mentor texts

Coming Soon… A New Craft Table

Stacey Shubitz
Notes with my noticings and corresponding page numbers
Notes with my noticings and corresponding page numbers

I’ve been pouring over Allan Ahlberg’s  The Pencil, which came out last year, but came on to my radar a few weeks ago.  I’ve been trying to figure out how to use it as a mentor text with my students, which is why I haven’t written about it yet.  However, after a lot of deliberation, I’ve realized that it is great for teaching kids how to use punctuation strategically, which will subsequently make their pieces have voice.

Stay tuned for the craft table, which I’ll be producing in the next 48 hours.

Published by Stacey Shubitz

I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island. I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010). I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.