Mentor Texts to Help Amazing Kids Write!

Funded Sep 24, 2021

The books that were sent to my students and myself have really helped us to explore writing on a deeper level. These books, that you all graciously donated, have been used as mentor text for my kindergarten students. All of the books are being used to provide examples of excellent and entertaining writing during our Writers Workshop block. As students learn about making detailed images and practice writing down their ideas, they are able to listen to read-alouds that tie in new concepts and new goals. These books have exposed my students to different types of writing, as well as different levels of writing. Rocket's Mighty Words helped introduce writing by showing my students how to label a picture. How to Wash a Woolly-Mammoth helped me introduce "How-To" writing where students use sequence words to write steps in the correct order. Each and every book donated has something my students can learn from and we are so thankful and excited to have these resources.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Barnes