https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti Mentor texts for my classroom en-us 2021-05-30 12:07:48 UTC 2026-02-06 13:30:40 UTC hello@padlet.com mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571810370 This story shows a girl and her dog trying to build “the most magnificent thing” The girl becomes frustrated as she try’s and try’s but can not make the most magnificent thing. At the very end she makes a scooter with an attachment for her dog. The idea focuses on one topic of perseverance and what can happen when you don’t give up. ]]> 2021-05-30 17:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571810370 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571810632 This tale talks about an old woman who struggled to fend for herself. She then found an abandoned polar bear and raised him as her own. The two helped each other survive. The hunters of the village grew jealous of the polar bear and threaten to kill him. So the old woman and the polar bear had to meet in private. This story has all the components of a good story, an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. This is a great example for young writers to learn about the different parts of a plot. ]]> 2021-05-30 17:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571810632 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571810972 This wonderful story tells about a girl who just wanted to be Peter Pan. Some of her classmates said that she couldn’t be Peter Pan because she was black and she was a girl. Her mom and grandma showed her she can be anything she wants to be. Grace did get the part of Peter Pan in the end. In this story you can hear the authors feelings. You can hear that the author believes that it does not matter what color, gender, shape or size you are, you can be anything you want to be. ]]> 2021-05-30 17:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571810972 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571811289 This book discusses all the the things a boy likes to do with his brother. I chose this book because it is great for young readers to learn sight words. It uses words that are simple, and includes pictures that can help the reader know what the text is saying if they can not read the words. The book is also written in both English and Spanish. This may be a good book for ELLs to read to see the connection between Spanish and English words. ]]> 2021-05-30 17:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571811289 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571811567 This story is about a father and his young son going “owling” this meant they were going to search for owls. The story is filled with varying sentence structures, metaphors, similes, personifications, and descriptive language. This book can help students understand how to add good descriptors to their writing. They can also see how metaphors, similes, and personification is used in stories and how to add them into their own writing. ]]> 2021-05-30 17:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571811567 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571812223 This book explains all of the things two siblings did in the mountains growing up. You can hear the author through this book. You can hear her love for the time she spent in the mountains. You can almost feel what it is like to be in the mountains as a young child. ]]> 2021-05-30 17:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1571812223 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588105919 This book talks about a young girl who loves to try to catch chickens. Her grandmother urges her not to, but she just can’t help herself. The story closes with the girl finding a mother hen and her chicks which leads the girl to leave the chickens alone. The story could be told without pictures, and you can tell exactly what is going on. The story uses many similes and onomatopoeias. This would be a great choice to begin a lesson on these topics in writing. ]]> 2021-06-06 16:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588105919 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588449500 This book takes you though all the things you could do if you are a certain object. It uses rhyming patterns and descriptive language. Students can use this book to build an understand of poetry, and how to describe the actions of various objects. It shows how to use more than one description of what an object does. This can help teach students how to put more details into their writing. ]]> 2021-06-06 23:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588449500 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588477154 Chicka chicka boom boom is a story that uses rhyming to teach the alphabet. The sentences flow well and can be read or sung aloud with students. Readability is simple and easy for students to read with a teacher, or by themselves. Students enjoy this because it is a fun way to sing and learn the alphabet. ]]> 2021-06-06 23:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588477154 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588490654 The very hungry caterpillar is a wonderful book about a caterpillar that can not stop eating. He eats and eats until he gets fat, and then goes into a cocoon, and then turns into a butterfly. This book has a great sequence that shows the process it takes for a butterfly to form. This book has a natural flow that develops the story from beginning to end. ]]> 2021-06-07 00:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588490654 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588513747 This book focuses on loving yourself and the world around you. It talks about all the different things you should love such as your grin, your wiggle, animal shelters and more. This story focuses on one idea throughout the entire story. It uses images to support the idea of loving oneself and others. ]]> 2021-06-07 00:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588513747 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588685038 Diary of a worm is just that, the details of a worms day written in diary form. This book is great for teaching about conventions. It shows many different kinds of punctuations such as what it should look like when you are numbering items in a list, how to quote someone speaking, where to place commas, and using general punctuation such as periods, question marks, and exclamation points. ]]> 2021-06-07 01:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1588685038 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604041041 This book talks about one boy that had an idea and he didn’t know what to do with it. He carried it with him until one day his idea grew too big. He found that you use ideas to change the world. This book focuses on one specific concept and uses it to teach a lesson about how our ideas may be silly to some, but may actually be really amazing. ]]> 2021-06-14 02:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604041041 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604056996 This book talks about 4 toys that are going through their days waiting. The reader can see their rather boring lives as they wait and watch out of the window. There are very simple sentences as well as more complex sentences. Toward the end of the book there were some phrases that use repeated words. Students can use this book to see a variety of sentence structures to use in their own writing. ]]> 2021-06-14 02:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604056996 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604085741 This book talks about all the things a mother and child do. Readers see that the mother is in a wheelchair. This book focuses on the idea of a mother and child having fun together. This book shows that just because a parent is in a wheel chair it doesn’t mean they can’t do everything with their child. ]]> 2021-06-14 02:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604085741 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604101737 This silly book talks about cows and chickens writing to their farmer requesting electric blankets. It uses a variety of conventions including colons, commas, and a variety of punctuation. The story includes a visual representation of what a letter should look like. This book can be used to show students how to write a letter using correct punctuation, structure and grammar. ]]> 2021-06-14 02:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604101737 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604127961 The umbrella is a wordless picture book that shows a dog who finds an umbrella and is flown away across many different lands. The dog encounters many problems like having to fight off alligators and getting swallowed by a whale. This book is organized from beginning middle and end. The reader can watch as the dog is carried many different places until he finds his way back home. The lack of words doesn’t matter because the illustrations show us exactly what we need to know to understand the story. ]]> 2021-06-14 03:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604127961 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604140409 Yo! Yes? Is a silly book that shows two strangers becoming friends. This book can be used to teach young students punctuation. The book uses one to two word phrases. Each phrase either uses a question mark, exclamation point, or period. There were also apostrophes and commas used. The phrases are so short and the pictures show facial expressions, because of this it is a great book for teaching the correct use of punctuation.]]> 2021-06-14 03:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1604140409 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616179995 This non-fiction book talks about the life of Duke Ellington. It uses modes of writing such as, figurative language, onomatopoeias, similes, and metaphors. It is a great way to show students how you can use fun language in non-fiction writing. You can use this book to talk about each mode of writing used and what they mean. ]]> 2021-06-20 14:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616179995 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616196535 This story is about a girl who had to leave her country to escape the war. It talks about her transition into her new country. She was sad and felt unsafe there. Then she met a girl who helped her learn new things and new words. Then she began to feel more safe and comfortable in her new home. This book uses good transition words for early writers. It has a strong beginning that pulls the reader in, and has a sequence that shows the girl transitioning from one place to another. ]]> 2021-06-20 14:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616196535 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616258657 This rhyming story makes connections between colors, animals and feelings. Dr. Seuss uses various colors and animals to explain how he is feeling. Dr. Seuss’s voice shines through the words as you can see exactly what mood he is in when he feels “a certain color”. This book can show students how to use different ways of expressing their emotions through text. ]]> 2021-06-20 16:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616258657 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616267359 This story tells of a young girl and her sisters who tried to marry the invisible man. The two sisters were beautiful on the outside but ugly on the inside. The “Rough Faced Girl” was “ugly” on the outside but beautiful on the inside. The rough faced girl was worthy of marrying the invisible man. This book shows that the author believes that it is not about what is on the outside that matters, but what is on the inside. It does not matter how beautiful you are on the outside if you have a ugly heart. ]]> 2021-06-20 16:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616267359 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616270188 This non fiction graphic novel talks about the Anne Franks life. I chose this book for sentence fluency because it has a variety of sentence lengths. It is also a new way to display non fiction material. Because it is displayed as a comic book, more students may be more interested in learning more about Anne Frank. It is a new and interesting way to learn about important figures throughout history. ]]> 2021-06-20 16:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616270188 mtate12 https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616279121 This book uses riddles to help young readers learn about different black and white animals like zebras, penguins, and orcas. The text uses a variety of commas, periods, and question marks. This could be a great book for beginning writers to learn how to use each of the conventions mentioned. ]]> 2021-06-20 16:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mtate12/t3c1l3s28sjxxiti/wish/1616279121