S2 E31: Using Micro Mentor Texts: Standing Next to & Teaching Beautiful Writing with Penny Kittle

from Schoolutions: Curious Educators. Evidence-Based Strategies. Classrooms Where Every Child Thrives. · host Olivia Wahl

Penny Kittle lives by her words, "When you stand next to beautiful writing, your writing is just kind of set free." Penny shares how her latest book, Micro Mentor Texts: Using Short Passages From Great Books to Teach Writer's Craft offers a process for studying and teaching on the shoulders of incredible authors as mentors to transform student writing.Ep. Mentions:Donald MurrayDonald GravesThomas NewkirkTom RomanoBook Love FoundationMatt de la PeñaKelly Gallagher-180 Days & Four Essential StudiesAndrea Davis PinkneyRebekah O'DellKwame Alexander (My Mother's Fried Chicken Was a Link to My Past—and My Daughter's Future)All Parents are Cowards Sarah Zerwin-Point-LessEzra Klein Chris CrutcherPeter ElbowJacqueline WoodsonPenny's Recommendations:Writing with Mentors: How to Reach Every Writer in the Room Using Current, Engaging Mentor Texts The Teacher You Want to Be: Essays about Children, Learning, and Teaching Craft and Process Studies: Units That Provide Writers with Choice of Genre Penny's Selected Writing:On Joy, Teaching, and the Deep Satisfaction of WritingNCTE Speech: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in Teaching Engaged in Young Adult Literature: A Collaborative ConversationConnect:via Website on Instagram (Penny&Book Love Foundation)on Twitteron LinkedInon YouTubeon Mighty NetworksWhen teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, they create schools where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged, supported, and ready to thrive.

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