This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...

In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated. Story...

In this activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this activity. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this activity. Students...

In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Young scholars will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made...

In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Learners will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...