This volume shows K-8 teachers how to use poems in reading and writing workshops and across content areas. It defines mentor texts and discusses the connections between reading and writing and ways to
In A Closer Look, Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty provide the tools and strategies you need to use formative assessment in writing workshop. Through Lynne and Diane’s ideas, you will be able t
It’s been a decade since Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli wrote the first edition of Mentor Texts and helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children's literature in
In this volume, the authors demonstrate how to use mentor texts to teach grammar to students in kindergarten through sixth grade and embed grammar instruction into units in the writing workshop classr
In their first book, Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli demonstrated how teachers can use children’s literature to guide and inspire student writers of narrative fiction and poetry. Now, t
