Top 10 Tips from Carrie and Kirsti
Marching On with Mentor Text Study Kick Off Post February 28, 2022 post By Carrie Charley Brown and Kirsti Call, Founders of ReFoReMo In 2015, the Reading for Research Month (ReFoReMo) Challenge was founded with a goal to help writers establish a regular routine of analyzing pictures books as mentor texts. The benefit of feasting on numerous well-crafted texts as models-in-action was easy to see when reading hundreds of CYBILS nominees in just over one month. We wanted other
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Welcome to our First Annual March On With Mentor Text Registration. IMPORTANT INFO: A number of you are having trouble getting notifications. Please make sure your Facebook is open and signed into, and please use your Facebook E-mail Address. We are not sure why, but that seems to work. So many are also not having problems so it's hard to say what the exact cause is. AND NOW BACK TO OUR REGISTRATION POST: When ReFoReMo sadly ended last year, I knew I just couldn't let the mon
Masha Munches on Poetic Devices
By Amalia Hoffman Since children’s books are often read out loud to a child by adults, authors have a great opportunity to make their writing more engaging and colorful by using sounds that the child hears and repeats. One way to enrich the story could be by weaving in some alliteration — worlds in which the first letters are repeated. A well-known example of alliteration is: “Peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.” In my newest book, I chose the title, Masha Munching
