Jessica: Website with Collection of Mentor Text Lesson Plans and Additional Information

     The following is a link to the WritingFix website:     http://www.writingfix.com/picture_book_prompts.htm. This is a website that has a large collection of lesson plans that involve using picture books or chapter books as mentor texts for writing. These lessons are focused around the 6 writing traits. This website can be used as a resource in combination with the lesson plans listed on this blog to assist with using mentor texts to teach writing.

     In addition, this website includes other helpful tips to enhance the teaching of writing. For example, a teacher named Corbett Harrison explains how to print writing checklists on post-it notes. He gives these post-it note checklists to his students during writer's workshop and it helps to guide their thinking as they are writing and editing their work. This information can be found at http://writingfix.com/Classroom_Tools/Post_Its.htm.

This is an example Post-It Note Checklist that can be found on the WritingFix website!