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1. Those Shoes: The Mentor Text Teaching Document

I worked on the Reading-Writing Connections Document for Those Shoes this evening. Here’s an example of the way I set it up: Craft Move Page Number(s) Why the Author Might Be Doing This… Varied Sentence Lengths Pgs. ,2, 15 & 30 One thing writers do is vary the lengths of their sentences when they write. If an author wants [...]

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2. The Makings of a TRUE Mentor Text

I realize I’m a bit late to the “Those Shoes Party,” which is a touching text written by Maribeth Boelts and illustrated by Noah Z. Jones. Those Shoes was published in 2007 and is the story of a little boy who desperately wants the shoes that nearly everyone else in school has. The [...]

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