Biography mentor texts for writing hooks

Are you looking for picture book ideas for your next writing unit? Perhaps you’re about to teach personal narrative writing to your students and you’re in dire need of ideas and recommendations for story books.

Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with the best mentor texts for teaching personal narratives!

Why use personal narrative mentor texts?

First up, let’s just acknowledge the importance of using mentor texts when teaching writing.

The simple truth is that WE know what we expect our students to do, but our students have no idea!

Hook sentence for education

Students need to be exposed to examples of the writing genre that we teach.

Mentor texts aren’t just great for exposing students to the genre, they are also powerful for explicitly teaching the structure and features.

For example, we can show examples of characterization, setting, problems and solutions. We can show an author’s use of dialogue or tr