

This mentor text is great for demonstrating the use of punctuation/conventions and their influence on the meaning of pieces of writing. This is great for an engaging read-aloud and lesson for how punctuation works.

The Girl's Like Spaghetti by Lynne Truss

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:41:17 UTC

This book puts a fun twist on how apostrophes impact the meaning of writing. This book is engaging but extremely helpful with teaching proper use of conventions.

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:43:55 UTC

This mentor text is great for demonstrating the Ideas category of writing.

The Circles Around Us by Brad Montague

laurenscarzafava — 2024-02-21 18:46:50 UTC

This great mentor text is great for demonstrating the impact of using personal ideas in writing.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 16:53:03 UTC

Brown Bear is a great book with a repetitive and rhyming and text. It demonstrates how to follow a simple theme in a book.

Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Rob Pulver

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 16:54:15 UTC

This book is a great way to demonstrate the importance of proper use of conventions to change the meaning of writing.

Taste Your Words by Bonnie Clark

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 16:56:07 UTC

Taste Your words is a great book for showing how to use your voice in writing to depict personal feelings, emotions, and experiences.

Singing In The Rain by Tim Hopgood

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 16:58:36 UTC

Singing In The Rain shows how to use your voice to write about opinions and emotions.

I Have An Idea! By Herve Tullet

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 16:59:44 UTC

I have an Idea! is a great book for children to learn how to come up with creative and personal ideas to fuel writing with passion.

What Do You Do With An Idea? Mae Besom

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 17:01:08 UTC

This award winning children's book is impactful for teaching students that ideas take time and how to provide purpose to those ideas.

The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 17:03:25 UTC

The Word Collector is a great book for teaching students how to strategically choose words to make a difference in the world.

The Boy Who Loved Words

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 17:04:53 UTC

This book is an award winner for how it teaches students about the importance of using writing and impactful words to make a difference.

A Squiggly Story

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-10 17:06:03 UTC

This books is efficient for teaching students the importance of putting sentences together correctly in their writing.

The Story of The Three Little Pigs

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 12:50:45 UTC

This book is a great resource for teaching voice as it demonstrates varying personalities among character with a dynamic storyline.

Now and Ben

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 12:52:52 UTC

This book demonstrates organization of writing as it flips in between past and present in an organized manner.

Diary of A Wimpy Kid

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 12:54:02 UTC

This series demonstrates how to use voice in writing to depict personal experiences and emotions.

Diary of A Worm

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 12:55:30 UTC

This book shows how to organize texts that extend over long periods of time.

Sleep Like A Tiger

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 13:11:06 UTC

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 13:12:33 UTC

This book teaches students how to use creativity to spark their writing ideas.

They All Saw a Cat

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 13:13:19 UTC

Extra Yarn

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 13:14:23 UTC

This funny and engaging children's book is a great resource for teaching about presentation and imagination in writing.

Punctuation Station

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 13:16:03 UTC

This book is useful for teaching students the importance of conventions and sentence meaning.

Twenty-Odd Ducks

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 13:17:25 UTC

This goofy and engaging book is great for teaching kids about all the punctuation marks.

The Keeper of Wild Words

laurenscarzafava — 2024-04-11 13:19:03 UTC

This book is valuable for teaching students how to incorporate new and old words into their writing to enhance meaning.