# Book Title C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 A Cache of Jewels A Chocholate Moose for Dinner A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime A Mink, A Fink, A Skating Rink A Verb for Herb Alfie the Apostrophe Awesome Apostrophe Show, The Bug Book, The Chicken in the City Crazy Like a Fox Dear Deer Eats, Shoots & Leaves Francine Fribble, Proofreading Police Girl's Like Spaghetti, The Henry Goes to Hollywood How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? It Looked Like Spilt Milk Little Red Hen Bakes a Cake Many Luscious Lollipops Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine, The Merry‐Go‐Round Mine, All Mine Mystery of the Missing Sock, The No-Good, Rotten, Run-On Sentence, The Planet Without Pronouns, The Silent Letters Loud and Clear Slide, Slurp, Scratch and Burp Straight and Curvy, Meek and Nervy Super Sentence Girl Tillie's Tuba Twenty Odd Ducks When Comma Came to Town Knots on a couting rope (Martin) Leaving Morning, The (Johnson) No, David! (Shannon) Once There Was a Bull..Frog (Walton) Our Librarian Won't Tell us ANYTHING! (Buzzeo) Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear? Sail Away (Crews) When I Am Old With You (Johnson) Where Are You Going? To See My Friend! (Carle) FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 FT 1 via N via N via N via N via N via N via N via N via N 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt nouns homonyms and homophones nouns nouns nouns verbs apostrophes apostrophes adjectives Nouns similies homophones commas proofreading apostrophes capitalization homonyms and homophones homonyms and homophones x x UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization x x x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database x sentence stoppers adjectives capitalization nouns pronouns Quotation Marks Sentence Structure pronouns silent letters verbs Antonyms sentence structure adverbs punctuation marks commas Seesaw structure good for experimenting w/ conversation (before skillful w/ quotation marks) Ellipses/lists of things/ time of day characetr development K-1 (BS), memoirs * Great author's note compound words using capital letters to emphasize words Sequence, Rhythm, Onomatopoeia, Verbs using commas for emphasis, ellipses to emphasize, contractions to emphasize dialogue Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I 1 1 Meet Danitra Brown 1 Mice and Beans (Ryan) 1 Miss Rumphius F F F F 2 2 2 2 Book Title Great Fuzz Frenzy, The (Stevens) Punctua9on Takes a Vaca9on (Pulver) A Sweet Smell of Roses (Johnson) A Bad Case of Stripes (Shannon) x Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse x All the Places to Love x Andy Shane And The Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle Art Lesson, The x Augustine (Watt) x Beatrice Doesn't Want To (Numeroff) Best Pet of All, The (LaRochelle) x Big Sister and Little Sister (Zolotw) x Broken Cat, The (Perkins) Bubba, The Cowboy Prince (Ketteman) x Can I Keep Him? (Kellogg) x Carribbean Dream (Isdora) Crab Moon (Horowitz) * x Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, The x Dog Breath (Pilkey) x Doorbell Rang, The x Fables x Frog and Toad are Friends x Good Luck Cat, The (Harjo) x Grandfather Tang's Story x Grandpa's Face x Grandpa's Teeth (Clement) x I Like To Be Little (Zolotow) x I'll Always love you by Hans Wilhelm Joseph Had A Little Overcoat Journey (MacLachlan) x Just Me and My Dad (Mayer) x Just Us Women x Little Blue and Little Yellow x Little Engine that Could, The x Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp x Magic Fan, The (Baker) Mama Played Baseball (Adler) x Maxwell's Mountain (Becker) x Me And Uncle Romie Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization x x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location C via N S C via N S C via N S IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF1 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 IF2 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database formatting quotations/ dialogue Why punctuation is important Bold print/ ellipses/ refrain x x Using writing to create pictures in the reader's mind, Personal Narrative, Small Moment K-1 (BS) Character Development K-1 (BS) perseverence x x x characterization x Personal Narrative Writing Memoirs fairy tale in different setting Personal Narrative Writing Memoirs Finding topics and using senses to create first memories/ Hand Map (memories to a conscious level),S x x x x great introduction and conclusion around a true idea x surprise ending Personal Narrative Writing Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS) Every Picture Tells a Story Personal Narrative Writing Personal Narrative/Small Moment K-1 (BS) One idea can contain many layers of meaning x x x Powerful verbs and precise nouns, clear development of story, sequence, transition words NWREL Character Development 2-3 (BS) Character Development K-1 (BS) x x x Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction x UoS Nonfiction Writing x x UoS Authors as Mentors x Conventions x x UoS Small Moments x Voice Word Choice Book Title Mitten, The My Mama Had a Dancing Heart My Many Colored Days (Seuss) My Rotton Redheaded Older Brother Night Noises (Fox) Night Tree (Bunting) Old Ladies Who Liked Cats, The Olivia One of Those Days (Rosenthal Quilt Story, The (DePaoloa) Recess Queen, The Seashore Book, The (Zolotow) Shortcut (Crews) Something To Remember Me By (Bosak) Song and Dance Man Sunday Morning (Viorst) Switch on the Night Thank You, Mr. Falker Things That Are Most in the World (Barrett) Thunder Cake (Polacco) Tiny Seed, The (Carle) Tulip Sees America (Rylant) Twilight Comes Twice (Fletcher) Twister (Beard) Two Mrs. Gibsons Uncle Andy's Uncle Jed's Barbershop (Mitchell) Very Last, First Time by Jan Andrews What If… (Williams) When I Was 5 (Howard) When I Was Young In The Mountains (Rylant) When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry… Where are you going liPle mouse (Kraus) Who is the Beast (Baker) Who's Mouse Are You (Kraus) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (Fox) Winter Trees (Evans) Hello, Goodbye Window, The I'm Gonna Like Me Imagine A Day ( thomson) Night at the Fair (Crews) One Green Apple (Bunting) Piglet and Granny Sentence Fluency # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ORGanization Location IF2 IF2 IF2 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF3 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IF4 IFS IFS IFS IFS IFS IFS Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Crafting a Title (3/4), adjectives & rich language,Character Development K-1 (BS) Illustrations, Speech Bubbles, Separate Pictures, Sequence, Satisfying Ending, Similies, Onomatoepoe Narrowing a large topic to a managable size, Ideas generated from objects that spark memories, Satis Memoirs Using a Character's Traits to describe the character Finding topics and using senses to create first memories, dialogue lead, imagery, figurative language, Personal Narrative Writing/ Small Moments/ Memoirs/ Onomatopoeia/ Capital letters for emphasis, Sm Memoirs Where the Author Gets their ideas (Heart Map) Personal Narrative Writing x x x x x x x x x x Intermediate- Thought Lead, NWREL, word play,descriptive language x x x x x Character Development K-1 (BS) extreme adjectives and superlatives Sharpening the Focus (3/4), Memoirs, onomatopoeia, strong lead Illustrations and Placement of text on a page, Pattern, Rich descriptions of setting, Satisfying Ending ( Narrowing the Time Focus (3/4), sensory details, personification verbs and verb forms Memoirs, See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or comparisons) Character Development 2-3 (BS) Memoirs x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Satisfying Ending (Accomplishments/Discovery), See-Saw story format, The Point v. The Topic: Some Predictable back and forth pattern of text/ Memoirs Intermediate- Problem Lead, Memoirs Nudging Students beyond "list" and "love" stories Simple details can add up to a big idea Nudging Students beyond "list" and "love" stories Memoirs/ story mountain structure Inspiration for writing, personal narrative/small moments K-1 (BS) Personal Narrative Writing Imaginative writing "nothing is impossible",imagine lead Using an inverted triangle to find a specific writing topic Similies Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Book Title Please, Baby, Please (Lee) Saturdays and Teacakes Smoky Night Courage ( Waber) Fireflies in the Night by Judy Hawes How To Make An Apple Pie And See The World Important Book, The (Brown) Mudball My Light (Bang) One Tiny Turtle ( Davies) Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups, The Some things are scary Teammates ( Golenbock) We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution Weird Friends ( Aruego and Dewey) What Do Authors Do? (Christelow) x Whoever you are (Fox) Winter Trees (Evans) You Have to Write x I Love My Hair (Tarpley) Stars Beneath Your Bed: Surprising Stories of Dust Tarra and Bella (Buckley) Amelia's Notebook Arthur Writes A Story Cherries And Cherry Pits Could Be Worse! From Pictures To Words Harold And The Purple Crayon If You Were a Writer (Nixon) x Snapshots From The Wedding Yo! Yes? You Have to Write x AlphaOops! Clown (Blake) Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Angelou) Show, Don't Tell: Secrets of Wri9ng x A Color Of His Own ( Lionni) Apples To Oregon Bea and Mr. Jones Becoming Naomi Leon Before I was Your Mother (Lasky) Best Little Wingman (Allen) Betty Doll Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location IFS IFS IFS I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF 1 I NF S I NF S I NF S LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW 1 LWW S LWW S LWW S LWW S ORG F ! ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database Memoirs x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Small Moments 4-5 (BS) ORGanization around one idea/word New Ways to write about an old topic Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS) Descriptive Language, Nudging Students beyond "list" and "love" stories, Modifying existing paragraph x x x Point of view of an inanimate object/ writing through a mask Narrowing a large topic to a managable size (includes forward that explains how author narrowed her x x x x x x x (Sayre) x Using photographs of real people to tell their stories found poem The Point v. The Topic: The importance of making a point in your own writing and how to express it The writing process Similaries and differences in people and cultures NWREL x x x Finding ideas that excite writers and engage readers, launching the writer's workshop 4-5 Personal Narrative Writing Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) Launching the Writer's Workshop 4-5 (BS) Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS) Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS) Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS) Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS) Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS) x x x x x x x x x x x x Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS) Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS) Finding ideas that excite writers and engage readers, launching the writer's workshop 4-5 Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS) NWREL NWREL,Launching the Writer's Workshop 2-3 (BS) Creating descriptive images using all of the senses organize writing through illustrations, rich message/theme Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS) Intermediate- Dialogue Lead Good Endings 4-5 (BS) "See Saw" story structure, descriptive adjectives Satisfying Ending (Hope, Wish, Dream) Satisfying Ending (Memory that Lingers) Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Book Title Black and White (Macauley) Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure Charlie Anderson, by Barbara Abercrombie Charlie Anderson, by Barbara Abercrombie Chester's Way (Henkes) Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type (Cronin) Courage ( Waber) Day Of Ahmed's Secret, The Desert is My Mother, The (Mora) Diary of a Worm (Cronin) Fig Pudding, by Ralph Fletcher Gardener, The (Stewart) Good Luck Cat, The (Harjo) Grandfather Twilight Grandpa's Teeth (Clement) Hondo & Fabian (McCarty) How My Parents Learned To Eat I am the Dog I am the Cat (Hall) If Nathan Were Here If you Give a Mouse a Cookie Imogene's Antlers (Small) Important Book, The (Brown) It Could Always Be Worse ( Zemach) Jolly Postman, The (Ahlberg) Just Like Daddy (Asch) Lost Horse: A Chinese Folktale, The Lotus Seed, The (Garland) Magic Fan, The (Baker) Meanwhile… (Feiffer) Meerkat Mail (Gravett) Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel (Bridie) Miss Rumphius Miz Berlin Walks (Yolen) Mr. George Baker (Hest) My Mama Had a Dancing Heart My Steps (Derby) Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs (DePaoloa) Night Noises (Fox) Night Rabbits (Posey) Old Henry (Blos) Oliver Button Is a Sissy Other Way to Listen, The (Baylor) Pancakes, Pancakes! (Carle) Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x x x x x x x x x x x Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 1 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 ORG F 2 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt NWREL powerful first paragraph Surprise Ending (3/4) Surprise Ending (3/4) Underling for emphasis/ ellipses/refrain,Satisfying Ending (Starts All Over Again) back and forth organizational structure,Reasons for writing, Illustrations give further information at the ORGanization around one idea/word Good Endings 2-3 (BS) Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) non-traditional text format, point of view Experiment with endings (3/4),Small Moments 4-5 (BS) friendly letter, match words with the picture great introduction and conclusion around a true idea Circular Ending surprise ending Presentation Personal Narrative Writing back and forth organization Good Beginnings K-1 (BS) Circular Story Satisfying Ending (Starts All Over Again) Descriptive Language, Nudging Students beyond "list" and "love" stories, Modifying existing paragraph Succession of event that results in a decision x x x x x x x x x Surprise Ending,memoirs Good Endings 2-3 (BS) NWREL Powerful verbs and precise nouns, clear development of story, sequence, transition words NWREL,Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS) x Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS) x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Satisfying Ending (Bookends) Character Development K-1 (BS),Rhythm in organization, Onomatopoeia, Rich Language, Introducing Intermediate- Thought Lead, NWREL, word play,descriptive language Memoirs Memoirs Illustrations, Speech Bubbles, Separate Pictures, Sequence, Satisfying Ending, Similies, Onomatoepoe leads Cause and Effect, NWREL Satisfying Ending Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or comparisons) Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Book Title Paperboy, The, by Dav Pilkey Patches Lost and Found (Kroll) Philharmonic Gets Dressed, The (Kuskin) Princess Hyacinth (Heide) Puddles (London) Red Book, The ( Lehman) Rocks in His Head (Hurst) Rosie and Michael Roxaboxen Ruby's Wish Sail Away (Crews) Scaredy Squirrel (WaP) Sitti’s Secret (Nye) Someday (spinelli) Something Beautiful (Wyeth) Storm In The Night (Stolz) Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins, The (Laminack) That New Animal There's a Nightmare in My Closet Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe Tomas and the Library Lady (Mora) Tough Boris (Fox) Thunder Cake (Polacco) Too Many Tamales (Soto) Tulip Sees America (Rylant) Two Bad Ants (Van Allsburg) Two Mrs. Gibsons Ugly Fish Under The Sunday Tree Village That Vanished, The Waiting For The Whales (McFarlane) Weasel Wednesday Surprise, The When I Was Little ( Curtis) When I Was Young In The Mountains (Rylant) Where The River Begins (Locker) Where The River Begins (Locker) White Dynamite and Curly Kid White Dynamite and Curly Kid Widget (McFarland) * With Love, Little Red Hen Z Was Zapped: A Play in 26 Acts, The (Van Allsburg) And Still The Turtle Watched Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x x x x x x Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Using a Parallel Story/ Circular Ending (3/4) Satisfying Ending (Final Action), (good choice for story-mapping) Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS) x x x x x x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location ORG F 2 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 3 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F 4 ORG F S Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database x x x x x circular ending, leads putting words to illustrations, using illustrations to organize stories Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) back and forth organization Intermediate- Setting Lead Good Endings 2-3 (BS) Sequence, Rhythm, Onomatopoeia, Verbs mix of fiction/non fiction, writing can be organized in different ways Writing a Strong Lead hyperbobles and similies, back and forth organization Satisfying Ending (Accomplishments/Discovery) Memoirs, flashbacks Satisfying Ending (Bookends) Good Endings K-1 (BS) transition words step-by-step Combining a description of characters and setting to convey how a character is feeling, Satisfying Endi ORGanization Pattern, Ending, Descriptive Word Choice, See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or com Sharpening the Focus (3/4), Memoirs, onomatopoeia, strong lead Crafting a Lead Sentence Illustrations and Placement of text on a page, Pattern, Rich descriptions of setting, Satisfying Ending ( Many moment stories/ circular ending NWREL Memoirs, See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or comparisons) Using metaphors to describe troubling situations Character Development K-1 (BS) Good Beginnings K-1 (BS) Memoirs Good Endings 4-5 (BS) Surprise Ending Predictable back and forth pattern of text/ Memoirs, where the author gets their ideas (heart map) Predictable back and forth pattern of text/ Memoirs Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way Surprise Ending (3/4) Surprise Ending (3/4) Pictures to Show Emotions (last page) to add content and layer meaning, introducing characters throu Letter Writing action verbs, story organized by acts Good Endings 4-5 (BS) Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization Book Title Bear Wants More (Wilson) x Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! x Earth and I, The (Asch) x How to Heal a Broken Wing x Hundredth Name, The Jake's 100th Day of School ( Laminack) x LiPle Red Hen Makes a Pizza, The (Sturges) Me, All Alone, At The End Of The World Memoirs of a Goldfish x x My Father's Hands (Ryder) Other Side, The Raft, The x x Rain (Stojic) x Secret-Keeper, The So Much! (Cooke) x Stellaluna (Cannon) That's Good, That's Bad (Cuyler) x When Jessie Came Across The Sea Cucumber Soup (Krudwig) x Mother to Tigers (Lyon) My Visit To The Aquarium (Aliki) My Visit To The Zoo (Aliki) Scoot! (Falwell) x x Sky Tree (Locker) x Box Turtle at Long Pond x Caves (Kramer) x For the Love of the Game (Michael Jordan and Me) (Greenfield) How to Be (Brown) How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World (McNulty) How to Scratch a Wombat x Lightning (Kramer) Look What Whiskers Can Do (Souza) Red Eyed Tree Frog (Cowley) x x Roberto Clemente: The Pride Of The Pittsburgh Pirates Tortilla Factory, The (Paulsen) x x Walk On! A Guide For Babies of All Ages (Frazee) x What do you do when something wants to eat you? (Jenkins) x What's Up, What's Down? (Schaefer) x Will We Miss Them? (Wright) x If You Decide to Go to the Moon (McNulty) Martin's Big Words: The Life Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.x Mud ( Ray) x x x My Map Book (Fanelli) x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG F S ORG H 1 ORG H 1 ORG H 1 ORG H 1 ORG H 1 ORG H 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF 1 ORG NF S ORG NF S ORG NF S ORG NF S Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt repeated refrain Intermediate- Sound Lead "See Saw", Satisfying Ending Using a mix of words and illustrations to tell the complete story, Illustrations to show the passing of tim Good Endings 2-3 (BS) narrative with a strong beginning, middle and end x Narrative Procedure 4-5 (BS) Memoirs Memoirs Good Endings 2-3 (BS) Great Beginning, Summer memories cummulative text, effective ending Good Endings 4-5 (BS) Pattern in ORGanization Satisfying Ending (Lesson Learned/Decision Reached) Seesaw structure, sequence of events Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS) x x x x x x x x x x x Using Anecdotes to add details to writing Memoirs Memoirs non-fiction text features, verbs and verb forms Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way, sequencing A Day in the Life NWREL Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS) Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS) Nonfiction text structure, Great book to model research writing: paragraphs that include topic sentences Scene Beginning, Questioning Ending essential questions A day in the life, punctuation, Non-Fiction text structure,Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS) narrative nonfiction, poetic language, full circle organization, NWREL leads Differing view points, cummulative text, Pictures and Sequence Non-Fiction Question and Answer Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) Good Endings 4-5 (BS) Reading like a writer,leads non-traditional text format Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization Book Title Of Thee I Sing (Obama) x Roanoke: The Lost Colony (Yolen) Under the Snow (Stewart) x Water (Asch) x Where Once There Was A Wood (Fleming) World's Greatest Elephant, The A River Dream (Say) A Story for Bear (Haseley) Anna's Table (Bunting) Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (Raschka) Chrysanthemum (Henkes) x x Fireflies! (Brinckloe) x x Ghost Dance, The (McLerran) House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros) Important Book, The (Brown) x x Josefina ( Winter) x Library, The (Stewart) x Little Nino’s Pizzeria (Barbour) x Look Who Lives in the Desert! (Bessesen) x Mr. George Baker (Hest) x Mufaro's Bea9ful Daughters This Jazz Man (Ehrhardt) Night in the Country (Rylant) Night Noises (Fox) x x Noisy Nora (Wells) One Tiny Turtle ( Davies) x x Owl Babies (Waddell) x Paperboy, The, by Dav Pilkey x Popcorn Book, The (dePaola) Possum Magic (Fox) Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles- Think of That! (Dillion) Slugs (Green berg) Some Smug Slug (Edwards) Stella Louella's Runaway Book Straight To The Pole (O'Malley) Table Where Rich People Sit, The (Baylor) x What you know first (MacLachlin) x x Winter Trees (Evans) x x Work Song (Paulsen) Dragon Machine, The (Ward) I Live in Music (Shange) I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato (Child) A House is a House for Me (Hoberman) Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location ORG NF S ORG NF S ORG NF S ORG NF S ORG NF S ORG NF S SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 1 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F 2 SF F S SF F S SF F S UoS AM 1 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt nonfiction narrative writing, Using prompting questions to organize writing x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Wetalnd Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way, descriptive language breaking grammatical rules Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS) NWREL, dialogue NWREL NWREL mix of complete sentences and fragments,Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS) short sentence impact,Good Endings K-1 (BS) Small moments/ Hand Map, Satisfying Ending (Thoughts or Feelings),Beginning, Middle and End/ new An excellent model for fluency in writing NWRL NWREL Descriptive Language, Nudging Students beyond "list" and "love" stories, Modifying existing paragraph Poetic Phrasing, Pattern and Repetitve Language How to Pace a Story varied sentence beginnings, mix of poetry and facts Character Development K-1 (BS),Rhythm in organization, Onomatopoeia, Rich Language, Introducing read to the tune of "This Old Man" sensory details, Personal Narrative/Small Moments K-1 (BS) Illustrations, Speech Bubbles, Separate Pictures, Sequence, Satisfying Ending, Similies, Onomatoepoe Narrowing a large topic to a managable size (includes forward that explains how author narrowed her Personal Narrative Writing Using a Parallel Story/ Circular Ending (3/4) Using Talk Bubbles Sentence variety and well-placed fragments, strong lead uses a single repeating line amongst others NWREL alliteration Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS) uses clipped phrases instead of full sentences NWREL Rich Language, good endings, NWREL, fragments that work NWREL, letter writing, Lyrical language about everday jobs To develop a an ear for rhythm and flow of words NWRL Presentation:different medias for illustrations,Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS), using creative ways x Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Book Title A Weekend With Wendell (Henkes) Aaron's Hair (Munsch) Chester's Way (Henkes) Chrysanthemum (Henkes) x Do Like Kyla (Johnson) Just A Dream (Van Allsburg) Mr. Putter And Tabby Pour The Tea Peter's Chair (Keats) Rela9ves Came, The (Rylant) x Shortcut (Crews) x Snowy Day, The (Keats) Thunder Cake (Polacco) x Two Bad Ants (Van Allsburg) Wemberly Worried (Henkes) A Sweet Smell of Roses (Johnson) Kitten's First Full Moon (Henkes) Punctua9on Takes a Vaca9on (Pulver) Rain Came Down, The ( Shannon) Arthur Writes a Story x Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One x Author: A True Story x Best Story, The x x Bunny cakes (Wells) x Day Eddie Met The Author, The (Borden) x x Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, The (Bang) I Like Myself! x If You Were a Writer (Nixon) x x In My Yellow Shirt (Spinelli) x I've Painted Everything x x Mothers Are Like That ( Carrick) x Mr. Putter and Tabby Write the Book (Rylant) Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street x x Rocks in His Head (Hurst) Three Questions, The (Muth) What Do Authors Do? (Christelow) x x Wolf x Great Gracie Chase, The (Rylant) x Imagine A Day ( thomson) x Max's Words (Banks) Mud ( Ray) x x A Clean Sky: The Global Warming Story x A Drop of Water (Wick) Are You a Spider? (Allen) Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing x x x x x x x x UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM 1 UoS AM S UoS AM S UoS AM S UoS AM S UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW 1 UoS IW S UoS IW S UoS IW S UoS IW S UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database Lists/ refrain NWREL, Word Placement on page/refrain Underling for emphasis/ ellipses/refrain,Satisfying Ending (Starts All Over Again) short sentence impact,Good Endings K-1 (BS) Many moment stories Many moment stories Small Moments 2-3 (BS) Dialogue/ Suspense/ story mountain structure Strong Leads/ Memoirs Personal Narrative Writing/ Small Moments/ Memoirs/ Onomatopoeia/ Capital letters for emphasis, Sm Onomatopoeia/ story mountain structure/ Personal Narrative/ Small Moments K-1 (BS) Sharpening the Focus (3/4), Memoirs, onomatopoeia, strong lead Many moment stories/ circular ending NWREL Character thinking Bold print/ ellipses/ refrain Refrain Why punctuation is important Cause and effect organization Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS) What makes a good story An Authors personal journey as a writer, Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS) Reasons why authors write-Great for Kindergarten x NWREL Reading like a writer New way of writing about old things Reading like a writer x x Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation NWRL, good beginnings The writing process x x x x x Reading like a writer, itroducing characters through setting Imaginative writing "nothing is impossible",imagine lead x x x Reading like a writer,leads Facts to support dashes, commas, semi-colons Introduction x x Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Bad Day x (Voirst) x x x x x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt in an interesting way/ effective ending, verbs, adjectives in an interesting way in an interesting way, Pictures, Placement of Text on a Page, in an interesting way x x x x x x x x x Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts Non-Fiction Question and Answer Scene Beginning, Ending returns to title Various formats for all about books Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts focused topic All About models, various page tpes x x x x x x UoS Realistic Fiction x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors x Conventions x UoS Small Moments x Voice Word Choice Book Title Bat Loves The Night (Davies) Big and LiPle Big Blue Whale (Davies) Building A House (Barton) Cactus Hotel Can It Rain Cats and Dogs? (Berger) Chameleons Are Cool (Jenkins) Dolley Madison Saves George Washington From Seed To Plant (Gibbons) Gardener, The (Stewart) How People Learned to Fly How To Lose All Your Friends (Carlson) How to Talk to Your Cat Hungry, Hungry Sharks (Cole) Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon My Goose Betsy (Braun) On The Move (Pluckrose) Possum Magic (Fox) Red Eyed Tree Frog (Cowley) Sea Turtles (Gibbons) Secret Shortcut, The (Tegue) Sky Tree (Locker) Snail's Spell, The (Ryder) Thank You, Sarah (Anderson) Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe Walk With A Wolf (Howker) Will We Miss Them? (Wright) A Walk in The Rainforest (Pratt) Harvest Year (Peterson) Moon Was Best, The (Zolotow) Our Granny (Wild) Please Don't Wake the Animals Pumpkin Book, The (Gibbons) Rabbits, Rabbits, More Rabbits (Gibbons) Sharks (Simon) This Quiet Lady (Zolotow) Throw Your Tooth on the Roof Waiting For Wings (Ehlert) Water (Asch) When Rain Falls (Stewart) A Chair for my Mother A Letter To Amy (Keats) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Sentence Fluency # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ORGanization Location UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF 1 UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS NF S UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database x x x X Question Lead, Summary Ending Introduction to How-To writing,Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS) how to Writing Facts Beginning, Ending Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way Sentence variety and well-placed fragments, strong lead A day in the life, punctuation, Non-Fiction text structure,Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an Definition Lead tranistional words Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way, sequencing Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way Beginning, Ending/sound arguments step-by-step Non-Fiction text structure Non-Fiction Question and Answer Non-Fiction text structure alliteration, similes, adjectives, commas, proper nouns Predictable back and forth pattern of text, Memoirs "See saw", Descriptive Language, ellipses, strong verbs, adjectives intro, conclusion All About models, various page tpes, non-fiction text features All About models, various page tpes topic in introduction Memoirs Question/Scene Beginning, Ending Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way, descriptive language strong verbs, vivd adjectives Illustrations to convey info., Small Moments 2-3 (BS), Problem-Solution Story Beginnings: starting in the moment/ Ending in the moment/ story mountain structure NWREL, Beginnings: starting in the moment/ many moments story/ story mountain structure/ comma Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x X x x x x x x x x x x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Small Moments 2-3 (BS),Figurative language/ comparisons/ beginning with dialogue/ descriptive langu Beginning with the problem Beginning with the problem,Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS) Beginning with the problem,Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS) Circular ending/lists Dialect (baby talk)/ suspense, tension/ ending in the moment x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x UoS Nonfiction Writing x x x x UoS Authors as Mentors x Conventions x UoS Small Moments ORGanization Voice Book Title Come On, Rain! (Hesse) x Dot, The (Reynolds) Ish (reynolds) Ish (reynolds) Jessica (Henkes) Knuffle Bunny (Williems) Knuffle Bunny Free (Willems) Knuffle Bunny Too (Willems) Name Jar, The (Choi) Peter's Chair (Keats) Shortcut (Crews) x Snowy Day, The (Keats) Memory Coat, The (Woodruff) A Chair for my Mother A Letter To Amy (Keats) All The Small Poems And Fourteen More Amazing Grace (Hoffman) Aunt Flossie's Hats (Howard) Bigmamas (Crews) x Canoe Days (Paulsen) x Come On, Rain! (Hesse) x Dandelion Seed, The (Anthony) Days Like This Fireflies! (Brinckloe) x Goggles (Keats) If Dogs Were Dinosaurs ( Schwartz) x I'm In Charge Of Celebrations x Jamaica's Find (Havill) Kissing Hand, The ( Penn) x Leaving Morning, The (Johnson) Ma Dear's Apron (McKissack) x Mama Zooms (Fletcher) Man Who Walked Between The Towers, The (Gerstein) Night Driving (Coy) x Night On Neighborhood Street (Greenfield) Rain Rain Rivers x Shelia Rae, the Brave (Henkes) Shortcut (Crews) x Silent Movie (Avi) Trouble on the T-Ball Team (Bunting) x Twilight Comes Twice (Fletcher) x Jin Woo (Bunting) Knuffle Bunny (Williems) Word Choice # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Sentence Fluency Location UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF 1 UoS RF S UoS SM 1 UoS Sm 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS Sm 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS Sm 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM 1 UoS SM S UoS SM S Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database Characters and Problems Dialogue/ Suspense/ story mountain structure Personal Narrative Writing/ Small Moments/ Memoirs/ Onomatopoeia/ Capital letters for emphasis, Sm Onomatopoeia/ story mountain structure/ Personal Narrative/ Small Moments K-1 (BS) Historical fiction setting Illustrations to convey info., Small Moments 2-3 (BS), Problem-Solution Story Beginnings: starting in the moment/ Ending in the moment/ story mountain structure Small Moments 2-3 (BS) Good Beginning, K-1 (BS), Using a Character's Likes, Dislikes and Traits, Satisfying Ending (Accomplish Sparking memories/ flash backs Memoirs/ short sentence impact, Ideas generated from objects that spark memories Personal Narrative Writing Small Moments 2-3 (BS),Figurative language/ comparisons/ beginning with dialogue/ descriptive langu Small Moments 4-5 (BS) Small moments/ Hand Map, Satisfying Ending (Thoughts or Feelings),Beginning, Middle and End/ new Beginnings: starting in the moment/ story mountain structure "What If" questions to spark ideas Small Moments 2-3 (BS),Personal Narrative that provokes thoughts about territories that inspire writin Beginnings: Starting off in the moment/ story mountain structure Stretching the moment across pages/ creating mood/ character thinking Ellipses/lists of things/ time of day Personal Narrative Writing,Small Moments 2-3 (BS) Comparisons Small Moments 4-5 (BS) Summer Memories, Small Moments 2-3 (BS) Rhyming, descriptions, line breaks/ spacing on a page, small moments 2-3 (BS) Personal Narrative/Small Moment K-1 (BS) short sentence impact/ refrain Personal Narrative Writing/ Small Moments/ Memoirs/ Onomatopoeia/ Capital letters for emphasis, Sm A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation, NWRL, Small Moments 4-5 (BS) Using small moments to make a big point Narrowing the Time Focus (3/4), sensory details, personification Inside Story Dialect (baby talk)/ suspense, tension/ ending in the moment Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry x x UoS Realistic Fiction x x x x UoS Nonfiction Writing Conventions Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization Book Title Knuffle Bunny Free (Willems) Knuffle Bunny Too (Willems) Out of the Ocean (Frasier) x Whispering Cloth, The Dear Mrs. Larue: Letters From Obedience School (Teague) x Dear Peter Rabbit (Aladdin) x Yours Truly, Goldilocks (Ada) A Wri9ng Kind of Day: Poems for young poets (Fletcher) Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, The (Prelutsky) Guyku, A Year of Haiku for Boys Hello Ocean x Honey, I Love (Greenfield) Honey, I Love (Greenfield) If I were in charge of the world (Viorst) If Pigs Could Fly…and Other Deep Thoughts Lemonade Sun Mama Zooms (Fletcher) Night On Neighborhood Street (Greenfield) Poetry Speaks To Children (Paschen) Water Dance (Lockler) Where The Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein) A Poke In The I (Janeczko) Casey at the bat (Thayer) Insectlopedia (Foriall) In My Momma's Kitchen (Nolen) x x An Angel for Solomon Singer (Rylant) Best Pet of All, The (LaRochelle) x Beverly Billingsly Takes A Bow (Stadler) Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type (Cronin) x Clorinda (Kellogg) Day Of Ahmed's Secret (Parry) Diary of a Wombat (Whateley) x Dot, The (Reynolds) Earrings (Viorst) x Frog Prince Continued, The (Sciezka) Gardener, The (Stewart) x I am the Dog I am the Cat (Hall) x I Wanna New Room I, Crocodile (Marcellino) Journey, The (Stewart) Little Bunny on the Move (McCArthy) Mr. George Baker (Hest) x UoS Authors as Mentors # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 UoS Small Moments Location UoS SM S UoS SM S UoS SM S UoS SM S UoS WL 1 UoS WL 1 UoS WL 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP 1 UoSP S UoSP S UoSP S V1F VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt x x x Descriptive writing, Writing using the senses, gathering small moments Small Moments 2-3 (BS) Letter writing, hyperboles and similies "See saw", Satisfying Ending, Rich Illustrations Letter writing poems about everyday life and objects Rhyming, descriptions, line breaks/ spacing on a page Haiku Findin Topics and Using Senses to Create First Memories Writing with Voice (3/4) Writing with Voice (3/4) NWREL x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Comparisons Rhyming, descriptions, line breaks/ spacing on a page, small moments 2-3 (BS) x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x true meaning of friendship theme x x x back and forth organizational structure,Reasons for writing, Illustrations give further information at the Speech Bubbles Personal Narrative Writing (Grades 2-3) Days in a week, adjectives, first person, diary format, show don't tell Beginning with the problem Predictable back and forth pattern of text/ hyperbobles and similies, persuasive NWREL x x x x x x x x x Looking at objects through poet's eyes Funny rhyming Shape poems Comparisons Rhyming, descriptions, line breaks/ spacing on a page Ideas generated from memories, objects or events, 1 big idea that sparks several smaller stories, read NWREL, Good Endings K-1 (BS) x Different voices on the same subject Persuasive, Letter Writing Grades 2+ NWREL Character Development K-1 (BS),Rhythm in organization, Onomatopoeia, Rich Language, Introducing Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Book Title My Big Dog (Stevens and Crummel) My Brother Dan's Delicious (Layne) My Crayons Talk x Old Dog, The ( Zolotow) Voices in the Park ( Browne) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (Fox) No, David! (Shannon) Orville: A Dog Story Paper Bag Princess, The (Munsch) Perfect Pet, The ( Palantini) Petite Rouge (Artell) Raising Sweetness (Stanley) Red Rubber Boot Day (Ray) Rela9ves Came, The (Rylant) Sadako (Coerr) Scaredy Squirrel (WaP) Should We Have Pets? (Lollis) Sleeping Ugly (Yolen) The Wolf Who Cried Boy (Hartman) Tough Boris (Fox) Train To Somewhere (Bunting) True Story of the Three Pigs, The ( Scieszka) Wall, The ( Bunting) What you know first (MacLachlin) White Socks Only (Coleman) Whoosh Went The Wind (Derby) Working Cotton (Williams) Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China (Louie) Yesterday I had the Blues (Frame) Amber on the Mountain (Johnston) Leonardo the Terrible Monster Memory String, The (Bunting) Precious And The Boo Hag Sally Goes to the Mountains (Huneck) Snow Day! Those Shoes If You're not from the prarie (Bouchard) Koko's Kitten (Patterson) Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups, The Sierra (Siebert) Theodore (Keating) Atlantic (Karas) Ice Bear: in The Steps of the Polar Bear (Davies) Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt point of view, personal narrative, word choice, friendship theme good beginnings, persuasive Death of a pet A story can be told from many points of view Items that can spark a memory, memoirs/ story mountain structure, memoir characetr development K-1 (BS), memoirs *Great author's note x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF1 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VF2 VFS VFS VFS VFS VFS VFS VFS V NF 1 V NF 1 V NF 1 V NF 1 V NF 1 V NF S V NF S Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database NWREL, gender equality Persuasive writing written in dialect Morale to the story-- written w/ a Texas accent Personal Narrative Writing Strong Leads/ Memoirs NWREL mix of fiction/non fiction, writing can be organized in different ways Persuasive text NWREL NWREL adjective usage historical fiction Point of View NWREL, Illustrates the integirty an power of voice in writing Gr. 3+ Rich Language, good endings, NWREL, fragments that work NWREL, memoir hyperboles and similies, verbs and verb forms Sensory Details/ Time Focus (3/4) craft lessons NWREL, fairy tale writing with emotions Friendship based on the value of reading, books and the value of learning, Creating Mood through the ORGanization- word placement Show Not Tell, Satisfying Ending (Accomplishments/Discovery), NWREL Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS) ORGanization, Strong Lead, Satistfying Ending, Point of View Descriptive Word Choice Informational nonfiction with voice Point of view of an inanimate object/ writing through a mask Biorgraphy, First Person Narrative Point of view of an inanimate object/ writing through a mask, Verbs, Personification informational text, Telling facts from a unique persective, interesting NF text structure Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency ORGanization Book Title Long Night Moon (Rylant) My Brother Martin A Beasty Story (Martin) All The Colors Of The Earth (Hamanaka) x All the Places to Love (MacLaughlin) x Armadillo Tattletale (Ketteman) Autumnblings (Florian) Big Al (Clements) Birds (Kevin Henkes) Bullfrog Pops! (Walton) Butternut Hollow Pond (Heinz) Clara Caterpillar (Edwards) Come On, Rain! (Hesse) x Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails Creatures of the Earth, Sea and Sky (Heard) Crickwing (Cannon) Season's of Arnolds Apple Tree, The (Gibbons) Dandelion Seed, The (Anthony) Dear Mrs. Larue: Letters From Obedience School (Teague) x Doodler Doodling (Gelman) Earrings (Viorst) x Fireflies! (Brinckloe) x x Gardener, The (Stewart) x Good Luck Cat, The (Harjo) x x Grannyman, The (Schachner) Have You Seen Trees? (Oppenheim) Hello Ocean x I Have Heard of a Land (Thomas) I Lost My Tooth In Africa (Diakite) Important Book, The (Brown) x x In November (Rylant) x x John Henry, by Julius Lester John Henry, by Julius Lester Julis, The Baby of the World (Henkes) Julis, The Baby of the World (Henkes) Listen to the Rain (Martin) Listening Walk, The (Showers) x Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The Lotus Seed, The (Garland) x Magic Fan, The (Baker) x Mighty Asparagus, The (Radunsky) Mitten, The x Mountain Dance x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Rich, colorful language, visualization,personification Anecdote Beginning, persuasive writing, memoir The power of descriptive words for younger writers similies Ideas generated from memories, objects or events tall tale, extravagent uses of words to engage reader word play strong verbs verbs action verbs descriptive language strong verbs, alliteration, adjectives Small Moments 2-3 (BS),Figurative language/ comparisons/ beginning with dialogue/ descriptive langu x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location V NF S V NF S WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 1 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 2 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database x metaphors descriptive language x x x x x x x x x x x x x Letter writing, hyperboles and similies Verbs, adjectives, adverbs Predictable back and forth pattern of text/ hyperbobles and similies, persuasive Small moments/ Hand Map, Satisfying Ending (Thoughts or Feelings),Beginning, Middle and End/ new x x x x x x x x x x x great introduction and conclusion around a true idea Physical Description of the Main Character, Reason for a title NWREL Findin Topics and Using Senses to Create First Memories Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS) 8 year old author Descriptive Language, Nudging Students beyond "list" and "love" stories, Modifying existing paragraph Rich language Using strong verbs (3/4),powerful imagery Using strong verbs (3/4),powerful imagery Beginnings: Starting off in the moment/ show don't tell,launching writer's workshop k-1 Beginnings: Starting off in the moment/ show don't tell,launching writer's workshop k-1 Onomatopoeia NWREL Powerful verbs and precise nouns, clear development of story, sequence, transition words x x x NWREL Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing x x UoS Authors as Mentors x x Conventions x x x x x x x x x x x x x UoS Small Moments Voice ORGanization Book Title Mr. George Baker (Hest) x Mudball x My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil x My Brother Dan's Delicious (Layne) My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks (Piven) My Little Island My Mom (Browne) Night in the Country (Rylant) Night Noises (Fox) x x Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin Officer Buckle and Gloria (P. Rathman) Old Man and His Door, The (Soto) Old Woman Who Named Things, The (Rylant) On Monday When it Rained Over and Over (Zolotow) Owl Moon (Yolen) Parade (Crews) x Pig Pigger Piggest (Walton) Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin Rain Romp: Stomping Away A Grouchy Day (Kurtz) Raindrop, Plop! (Lewison) Rattletrap Car (Root) Red Book, The ( Lehman) x x Sail Away (Crews) x Scoot! (Falwell) x Seashore Book, The (Zolotow) x x Silver Seeds: A Book of Nature Poems Some Smug Slug (Edwards) Someday (spinelli) x Squiggle, The (Schafer) x Storm Book, The (Zolotow) Suddenly! (McNaughton) Tar Beach (Ringold) Tessa's Tip-Tapping Toes Things That Are Most in the World (Barrett) x Tigress (Dowson) Tortilla Factory, The (Paulsen) x Ugly Pie Under One Rock: Bugs, Slugs, and Ughs Up North at the Cabin (Chall) Water Hole Waiting (Kurtz) Water Music (Yolen) Welcome To The Green House (Yolen) x Word Choice # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Sentence Fluency Location WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 3 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 4 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database Character Development K-1 (BS),Rhythm in organization, Onomatopoeia, Rich Language, Introducing x x x x Starting with a question and answering through stories, similies good beginnings, persuasive similies Using Details to Describe Setting x sensory details, Personal Narrative/Small Moments K-1 (BS) Illustrations, Speech Bubbles, Separate Pictures, Sequence, Satisfying Ending, Similies, Onomatoepoe x Match words with the picture Words that sound alike but mean something quite different NWREL x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Onomatopoeia putting words to illustrations, using illustrations to organize stories Sequence, Rhythm, Onomatopoeia, Verbs non-fiction text features, verbs and verb forms Finding topics and using senses to create first memories, dialogue lead, imagery, figurative language, Rich, colorful language alliteration hyperbobles and similies, back and forth organization x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x breaking grammatical rules, imagery, repetition Sensory Details (3/4), stretching a moment circular ending Adverbs, adjectives Descriptive Language figurative language x x x descriptive language use of one strong word consistently throughout piece Describing Setting Descriptive Language, Sentence Fluency extreme adjectives and superlatives similies narrative nonfiction, poetic language, full circle organization, NWREL Describing Setting, Using Sensory Details to Anchor Images in Our Minds, Sat. Ending (Memory that L verbs and verb forms metaphors repetition, strong verbs Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation! # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Book Title White Snow, Bright Snow (Tresselt) Whoosh Went The Wind (Derby) Wild Child (Plourde) Wilma Unlimited (Krull) Winter Trees (Evans) Working Cotton (Williams) Yo! Yes? A Quiet Place (Wood) Alejandro's Gift (Albert) Boy Who Loved Words, The I love you the purplest (Joosse) If Not for the Cat (Prelutsky) In the Small, small pond (Fleming) lizards, frogs, and polliwogs (Florian) Long Night Moon (Rylant) Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster My Teacher Likes To Say (Brennan-Nelson) Night I Followed The Dog, The (Laden) Our Granny (Wild) Quick as a Cricket (Wood) Rain (Stojic) This Quiet Lady (Zolotow) Wonderful Happens, The (Rylant) Moon Was Best, The (Zolotow) Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant x x x Craft Lessons UoS Living the Writerly Life UoS Poetry descriptive language, metaphors hyperboles and similies, verbs and verb forms NWREL Crafting a Lead (3/4) x x x x Sensory Details/ Time Focus (3/4) craft lessons Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS) imagery, lists Creating Mood through the description of setting, Satisfying Ending (Thoughts or Feelings) NWREL haiku riddles Verbs x x Rich, colorful language, visualization,personification x literal meaning vs. figurative language, cliches, idioms, proverbs action verbs, specific nouns "See saw", Descriptive Language, ellipses, strong verbs, adjectives x x x x x UoS Realistic Fiction UoS Nonfiction Writing UoS Authors as Mentors Conventions UoS Small Moments Voice Word Choice x x x x x x x x x x x Sentence Fluency ORGanization x x x x x x x x x G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt Possible Topics/ Notes about the book Location WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F 5 WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC F S WC NF S Ideas Lincoln School, Lincoln MA Inspiring Writing LSF Grant Mentor Text Database x x cummulative text, effective ending Memoirs breaking grammatical rules Predictable back and forth pattern of text, Memoirs Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation!
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