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Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
"Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate ( Graham)
x
A Gift (Chen)
x
A Grand Old Tree (DePalma)
x
A House by the River (Miller)
A Light In The Attic (Silverstein)
A
Medieval
Feast
by
Aliki
A Party (Cowey)
x
A Perfect Day (Charly)
x
A Rocket In My Pocket Withers)
A. Lincoln And Me
Accidents May Happen
x
Adventurous Chef, The (Arnold)
x
Ahmed's Secret
x
Alice
the
Fairy
All About Deer (Arnosky)
All About Owls (Arnosky)
All About Rattlesnakes (Arnosky)
All About Sharks (Arnosky)
All Pigs Are Beautiful
x
x
All You Need For a Snowman (Schertle)
Alphabet City (Johnson)
x
Alphabet Rescue (Wood)
Alphabet Under Construction (Fleming)
Always and Forever (Durant)
Amazing Pop Up Grammer Book, The
Amos and Boris, by William Steig
x
An Island (Schaefer)
x
Andrew's Loose Tooth (Munsch)
x
Angel Baby (Cummings)
Angels in the Dust (Raven)
Apples (Gibbons)
Apples To Applesauce (Snyder)
Are You an Ant? (Allen)
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair (Polacco)
Baby Animals At Home (Frost)
x
Baby Sister, The (DePaoloa)
Bad Dog (Laden)
x
Baseball Saved Us
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
x
x
a birth to death organization
Describing what the main character sees, smells and hears to make the reader feel as if they are th
Funny rhyming
Illustrations to convey info.
Predictable back and forth pattern of text
x
x
Various types of poems
Good Beginnings K-1 (BS)
NWREL
What I Want to learn this year
x
x
x
x
Beginning all about books by asking questions
Question Lead
Beginning all about books by asking questions
Various formats for all about books
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Presentation
Presentation
topic of death
NWREL
Using strong verbs (3/4), NWREL
writers chose each word carefully, informational text
Word placement on page/ refrain
NWREL
Describing Specific Time periods. Creating setting the reader's mind
How-To models, All-About models, vaious page types
Clear how to directions with transitions
Facts to support
Rediscovery of the printed word-- their power, imagination
Non-Fiction Question and Answer
Memoirs
blend of chopped phrases and longer sentences
Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS)
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Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
x
UoS Small Moments
Sentence Fluency
x
Voice
Word Choice
Book Title
Bats At The Beach (Lies)
Beacons of Light: Lighthouses (Gibbons)
Beaks (Collard and Sneed)
x
Bear Snores On ( Wilson)
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!
Because of Winn-Dixie
Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom
Behind the Mail
Behind The Mask: A Book About Prepositions
Ben and Then
Benjamin Brody's Backyard Bag (VosWezeman)
Ben's Trumpet (isadora)
Best Friends (Krupinski)
x
Biggest, Smartest, Fastest (Jenkins)
Birthday Presents (Rylant)
x
Blizzard, The
Block, The (Hughes)
Book of Bad Ideas, The
Book! Book! Book! (Bruss)
Brave Irene (Steig)
x
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
x
Buzzy's Boo Boo (Ziefert)
Caleb and Kate (Steig)
Call Me Marianne (Moore)
Captain's Purr (Floyd)
Carousel, The (Rosenberg)
Carrot Seed, The
Cassie's Word Quilt
Cats (Gibbons)
Cats' Colors
CDB!
Charlotte's Web (White)
Chattanooga Sludge (Bang)
Cherry Pies and Lullabies
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Cinderella (Lowell)
Cinderella, Or, The Little Glass Slipper
Circus Ship, The (VanDusen)
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
rhyme
Scene Beginning
x
x
x
x
x
repeated refrains for organization
Intermediate- Action Lead
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
prepostions
Launching the Writer's Workshop 4-5 (BS)
See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or comparisons)
Homelessness
Presentation
Fictional Stories can be built around photographs or artifacts
Presentation
Predictable back and forth pattern of text/ Memoirs/ sequencing, time focus
Good Endings 2-3 (BS)
The Voices of City Life told through sounds
Intermediate- Question Lead
weave quotes into narrative
NWREL, show, don't tell, varied sentence beginnings, Person vs. Nature (3/4) Using strong verbs (3
x
x
x
x
Out of the ordinary language
Building content around an object (tricorn hat)
morning to night organization, carefully chosen words, precise punctuation
Voice that speaks to the reader and captures the imagination and heart
Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS)
x
x
x
All About models, various page tpes
x
Launching the Writer's Workshop 4-5 (BS)
x
x
x
x
NWREL
Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS)
Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS)
x
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UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
City By Numbers (Johnson)
x
x
Clementine
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
x x
Color (Heller)
Consider the Lemming (Steig)
Dad and Me (Catalonotto)
x
Daddy, Daddy, Be There. (Boyd)
Daisy Comes Homes (Brett)
x
Dance, The (Evans)
x
Dancing in the Wings (Allen)
x
Danny, Champion of the World
David Goes To School (Shannon)
x
Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The (Gaiman)
x
Daydreamers
Days with Frog and Toad (Lobel)
x
Dear Diary (Fanelli)
Dear Fish (Gall)
x
Dear Mr. Blueberry (James)
x
x
Dear Rebecca, Winter is Here
x
Dear Willie Rudd (Gray)
x
Deep in the Jungle (Yaccarino)
x
Diamond Life (Smith Jr.)
x
Dirt on their skirts (Rappaport)
x
Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices (Janeczko)
Divide, The (Bedard)
Do Cowboys Ride Bikes? (Tucker)
x
Do Not Open This Book! (Muntean)
Dogs (Gibbons)
Dogs Rule! (Kirk)
x
DogTeam (Paulsen)
Dogzilla (Pilkey)
x
Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus (Williems)
Don't Take Your Snail For A Stroll (Ireland)
Don't Take Your Snake for a Stroll
x
Double
Trouble
in
Walla
Walla
Duck On A Bike (Shannon)
x
Ducky (Bunting)
Dumpy La Rue (Winthrop)
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
look closely to see details
x
x
x
NWREL
Personal Narrative that provokes thoughts about territories that inspire writing,Illustrations to Show
NWREL
x
x
NWREL
NWREL
x
x
Memoirs
NWREL
Launching the Writer's Workshop 4-5 (BS)
x
A tale that shows how voice can change with character
verbs and verb forms
organization of a letter,Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Intermediate- Problem Lead,flashbacks
Modern Idioms can add humor to a story
non-traditional text format
Using photographs of real people to tell their stories
point of view
Satisfying Ending (Thoughts or Feelings)
See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or comparisons)
Presentation
All About models, various page tpes
hyperbobles and similies, rhyme
imagery, rhythm
paragraphs
Persuasive language/ end punctuation
rhythm and rhyme
4 line rhyming poems
quotation marks, end marks, proper nouns
Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS)
x
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UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
Earthquack (Palatini)
x x
x
Edward
and
the
Pirates
(McPhail)
x
Eight Ate (Terban)
x
Elephants Swim (Riley)
x x
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (Irvine)
Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears (Fisher)
x
Eloise Take a Bawth (Thompson)
x
Elvis the Camel (Devine)
Emperor's
Egg
Enemy Pie (Munson)
x
Epossumondas (Salley)
x
Ever Living Tree:Life and Times of a Coast Redwood, The (Vieira) x
Everglades (George)
Everybody Needs a Rock (Baylor)
Exploring The Deep, Dark Sea (Gibbons)
x
Fairytale News
x
Falling Up (Silverstein)
Family Reunion (Quattlebaum)
x
x
Fancy Nancy (O'Connor)
x
Fanny and Annabelle (Hobby)
x
x
Farmer's Garden: Rhymes for Two Voices (Harrison)
x
x
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brotherss
Favershams, The
x
Feathers and Fools (Fox)
x
Fish
Faces
Fishing Day (Piakney)
Fishing The Air (Creech)
x
Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping
x
Five Little Pumpkins (Geunther)
Flag Of Childhood: Poems From The Middle East, The
Flash, Crash, Rumble and Roll (Branley)
x
Flight (Burliegh)
x
Flossie and the Fox
x
Flower Girl (Furgang)
x
Fly Away Home
x
Food Fight! (Shields)
x
Fortunately (Charlip)
x
Fox (Wild)
x
x
UoS Small Moments
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
Humorous illustrations with clever word play
Homonyms
Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way,Descriptive Words
Dialogue
alliteration
NWREL
A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation NWRL
x
x
importance of being accurate and precise with words
Writing detailed information in an interesting way
questioning to persuade reader
Breathing Life into Essays K-1 (BS)
Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way
x
x
x
x
Funny rhyming
interesting vocabulary words
x
x
rhyme,choral reading of poetry
repetition
NWREL
NWREL
Historical fiction setting
cummulative text
varied sentence beginnings
x
x
x
Small Moments 4-5 (BS)
Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way
Powerful Adjectives,Focusing in on small moments in a long life
Surprise Ending
Personal Narrative Writing
Small Moments 2-3 (BS),Satisfying Ending (Memory that Lingers),NWREL
Seesaw structure
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Notes
Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
x
UoS Small Moments
Sentence Fluency
x
Voice
Word Choice
Book Title
Frederick (Lionni)
Frederick's Alligator
Freedom School, Yes!
Freedom Summer (Wiles)
Frog Princess, The (Mann)
Frog Principal, The (Calmenson)
Frogs (Gibbons)
From Head to Toe (Carle)
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road (Lester)
Frosty the Snowman
Gather Round: Songs for Kids and Other Folks
Gentle Giant Octopus (Wallace)
George vs. George (Schanzer)
George Washington's Breakfast
Get Out Of Bed (Munsch)
Ghost of Sifty, Sifty Sam, The (Medearis)
Giant Pandas (Gibbons)
Gift of the Sacred Dog, The (Goble)
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport (Sharmat)
Gilberto and the Wind (Ets)
Girl on the High Diving Horse, The (High)
Girl on the High-Diving Horse (High)
x
Girls Like Spaghetti
Goal (Burleigh)
Goin' Someplace Special (McKissack)
Going Home (Bunting)
Going North
Going West
Gold Fever (Kay)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Marshall)
Good Boy, Fergus!
Good night, Animals (Arro)
Goodnight Lulu (Bogan)
Goose that Almost Got Cooked, The
Grandad Bill's Song (Yolen)
Grandaddy's Gift (Mitchells)
Grandfather’s Journey (Say)
Grandma's Smile
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
x
x
x
x
x
x
Intermediate- Dialogue Lead
Intermediate- Action Lead
Show don't tell, stretching the action, suspense,Good Endings 4-5 (BS)
NWREL
twist on a familiar story
All About models, various page tpes
x
Action Lead
x
x
x
Non-Fiction text structure, similies,Descriptive Verbs
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
research can lead to more questions
Word placement on page/ refrain
Necessary setting
Presentation: non-fiction visual elements
Legend.
x
x
x
x
x
x
personification
Satisfying Ending (Accomplishments/Discovery)
Slowing a moment to appeal to the reader's senses
x
x
x
x
x
x
Colons,Where the Author Gets Their Ideas (Heart Map)
NWREL
Small Moments 2-3 (BS)
Good Beginnings K-1 (BS)
NWREL
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Character Development K-1 (BS)
Rhythmic Prose to which readers will want to add NWRL
NWREL
titles
back and forth organization
Introducing Characters through setting
Crafting a Title (3/4)
Intermediate- Question Lead
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UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
x
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
Grandpa Loved (Nobisso)
Grandpa Never Lies (Fletcher)
Great Pancake Escape, The (Many)
Grody's Not So Golden (Rubel)
Gross Grub (Porter)
Growing
Frogs
x
H Is For Home Run :A Baseball Alphabet (Herzog)
Hailstones and Halibut Bones (O'Neill)
x
Hairs/ Pelitos (Cisneros)
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary (Cleary)
Hands (Ehlert)
Hank Aaron, Brave In Every Way
Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! (Fox)
Harry and the Terrible Whatzit (Gackenbach)
x
Hating Book, The (Zolotow)
x
Heartland (Siebert)
Hello
Harvest
Moon
(Fletcher)
Henny Penny (Zimmerman)
Henry Works
x
Herbert Fieldmouse, Secret Agent (O'Malley)
Hero Girls (Buckley)
Heroes of the Revolution (Adler)
Hey Little Ant (Hoose)
Hey World, Here I Am! (Little)
Hey, Al
Hide and Snake (Baker)
Hiroshima No Pika (Maruki)
Home Run (Burleigh)
Homeplace (Shelby)
Homespun Sarah (Kay)
Hoops (Burleigh)
Hooray for Diffendorfer Day (Prelutsky)
Hooway for Wodney Wat (Lester)
x
Hoptoad (Yolen)
How a House is Built (Gibbons)
How Animals Play (Tatham)
How Baseball Works (Thomas)
How Big Were The Dinosaurs? (Most)
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
flashbacks
x
x
x
NWREL
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Various How To models
Writing an information book based on your experiences
alliteration, rhyme
Rich Descriptive Language, Ideas come from all around us (Poetry)
non-fiction text features<NWREL
adjectives
Memoirs
Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS)
phrasing and sentences
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Point of View,Intermediate- Question Lead
NWREL
Good Beginnings 2-3 (BS)
reader's focus
NWREL
Placing a small moment under a magnifying glass/ slowing the moment
Memoirs
NWREL
varied sentence beginnings,NWREL
NWREL
Embarassing times,varied sentence beginnings
x
x
x
Personal Narrative Writing
NWREL,Point of view of an inanimate object/ writing through a mask
Personification
Refrain
Gathering items that will help you gather your ideas for writing
NWREL
Question Lead, Summary Ending
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
sequence, how to, transition words,All About models, various page tpes
organize and divide topic into manageable chunks
manageable chunk of a how -to
Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way
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UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
x
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
How I became a pirate (Long)
x
How
I
spent
my
summer
vacaEon
How Many Days to America (Bunting)
How the B-52 Cockroach Learned to Fly (Matsumoto)
x
How to Get Famous in Brooklyn
x
How To Make a Kite (Scholastic)
How To Make a Sock Puppet (Scholastic)
How to Think Like a Scientist
x
How Writers Work: Finding A Process That Works
x For You
I ain't Gonna Paint No More! (Beaumont)
x
I and You, and Don't Forget Who (Cleary)
I
Like
Me!
I Love (Minne)
x
I remember Papa (Ketterman)
I Spy Extreme Challenger! ( Marzollo)
x
x
I Stink! (McMullan)
x
I
Wanna
Iguana
(
Orloff)
x x
I Was a Second Grade Werewolf
x
I Was There: The Buried City of Pompeii
x
I Was Walking Down the Road
I Went Walking (Williams)
x
If I Ran the Circus (Seuss)
If I Ran the Zoo (Seuss)
x
If You Meet a dragon (Cowley)
x
If You See A Kitten (Butler)
If You Were Born A Kitten (Bauer)
x
Ignis (Wilson)
I'll Always Be Your Friend (McBratney)
x
I'll Fix Anthony
In Our Backyard Garden (Spinelli)
x
In the Tall, Tall Grass (Fleming)
x
Indescribably Arabella (Gilbert)
Ira Sleeps Over
x
It Takes A Village (Fletcher)
It was a Dark and Stormy Night (Ahlberg)
x
It's Going To Be Perfect (Carlson)
x
It's Okay To Be Different ( Parr)
x
It's Spring (Berger)
x
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
NWREL
x
Historical fiction setting
NWREL
Listing materials, writing directions
Listing materials, writing directions
NWREL
Launching the Writer's Workshop 4-5 (BS)
x
x
x
x
Helping Writers bring memories to a conscious level (Hand Map), Show Not Tell, Satisfying Ending (
Being aware of small details and sharpen descriptive language
Antonyms and Onomatopoeia
letter writing organization, power of persuasive writing
Intermediate- Problem Lead
x
x
varied sentence beginnings
strong verbs
Predictable back and forth pattern of text
x
x
Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way
A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation NWRL
NWREL
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Ideas generated from memories, objects or events
Verbs
Writing with persistance and individuality
Personal Narrative/Small Moment K-1 (BS)
Short sentence impact/ ending in the moment/ ellipses
NWREL
See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or comparisons)
Similiarities and differences in people and cultures
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UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
(Paulson)
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
Jack and the Beanstalk and the Beanstalk Incident
Jacket I Wear In The Snow, The
x
Jack's Tale (Walsh)
Jake Gander: Storyville Detective
Jeremiah Learns to Read (Bogart)
Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press
Joshua By The Sea (Johnson)
Joshua's Night Whispers (Johnson)
Journey Around Chicago From A to Z (Zschock)
Journey, The (MacLauchlan)
Jumanji
Just Another Day (Drake)
Karate Hour (Nevius)
Kat
Kong
Kate Shirley: Bound for Legend (SanSouci)
Katie's Sunday Afternoon (Mayhew)
x
Keeping Quil, The (Pollaco)
Kisses from Kosa ( Mathers)
Kites Sail High
Koala Lou (Fox)
Kofi and his Magic
x
Last Night at the Zoo (Garland)
Lauren McGill's Pickle Museum (Nolen)
Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle, The (Matthaei)
Legend of the Bluebonnet, The (dePaola)
Letter to the Lake ( Swanson)
x
Life and Times of the Peanut (Micucci)
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Henkes)
Listening Walk, The (Showers)
Little Brown Bear Won't Go to School (Dyer)
Little House, The (Burton)
Little One Step (James)
Little Red Hen, The (Makes A Pizza)
Little Whistle's Dinner Party (Hest)
Little Yellow Leaf, The ( Berger)
Little You (Cannon)
Live Writing
Lives of the Writers
x
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
x
Voice is dependent upon the opinion of the writer
Personal Narrative Writing
beginning, middle and end
x
x
x
x
x
x
Satisfying Ending (Hope, Wish, Dream)
how to
Lists/ refrain
Ending in the moment/ ellipses/ refrain/ Time of day
alliteration, non-traditional text format
Circular Ending
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
NWREL
x
x
Perpective of a young woman's historic perspective
Sparks imagination
Memoirs/ historical fiction setting, personal narrative/small moments K-1 (BS)
NWREL
verbs
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
NWREL
circular ending
interesting words, powerful verbs, precise nouns
NWREL
NWREL
Ideas generated from objects that spark memories
Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way
Character thining,Launching Writer's Workshop K-1, Cause and Effect, Rich description of an object
Onomatopoeia, Descriptive Adjectives
NWREL
sequencing, NWREL
Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS)
Introducing Characters through setting
effective ending
x
x
Launching the Writer's Workshop 4-5 (BS)
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Book Title
Llama, Llama, Red Pajama
x
Loki & Alex: Adventures of a Dog and His Best Friend (Smith Jr.) x
Lonely Scarecrow, The (Preston)
x
Long, Long, Letter, The
x
Lunch (Fleming)
x
Lunchtime for Purple Snake (Ziefert)
x
Magic Beach
Mama Bird, Baby Birds (Johnson)
x
x
Martha Speaks
Meanest Thing To Say, The
Meanwhile Back at Ranch (Noble)
x
MEOW!
By
Katya
Arnold
Micawber (Lithgow)
x
Millions of Cats (Gag)
x
Miss Nelson is Back (Allard)
x
Miss Nelson is Missing! (Allard)
x
Miss Opal's Auction (Vizurrga)
Miss Spider's Tea Party (Kirk)
Mohave (Sierbert)
Mojave (Siebert)
x
x
x
Monarch Butterfly (Gibbons)
x
More Than Anything Else ( Bradby)
x
Mouse Around (Schories)
x
Mrs. Katz and Tush (Polacco)
x
My beak, your beak (Walsh)
x
My Five Senses (Aliki)
x
My Friend Rabbit (Rohmann)
x
My Friend Whale (James)
x
My Friends (Gomi)
x
My Grandfather's Clock (McCaughrean)
x
My Great Aunt Arizona (Houston)
My House Has Stars (McDonald)
x
My Kindergarten (Wells)
x
My Little Sister Ate One Hare
x
My Mama Says there aren't any zombies, ghosts, vampires, creatures…
x
(Viorst)
My Mom Travels a Lot
x
My Ol' Man ( Polacco)
x
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me (Angelou) x
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
Acceptance and Friendship NWRL
Adjectives
Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS)
Ellipses
Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS)
Good Endings K-1 (BS)
NWREL
color words
NWREL
varied sentence beginnings
Satisfying Ending (Memory that Lingers)
A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation NWRL
Point of view of an inanimate object/ writing through a mask
personification, rhyme
All About models, various page tpes
Language is power-- what happens when we are denied that power?
NWREL
Vivid, powerful, hopeful and compassionate characters with voice
x
Use your voice when you write,Launching The Writing Workshop 2-3 (BS)
NWREL
Personal Narrative Writing
organized by time span
Memoirs
Voices of children throughout the world from multiple perspectives
Personal Narrative Writing
NWREL
Seesaw structure
NWREL
Vocal rhythm, playful variations in font size and style
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Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
My
Special
Words
My Tour of Europe: By Teddy Roosevelt
Mystic Horse (Goble)
Never Cry Woof! (Wattenburg)
Nevermind!
Night Wonders
No One Told The Aardvark (Eaton)
Oh the Things You Can Think (Seuss)
Old Cricket (Wheeler)
On Earth (Karas)
One Lucky Girl (Lyon)
One of Three (Johnson)
One Room School (Bial)
One Small Dog
Otto Goes To Bed
Ouch! (Scamell)
Our Granny ( Cowley)
Owen (Henkes)
Pete's A Pizza
Piggie Pie! (Palatii)
Pigs in the Pantry (Axelrod)
Pinky Dinky Doo: Back To School Is Cool
Popcorn (Stevenson)
Potluck (Shelby)
Princesses are not quitters (Lum)
Pssst! It's Me.. The Bogeyman (Park)
Puffins Climb, Penguins Rhyme (McMillain)
Purr… Children's Authors Write About their cats
Q is for duck (Folsom)
Raffi: The Singable Songs Collection
Reach for the Moon (Abeel)
Red Dancing Shoes (Patrick)
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Color
Reptiles Are My Life ( McDonald)
Roller Coaster (Frazee)
Rotten Ralph (Gantos)
Ruby Mae Has Something to Say
S if for Silver: A Nevada Alphabet
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
x
A Book that Illustrates Strong PresentationNWRL
Presentation
x
x
x
x
x
See-Saw Strcuture (back and forth and/or comparisons)
x
NWREL
Placement of Text on a Page, Sequence over time
Personal Narrative that provokes thoughts about territories that inspire writing
Lists of things/ ellipses
Memoirs
Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS)
Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS)
x
x
x
x
x
Predictable back and forth pattern of text/ Memoirs
Dialogue
Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
(Rosen)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS)
Rhyming, descriptions, line breaks/ spacing on a page
Alliteration
NWREL
circular ending, word play, NWREL
Literary non-fiction: teaching some facts in an interesting way
Different voices writing about the same topic
x
x
NWREL
Personal Narrative Writing
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Mixing of fiction and factual information (how to blend genres)
Small moments, circular ending
NWREL
Intermediate- Setting Lead
a-z books
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Strega Nona (DePaola)
Sun Up, Sun Down (Gibbons)
Sunflakes: Poems for Children
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Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
x
x
x
x
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
Salt Hands (Aragon)
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Saturday At The New You
Science Verse (Scieszka)
Shades of Black (Pinkney)
Shake, Rattle 'N Read (Hartman)
Shrek! (Steig)
Silly Sally
Simeon's Gift (Andrews)
Six-Dinner Sid (Moore)
Skippyjon Jones (Schnacher)
Small Poems (Worth)
Snow Comes to the Farm (Tripp)
Snow Is Falling (Branley)
Snowflake Bentley (Martin)
Snowmen at Night (Buehner)
So this is Spring (Fritz)
So You Want To Be President (George)
Solomon: The Rusty Nail (Steig)
Something from Nothing (Gilman)
Something Might Happen (Lester)
Song and Dance Man
Sophie
Sounder (Armstrong)
Speak to Me
Spiders (Gibbons)
Sports Pages (Adoff)
Spring is Here (Gomi)
Spring: An Acrostic Alphabet
Stand
Tall,
Molly
Lou
Melon
(Lovell)
Steal Back The Mona Lisa (McCarthy)
Stevie (Steptoe)
Stick Kid (Holwitz)
Stinky Stern Forever
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
Personal Narrative
Crafting a Title/ Creating a Dramatic Scene (3/4)
Small Moments 2-3 (BS)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Visual pictures, clever phrasing, vivid descriptions, strong lead
Verbs
NWREL
theme, presentation
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Show, don't tell/ figurative language
Narrowing a large topic to a managable size, Using the senses to describe for the reader
repetition
A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation NWRL
x
x
x
proper nouns
NWREL
Satisfying Ending (Final Action)
NWREL
Sharpening the Focus (3/4)
Good Endings K-1 (BS)
Intermediate- Setting Lead
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
All About models, various page tpes, compare.contrast beginning
Sports poetry
x
x
x
using repeated refrains to organize writing
question and answer format
Writing with Voice (3/4)Personal Narrative/Small moments K-1 (BS)
x
x
x
x
x
Character Development 2-3 (BS)
alliteration
Strong Fact Beginning
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Notes
Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
x
Sentence Fluency
x
Word Choice
ORGanization
Book Title
Supermarket (Krull)
Surprising Sharks (Davies)
Sylvester
and
the
Magic
Pebble
Take Me Out of the Bathtub (Katz)
Talkin' About Bessie ( Grimes)
Ted (DiTerlizzi)
Ten Little Puppies (Vazquez)
That Magnetic Dog (Whatley)
The Monster Trap
The Most Thankful Thing
The Mystery of Eatum Hall (Kelly)
The Name Quilt (Root)
The Napping House
The Other Dog (L'Engle)
The Painter (Catalanotto)
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog
The Polar Express (Van Allsburg)
The Pot that Juan Built (Andrews-Gobel)
The Range Eternal (Erdrich)
The Seasons Sewn: A Year in Patchwork (Paul)
The
Seven
Silly
Eaters
The Sneetches and Other Stories (Seuss)
The Snow Bear (Stafford)
The Snow Speaks (Carlstrom)
The Snowman (Briggs)
The Song and Dance Man (Ackerman)
The Starry Night (Waldman)
The Stinky Cheese Man (Sciezka)
The Stories Julian Tells
The Story Dance (Satterfield)
The Story of Ferdinand (Leaf)
The Story of Frog Belly rat Bone (Ering)
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles)
The Teacher from the Black Lagoon (Thaler)
The Terrible Thing that Happened at Our House
The Three Bears (Galdone)
The Usborne Book of Juggling (Gifford)
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
Structure, Illustrations
informational text
x
x
Anecdotes used to reveal the entire life of a character (MENTOR text)
x
x
The Point v. The Topic: Point found in the title
Intermediate- Sound Lead
x
x
x
x
using clues as organization
Memoirs
x
x
Point of View- author tells reader the point of view at the beginning, Satisfying Ending (Accomplish
Illustrations to Show Emotions & to add content and layer meaning (Building Content Through Show
x
x
Intermediate- Sound Lead
theme, imagery
Breathing Life into Essays 2-3 (BS)
NWREL
NWREL
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
breaking grammatical rules
NWREL
Memoirs
A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation NWRL
NWREL
Creating a Dramatic Scene (3/4)
Memoirs
NWREL
Presentation
NWREL
Intermediate- Thought Lead
x
x
x
All About models, various page tpes
Thank you to the Lincoln School Foundation!
Titles Funded by a 2011 LSF Grant
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
x
UoS Realistic Fiction
x
UoS Nonfiction Writing
Conventions
x
UoS Authors as Mentors
Voice
x
UoS Small Moments
Sentence Fluency
Book Title
The Web Files (Palatini)
The Witches (Dahl)
The World That We Want (Toft)
x
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
These Hands (Price)
x
This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology
This Place I Know (Heard)
This Place in the Snow (Bond)
Thomas' Snowsuit
Three Little Pigs (Wiesner)
Tiger Trouble (Goode)
x
To Root, to Toot, to Parachute
Toad (Brown)
Today I'm Going Fishing With Dad (Sharp)
x
Tomie's Little Book of Poems (DePaola)
Touchdown Mars! (Wethered and Edgett)
Treasures of the Heart (Miller)
x
Try Again Sally Jane
x
Tub-boo-boo (Palatini)
x
Tuesday (Wiesner)
x
x
Two Cool Cats (Speed)
Under the Sea from A-Z
x
Up, Up, Down (Munsch)
x
Visiting Day (Woodson)
x
Watch William Walk (Jonas)
Way Home (Hathorn)
We are all in the dumps with Jack and Guy (Sendak)
We Are Bears (Grooms)
We Share Everything (Munsch)
Weird Pet Poems (Evans)
x
Welcome to the Sea of Sand (Yolen)
x
Wemberly's Ice Cream Star (Henkes)
Weslandia
What Do Illustrators Do?
What Does A Gorden Need? (Nayer)
x
What Zessie Saw on Delancey Street (Rael)
What's In The Pond? (Hunter)
x
What's Under A Log? (Hunter)
x
Word Choice
ORGanization
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
short chopped sentences with alliteration, hyphens, dashes
Show Not Tell: Use Chapter "The Meeting" to chart all words that show fear
cummulative text
x
x
x
predictable language pattern
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
word play
Personal Narrative/Small Moment K-1 (BS)
A Book that Illustrates Strong Presentation NWRL
NWREL
verbs
powerful adjectives
Personal Narrative Writing
Different types of short poems
blend of narrative and expository text (2 different voices)
effective ending, imagery, lists
Intermediate- Action Lead
x
Become better story tellers/ put language to pictures, NWREL, beginning, middle, end
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
NWREL
Word placement on page/ refrain
show, don’t tell emotions
alliteration
An alternate definition of home through an original voice
Voice through conviction in very few words
precise nouns
Onomatopoeia/ Refrain
Rhyming, descriptions, line breaks/ spacing on a page
Setting Description
x
x
x
x
x
Narrative Procedure 4-5 (BS)
Launching The Writing Workshop K-1 (BS)
Non-Fiction Question and Answer
Historical fiction setting
Non-Fiction Question and Answer
Non-Fiction Question and Answer
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Craft Lessons
UoS Poetry
UoS Living the Writerly Life
UoS Realistic Fiction
UoS Nonfiction Writing
UoS Authors as Mentors
Conventions
UoS Small Moments
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
ORGanization
x
G. Blumberg, C. O'Reilly, J. Whitt
Notes
Book Title
When I Go Camping with Grandma
When Marcus Moore Moved In (Bond)
When The Moon Is Full (Pollock)
When The Sky Is Like Lace (Horwitz)
When this Box is Full (Lillie)
Where Have the Unicorns Gone? (
While we were out (Lee)
Woe is I
Zoom
Zoom and ReZoon (Banyai)
Ideas
UNAVAILABLE TITLES
Inspiring Writing
LSF Mentor TExt Database
varied sentence beginnings
breaking grammatical rules
sequencing
imagery, lists
Finding topics and using senses to create first memories
NWREL
satisfying ending NWRL
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Launching the Writer's Workshop 4-5 (BS), Narrative Procedure 2-3 (BS)
NWREL
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