Ms. Camille's Mentor Text Library draft 1 by camille swencki

This section includes books that have a strong author's "voice" in their writing. They are meant for students to study writing style and creativity.

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"Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" by: Kevin Henkes

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This book details writing from a third-person point of view, allowing students to observe writing about a character through an author's perspective.

This section focuses on further developing a student writer's organization of ideas and details in their writing.

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"Chrysanthemum" by: Kevin Henkes

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This story further develops transitional writers' attention to detail and organization of non-chronological events in a storyline.

This section focuses on developing students' sense of sentence structure, spelling, and developing the message they convey through their writing.

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"The Boxcar Children: Book 1" by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

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This is a chapter book, allowing student writers to understand how to phrase narrative storytelling in a chronological order. This book also uses vocabulary that may bridge terminology from other pieces of reading or writing.

This section includes readings meant to introduce and inspire creativity, develop students' comfortability with different genres of text.

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"The Story of Ferdinand" by: Munro Leaf

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This book uses fictional characters to develop a story surrounding self-worth, morals, and character development. Students will also be able to observe the tradition of bull fights, in Madrid.

"The Day the Crayons Quit" by: Drew Daywait

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This book combines both multimodal learning through artwork and storytelling from multiple different points of view. It is included to inspire emergent and early writers to utilize artwork in conjunction with their writing in order to articulate their writing ideas.

"Frog and Toad Are Friends" by: Arnold Lobel

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This book encompasses elements of friendship, problem solving skills, and a chronological plotline.

"The Candymakers" by: Wendy Mass

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This book uses different points of view from multiple diverse characters to detail a creative and descriptive fictional story. It builds on cause and effect, character development, and uses descriptive vocabulary.

"Charlotte's Web" by: E.B. White

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This book uses descriptive writing to discuss the importance of helping others, and acknowledging and appreciating differences in characters.

"The Magic Treehouse: Dinosaurs Before Dark" by: Mary Pope Osborne

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This book encompasses elements of both fiction and nonfiction. While the plotline itself is fictional, student writers are able to read about elements of science and history.

"The Dot" by: Peter H. Reynolds

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This book is centered around elements of creativity, peer support, and self-confidence. Student writers will observe the characters in this story in their respective roles, and begin to understand why writing with creativity and uniqueness is important to enjoying writing itself.

"Oh The Places You'll Go" by: Dr. Seuss

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This fictional book details both cause and effect and the importance of being persistent despite adverse outcomes. It also uses rhyme and prose to convey different vocabulary words for emergent and early student writers.

"The Giving Tree" by: Shel Silverstein

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This book details friendship, generosity and selflessness. It also highlights emotions such as sadness, and love, allowing student writers to observe how emotions are written about and described.

"The Diary of a Worm" by: Doreen Cronin

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This book is written in the format of a journal or personal diary. Students are able to observe this type of writing, and some science-related detail on the life of worms and other insects.

"Little Pink Pup" by: Johanna Kerby

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This book is a nonfiction retelling of how a family was able to adopt a pig, and bring it back to life with the help of their dachshund puppies. It details acceptance, love, and friendship

"Junie B. Jones and The Stupid Smelly Bus" by: Barbara Park

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This book details Junie B. Jones and her first day of school. It is filled with character development, analysis and multiple different school-day scenarios that students may find relatable or entertaining.

This section includes books meant to assist in the development and progression of elementary students' phonological and phonemic awareness.

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"Charlotte's Web" by: E.B. White

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This book uses descriptive writing to discuss the importance of helping others, and acknowledging and appreciating differences in characters.

"The Magic Treehouse: Dinosaurs Before Dark" by: Mary Pope Osborne

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This book encompasses elements of both fiction and nonfiction. While the plotline itself is fictional, student writers are able to read about elements of science and history.

"Chrysanthemum" by: Kevin Henkes

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This story further develops transitional writers' attention to detail and organization of non-chronological events in a storyline.

"The Diary of a Worm" by: Doreen Cronin

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This book is written in the format of a journal or personal diary. Students are able to observe this type of writing, and some science-related detail on the life of worms and other insects.

This section includes books meant to develop and aid with progression of elementary students' vocabulary.

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This section includes books meant to promote text interpretation and reading fluency.

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This section includes books students can use to strengthen syntax and vocabulary knowledge

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"White Snow, Bright Snow" by: Alvin Tresselt

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This book focuses on literary elements such as metaphors, similes, onomatopoeias, personification and more. Students can enjoy an entertaining, fictional story and practice reading comprehension

"Amelia Bedelia Means Business" by: Herman Parish

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This book also encompasses literary elements of comparison, and uses figurative language in multiple different instances. The chapter book series are suitable for older elementary students or more advanced readers.

"Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives" by: Ruth Heller

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This book aids in oral language development by explaining and detailing the concept of adjectives. Students may start to recognize and understand how they and others use adjectives in daily conversation or reading.

"Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" by: Kevin Henkes

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This book details writing from a third-person point of view, allowing students to observe writing about a character through an author's perspective.

"Fish in a Tree" by: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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This book can be used as an encouragement and relatability tool for conversation about reading difficulties, such as dyslexia. Students may find themselves relating to the main character in the story, and feel more comfortable about speaking up when help is needed during reading and writing activities.

"Thank You, Mr. Falker" by: Patricia Polacco

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This book emphasizes the importance of student-teacher relationships and not being embarrassed to ask for support.

"The Story of Ferdinand" by: Munro Leaf

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This book uses fictional characters to develop a story surrounding self-worth, morals, and character development. Students will also be able to observe the tradition of bull fights, in Madrid.

"The Story of Ferdinand" by: Munro Leaf

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This book uses fictional characters to develop a story surrounding self-worth, morals, and character development. Students will also be able to observe the tradition of bull fights, in Madrid.

"Oh The Places You'll Go" by: Dr. Seuss

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