Create life-long readers and writers

Each grade-level A+ Spanish Mentor Texts kit provides just the right tools to help create effective, confident writers

Mentor Texts

Students explore a wide range of text types in each grade-level A+ Spanish Mentor Texts Kit.

Each grade-level kit includes 10-11 different mentor texts. These authentic and engaging children’s books have been carefully chosen for their literary value, effective writing techniques, and relevancy.

A variety of text types for the mentor texts kit
A+ Mentor TE covers

Teacher Resources

Guidance and support are available every step of the way!

Each kit includes online teacher resources with scripted lesson plans, anchor charts, writing rubrics with discrete literacy domains, and student worksheets for every text type. Student Worksheets include activities for developing vocabulary and language, pre-writing preparation, writing tools and prompts, and revising and editing checklists.

Students explore a wide-range of text-types in each grade level kit

Authentic, high-quality mentor texts support reading and writing instruction

From drama, folktales, and poetry to informational and narrative texts, students discover a variety of genres in every grade level.

A list of texts and it's special features
Book covers for grade k.
Grade K

  • Drama*
  • Folktale
  • Informational Text
  • Narrative*
  • Opinion Text
  • Personal Narrative
  • Poetry
Book covers for grade 1.
Grade 1

  • Drama
  • Folktale
  • Informational Text*
  • Narrative
  • Opinion Text
  • Personal Narrative
  • Poetry*
  • Procedural Text
Book covers for grade 2.
Grade 2

  • Drama
  • Folktale*
  • Informational Text
  • Narrative
  • Opinion Text
  • Personal Narrative*
  • Poetry
  • Procedural Text
  • Thank You Letter
Book covers for grade 3.
Grade 3

  • Drama
  • Folktale
  • Informational Text*
  • Narrative
  • Opinion Text
  • Personal Narrative
  • Poetry
  • Thank You Letter*
Book covers for grade 4.
Grade 4

  • Drama
  • Folktale*
  • Informational Text
  • Narrative
  • Opinion Text
  • Personal Narrative
  • Poetry*
Book covers for grade 5.
Grade 5

  • Drama
  • Folktale
  • Informational Text*
  • Narrative*
  • Opinion Text
  • Personal Narrative
  • Poetry

Let’s Explore a Lesson

Support for teachers and students every step of the way

Each Mentor Text includes a detailed lesson plan with clearly identified standards and objectives and step-by-step teaching suggestions and activities.

  • Explore the elements and structure of each genre and expand language and vocabulary
  • Develop reading-to-write strategies, comparing and contrasting writers’ crafts, and learning and mastering the writing process
  • Practice writing skills and strategies with accompanying lesson plans and worksheets for each mentor text
Textbook pages showing assignments of day 1.
Day 1: Presentation of the characteristics of genre/text type

  • Lesson introduces genre/text type and mentor text and uses mentor text to explore genre’s characteristics

  • Activity sheet serves as a genre anchor chart to help guide students through their genre-specific writing tasks.
Textbook pages showing assignments of day 2.
Day 2: Before Reading

  • Lesson introduces mentor text, presents the vocabulary, and introduces the language point

  • Activity sheet serves as basis for in-class instruction and provides students with activities to practice the target vocabulary and language point
Textbook pages showing reading and pre-writing assignments of day 3.
Day 3: Reading and Pre-writing

  • Lesson focuses on exploring genre’s features and characteristics and introduces the writer’s craft.

  • Activity sheet provides students with pre-writing activities to practice the target genre and writing craft
Textbook pages showing writing assignments of day 4.
Day 4: Writing

  • Lesson focuses on reviewing the genre and writer’s craft, preparing students to write their first draft.

  • Activity Sheet serve as a guide for students to write their drafts with writing suggestions and prompts from start to finish.
Textbook pages showing assignments of day 5.
Day 5: Revising and Editing

  • Lesson focuses on reviewing the vocabulary and language point, ensuring students apply what they’ve learned in their draft.

  • Activity sheet serves as self-assessment and encourages students to work independently to revise and edit their drafts, and produce a final version.
Textbook pages showing assignments of day 6.
Day 6: Publishing and/or Presenting

  • Lesson encourages students present or publish their work. The teaching instruction provides ideas based on the genre and/or grade level.

  • Writing rubrics with discrete literacy domains so that teachers can adequately measure student comprehension and writing production across the various genres or text types that are covered.
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