Knowing Stories:Mentor Texts at #NCTE14

Erin Dionne

• Using genre elements as a framework

• Handout & reading list available in the Program Participant Guide

• www.erindionne.com

• @erindionne

“How are you doing that?”

“How are you doing that?”

Mentor Texts- Pacing

Mentor Texts: Introduction of Magic

Mentor Texts: Introduction of Magic

Read Like a Writer

Sensory Details

Read Like a Writer

School Stories/Point of View

Read Like a Writer

Genre Study - Mystery

Planning a Mystery

Planning Mystery

CRIME

LET’S BUILD A MYSTERY!

CRIME

SUSPECT 1

MOTIVE

SUSPECT 2

MOTIVE

SUSPECT 3

MOTIVE

LET’S BUILD A MYSTERY!

CRIME

SUSPECT 1

MOTIVE

SUSPECT 2

MOTIVE

SUSPECT 3

MOTIVE

INVESTIGATOR

MOTIVE

INVESTIGATOR

MOTIVE

INVESTIGATOR

MOTIVE

LET’S BUILD A MYSTERY!

Read Like a Writer

Genre Study- Science Thriller

Pulling Back the Curtain

Pulling Back the Curtain

http://www.pinteres300 × 300 - play.google.com t.com/katemessner/wake-up-missing-a-science-thriller-from-walker-blo/

http://www.pinterest.com/katemessner/eye-of-the-storm-resources/

http://www.pinterest.com/katemessner/marty-mcguire-digs-worms-resources/

http://www.pinterest.com/katemessner/over-and-under-the-snow-resources/

“You’re Invisible, But I’ll Eat You Anyway: Secrets of Snow Diving Foxes” from NPR

Varian Johnson

STRUCTURE: CHRONOLOGICAL, FROM A UNIQUE ANGLE

TONE AND VOICEOn the morning of July 2, 1937, the coast guard cutter Itasca

drifted on the Pacific Ocean, waiting . . . listening . . .

Hundreds of miles to the west, the famous female pilot

Amelia Earhart was winging her way toward Howland

Island—a narrow spit of coral sand just to the west of the

ship. On this tiny dot of land . . . .

Flying an airplane in the early 1900s was an Extreme

Sport. A runway was any piece of land without a tree on it,

and planes were cramped, loud, blowy places without

bathrooms or cup holders. One false move and you’d be

dead. It must have been the false moves that got Amelia’s

heart pumping, not in an “I’m going to die” way, but more

in a “That’s a blast! I’m doing that again” way.

Knowing Stories:Mentor Texts at #NCTE14

Laurel SnyderAuthor of middle grade & picture books!

http://laurelsnyder.com

Sydney Taylor Medal

A Blessing

BY JAMES WRIGHT

Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,

Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.

And the eyes of those two Indian ponies

Darken with kindness.

They have come gladly out of the willows

To welcome my friend and me.

We step over the barbed wire into the pasture

Where they have been grazing all day, alone.

They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness

That we have come.

They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.

There is no loneliness like theirs.

At home once more,

They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.

I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,

For she has walked over to me

And nuzzled my left hand.

She is black and white,

Her mane falls wild on her forehead,

And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear

That is delicate as the skin over a girl’s wrist.

Suddenly I realize

That if I stepped out of my body I would break

Into blossom.

Linda Urban

Signings – Sarah Albee

Friday

4-5pm Bloomsbury #723

Signings – Jeff Andeson

Saturday

4-5pm – Stenhouse #314

Signings – Erin Dionne

Friday

5-6pm Penguin #612-614

Signings – Varian JohnsonFriday

4-5 –Scholastic #812 (with Kate) 5-5:30 – Anderson’s #153

Signings – Kate MessnerFriday

4-5 –Scholastic #812 (with Varian)

5:30-6 –Anderson’s #153

Saturday 12:30-1:30 Bloomsbury #723

3:30-4 Chronicle #629

Signings – Laurel SnyderFriday

5-6pm Random House #613

Saturday 1-2pm Anderson’s #153

Signings – Linda Urban

Friday

4-5pm Houghton Mifflin Harcourt #724