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 […]
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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 5 – Mentor Sentences to Boost Student Writing
As you saw two weeks ago with our post about using mentor texts for Notebook Time, mentor texts can be large or small. Even a tiny mentor text can have spectacular results for student writing. Mentor sentences can be a great way for both you and your students to wade into the waters of mentor text study! […]
Summer Mentor Text Countdown: Week 4
We are sure that Flannery O’Connor would agree that like a good man, a good mentor text is hard to find. And, like you, we don’t have hours and hours to devote to the search. We need a short-hand, a fast protocol, some never-let-you-down sources. In Writing With Mentors, we devote all of chapter two to how […]
Summer Mentor Text Countdown — Week 3
Our students use multiple mentor texts constantly throughout the writing process — from planning all the way through publication. But our students also encounter daily mentor texts as they play with words and ideas in notebook time, our amped-up, mentor-text-based bell ringer. These mentor texts are very different from the ones we use in our […]
Moving Writers’ Summer Mentor Text Countdown – Week 1
School is winding down, and summer is upon us, but Allison & I are just getting started as we gear up for the September 3rd release of our first book with Heinemann, Writing with Mentors. We are working on some exciting things to share with you as we get closer to the official launch! In the meantime, […]
Writing with Mentors: How to Reach Every Writer in the Room using Current, Engaging Mentor Texts
Coming in September! (Are we the luckiest girls in the world, or what?)
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