Find Your Next Mentor Text
Be amongst the first community members to be notified of our upcoming launch and receive access to our hub of self-paced online teacher professional learning and a mentor text list that can be filtered to suit your needs free for a limited time!
Why Join Teacher Ed?
What if finding a mentor text didn’t take you hours of combing the internet, your bookshelves, or your local library? What if you didn’t have to find the time to pinpoint the ideal high-quality mentor text to use in your literacy-rich classroom?
Here at Teacher Ed, we’ve done it for you!
We offer teachers an easy-to-use filtering system, where you can find the mentor text that best serves your classrooms’ teaching and learning needs, and help you make the perfect selection of text to share with your students.
We offer Teacher Ed subscribers a growing database of hundreds of high-quality mentor texts that can be filtered by:
- Author
- Illustrator
- Topics, Themes and Concepts
- Links to the HASS Curriculum
- Recommended Year Level Range
- Awards
Simply select your filters, and enjoy the selection of mentor texts that fit your unique search!
What are Mentor Texts?
Mentor texts are not just any book! They’re any high-quality text (or piece of text) that can be read, and re-read! Mentor texts can come in a wide range of forms – picture books, poems, newspaper articles, song lyrics, comic strips, manuals, essays, film, novels… Almost any high-quality visual, auditory, or written text can be a mentor text!
With a keen eye for quality, we here at Teacher Ed know how to source the best books for the classroom and know that mentor texts can really pack a punch! Whilst any text can serve as a mentor, we have curated our favourite picture books that best serve teachers in the primary and elementary classroom. With a limited word count, authors of picture books create some of our favourite mentor texts to share with students all the way across their schooling journey.
Join Teacher Ed to hunt down your next perfect mentor text!
Why Mentor Texts?
Teacher Ed believes in creating high quality literacy learning experiences for all students, and we know that harnessing the power of mentor texts is a way we can do this!
Acting as the second teacher in a classroom, we can harness mentor texts to teach teach a broad range of language, literacy, or literature skills (both for readers and writers) and are an important resource to teach into knowledge-rich units and learn about the world around us.
Reading a mentor text with your students not only acts a teaching tool but is a high engagement learning experience for all – there’s nothing better than sharing an engaging, high-interest text with your class and knowing that every single student is hanging off your every word!
