When I'm looking for mentor texts, I often forget to consider photos. "Reading" a photo uses some of the same skills as r...

for Beating the Baddies like Batman Batman is one of my favorite heroic characters. It's true, it is possible that Batman is not, te...

Let's start off 2014 with an ABC book!  Let's call it the... Abecedary of Cape-Wearing! Let's start right now! is for Caveat...

Thanks to a friend and colleague Amy , I've renewed my intention to post mentor text ideas each Monday. Since Amy is going to post as ...

I was tickled to learn the work "abecedary" recently. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abecedary Even more ticklis...

Wear the Cape proudly welcomes our first guest blogger!  Jeni Cass is caped teacher from a charter school in San Diego. Jeni truly does wear...

Last week I talked about using UPPERCASE Magazine and their focus on "sticky things" as mentor texts . I also alluded to the fact ...

UPPERCASE Magazine, Issue No. 18, "Cut it Out" is all about collage. Yup.  you read that correctly, collage. It's a beautful m...