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This category is full of books that help children develop ideas, encourage writing, and helping them get started in creating their own stories.

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This category is full of books that will help children understand the text structure such as a good beginning, middle, and a strong ending.

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Support Writing Instruction: This book is set up in the form of a diary. It dates each entry at the top of the page and the worm writes about his daily interactions and thoughts. I will use this to teach students the fun behind writing and keeping a diary. I can also connect it to real diaries in history and how they are used to help the reader go back in time and relive events.

Writing Activity: Have students complete a writing journal entry at the beginning or end of each day reflecting on the interactions they had and what is on their mind. These are free writes and intended to let students write their thoughts down. It is not intended for any proper grading just to allow students to have fun with writing.

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This category will help guide the reader through the text making it easy to read and understand. We can help the writers strengthen conventions by encouraging the correct spelling of words that matter and using punctuation to enhance the meaning of a text.

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Punctuation Celebration by Elsa Knight Bruno

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Punctuation Celebration by Elsa Knight Bruno

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Support Writing Instruction: This story takes the reader through each punctuation mark and explains each purpose it has in the celebration. I would use this book to explicitly teach students the different types of punctuation and how they can be applied within a writing.

Writing Activity: Have the students become punctuation detectives and read through a few sentences to detect where there is missing punctuation as well as incorrect punctuation. Have the students write their own sentences and have their peers edit the punctuation.

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Support Writing Instruction: The use of dialogue helps teach about conventions in writing. Throughout the book, it uses various animals that express themselves through speech bubbles, use of quotation marks, periods, commas, etc to help distinguish what characters are saying from the rest of the book.

Writing Activity: Construct a comic strip that tells a story using speech bubbles and dialogue.

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Word choice refers to the idea that we choose specific words depending on what we are writing about. Words have specific meanings and one's choice of words can affect feelings and beliefs the reader has about a topic.

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Hey, Little Ant by Hannah Hoose & Phillip Hoose

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Hey, Little Ant by Hannah Hoose & Phillip Hoose

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Support Writing Instruction: This story takes you on a journey between a child and an ant. Throughout the story, the ant attempts to persuade the child to spare his life, for his life is just as valuable. I will use this story to emphasize the word choice that the ant chooses to persuade the child.

Writing Activity: Write a persuasive essay about something you are passionate about. What is your topic? Who is your audience? Make sure your word choice is powerful!

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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff

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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff

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Support Writing Instruction: This book is a perfect example of sequential order within a story. The mouse takes the boy on multiple adventures based on the event that happened leading to the story ending where it began. I would use this book to teach beginning, middle, and end in my classroom.

Writing Activity: Students will play a game of telephone and reflect on how the sentence changed from the beginning to the middle to the end. They will then create a narrative story with a clear sequence of events through the use of transition words like first, next, last.

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This category has books that focus on sentence fluency. This is the rhythm and the flow of the language, sound of word patterns, and the way in which the writing sounds to the ear not just the eye.

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This category shows students about the appearance or the visual appear of pictures and words together in a book. These books help strengthen in presentation that students might want to try. The choice of font, style of illustration, or how the text and pictures are laid out on the page is all part of presentation.

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This category contains books that will help teach children about writing with a voice. Writing with a voice refers to the mixture of vocabulary, tone, point of view, syntax, and flow.

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Support Writing Instruction: This story brings the reader on a journey about an idea that he has and how it develops over time. This book is a great example of presentation because throughout the story the illustrations become more intricate and colorful until they fill the page. This shows how presentation within a text can evoke meaning and feelings.

Writing Activity: Have the students listen to specific music and draw scribbles about how they feel during each song with the freedom to use different colors. When the students are done listening and drawing they must create a narrative story based on the images.

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Support Writing Instruction: This story emphasizes the developing ideas of a young artist who needs a little bit of encouragement. I would use this story to have students build each other up and help each other develop ideas for writing instruction.

Writing activity: Have students each draw an image and post it to create a classroom gallery. Have other students select an image from the gallery to create a narrative story about.

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Support Writing Instruction: This book is a book of untranslatable words from around the world. It states the word, the origin and then explains the context the word is used in. I would use this book to help promote creativity within writing by brainstorming how words are created.

Writing Activity: Have students create their own unique word and write a story about how their word is used and how they came up with this word.

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We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan Higgins

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We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan Higgins

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Support Writing Instruction: Penelope the dinosaur gets what she deserves when her pet fish Walter bites her and she understands how she has been making her classmates feel. I would use this story to teach a point of view from the classmate's perspective.

Writing Activity: have students write down good choices and poor choices that they can make in certain situations. Have them write a reflection on why they should do one over the other and how it can impact the classroom community if one or more student's make a poor choice.

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Support Writing Instruction: This story plays with the idea of writers block but for illustrating. I would use this story to teach students that great ideas start small and grow with time and hard work.

Writing activity: Write down one word and create a word web or mind map with words and phrases that connect to that idea. Create a narrative story based on the word web/mind map.

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Support Writing Instruction: I chose this book for presentation because many of the important words emphasized in this story are written in Spanish which is a presentation style that may resonate with Spanish speaking students. This mentor text may inspire ELLs within the class to incorporate their own flare and native language in their writing.

Writing activity: Write a story that you may have heard growing up in your family. Feel free to write the story in the language you are most comfortable writing in or write key vocabulary words in your native language.

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Write, Write, Write by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

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Write, Write, Write by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

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Support Writing Instruction: This is a collection of poems that I can use to begin writing instruction daily in the classroom. These poems encourage young writers in many different ways. I would use this book to teach sentence fluency and show students how words can flow together to create a short and simple yet beautiful piece.

Writing Activity: Create a haiku about your feelings towards writing. Does it excite you? Make you feel nervous?

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The Good Egg by Jory John and Pete Oswald

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The Good Egg by Jory John and Pete Oswald

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Support Writing Instruction: The authors of this book include specific words to add emphasis to the feelings of the good egg. For example the word exhausted rather than tired. I can use this book to show students how word choice can be used to emphasize the meaning and the feelings within the story.

Writing activity: Write a personal narrative story about a time in your life when you may have felt pressure to be perfect and the things you did to overcome that feeling. Carefully select words to bring an emphasis to how you felt within your story.

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Support Writing Instruction: Throughout this story the author uses voice to emphasize that she is talking to the reader. She asks thought provoking questions to the reader which I will emphasize how this engages the reader and makes them want to continue reading.

Writing activity: have students write words of affirmations on sticky notes and post them around the classroom. When all students are done have them go select one that they did not write and use it to write a motto/montra for them to refer to when they need words of encouragement.

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Support Writing Instruction: This story is written in verse and is about friends supporting each other. Within the story there is a letter from one friend written to another. Therefore, I would use this book to show students how the sentences can flow together in a written piece like a letter as well as how to structure a letter.

Writing activity: Write a kind letter to a friend like Parmesan Pig wrote to Taco Turtle. Include something to brighten their day such as a compliment or some words of encouragement! Try to make your words flow and follow proper letter formatting.