49. How to Use one Mentor Text for Narrative Writing and Reading Skills

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today's focus will be literary mentor texts - using one text with paired reading and writing standards to maximize our class time, increase student engagement with the content, and create learning that lasts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One picture book can tackle authors craft moves, author’s voice, tone of the story, point of view, sentence structures, and research for writing, to analyzing literary elements, word choice, narrative text features, tone of the story, and more for reading.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mentor text for narrative writing in this episode:</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">fiction novels,</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">poetry,</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">fictional narrative picture books,</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">narrative nonfiction picture books,</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">wordless picture books  </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">For a similar episode about informational mentor texts, head to <a href= "https://www.appleblossomteachers.com/podcast/episode/1f4f8409/29-informational-writing-instruction-3-activities-to-help-your-students-read-like-writers-and-improve-their-informational-writing"> episode 29</a></span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Resources and Links</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.appleblossomteachers.com/real" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5 Keys to Increasing Student Engagement in Upper Elementary FREE video training</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.appleblossomteachers.com/podcast/episode/1f4f8409/29-informational-w