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How do we know which pieces to hold up as exemplars for others students? On this page, I share some of my thinking about why I would use Aiden’s piece as a mentor text for other students, as well as my ideas for several other student pieces that are available to you to use, located on the companion website at www.corwin.com/thecommoncorecompanion. Having the confidence to know what to say and when to say it about student work takes time; the important thing is to risk it, because students really do learn a great deal from the work of their peers.

As I read Aiden’s final compare and contrast on the two Beauty and the Beast books and then his self-reflection, there is a lot to celebrate! He has stated that he’s excited to continue to use citing evidence in other categories (genres) and I’m excited to use his writing as an exemplar to help teach others. For a beginning-of-the-year paper, Aiden has demonstrated a great deal of control:

 He followed our co-constructed example, using it as a mentor text to provide structure to his five paragraphs.

 He understands POV and narration and has a grasp of Formal and informal English.

 He gives examples of the similarities.

 He cites evidence to show the differences. That alone makes this a great mentor text for other students.

 Sentence fluency is a strength and his piece holds tightly together.

 Aiden provides a lot of details to support his thinking.

 From Aiden’s graphic organizer and his coded texts, I could see his interaction and comprehension of the text. I used that as an informal assessment.

If you want to see Aiden’s completed graphic organizer and additional examples of student work with this sequence, go to www.corwin.com/thecommoncorecompanion.

Remember in the lessons when fifth graders mined chapter books to discover point of view? Here, students reflected on the way point of view helps one understand character in the novel Because of Mr. Terupt. The following are responses to reading the section on “March” in the book.