Use: Beginning of the year~finding place where you can get in the "reading zone".

Use: Word choice, imagery, lyrical and poetic language, strong verbs, bringing a character to life

Use: Biography study

Uses: organization, balance facts/ideas, using text features

Uses: Generating ideas

Use: personification, comparison, imagery, poetic language

Use: Inferring, riddle, weather water cycle

Water Dance by Thomas Locker

Use: Idea development, lead.

Use: Lead, endings, organizational structure for nonfiction writing

Use:Watching what characters hold close/ naming character traits.

Use: Growing and Changing Theories

Use: Persuasive Writing

Children Make Terrible Pets

I Am Otter

Uses: personal connections, idea mentor text

Ladybug Girl at the Beach

Uses: personal connections, ideas mentor text

Flight School

Uses: use of punctuation, use of font, structure

Mr. Zinger's Hat

Uses: ideas, circular story structure

Pop's Bridge

Uses: getting to the "heart" of the story, balance of narration/dialogue

Snow by Cynthia Rylant

Uses: elaboration, descriptive language, word choice

I Want My Hat Back

Uses: simple structure, use o

The Invisible Boy

Uses: use of words & pictures to tell the story, character, social issues, story mapping

Atlantic

Uses: narrative non-fiction, structure

The Seashore Book

Uses: imagery, ideas, writing in the same verb tense

The Deer Watch

Uses: has it ALL!

Down the Winding Road

Uses: sentence structure, building tension

Leopard & Silkie

Uses: narrative non-fiction, voice, social issues

Winter is Coming

Uses: zoom in on small moment, idea, description, mood, setting, sentence length, word choice

Too Many Toys

Uses: unfreezing characters, satisfying ending, punctuation uses, different font uses, precise verbs

Guyku

Uses: structure, poetry, word choice

Uses: elaboration, word choice,

At One in a Place Called Maine

Uses: structure, word choice, sentence length, alliteration

Tiny Creatures, the World of Microbes

Uses: authors's craft, perspective, non-fiction,

Uses: Reader's Theater, parallel structure, nonfiction writing, character, voice

Uses: theme, word choice

Uses: physical ending/emotional ending

Uses: read aloud

Uses: imagery, word choice,

Uses: creating satisfying endings, word choice, alliteration

Uses: How to writing, structure

Uses: How to writing, organization, word choice

Uses: How to writing, organization