A demonstration lesson presented at the 2014 Write for Texas Summer Institute. It provides a snapshot of a four to five week unit that engages students in the reading and writing workshop model.

This is a virtual discussion between a mentor and student involving mean, median, and mode. Discusses when each is used and how they are found.

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In this lesson, students will engage in revising their writings to incorporate sensory images. Students will brainstorm topics of places, away from their home, that are special. Then students will choose and then write a descriptive...

The biographies in the PEER Curricula site emphasize the early life of scientists and how they developed their interests. This biography of Peter Medawar is no exception. His teachers were important mentors in his life and led to his...

In this lesson, Robert Burleigh's picture book entitled Flight is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...

In this lesson plan, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share...

In this lesson, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Learners will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will...

In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Learners will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use interactive...

In this lesson, Andrew Clement's awesome picture book, Big Al is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...

In this lesson, If I Ran the Zoo, written by Dr. Seuss, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...

For this lesson, The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is used as a mentor text. Students will create an illustrated paragraph about a particular math topic. Students will use the mentor text and attempt to adapt the author's style...

In this lesson, students examine multiple mentor texts to help drive them toward the final persuasive writing assignment: comparison and contrast poems written from a parent and a child's perspective. A short story, two poems, and a song...

This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...

In this lesson, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text, students will write...

This lesson plan uses the mentor text by Wendy Cheyette Lewison entitled Raindrop, Plop! This lesson plan, which has a focus on word choice, engages students in brainstorming descriptive words and phrases about raindrops. At the end of...

In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson plan is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include his/her...

In this lesson plan, the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin, written by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to teach the students to take ownership of scientific and descriptive...

In this lesson students use the format and structure of a mentor text such as A. Lincoln and Me by Louise Borden to write an interesting biography about a historical figure with an emphasis on idea development, voice, and writing...

In this lesson, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record facts about the...

In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...

In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...

In this lesson, the mentor text entitled Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt is used to get students thinking about how they spend their days. Then students will write the hour and minute hands on blank clocks and will writing complete...

In this lesson plan, the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems is used as a mentor text. Students will learn how to evaluate the validity of a mathematical argument. Students will practice writing and revising their own...