Videos,+Mentor+Texts

Professional Development

 * 1) [|Katie Wood Ray] talks about how to help students build writing stamina.
 * 2) [|A Day In The Life Of Writing Workshop] 1st grade
 * 3) [|The Girl Who Silenced The World] - Persuasive writing from a young girl speaking for ECO, The Environmental Children's Organization in the late 90s. The video should inspire your students to choose a cause and write to convince others.

Mentors and Mentor Texts Online

 * 1) [|Storyline Online] - The Screen Actors Guild features famous actors reading stories.
 * 2) [|Digital Storytelling] - Examples and software for writing digital stories.
 * 3) [|Analyzing Touchstone Texts] Video; looking at symbolism; Teaching Channel; teacher models adding on to others' conversations and is very good at extending students' thinking; 5 minutes
 * 4) Watch [|teacher use a mentor book]with 1st graders Choice Literacy Membership Added 3/9/13
 * 5) Using[| nonfiction texts] as mentor texts. Added 5.7.13.

Videos

 * 1) [|Flocabulary] - Hundred of FREE videos on writing and all aspects of literacy
 * 2) [|Elements of a Story]  Found on Flocabulary and <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Interest.

//<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Links working as of 4/2/13. //