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Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to make a word plural or possessive. This silly book helps students understand the importance of apostrophes.

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This story goes over all of the punctuations, but shows how important and special the exclamation mark is.

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A cute story on why commas are important. Does the panda eat, shoot, and then leave or does the panda eat shoots and leaves. A great story to help children (and adults) think about the importance of commas.

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This story uses dialogue, punctuations, proper nouns, dates, etc. This is cool story that shows great writing and proper use of conventions that any student can benefit from.

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This is another book that I love to use for elaboration. This book informs the reader about an animal's tail and why they use them, then uses creativity and imagination to describe what a child would do if they had an animal tail. This is a great one to use to help students see how to elaborate on a topic.

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One of my favorites. Beautiful and powerful images as well as a deep relationship to the words.

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Citizens have the power to evoke change through spoken words, writing, and action. A great story and demonstration of how to form strong opinions and support them with facts and details.

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A story that demonstrates a young girl trying to convince her parents to let her have a pet. A perfect way to show students how to persuade their readers.

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Excellent descriptive language "spicy, aromatic, sparkling with sunlight....Clouds cracked and grumbled in a heavy sky.”

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This story uses beautiful and descriptive language that creates vivid imagery.

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Jess Aarons has his own special voice. Bridge to Terabithia is a great book to use to demonstrate how The book would be drastically different is if Leslie told the story instead of Jess.

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A sweet story that has a very clear problem and solution text structure.

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Not only is this a great myth, but it has excellent structure. This would be a great text to use to teach cause and effect text structure.

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This adorable story has a plethora of onomatopoeias, vivid verbs and alliterations.

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This writing has vivid verbs and sensory words.

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This is a non-fiction text with a twist. One page provides a description of different animal teeth, while the next provides what the human could do with those animal teeth.

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No Dogs Allowed demonstrates sequencing, order of events, with a clear beginning, middle, and end.

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Come On Rain has beautifully written vivid verbs, imagery and figurative language.

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Focus not only on the life (timeline) of MLK but also explains how he came to have his beliefs and strengths. A clear development of what MLK stands for is presented throughout the story.

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Small Things is written in the form of a graphic novel, but does not have any words. I would use the images and have students find the meaning, create dialogue and decipher the theme of the text.

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In this non-fiction book, each page or two briefly gives a well written paragraph with a focus central idea, and reasons or evidence to support it. This funny and descriptive text provides a great example of organized, non-fiction writing.

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Little Red Pencil has to write a story for class. The teacher reminds her to stick to her basic story so she doesn't get lost. The underlying theme of staying focused when writing is portrayed throughout the book, while also showing how messy and "lost" you may be on your journey to get there.

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Mia, the main character in this story writes argumentative letters to share her opinion. Mia’s letters are organized, detailed, and convincing.

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This story is actually written by fourth graders who argue whether zoos should exist or not. This argumentative writing presents two opposing viewpoints and the evidence that supports each.

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Courage Under Fire has multiple short articles written about heroes in the military. The informational, non-fiction, text structure will help students structure their own informational writing. There are numerous text features and important elements of non-fiction.

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The three little pigs told from the perspective of the Wolf. Would this sound differently if told by one of the pigs, or the pigs mother? The Wolf's voice is humorous and lighthearted, putting an interesting spin on a familiar story.

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This incredible narrative non-fiction book holds descriptive language, adjectives, adverbs, purposeful repetition, and figurative language. Each page is chalk-full of imagery. It really makes you want to throw out any old/borrowing commonly used words.

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This graphic novel is powerful and meaningful. This could be a great book to help students understand the connection between graphics and written text.

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Fly Away Home is a powerful and emotional book. Written from the perspective of a young boy. The author uses specific words and connections to provoke feelings and emotions. The author's use of voice makes this book meaningful.

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This story presents a clear and well developed idea.