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By Andy Runton

Owly is a kind, yet lonely, little owl who's always on the search for new friends and adventure. Relying on a mixture of symbols, icons, and expressions to tell his silent stories. This graphic novel is a fun mentor text that one can use to teach students how to write comic strips. This book will help students read the correct order of events since they have to follow scenes in the right order. It will also teach students transition words like "Then..." and "Later..."
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By Suzy Lee

In this beautiful wordless book, you will find illustrations of a girl interacting with an ocean wave. This is an excellent mentor text for students to develop stories by learning the relationship between illustrations and a story. Wordless books promote creativity and imagination to create a story from their interpretation of the book.
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By Kimberlee Gard

In this book, it has fun, bright illustrations and clever wordplay. This book is an excellent mentor text, for it would be a great resource to use when first teaching about punctuation. This story helps show students the important roles each punctuation play in our writing.
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By Matt de la Pena

In this beutifully illustrated book is takes place around CJ and Nana's town while riding the bus. This book uses complex sentences and dialouge.
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By John Scieszka

We all know the traditional story of The Three Little Pigs, but this time his book is written from the wolf's perspective. This fun book is great to use as a mentor text for sentence fluency, for it had many words and phrases that have different lengths and structures that students can adopt into their own writing.
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The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage without Apostrophes!

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The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage without Apostrophes!

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By Lynne Truss

This book is full of silly scenes showing how apostrophes make a difference, too; this is a picture book that will make kids laugh out loud and get better punctuation. I chose this book to put students in partners and have each write sentences without apostrophes and then switch to put the apostrophes in the right spot.
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By Doreen Cronin

Worm is all about having fun, respecting the earth, and never taking baths. Many children will relate to this funny character! I chose this book because students can either watch a read-aloud with a close-up of the pages and jot down the conventions of writing they see like commas, capital letters, and punction. Or students could have a printout of the pages to see it independently.
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By Jane Yolen

One late winter night, a father and his daughter go hunting to see owls. When they hear owls and call back, will they receive a response? I chose this mentor text because it can be used to teach our kids the difference between simple and complex sentence structures as well as how the type of structure can affect the flow of a piece of writing.
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Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

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Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

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By Barbara Park

Meet the World’s Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! In the first Junie B. Jones book, it’s Junie B.’s first day, and she doesn’t know anything. She’s so scared of the school bus and the meanies on it that when it’s time to go home, she doesn’t. Junie B. Jones is all sass! I chose this book as a mentor text for students to hear a different voice in writing. There are a lot of funny, sassy moments that just make kids laugh all the time. Having students hear and laugh with this book teaches them the importance of voice.
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In this book, a brother and sister fight over the TV, for they both want to watch their own shows. Mom decides that they are watching too much TV and that they should think of another activity. When the kids use their imagination, they end up using a fun recipe. I chose this book because it shows different elements of the organization. In this book, you can find a real recipe and an example of a list. This would be a great mentor text for students to try new text styles.
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By Chris Raschka

"Yo!" says one. "Yes?" says the other. And so begins a conversation that turns strangers into friends. This book is an excellent mentor text that shows students the proper punctuation and shows them a good use of grammar with dialogue.
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By Wong Herbert Lee

This book is about a little girl who follows track outside her window after a fresh snowfall. This book is a great mentor text for sentence fluency, for it has different types of sentences like declarative, simple, and complex. It also has various sentences with question marks and exclamation points to show the importance of punctuation to students.
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By Ellen Levine

This book tells the Underground Railroad story about Henry, a man who grows up in slavery but escapes slavery by mailing himself in a box to freedom. This book is a great way to teach about the use of voice within writing because the author wrote the text in a way that conveys the mood like "He couldn't think. He couldn't work." The illustrator also has strong illustrations that help convey the voice that is being portrayed in the story. This helps students establish a sense of voice in their own writing.
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By David Shannon

In this book, David does a series of toddler things that he is not supposed to do. Students typically know that their behaviors are wrong and have possibly experienced their own parent saying, "No, [student's name]!" Students can see how the author chose to use the repetitive line of "No, David!" as a voice trait to convey to the reader that what David is getting into is trouble!
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By Tom Brenner

This book is about a joyful, sun-drenched tribute to the anticipation and adventures of the warmest season of the year. When the days stretch out slowly, and the cheerful faces of Johnny jump up, then it's time to get ready for summer! This book shows the "when, then" pattern structure that helps students use in their writing to organize their stories.
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Word Choice is when words are chosen carefully by writers to make their writing more enlightening. Descriptive writing helps writers create visual or sensory-loading writing. In these books, the authors played with words in different ways that model students the importance of word choice.

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By Andrew Larsen & Mike Lowery
A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. This book is great for pre-emergent to emergent writers who have not yet mastered writing sentences. This book shows students that if you have an idea, you try your best to write it out to the best you can because she can make your own story regardless. It is all about having ideas and writing them down to create stories.
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By Drew Daywalt

Poor Duncan wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! In this hilarious book, it showcases many types of letters. This is a super fun mentor text to teach students how to write letters and motivate them to write to anything or anyone.
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By Brenda Maier

In this book, it is a story of a girl-powered engineer named Ruby. Ruby asks her brother to help her build something, but they do not go with her idea. Instead, she made plans, gathered supplies, and cut up boards. In the end, the boys want to play in her fort, but she tells them no. So to make up for it, they help her with the final touches. This book helps with the text structure of sequencing, for it is organized so that students can see first; Ruby asked the boys to help, then she did it on her own, next they wanted to play in it; finally, they help her decorate it. (anti-racist)
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By Adam Lehrhaupt
This book demonstrates that you can create your own unique stories with any ideas! This book goes through the process of the narrarator using the word Viking and then adding a space robot and a dragon. This could encourage students to make a list of various ideas of their own or even create a jar like the book shows.
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By Ross Burach

This is one of my favorite authors because he makes humorous books with great facial expressions and emotion. Through his illustrations, it is clear the impatience and expressive personality of the caterpillar. This is a great example for students to learn about voice when they are writing their own stories. (multimodel text)
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By Rebecca Van Slyke

In this book, someone is stealing and adding letters and words, mixing up different words. Students learn how to rearrange words which could help them use different words in their writing.
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By Caron Levis

In this book the letters are the magnetic letters that could be found on our fridges. The letters try to make a story but some letters can't agree, which makes the story fun and include word play throughout. Students can see how different letters can change their writing along with their story.
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By Michael Escoffier

This book plays with words by subtracting a letter from each word which causes the story to change. This helps students understand difference between similar words can change their own writing.
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The Convections trait is mechanical correctness or, in other words, the editing process of one's writing. Editing includes five elements which are spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and paragraphing. This trait is essential that what is edited matches appropriately based on grade level and/or age.

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Sentence Fluency is the rhythm and flow of the language. The sentences are individual words and phrases that together are grouped to build a clear sentence. The sentences read smoothly with the pattern, type, and length. Below are books that model strong sentence fluency and help students become inspired for their own writing.

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Voice is the personal tone and flavor of the author's message. Each writer has their unique voice that they portray and how they communicate to the reader. These books model different voices that the author uses to relay their message, which models to students how the use of voice can make their writing different from others.

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The Organization trait is the structure of the piece of writing where there is the main idea, pattern, and structure. The writing should have a good flow where this is a clear beginning, middle, and end. The books below show various evidence of different patterns or sequences and quality writing that is a great model for students.

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The Ideas trait is the main message of a piece of writing that has supporting details. Writers should choose interesting and important details in their piece of writing to make it clear for readers. The books below provide books that model either the writing process of coming up with ideas or models quality writing.

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By Maurie J. Manning

In this story, the two children wake and see their parents cleaning the kitchen and dancing. They soon join in the fun before having to return to bed. This book is a great mentor text for word choice because the author includes similies, physical description, and character action. The variety models to students how the chosen word choice makes it easy for the reader to picture the characters and their interactions.
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By Gene Barretta

In this book, you learn about the many inventions of Benjamin Franklin and how we’re still using them today. The author starts with something we have now (like bifocals), and you turn the page to see the original invention by Ben Franklin. It’s a clever way to look at some of his accomplishments and compare the past with the present. This is a great mentor text to teach students how to write compare and contrast structured essays.
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By Nandini Ahuja

Farah Patel realizes that the butterflies have disappeared from her neighborhood, she realizes that it’s because there aren’t enough flowers to attract them. Luckily enough, Farah’s city is looking for ideas for what to do with the empty lot next door. In this book you follow along with Farah as she rises up and brings her neighborhood together with letters, petitions, postcards, and more. This book is a powerful mentor text for it encourages young readers to write about important topics in their own lives.

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By Amy Ludwig Vanderwater

Write! Write! Write! is a poetry collection that explores every stage and every aspect of the writing process, from learning the alphabet to the thrilling moment of writing a thought for the first time, from writer’s block to finding inspiration, and from revision to stapling your finished work into a book. These poems also celebrate how writing teaches patience, helps express opinions, and allows us to imagine the impossible. This book, overall, is a mentor text that can inspire all writers, for it goes through all the experiences within the writing process.
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In this category, you will find books that I hold close to my heart for different reasons. I love sharing my favorites and passing down possible fun memories that I endured in my childhood.

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Students may celebrate different holidays or practice different traditions within the same holiday. These books provide various types of representations.

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Many books throughout the years may be banned or challenged in numerous schools for different reasons. With these books, some challenging aspects were mature content, suicide, language, same-sex parents, books that might promote arguing, etc. Overall, these books teach impactful lessons or talk about important things.

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In order for students to effectively learn, its important that they have good physical and well-being skills. These books will cover meditation, exercise, positive affirmations, zen, and outdoors.

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These books can help students deal with depression, addiction, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and OCD in this category. The representation of characters with various types of mental illnesses can help students deal with similar experiences.

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Historical fiction is a genre where the story takes place in the past. Historical novels capture the details of the time period as accurately as possible for authenticity, including social norms, manners, customs, and traditions. Readers can jump into the certain timeframe within these books.

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In this category, you will find books with various poems that showcase different poetry styles.

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These emotions can be hard to process with students who experienced a death of a family member, friend, or pets. In this category, there are books that explain death to books that help students grieve.

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Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is targeted to adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. Many of these books talk about important topics and are impactful for readers.

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In these books, you can find characters with disabilities. These books are impeccable to teach that some people have disabilities or to provide for a student who is going through similar experiences.

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In this category, I find these books incredibly important to provide. Within these books, you will find characters within the LGBTQ+ community or have parents within the community.

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By Anna Dewdney
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Mrs. Gorski, I Think I Have the Wiggle Fidgets

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Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You 

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