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Keeping track of mentor texts for reading comprehension

Using mentor texts to build reading comprehension connects students to literacy as they learn specific skills through practice with brief passages.  Picture books or short passages from longer works make perfect companions for this type of practice.  But how do you keep track of all the different books and passages you want to use?  And how do you remember which specific reading comprehension strategy you want to emphasize with a particular text? What I have found that works best for me is to put a Post-it in the front of a text that I plan to use for reading comprehension.  By making specific note of the pages and comprehension strategy, I can pick up that text and be ready to go.

Reading Comprehension sticky notes

Better yet — if you don’t want to have to make your own reading comprehension sticky note reminders, I’ve made some for you!  Click here for ordering information.  I just check to the left of the strategy and write on the right the page and passage I plan to use.  Some of the books have more than one check since I know it will be easier to come back to the same mentor text when possible.

 

 

 

Remember how important it is to give your students practice in small passages before you turn them loose on entire stories or chapter books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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