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The Searcher and Old Tree by David McPhail is an allegory about a safe place…
While the Searcher sleeps, the wind starts to blow.
Teach the traits of ideas and sentence fluency as students write about a safe place they know.
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In Trouble Talk by Trudy Ludwig (Author) and Mikela Prevost (Illustrator), Bailey loves to gossip…
“I know a girl who has a really big mouth. Her name is Bailey. Big Mouth Bailey. She doesn’t know I’ve called her that because I’ve never said it out loud. But that’s what I think.
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students write a “gossip” story.
(Teaching Tolerance Tuesday was created by Read. Imagine. Talk.)
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Making Cents by Elizabeth Keeler Robinson (Author) and Bob McMahon (Illustrator) is about counting and earning money.
Look! We have five pennies.
We can trade them for a…
Nickel!
Teach the traits of ideas and voice as students write about what they can buy with the money they earn.
Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops
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The cut paper art of Matisse is brought to life in Oooh! Matisse, a poetic “take a closer look” book by Mil Niepold (Author) and Jeanyves Verdu (Art Director).
white,
I am snow
and blue, I am
the mountains below
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice and as students create their own paper collages and write about what they see in them.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Two Writing Teachers.
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In I Don’t Want to Go! by Addie Meyer Sanders (Author) and Andrew Rowland (Illustrator) Joey doesn’t like to try new things.
Joey, is your bag packed?” Mom asked. “Grandma and Grandpa are here. They’re taking you to their house and you’re going on the train. You’ll have a wonderful time.”
“I don’t want to go,” Joey said.
Teach the traits of sentence fluency and conventions as students write about a time they tried something new.
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Rabbit & Squirrel by Kara LaReau (Author) and Scott Magoon (Illustrator) is subtitled “A Tale of War and Peas.”
“Though Rabbit and Squirrel
lived right across the way from each other,
they kept to themselves
and never offered each other vegetables
or even bothered to say hello…
Teach the traits of ideas and organization as students write a story about a misunderstanding.
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The Months by Sara Coleridge, first published in 1834, is brought to life again by illustrator Kathy Weller…
May brings
flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their
fleecy dams.
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice and as students write a short poem for the month of May.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Big A, little a.
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What Can You Do With a Rebozo? by Carmen Tafolla (Author) and Amy Cordova (Illustrator) asks a question and answers it in many different ways.
What can you DO with a rebozo?
Mama spreads it like a butterfly to
pretty up her dress for Sunday morning…
Teach the traits of ideas and voice as students write a class book about what they can do with a shawl on El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) today.
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At Gleason’s Gym by Ted Lewin tells the story of Sugar Boy Younan, the 2006 National Silver Gloves Champion (at age nine!)
Sugar Boy heads up the concrete stairs to the second floor of an old loft building. He pulls open the big steel door that says GLEASON’S GYM…
Teach the traits of organization and ideas as students write about a sport they play.
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Dance by the Light of the Moon by Joanne Ryder (Author) and Guy Francis (Illustrator) begins with an invitation:
Dear Buffalo Gal,
Can’t you come out tonight
and dance by the light of
the moon?
This barnyard party is based on the chorus of the “Buffalo Gals”, originally published in 1844. Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students rewrite a different song.
