Video: Exploring Mentor Texts in the context of Natural Disasters
This excellent video features Joanne Rossbridge, primary literacy expert and educational consultant, using 3 mentor texts to demonstrate how teachers can use quality literature in the classroom to explore bigger themes (in this case, natural disasters), whilst developing and strengthening students' knowledge of grammar, language, text structure and purpose.
Key Topics:
- Audience expectations and text purpose
- Analysing book covers to predict text content and develop a shared metalanguage
- Exploring language and grammar choices, including field, noun groups, verb groups and adverbials