Four Mentor Texts to Nurture the Relationship Between a Writer and a Notebook: Notebooks as a Writers Tool

10 thoughts on “Four Mentor Texts to Nurture the Relationship Between a Writer and a Notebook: Notebooks as a Writers Tool”

1. Deb – These are great titles, especially since theyr are all focused on making the “ideas” visible to our youngest learners. Thanks!

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2. What a great post and a great series! I anxious to get my hands on these books.

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3. Thank you for these mentor text recommendations — I’ve asked my school librarian to order them for me. Perfect for my personal narrative unit!

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4. Deb, even as an 8th grade teacher these are four terrific books to share with my students as they collect writing and reading ideas in their WRNotebooks. It is so important that they hear again and again, we collect to have an abundance of ideas from which to draw, never knowing, but trusting, we will be able to use those fragments of thinking some day. Thanks so much.

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   1. Linda,
      Thank you for stopping by to read and taking the time to leave a comment! We all learn so much from you!
      I agree, even in 8th grade, students need to hear the importance of the message of collecting. Your students might find particular interest in The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell by Candace Fleming. Jimmy collected random items, it wasn’t until he was much older that Jimmy began to see the connection between the items and then the purpose of the items revealed themselves to Jimmy. It is a beautiful book

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      1. Thank you, Deb. I will look for that book. Picture books have so much to offer to every reader– young or older. I learn so much from you. Thanks for all the writing and sharing that you do.

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5. Thank you for this post. We actually have a unit on the writing process (the possibilites for each of us) where the notebook is the centerpiece. Outside of sharing my own entries, it’s nice to know there are some mentor texts to share with the kids. Would the book “Ish” fit this category of collecting and process?

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   1. I think “Ish” just may fit! How would you present it to the kids? What do you think about “The Word Collector” by Peter Reynolds as well? So many possibilities! Aren’t we lucky?!

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6. We are a writing classroom. We would love a Skype with Amy.

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7. I love this post and the mentor texts you’ve shared!!! Writers “save” ideas and generate more of them. A wonderful gift for young writers of all ages!.

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