Mentor Texts

As we begin to discuss Writer's Workshop more and more, you might begin to hear the term Mentor Text or Touchstone Text being used.

This is text that serves as a mentor for the writing and can be a picture book, chapter book, teacher writing, student writing, article, etc.

For example, if you wanted to teach about strong adjectives you might read Piggie Pie, which is filled with vivid descriptions.

If you wanted to teach voice, you might read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, which has many examples of voice.

I am starting a mentor text collection at each school. A bin of books that can be used as mentor texts will be placed with the Good Habits, Great Readers materials.

However, any book can be used as a mentor text, and I'm sure that your shelves and Trophies Anthologies are filled with them!

For more information about mentor texts visit this website or Writing Fix.