Help students generate ideas and zoom in on one small moment with this complete list of personal narrative mentor texts for kindergarten! This list of mentor texts for personal narratives are great for generating story ideas and adding details to small moment stories. Use these writing mentor texts within your writing lesson plans. Refer back to these writing workshop mentor texts throughout the personal narrative writing process. Learn about my favorite personal narrative activities now!

15 of the Best Personal Narrative Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

Personal narrative stories are all around us, but helping young writers discover this can be a challenge! One of my…

Get students excited about the writing journey they are about to embark on with this complete list of mentor texts for launching writing workshop! These mentor texts for launching writer's workshop will help build writing confidence in your kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students. Integrate any of these writing mentor texts into your writing lessons. These writing workshop mentor texts will help with generating writing ideas, being confident writers and so much more! Grab the list!

15 of the Best Mentor Texts for Launching Writing Workshop

Want to know the key to successfully launching writing workshop in kindergarten, first, and second grade? Mentor texts! Mentor texts…

Help students better understand the informational writing process with these informational writing mentor texts, authors and series! This comprehensive list of mentor texts for informational writing will help build confident writers as they dive into writing their own informational writing piece or all about writing piece. These writing mentor texts are filled with nonfiction text features. Use these as part of your writing mini lessons or independent writing activities during writing workshop!

20 of the Best Informational Writing Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

Informational writing is one of the most challenging writing units to teach at the early elementary level. With the help…

Boost engagement and help students better understand procedural writing with these 15 how-to writing mentor texts for kindergarten and first grade! These procedural writing mentor texts help students understand sequential writing as well as transition words for their how-to writing pieces. Use these how-to mentor texts for your writing mini lessons and allow students to use them as a model as they work on their own informational writing. You will also find how-to writing activities & crafts!

20 of the Best How-To Writing Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

How-to writing is one of my students’ favorite units of writing! Aren’t they always so eager to be the teacher?!…

Opinion writing can be a bit of a struggle for kindergarten and first grade students, but it doesn’t have to be that way! Here are 20 opinion writing mentor texts that will help students construct their opinion writing or persuasive writing piece. These mentor texts for opinion writing include The Day The Crayons Quit, Red is Best, and Hey, Little Ant. Plus, find opinion writing activities, including The Day The Crayons Quit activity and craft. Read these opinion writing books today!

20 of the Best Opinion Writing Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

As we all know, kindergartners are full of opinions! However, teaching them how to write an opinion writing piece can…

Launch your opinion writing unit with these 10 daily opinion writing lesson plans, including opinion writing anchor chart, opinion writing graphic organizers, opinion writing prompts and The Day the Crayons Quit opinion writing craft! Create a The Day the Crayons Quit bulletin board display with the adorable crayon craft! These The Day the Crayons Quit activities are perfect for introducing opinion writing in kindergarten, first grade and second grade!

Opinion Writing with “The Day the Crayons Quit”

In my opinion, teaching opinion writing is the most difficult genre of writing for our little learners to grasp… see…