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Tag: Picture Books

Engage your students during reading with a picture book scoot! This is a fun reading activity that will help students practice important reading skills and get them reading picture books! Learn all about this activity by clicking through to this post!

A Picture Book Scoot

In my school district, on Read Across America day, we dedicate the entire afternoon to just dropping everything and reading. There are some students in

Did you know you couldn't have chocolate without maggots? Pretty gross! "No Monkeys, No Chocolate" makes an awesome mentor text for teaching reading skills!

MTM: No Monkeys, No Chocolate

I love when I can find nonfiction texts that can be used in both reading and in other curricular areas, such as science. Today’s mentor

"Enormous Smallness" is a perfect reading mentor text for teaching about poetry, figurative language, vocabulary, text structure, biographies, and more!

MTM: Enormous Smallness

This week’s mentor text is the book Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings by Matthew Burgess. This is a nonfiction biography that centers around

"The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus" can be used as a mentor text for teaching about nonfiction, parts of a book, synonyms, vocabulary and more.

MTM: The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus

This week for Mentor Text Monday, I am going to tell you about a book written by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet. The book is

Engage your students in your elementary classroom with "The Whisper" while teaching about the reading skills of author's purpose, point of view, and more!

MTM: The Whisper

It’s Mentor Text Monday! This week I’m excited to share with you a book by Pamela Zagarenski. This book is called The Whisper. This book

If you are looking for some great read alouds during this Christmas or holiday season, look no further! Check out these fantastic seasonal books that will engage your students!

Seasonal Books Your Students Will Love

I have a lot of books that I want to share with you regarding the holidays! Any regular reader of my blog would know I

"I Don't Like Snakes" is a fantastic mix of both fiction and nonfiction elements that will engage your students as you teach about various science ideas.

MTM: I Don’t Like Snakes

I don’t like snakes. I never have. There is something about them that just creeps me out! So when I heard about this book, I

Text-To-Text connections. Theme. Personification. These are just a few of the reading skills that can be taught in your classroom by "Our Tree Named Steve!"

MTM: Our Tree Named Steve

Do you need a good book to use as a mentor text in reading this week? This week, my mentor text is “Our Tree Named

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