A sixth grade teacher noticed that her students read and enjoyed several books in the Dear

America series, a group of simulated journals describing the lives of fictional children in several
historical periods. The teacher encouraged the students to use those books as models and then
write their own simulated journals. In that situation, the Dear America books were used as:

a) basal readers
b) content-area texts
c) environmental texts
d) mentor texts


d

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