After our Raising the Quality Workshop today, I realize that my students have only just begun. My class is also struggling with building stamina in writing workshop like Jill mentioned.
It was brought up today at our workshop that it would be nice to share our favorite mentor text for teaching writing. A new book that I just bought this summer is called Mr. George Baker by Amy Hest . I have used it for many writing lessons (focus, so what?, content, descriptions, and style) so far this year. It is a great book!
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I originally used that book to think about inferring. Do the kids get that Mr. Baker is illiterate? And then, why? And then, why are so many adults in the story illiterate? For such a simple book there is a lot to talk about - even beyond writing!
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