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         <title>When Charley Met Emma by: Amy Webb</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A story of two children's meeting and learning that different isn't bad, sad, or strange--different is just different, and different is great! The book conveys the idea that diversity in appearance should not affect how you interact with others.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Where Are You From? by: Jaime Kim</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Pro-Humanity/Anti-Racist:<br>A girl is ask her Abuelo where she’s from—where she’s <em>really</em> from. He doesn’t give her the response she expects. The word choice in this book can be simple yet powerful. The author shows how the right choice/use of words can leave the reader with imagery that shows the different places where 'you' can be from. The inclusion of Spanish vocabulary adds to the identity and sense of belonging of the characters and is a great multicultural book choice.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of hungry caterpillar's journey and transformation in a beautifully illustrated format. This book provides young writers with an easy to understand format for organization. The story of the caterpillar follows (organized) days and stages of development.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by: Mark Teague</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A dog laments his fate at obedience school through a series of hilarious letters home. The dog conveys his burdens and belief that he does not belong in obedience school.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>When Pigasso Met Mootisse by: Nina Laden</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of two artist with different styles and the results of their unique friendship.<br>This story demonstrates the power of using specific words to enhance a reader's experience and the story's imagery.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>The True Story of the Three Little Pigsby Jon Scieszka</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A twist on the original story of <em>The Three Little Pigs</em>. In this version, the wolf is merely an innocent victim of circumstance. This can be used as an example for conventions as if displays the basic conventions that young writers are currently practicing. </div>]]></description>
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         <title>Let The Children March By: Monica Clark-Robinson</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Anti-Racist:<br>Young African American children volunteer to march for their civil rights. Facing fear, hate, and danger, these children used their voices to change the world.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>The Boy Who Grew a Forest By: Sophia Gholz</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A story of a boy who made a big impact with his perseverance and initiative. This book is an excellent example of presenting a main idea of a story without explicitly saying it. The development of the main idea is clear and well structured.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-08 02:01:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood By: Tony Hillary</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of one man's initiative to change an abandoned lot in Harlem to a thriving community hotspot with the help of his student's and community. This book is an example of organization because of the specific progress and processes that the characters experience. The events build-off one another in ways that demonstrate that organization is key to producing a comprehensive story.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Vote For Our Future By: Margaret McNamara</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A charming and powerful picture book about voting and elections. Students  learn how we can find–and <em>use</em>–our voices for change. This book can be used as an example for voice because the author uses the student's to convey the importance and belief in having a voice to change. Young writers can see how a narrative can be used to present their ideas for a matter they find important.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>My Little Sister Ate One Hare By: Bill Grossman</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This book is a fun and engaging story about a girl who eats all manners of animals for no reason. It has a good sense of sentence fluency. The pages build off and add to each other, maintaining a steady rhythm. The words are not awkward or halt the flow of the story. It also displays basic rules of conventions that young writers can identify.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>What Do You Do With an Idea? By: Kobi Yamada</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of a young boy and his hesitance, acceptance and nourishment of an idea and the expressed belief that an individual's idea(s) should be nurtured and explored to make changes in the world. The author stressed the importance of belief in one's self and ideas, regardless of critics. This is a great book to stress voice to young writers and encouraging them to write passionately.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>This is My Book! By: Mark Pett</title>
         <author>danwingn</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>An interactive book that has the character within the story addressing the reader. Can be used as an example or Voice in writing as it demonstrates how young writers can use their voice to capture an audience's attention. It has a fun and entertaining structured way of writing where the ideas are flown from one to another.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Sometimes People March By: Tessa Allen</title>
         <author>danwingn</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A picture book detailing the reasons people march and the different reasons they may do so.<br>An excellent example of sentence fluency due to the rhythm and pacing of the book is easy to read and follow.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>The Paperboy By: Dav Pilkey</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A look into the routine of a paperboy and his dog. This story is an example for organization because the scenes (both written and illustrated) can be built off each scene. Imagine separating the  pictures and text, young writers can deduce the sequence.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-13 20:55:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Harold and the Purple Crayon By: Crockett Johnson</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of a young boy and his creative work with a purple crayon. This book displays short and neat sentences that demonstrate proper conventions without the distractions of busy artwork. Students can examine the sentences during a read-aloud and point out the conventions.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Harry the Dirty Dog By: Gene Zion</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Harry runs from his bath and gets into mischief. The story has a simple organization of events that show how Harry gets progressively dirtier and his thinking to get clean and be recognized.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-13 23:48:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Empty Pot By: Demi</title>
         <author>danwingn</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of an emperor who looks for an heir and sets a task for children to raise a plant.  A boy tries his best but his seed does not grow. This story displays organization through a passage of time and order of thoughts and reasons.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-14 00:00:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Diary of a Worm By: Doreen Cronin</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A worm's recording of his thoughts, feelings and daily happenings. This story demonstrates how young writers can write everyday. They do not have to have an elaborate purpose. They can simple write about one topic/feeling/thought per day, and it doesn't have to be explicitly said but can be expressed by other means.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-14 00:34:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>My Big Dog By: Janet Stevens</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of a cat's life being disturbed by the arrival of a puppy and it's quest to find a new home. This story is a simple yet effective example of voice. The cat explains how it wants things to go his way, his likes and thoughts.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-20 05:33:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>My Mouth Is A Volcano By: Julia Cook</title>
         <author>danwingn</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of a boy who's mouth spews out words, sometimes out of his control. The choice of words enhance the boy's predicament and do not make the page feel too cluttered because the point is that he speaks too much or at inopportune times.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-21 03:05:11 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia By: Elizabeth Zunon</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Pro-Humanity:<br>The true story of the plastic crisis in the Gambia and the women who decided to strive to fix it. This book has a steady pacing and choice of words that allows the story to flow. Some use of repetition does not detract from the overall movement of the story.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-21 03:09:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Science Verse By: Jon Scieszka</title>
         <author>danwingn</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A fun book of science related poetry that'll have you and students cracking up and thinking of different science topics. The poems just roll of the tongue and in some cases the rhythm of the poem allows for some singing—that's how smooth the sentence fluency is in this book.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-21 03:37:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Fossil by Bill Thomson</title>
         <author>danwingn</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This wordless book focus on a boy and his dogs adventure with fossils. He imagines the fossils origins. The book is sequenced in a easy to follow pattern and the pictures tell the story.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Enemy Pie By: Derek Munson</title>
         <author>danwingn</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The story of a boy who decides he has an enemy. He turns to his dad for help and they make the preparation to make an enemy pie. This story can be used for multiple purpose but it displays clean conventions and use of indentions, spacing, quotations and more punctuation that developing writers can emulate.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-21 03:56:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Punctuation Celebration By: Elsa Knight Bruno</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This is a fun book of punctuation, literally! This book can be used along with a lesson on punctuation. You can pick and choose or read it all and revisit it for when the occasion calls for it.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>The Keeper of Wild Words By: Brooke Smith</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This book looks into the beauty of nature with words.The story pairs words to create beautiful imagery that entices the reader.</div>]]></description>
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