RDG 3320: Integrating Reading and Writing: Mentor Texts

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Mentor texts resources at Alkek

To find children's/young adult titles you can use as mentor texts, search "mentor texts" and add in "children's books" or "young adult" or writing

Pinterest can be a great resource of bibliographies for mentor texts / mentor text ideas; any books you find suggested can be search in the Library Catalog to see if we have it in the 3rd Floor Juvenile Collection.

Required Course Texts

Buckner, Aimee. Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook. Alkek General, Floor 6, LB1576 .B883 2005

Fletcher, Ralph & Portalupi, JoAnn. Writing Workshop : The Essential Guide from the Authors of Craft Lessons. Alkek General, Floor 6. LB1576 .F48422 2001 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, English Reading and Language Arts (Chapter 110)

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science (Chapter 112)

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies (Chapter 113)

TExES Test Frameworks (based on State Board for Educator Certification Educator Standards) EC-4 Generalist Language Arts—Writing and 4-8 Generalist—Language Arts.

National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE)—Standards for Initial Preparation of English Language Arts Teachers

International Literacy Association (ILA)—Standards for the Preparation of Reading Teachers

Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards

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