Latest posts tagged with #MentorTexts on Bluesky
Thank you @christymatthes.bsky.social for posting my guest blog at the fourth annual #RateYourStory March On With Mentor Texts event.
#kidlit #booksky #PB #ownvoices #mentortexts #MOWMT #amreading #picturebooks #diversebooks #12x12PB #schoollibrarians #amwriting #collectiondevelopment
Happy Birthday (yesterday) to my near and dear friend and talented writer Selene Castrovilla! Show her some love (and possibly win a prize) by commenting! on the original post.
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It's that time again! Who's with me?
Registration is open all month at www.rateyourstory.org/post/2026-ma...
#MOWMT #RateYourStory #mentortexts #kidlitcommunity #KidLit #reading #amreading #amwriting #AmRevising
Richness of vocabulary allows a child to communicate a richness of thought in their spoken and written words. It all points to the essential nature of exposure to quality literature and quality conversations in the classroom. #vocabularybuilding #richlanguage #mentortexts
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#mentortexts
Congrats on your new books @jyotigopal.bsky.social !! Read all about them here:
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The considered journey towards mentor text mastery in the writing classroom. A journey of shared discovery using the support of trusted authors and their powerful works.
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#mentortexts #authors #readinglikewriters
After a long week, it’s nice to just lay back and relax with a pile of picture books 🥰 #kidlitchat #mentortexts #kidlitcommunity #writesky
This is just about a perfect collection of personal essay #MentorTexts - a *wide* variety of topics from authors who are diverse in just about every way imaginable. Great work from @theguardian.com. #EduSky www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Here's a small set of mentor sentences from a recent article I read. Writing beside well crafted sentences strengthens my practice and gives me ideas for what to write about in the future. #MentorTexts #EduSky #CraftMoves #WritingCraft #WriteBesideThem docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Finally got around to "When I'm 84: The World Still Needs Ringo Starr" by Mark Leibovich. Collected mentor excerpts to write beside. Great #MentorText for biography writing and for music lovers! #MentorTexts #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #MovingWriters docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Who else is a winner?
There's still time to read any #MOWMT posts you might have missed!
#kidlit #mentortexts #amwriting #amrevising #kidlitcommunity
New post up at Moving Writers about how I teach my students to build a metaphor throughout a college entrance essay! movingwriters.org/2025/03/25/m... #mentortexts @rebekahodell1.bsky.social
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#BookLove #MarchOn #MentorTexts #RateYourStory
Who else is having fun reading mentor texts for MOWMT?
These authors have some great tips to share!
(Psst! My post will be up on March 25th - stay tuned!)
#MOWMT #marchonwithmentortexts #mentortexts #picturebooks #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #RateYourStory
A grouping of 9 different animal-related picture books.
Some of today’s library treasures!😍 #NF #PB #MentorTexts #AmWriting
Starting the year off strong in the #Kidlit community! 📚 January brought #Storystorm, February had #NFFest, and now we’re Marching on with #MentorTexts! 🚀 #WritingCommunity #KidlitWriters #MarchOn
@literallylynne.bsky.social
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#BookLove #MarchOn #MentorTexts #RateYourStory
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@literallylynne.bsky.social Interesting POV post in March On With Mentor Texts by @roxannetroup.bsky.social Check out her thoughts! Check out the books too!
"POV is the lens with which we tell a story. But choosing the right point of view can be a challenge." Check out this craft post with PB mentor texts to study (by me!).
#kidlit #mentortexts #storytelling #writerstoolbox
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I posted this in the old place, and maybe it'll do some good for the #EduSky crowd. This is a collection of right around 300 #MentorTexts that I've curated in recent years. While they certainly betray my idiosyncrasies, I think there's a lot here that will speak to teens. padlet.com/himsjaso1809...
🌵This is a fun one! AROUND ONE CACTUS - OWLS, BATS AND LEAPING RATS by Anthony D. Fredericks
Great example of rhyming couplets in a cumulative story scheme!
collazocove.com/blog
#AmWriting #NF #PB #MentorTexts 📚👍🏼
🔥New on the blog: Exploring Mentor Texts: Steve Jenkins Style!
#AmWriting #NF #PB #MentorTexts #KidLit
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Stack of four picture books about seashells and the ocean laying on top of one another
I'm reading!
I have a pile of mentor texts to study structure, language, and scenes for my WIP. So much to learn and absorb.
I never knew writing for children would be so hard...and so much fun!
#kidlit #WIP #Iamreading #mentortexts #nonfictionpb
Okay, this is a new favorite!
Up on the blog:
SLEEPY - SURPRISING WAYS ANIMALS SNOOZE
by Jennifer Ward and illustrated by Robin Page.
Check it out! collazocove.com/blog
#AmWriting #MentorTexts #KidLit #PB #NF 📚👍🏼
Richness of vocabulary allows a child to communicate a richness of thought in their spoken and written words. It all points to the essential nature of exposure to quality literature and quality conversations in the classroom. #vocabularybuilding #richlanguage #mentortexts
I'm turning my attention to the idea of writing #nonfiction #picturebooks (that aren't biographical), so I need to read a huge pile. I'd love to hear your favorite WOW! titles from the past 2-3 years. Thanks! #kidlit #PB #NF #mentortexts
1/2"Portable ovens are like the iPhones of home pizza making: they have changed everything. The prototype for the first Ooni, launched on Kickstarter in 2012, looks more like a medieval torture device than anything you could feasibly use to cook." #mentortexts
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Another wonderful collection! Congratulations! #kidlit #picturebooks #mentortexts
We can look at #MentorTexts across languages to name and notice. We can then refer back to this work in #conferring to help guide a fluid movement between languages and of course be playful when writing #BilingualTexts.
