Main idea mentor texts 3rd grade

teaching ideas, upper elementary classroom ideas, reading ideas,resources for the upper elementary classroom, teaching grammar, graphic organizers

I believe that the best way to teach main idea is through modeling think alouds in mentor texts. In this blog, I share tips for choosing.

Since it is summertime and so many of us are already in planning mode for next year, I wanted to utilize my Mentor Text series post this month to share books to help you teach your students about THEME! If you like any of the books you see in this blog post, you can click […]

Are you looking for an easy way to teach main idea? Check out this mentor text with a free printable! This example uses the story of Ivan but the printable can be used with any book! There is also a digital resource featured as well as links to other comprehension topics.

This collection of mentor text recommendations as lesson plan ideas make teaching theme a breeze, and makes learning theme meaningful!

Understanding story elements are important skills in both reading and writing. In lower graders, we often use the words beginning, middle, and end. We even briefly talk about describing the characters. But in upper elementary, we need our students to begin understanding that there is MORE than just these simple words. What is rising action? […]

Discover how picture books help teaching main idea and using books to teach theme, including specific examples for many books.

Picture books make amazing mentor texts for making connections! These books can help kids make text to self, text to text, or text to world connections!

Check out my 14 picture book recommendations. These are the best mentor texts for teaching personal narratives.

Making inferences is a skill that comes naturally to most students and they don’t even realize how or why it helps them. Kids can look at someone crying with a dropped ice cream cone on the ground next to them and know they are sad because their ice cream cone fell. Kids are naturally great...