![]() Within each chapter, Penny has broken down that craft element into between one and four Lessons, organized around a micro mentor text. Penny isn’t telling in this book she is teaching.Įach chapter has a craft focus: Igniting the Imagination with Sensory Details, Organizing Artfully: The Power of Three, Noticing What Dialogue Reveals, Capturing Movements in Time, etc. This book is an invitation to become more masterful at these skills through the intentional strengthening of the reading and writing muscles required. This book is the absolute GIFT of thinking alongside Penny Kittle while she makes the thinking work necessary to choose and use mentor texts visible. To see what happens when we try those moves on in our own writing. ![]() To unpack what it is that makes a passage worthy of close study. To stop and marvel at the language all around us. What I love most about this book is the core belief elevated by its structure: the way to get better at identifying and using mentor texts with writers is to read and write ourselves. Penny Kittle’s new book, Micro Mentor Texts: Using Short Passages From Great Books to Teach Writer’s Craft, is a must read for teachers of writers of all ages.
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