How To Use Mentor Text/Read Aloud

Quarter 1: 6 Trait Focus: Ideas, Organization and Conventions

Content, Informational and Research

Reading, Listening,
Speaking, Collaborating and use of Technology in Support of Writing

Writing Process, Purpose and Craft
6 Traits

Grammar, Usage and Mechanics
(Revising for Effectiveness)

Assessment

IDEAS:
Mentor Text/Read Aloud: “Thank you, M’am” (PH TE) p.387

Student Text: “The Curfew Question” (RC) p.64

Mentor Text/Read Aloud: “The Trouble with Television” PH TE p.558

Student Text: “Net Smarts” p. 92

Additional Mentor Texts/Read Aloud for IDEAS:
“The Story Teller” PH TE p. 395 and “The Drummer Boys of Shiloh” PH TE p.200

ORGANIZATION:
Mentor Text/Read Aloud: “Baseball” (PH TE) p.478
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Mentor Text/Read Aloud: “from Out of Dust” (PH TE) p.1094

Student Text: “The Kindness of Strangers” (RC) p. 184

Additional Mentor Text/Read Aloud for ORGANIZATION:
“Science and the Sense of Wonder” (PH TE) p.581 and ”The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” (PH TE) p. 503

Reader’s Notebook ST, pp. 147-153

Reality Central Writing Journal ST, pp. 60-62

Reader’s Notebook ST, pp.183-186

Reality Central Writing Journal ST, pp.74-77

Reader’s Notebook ST, pp. 141-144

Reality Central Writing Journal ST, pp. 70-72

Reader’s Notebook ST, pp. 415-421

Reality Central Writing Journal, pp. 172-174

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