What are the books you can't live without in your coaching and teaching, the ones you return to again and again when teaching minilessons or conferring with students?  Aimee Buckner, author of the bestselling books Notebook Know-How and Reading Connections, will lead a day-long session on selecting and using mentor texts in literacy workshops.  She'll take you into  third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms with video segments and children's work samples, to show how mentor texts can be used to build a classroom community and elevate the quality of student work at the same time.  Specific reading and writing strategies linked to books will be shared, with many genres presented.  Participants will receive a copy of Aimee's Choice Literacy DVD Mentor Texts. You can preview footage from the DVD in this player:

Aimee Buckner is a teacher, writer, and consultant who has worked with educators across the world to help them integrate reading and writing notebooks into vibrant literacy workshops. She is the bestselling author of Notebook Know-How and Notebook Connections, both available through Stenhouse Publishers.