Realistic fiction features:
I think mentor texts are any texts that you can learn from, and every writer, no matter how skilled you are or how beginning you are, encounters and reads something that can lift and inform and infuse their own writing.
- Ralph Fletcher
- Ralph Fletcher
"Before you write one poem, you need to read at least a hundred poems."
-Ted Kooser (former National Poet Laureate)
Students need many opportunities
to read and hear texts read aloud
from new genres. Read any good
Blogs lately?
