Using Mentor Texts for Creative Writing, focusing on “Ideas”

Created Feb. 5, 2024 by Sun West School Division

Jeff Lawrence Dinsmore Composite School 

Grades 3 & 4 

Language Arts (Creative Writing) (Outcomes: CC3.4 Write to communicate ideas. CC4.4 Use a writing process to produce compositions.) 



Mentor texts were shared with students over several lessons with the focus on getting ideas for creative writing stories. The mentor texts were used as springboards for brainstorming ideas and writing sensory details. 

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