Wee Pip Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I guess its called Model Texts or Mentor Texts (may even be called Touchstone texts?) A picture book or novel is used to show how the author used nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. The students pick out the examples and then mimic the style to write their own. Anyone use a method similar to this? Any good books or resources? Does this work better than the typical fill-in-the-blank method of teaching grammar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhsmom Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I heard a man name Jeff Anderson speak about this very thing this summer. His website is http://www.writeguy.net/ . I found a link to this blog with suggestions for mentor sentences. I don't know if this is what you are thinking about, but this might give you some examples. http://www.greatsentences.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cschnee Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 The Killgallon books everyone is talking about are similar to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Also, I think the book Image Grammar is like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Jeff Anderson does talk about how he uses mentor texts in the classroom, in his books Everyday Editing and Mechanically Inclined. From a completely different point of view, Lucy Calkins also uses mentor texts for creative writing. Her book The Art of Teaching Writing goes into this in some detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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