S2 E31: Using Micro Mentor Texts: Standing Next to & Teaching Beautiful Writing with Penny Kittle

Penny Kittle lives by her words, "When you stand next to beautiful writing, your writing is just kind of set free." Penny shares how her latest book, Micro Mentor Texts: Using Short Passages From Great Books to Teach Writer's Craft offers a process for studying and teaching on the shoulders of incredible authors as mentors to transform student writing.

Ep. Mentions:

• Donald Murray
• Donald Graves
• Thomas Newkirk
• Tom Romano
• Book Love Foundation
• Matt de la Peña
• Kelly Gallagher-180 Days & Four Essential Studies
• Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Rebekah O'Dell
• Kwame Alexander (My Mother's Fried Chicken Was a Link to My Past—and My Daughter's Future)
• All Parents are Cowards 
• Sarah Zerwin-Point-Less
• Ezra Klein 
• Chris Crutcher
• Peter Elbow
• Jacqueline Woodson

Penny's Recommendations:

• Writing with Mentors: How to Reach Every Writer in the Room Using Current, Engaging Mentor Texts 
• The Teacher You Want to Be: Essays about Children, Learning, and Teaching  
• Craft and Process Studies: Units That Provide Writers with Choice of Genre 

Penny's Selected Writing:

• On Joy, Teaching, and the Deep Satisfaction of Writing
• NCTE Speech: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in Teaching 
• Engaged in Young Adult Literature: A Collaborative Conversation

Connect:

• via Website 
• on Instagram (Penny&Book Love Foundation)
• on Twitter
• on LinkedIn
• on YouTube
• on Mighty Networks

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, they create schools where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged, supported, and ready to thrive.