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"We don't lose our class goldfish"

Author and Illustrator : Ryan T Higgins

This book will be great for early writers because it has short and predictable sentences. The book also has great illustrations which is good for Early writers

One activity that I could do with this book is a sequence activity ( Beginning, Middle, End). They could write one to two sentences about each and draw a picture to go along

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If You Take A Mouse To School

Author: Laura Numeroff

Illustrator: Felicia Bond

This Text will support Early writers by showcasing its longer sentences and the clear Cause and Effect events. An activity that could be used in the class would be writing about that cause and effect. for example " When the mouse goes to ___ he will want ___" and then write a few sentences why.

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A Wrinkle In Time

Author Madeleine L'engle

This book has a great complex plot that will challenge students to think of more abstract concepts

One activity that students could do is an opinion piece of writing. They could talk about where they would time travel to if they could and why.

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"Ish"

Author and Illustrator: Peter H Reynolds

This book is very encouraging for young/ new writers as the main character is encouraged to keep on drawing because his drawing it is still a "drawing-ish" In class we can have the students do their own drawing and then they can write a sentence or two. For example, they can draw a flower and say "this is my flower-ish". This allows for students to connect art with discriptive words.

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Rocket Writers a Story

Author and Illustrator: Tad Hills

This book actually goes through a story of Rocket the puppy who wants to write his own story while gathering words around the world.

An activity that I would tie to this is a "word collector journal: somewhat like Mr. Cullum had in the documentary "A touch of greatness." The students will write down a few new words that they want to "collect." They can keep this journal and use it for assignments

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"The Snowy Day"

Author and Illustrator: Ezra Jack Keats

"The Snowy Day" is a great book that models sequences and sensory language. This book is great for emergent writers because it helps them begin to learn describing experiences.

An activity that could be tied to this could be "If it snowed..."

after reading this book students will then write a few sentences on what they would do if it snowed tying the experiences they heard in the book. The goal is that the emergent writers are focused on descriptive and imaginative writing.

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"Chrysanthemum"

Author and Illustrator: Kevin Henkes

This book is a great way for emergent writers to see that writing can reflect who they are as well. Students could have a writing activity where they write their names (decorate it!) and complete the sentence "My name is special because..." which focuses on personal/opinion writing.

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"The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

Author and Illustrator: Eric Carle

This book has a clear sequence which is beneficial for emergent writers so they can retell in their words. They can make a First, Second, and Last chart and have the students place the order of foods the caterpillar ate in.

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"Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes"

Author: Eric Litwin

Illustrator: James Dean

This book is great, catchy and has a lot of repetition which benefits emergent writers by using repetition to build sentence fluency.

Students can fill in the blank such as seeing the shoes and filling in the sentence "I love my __ shoes"

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"Wonder"

Author: R.J. Palacio

This book is great for teaching voice and perspective because of the multiple narrators in the book. Children pick up on little traits of each character and can identify who is speaking in the book.

An activity that can be tied into this book is having one of the major scenes rewritten in the perspective of a different character.

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'Frindle"

Author: Andrew Clements

Illustrator: Brian Selznick

"Frindle" takes us through the story of a student who makes up a "new word" for the word pen. This silly novel can make students more curious about words in general, maybe even wanting to make one of their own, which is an activity that could be done.

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Tuesdays at the Castle

Author: Jessica Day George

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"Turtle in Paradise"

Author: Jennifer L. Holm

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"Island of the Blue Dolphins"

Author: Scott O'Dell