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Picture Book Month Day 30: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts featuring A TROOP IS A GROUP OF MONKEYS
A TROOP IS A GROUP OF MONKEYS by Julie Hedlund Illustrated by Pamela Baron Summary: This app is now a print book that includes collective nouns that describe animals. Mentor Text Writing Skills: * Specificity * Vivid Verbs * Adjectives * Alliteration * Word Choice A TROOP IS…
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LITTLE CHICKEN’S BIG CHRISTMAS: A Must-Buy for Black Friday
LITTLE CHICKEN’S BIG CHRISTMAS by Jerry & Katie Davis It’s Black Friday. You will find me in my pajamas writing and purchasing things from the comfort of my computer. I will not venture out to the big box stores again (unless I really, really have to). If you…
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Picture Book Month Day 29: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts featuring MONSTORE
MONSTORE by Tara Lazar Illustrated by James Burks Aladdin, 2013 Summary: Zack needs a monster to keep his sister away from his room, but every monster he buys doesn’t work, and buying more monsters doesn’t work either. He has to find a solution to his monstrosity of a…
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Picture Book Month Day #28: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts featuring GIANT DANCE PARTY
GIANT DANCE PARTY by Betsy Bird Illustrated by Brandon Dorman Greenwillow, 2013 Summary: Lexy loves to dance, but when she gets up on stage, she freezes. When she offers to help others with their dancing skills, she doesn’t anticipate that giants will sign up to dance. Mentor…
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Picture Book Month Day #27: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts featuring GHOST IN THE HOUSE
GHOST IN THE HOUSE by Ammi-Joan Paquette Illustrated by Adam Record Candlewick, 2013 Summary: When a ghost, a mummy, a skeleton, and a witch all go sneaking through the house, they are most startled by a little human boy. Mentor Text Writing Skills: * Adjectives * Onomatopoeia…
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Picture Book Month Day 26: Picture Books as Mentor Texts featuring WHEN MARIAN SANG
WHEN MARIAN SANG: THE TRUE RECITAL OF MARIAN ANDERSON by Pam Munoz Ryan Illustrated by Brian Selznick Scholastic, 2002 Summary: WHEN MARIAN SANG is a biography featuring the life of African-American singer, Marian Anderson, a woman who broke barriers for African-Americans during the time of the Jim Crow…
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Picture Book Month Day 25: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts featuring NIGHTSONG
NIGHTSONG by Ari Berk Illustrated by Loren Long Scholastic, 2012 Summary: Chiro the bat learns to fly away from his mother and how to survive by using his senses. Mentor Text Writing Skills: * Word Choice * Sensory words * Specificity * Vivid Verbs For more information…
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Picture Book Month Day 24: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts featuring DAVE THE POTTER
DAVE THE POTTER by Laban Carrick Hill Illustrated by Bryan Collier Little, Brown, 2010 Summary: Dave was a slave who created beautiful pottery and even wrote poetry on the pots. This is a lyrical story that mostly focuses on the creation of the pots themselves. Historical information is…
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Picture Book Month Day 23: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts Featuring Personal Narratives
All of today’s featured texts can be used as a mentor texts to introduce personal narratives. TED by Tony DiTerlizzi Simon and Schuster, 2001 Summary: One young boy has an imaginary friend named Ted. They get into all kinds of mischief together and his dad is really…
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Picture Book Month Day 22: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts Featuring THE LITTLE YELLOW LEAF
THE LITTLE YELLOW LEAF by Carin Berger Greenwillow, 2008 Summary: When a little yellow leaf is not quite ready to face his flight to the ground, he holds on tight. Until he finds another leaf, a red one, who is also holding on as long as possible.…
