Kid Tested ... Teacher Approved! Great Read-Alouds for Your "How To" Unit of Study #PDLove #MentorTexts #booklove

How to Code a Roller Coaster and How to Code a Sandcastle are both LOL and perfect to read aloud to get kids thinking about the purpose of “how to” or procedural texts. They have lots of craft moves, like speech bubbles, ellipses, pop out words and labels, that students will love to try out in their own writing. The illustrations are powerful mentors for students who are learning to add emotion and action to their pictures. Just take a look at this page:

I added these texts to my procedural or how to text set.