Heinemann Blog | A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts

03/29/24

Finding Nonfiction Books That Reflect and Enrich Kids’ Sense of Themselves

When readers are able to see themselves within a text, their engagement with the materials deepens. (continue reading)

12/15/22

Improve Student Writing with Mentor Texts!

What can we learn from the texts that we admire the most? How can they inform our own writing? (continue reading)

06/10/21

On the Podcast: Developing Writing Skills with Mentor Texts with Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell

Mentor texts from a variety of high-interest sources along with diverse authors can be a real game changer in secondary writing classrooms. (continue reading)

06/02/21

Planning Instruction with Mentor Texts

Watch a FREE planning video and download a FREE study guide from Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell, coauthors of A Teacher’s Guide to Mentor Texts. (continue reading)

04/27/21

Starting Small with Mentor Texts: Studying Craft and Punctuation

It helps to start small. A beautifully crafted sentence is filled with interesting decisions the writer has made, and there’s so much to learn. (continue reading)

03/26/21

The Power of Using Mentor Texts in Secondary Classrooms

We can prepare our students for academic writing tasks when we invite them to make the kind of writing real writers make. (continue reading)

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