In ONE WEEK, Writing With Mentors will officially be out in the world. While you’re waiting, you can get a sample of the book on the Heinemann website! http://www.heinemann.com/products/E07450.aspx We are also halfway through our Tweet-a-thon! We have gathered some amazing, hot-off-the-presses mentor texts in our #writingwithmentors Tweet-a-thon over the last week. Here’s what we shared […]
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#writingwithmentors Tweet-a-Thon Day 5 Wrap Up
Day 5 of our Tweet-a-thon saw mentor texts for writing about fashion, sports profiles, history, poetry, memoir. We even had some mentors being literally pulled straight off the shelf at Barnes & Noble and Tweeted from the racks! Here’s a wrap-up of day 5! The Tweet-a-thon continues through September 3, the day that Writing with Mentors […]
#writingwithmentors Tweet-a-thon Days 3 & 4
The mentor text love didn’t slow down over the weekend! What joy it is to get a bundle of new mentor texts and teaching ideas to usher us into the school year! You can see this weekend’s conversation here. Eventually, each of these texts will be added to our growing Mentor Text Dropbox! It’s never […]
#writingwithmentors Tweet-a-thon Days 1 and 2
The mentor texts have been rolling in, and we are in mentor text heaven! Catch up with the Tweet-a-thon Day 1 and Day 2 , then Tweet-a-mentor text of your own! Remember that in addition to the camaraderie of sharing resources, every Tweet enters you to win a copy of Writing With Mentors, available September 3 (read […]
#writingwithmentors Tweet-a-thon starts NOW!
Today’s the day! The #writingwithmentors Tweet-a-thon starts now. And it’s simple to participate: just Tweet the link to a potential mentor text and use the hashtag #writingwithmentors! You will get inspired for a new year of writing in your classroom, scads of resources, and you might just win a copy of Writing With Mentors!
The #writingwithmentors Tweet-a-thon — Let’s Do This!
Thursday is the day we begin our Tweet-a-thon, leading up to the publication of Writing With Mentors on September 3! (You can download a sample and pre-order on Heinemann’s site!) A little fuzzy on the rules of the game? Need a refresher? Here’s the deal: Rules of the Tweet-a-Thon: Between August 20 and September 3, tweet a link […]
Mentor Text Countdown Finale: Hear from Our Students!
For the past ten weeks, we have been sharing some of our most popular posts about mentor texts as we get ready to share our first book, Writing With Mentors, with the world on September 3! (You can order it here or here — an Amazon even gives you a sneak peak inside!) But, it’s one thing for […]
Summer Mentor Text Countdown Week 9: The Mentor Text Dropbox
Once upon a time, Allison and I fell in love with mentor texts. Once we taught our students how to use them, they answered every writing question, solved every writing problem. But we hated the hours and hours of time it took to find even one good one. So, we decided to share with each other. When […]
Announcing the #writingwithmentors Tweet-a-Thon!
Friends, we are getting so excited to share Writing With Mentors with you on September 3. Do you remember Oprah’s Favorite Things episodes? Hysterical audience members would load up on exotic goodies gifted to them by Oprah. Invariably, by the end of the episode, the group would hear Oprah’s signature bombastic yawp: “You get a […]
Summer Mentor Text Countdown Week 8: Mentor Texts for Literary Analysis
Before Allison and I each began using the writing workshop approach in our classrooms, one of our biggest concerns was the same concern we hear again and again from teachers around the country: we are high school teachers. We must teach literary analysis and the writing of literary analysis. How can writing workshop accommodate this? We […]
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