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Mentors Cycle 1: Students as Mentors
Day 1: A variety of sources for student-generated mentor texts
Challenge: Talk with your colleagues about the writers in their classrooms. Ask to have a copy of student writing to use in an upcoming lesson. Go through the steps to collect and document the teaching point from this writing.
What is the easiest part of collecting student writing? Is it identifying possible teaching points? Organizing the texts?
What is the most difficult part of collecting student writing?