Visual Literacies &
Mentor Texts
This mini-clip shows one way you might use a mentor text to explore poetic stanzas in a 7th grade classroom. Another idea for this text might be to introduce students to rewriting fairy tales or fables from a new perspective. Sidenote- I need some practice getting these pages on the webcam--I'll keep working on it ;)
Attending to author's craft
Teaching author's craft as an approach to writing instruction helps students to become aware of the moves that writers make in order to inform their own writing craft.