https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv :) en-us 2022-02-17 14:19:28 UTC 2026-02-20 21:33:14 UTC hello@padlet.com johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2053305664 This book follows the story of a little pumpkin who is different from all the other pumpkins, he doesn't want to scare anybody! This book contains many text bubbles and images. This book is also great for voice as there are many characters! I love this for fall time as it is super engaging and you can have students write as if they were Christopher!]]> 2022-02-17 14:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2053305664 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2119793969 This book is told by a hilarious narrator who explains that he can only draw worms! This is a great mentor text for writing voice because it is told from the writers point of view and exposes children to a different form of voice. ]]> 2022-03-29 16:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2119793969 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122036342 This book follows a young author who is trying to write a picture book but the worst keeps happening! A coffee spill, a family vacation, even paper eating snails! This book is great for inspiring young writers, even on your worst days you can write a great book. ]]> 2022-03-30 17:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122036342 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122043519 This book is perfect for teaching voice! In this book Noah Webster himself makes edits to his book... as you are reading! This is also a great way to teach kids about revisions because even the best authors make revisions. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122043519 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122045429 This section is full of books to help teach children about voice!]]> 2022-03-30 18:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122045429 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122048480 This section is full of mentor texts for multimodal books!]]> 2022-03-30 18:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122048480 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122050002 This section is full of mentor texts to teach idea in writing!]]> 2022-03-30 18:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122050002 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122051458 This section is full of mentor texts to teach children about organization!]]> 2022-03-30 18:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122051458 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122060934 This book follows a young child who has an idea, but has no clue what to do with it. Eventually he learns that his idea can grow and change the world! This is a great mentor text for teaching students that one small idea can take them far, this translates to their writing. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122060934 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122069417 This is PERFECT if you use a writing journal in your classroom. This is a model that shows how to organize it and express different ideas in a journal. This may also inspire children to keep their own journal.]]> 2022-03-30 18:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122069417 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122073894 This book is a great way to engage students, challenge them to come up with their own secret rules of children!]]> 2022-03-30 18:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122073894 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122076267 This book is great when beginning to write in the classroom. This book shows students that they are all writers with brilliant ideas! This is helpful for building confidence in our young writers. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122076267 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122079130 This book is a great mentor text for organization of informational text. Each inning is a different phase of the girls life in a intriguing biography. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122079130 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122085465 This book is great for organization because it shows children what categorization looks like.]]> 2022-03-30 18:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122085465 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122095044 This book is an interesting take on voice because it follows a girl through her dreams! You can talk about how the girl narrates the story and how this seems different from other stories you have read. This book is also helpful for point of view. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122095044 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122106150 This is a great mentor text for multimodal text because the pictures carry more information about the story than the words. You can have a class discussion about supporting their writing with illustrations and the importance of the pictures matching the words. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122106150 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122110790 This book is a great example of interactive multimodal text. There are flaps that reveal characters and more text that keep children engaged! This is great to teach the kids how authors keep the audiences attention. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122110790 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122548975 This section contains books that are great mentor texts for strong beginnings!]]> 2022-03-31 01:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2122548975 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123565243 This section contains books that are great mentor texts for strong endings!]]> 2022-03-31 13:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123565243 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123576198 This book tells the story of a Native American man and his grandson. The twist is the surprise ending that will leave your kids wanting to read this over and over. This can lead you to having discussion about the impact a strong ending has on a reader and can lead into discussion about what that may look like.]]> 2022-03-31 13:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123576198 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123580176 This book tells the story of a family, who happens to be homeless living in an airport. This book is great for building compassion in students as well as modeling what a strong beginning hook sounds like.]]> 2022-03-31 13:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123580176 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123589003 This book is told through letters...written by a dog named Ike. Ike feels like he was wrongly convicted of a crime, so he tells us his side of the story through letters. This models strong endings through a cliffhanger, you could discuss what a cliffhanger is and what questions it left you with. You could then discuss how students could use that in their writing. ]]> 2022-03-31 13:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2123589003 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2163275963 "We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck". This is the opening line to this book, you can discuss how that line made us, as the reader, want to continue on in the book.]]> 2022-04-28 20:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2163275963 johnsonamalia14 https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2163279001 "...a little egg lays on a leaf", this is a great book to dicuss that strong beginnings can look drastically different between books. Compare how this beginning makes the reader feel versus how the other books in this sections beginning makes you feel.]]> 2022-04-28 20:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonamalia14/rr3vnjaz3g05oisv/wish/2163279001