Saturday, December 1, 2012

Jessica: List of Mentor Texts

     The link listed below will take you to a pdf file created by an experienced teacher. She has taught grades ranging from kindergarten to sixth grade and is currently teaching first grade. She has developed an extensive list of all of the mentor texts she uses to teacher writing. The list includes what writing skill the books model and links to her lesson plans. 

Jessica: Writing Rubrics

     The link listed below will take you to a website that has writing rubrics that can be used to assess students' writing. These writing rubrics can be used to assess the 6 Writing Traits. Mentor texts are often used as models to help students improve their use of ideas, voice, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Some of the writing rubrics provided on this website also include presentation.