Mentor Texts

Have you been searching for a quick reference of mentor texts to support you in teaching comprehension strategies? Take a peek here...

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Need to help bring text structure to life for your students? Check out these unique mentor texts that I've picked out just for you!

Learn how to start effectively using mentor texts for writer's workshop to help boost all of your kindergarten, first garde, and second grade students.

My top 10 favorite mentor texts to use when modeling writing for kids! A helpful book list for teaching kids to write.

Just about any fiction text or poem you select can be used to teach visualizing in reading. But which books have the best descriptive language and are the most effective for practicing this reading comprehension strategy? Check out these 10 picture books for visualizing that will spark elementary students' creativity as they make their own mental images! Plus be sure to download the FREE printable list of mentor texts for your reading instruction!

Discover the best mentor texts, both picture and chapter books, to teach (model) description using sensory images, vivid verbs, and figurative language.

Do you teach opinion writing in your classroom? Here is a list of 19 books that you can use to introduce opinion writing, teach students to write an opinion statement or even learn to supply reasons when writing opinions. The books range from primary grades through upper grades and give students a fun opportunity to engage with a variety of ways of writing opinions.

Make sure you add these books for teaching context clues to your lesson plans this week! These are perfect for teaching unknown words.

If you are looking for theme mentor texts or read alouds for teaching theme, this post shares 6 read alouds with summaries and possible themes for each.