Mentor Texts by Jocelyn https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77 How do you/ could you/ would you use mentor texts? en-us 2017-08-02 04:19:35 UTC 2025-10-01 21:57:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Kristie kgibson17 https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929458 How does this author establish mood? What connections can you make to your own writing?]]> 2017-08-02 06:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929458 Jina As motivation / provocation. https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929483 As models.
To share writers' craft .
As comparative tools.]]> 2017-08-02 06:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929483 Des https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929484 Using mentor texts for students to name and notice a range of foci relevant to writing Eg: Sizzling starts; adjectives; adverbs; paragraphs; punctuation etc...]]> 2017-08-02 06:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929484 Rubi rbasu8 https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929506 To develop the love of reading. 
Teaching specific skills
To make the children curious

]]> 2017-08-02 06:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929506 Rene https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929509 as a model / exemplar for writing

]]> 2017-08-02 06:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929509 rjohnson45 https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929515 To model styles of writing. Use of sentence structure, vocab, sequencing, predicting etc. Also to model issues, pleasure, emotive feelings, illustrations. Certain books create different moods.]]> 2017-08-02 06:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929515 - Demonstrate an example of a style of writing https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929520  - Modelling
- ]]> 2017-08-02 06:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929520 Lynette https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929529 Read the story to the student. As about the feelings it evokes. Use it as a exemplar for their own writing]]> 2017-08-02 06:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929529 Aviva https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929531 -As a way to deepening a unit through the author's style, message etc
-As a guideline to help the students with their own writing
]]> 2017-08-02 06:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929531 To provide an example, inspiration and guide to literary devices authors use. https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929534 2017-08-02 06:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929534 a tool to return to and reread for many different purposes. They are texts to be studied and imitated. https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929605 Jina]]> 2017-08-02 06:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929605 Mandy https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929684 mentor texts are valuable as they give teachers and children an avenue to improve reading and writing in so many ways.]]> 2017-08-02 06:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jblumgart/n7hpe6gerx77/wish/179929684