Crafting
Leads:
Cannon,
Janell -- Stellaluna
Cooney,
Barbara - Island Boy
Dahl, Roald
- The Minpins
Fletcher,
Ralph - Grandpa Never Lies
Greenburg,
Dan - The Zack Files: I'm Out of My Body Please Leave a Message
Jenkins,
Steve - Hottest, Coldest, Deepest
Krull,
Kathleen - Wilma Unlimited
McKissack,
Patricia - Mirandy and Brother Wind
Polacco,
Patricia - Babushka's Doll
Polacco,
Patricia - Just Plain Fancy
Provensen,
Alice, and Martin Provensen - The Glorious Fight Across the Channel
with Louis Bleriot
Rylant,
Cynthia - The Blue Hill Mountains
Rylant,
Cynthia - Night in the Country
Scieszka,
Jon - The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Solheim,
James - It's Disgusting and We Ate It!
Crafting Titles:
Arnold, Ted
- Parts
Baylor,
Byrd - The Desert is Theirs
Bunting,
Eve - Smoky Night
Fenner,
Carol - Yolanda's Genius
Fletcher,
Ralph - Fig Pudding
Golenbock,
Peter - Teammates
Heide,
Florence Parry, and Judith Heide Gilliland - The Day of Ahmed's Secret
Jeffers,
Susan - Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
Houston,
Gloria - My Great-Aunt Arizona
Krull,
Kathleen - Wilma Unlimited
Polacco,
Patricia - My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother
Polacco,
Patricia - Chicken Sunday
Ringgold,
Faith - Tar Beach
Shannon,
George - Sea Gifts
Van
Allsburg, Chris - The Wretched Stone
Van Laan,
Nancy - Rainbow Crow
Crafting Setting:
Bunting,
Eve - On Call Back Mountain
Cameron,
Ann - The Stories Julian Tells
Fletcher,
Ralph - Twilight Comes Twice
Hesse,
Karen - Out of the Dust
Hest, Amy -
When Jessie Came Across the Sea
Rylant,
Cynthia - Birthday Presents
Williams,
Sherley Anne - Working Cotton
Crafting with
Words:
Fletcher,
Ralph - Twilight Comes Twice
George,
William - Winter at Long Pond
Howell,
Will - I Call It Sky
Lindbergh,
Reeve - Grandfather's Lovesong
Palatini,
Margie - Piggie Pie
Pilkey, Dav
- Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis
Plourde,
Lynn - Winter Waits
Plourde,
Lynn - Wild Child
Rohmann,
Eric - The Cinder-Eyed Cats
Yolen, Jane
- Owl Moon
Author Studies
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Touchstone Texts
Books, especially
picture books, are the best source of examples when developing
curriculum for writing. Many mini lessons can be garnered from
text... the authors become Co-Teachers! The books listed below are
"Touchstone Texts," and provide clear and masterful examples of
different types and styles of writing.
A text can be written as a
collection of short narrative pieces about a place, time, event, or
topic. Each narrative piece can stand alone.
Books that provide
text examples:
In My Momma's
Kitchen.
1999. Jerdine Nolen. Illus. by Colin Bootman
Tall Tales: Six Amazing
Basketball Dreams.
2000. Charles R. Smith
The narrator of
a text can be an inanimate object.
Books that provide
text examples:
Barn.
1996. Debbie Atwell
Cave.
2000. Diane Siebert. Illus. by Wayne
McLoughlin
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks.
1999.
Faith Ringgold
A text can be
written as an accompaniment to an album of photos.
Books that provide
text examples:
Looking Back. 1998. Lois Lowry
A text can be
written as a series of letters.
Books that provide
text examples:
Around the World/Who's Been There?
19999. Lindsay Barret
George
The Magpie Song.
1995. Laurence Anholt.
Illus. by Dan Williams
A piece of
writing can be introduced with a collage of quotes (on the topic of
the writing) from different people.
Books that provide
text examples:
Last Licks: A Spaldeen Story.
Carrie Best. Illus. by Diane
Palmisciano.
A text can be written with a series of different
narrators.
Books that provide text examples:
Voices
of the Alamo. 2000. Sherry Garland. Illus. by Ronald Himler
A text can be written entirely as a conversation.
Books that provide text examples:
Momma,
Where Are you From? 2000. Marie Bradby. Illus. by Chris K
Soentpiet.
Now
What Can I Do?
2001. Margaret
Park. Illus. by Melissa Sweet
One
More Time, Moma.
1999. Sue
Alexander. Illus. by David Soman
Ring!
Yo?
2000. Chris Raschka
The main body of a text (story, description, essay,
etc.) can have fats embedded around it.
Books that provide text examples:
Bat
Loves the Night. 2001. Nicola Davies. Illus. by Sarah Fox-Davies
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!
1999. Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens
Crummel. Illus. by Janet Stevens.
Gentle
Giant Octopus.
1998.Karen Wallace.
Illus. by Mike Bostock
Sacred
Places.
2000. Philemon Sturges.
Illus. by Giles Laroche
Supermarket.
2001 Kathleen Krull. Illus. by
Melanie Hope Greenberg
A text might be a collection of poems that tells
about a topic or tells a story. If the poems tell a story, they are
written as a series that moves through time.
Books that provide text examples:
All
by Herself. 1999. Ann Whitford Paul. Illus. by Michael
Steirnagle
Amber
Was Brave, Essie Was Smart.
2001.
Vera B. Williams.
From
the Bellybutton of the Moon/Del Ombligo de la Luna.
1998. Francisco X. Alarcon. Illus. by Maya
Christina Gonzales.
Learning
to Swim.
2000. Ann Turner. (memoir)
.
Love That Dog.
2001. Sharon Creech. (novel)
My
Man Blue.
1999. Nikki Grimes.
Illus. by Jerome Lagarrigue.
The
Other Side. 1998. Angela Johnson. (memoir)
River
Friendly/River Wild.
Jane Kurtz.
Illus. by Neil Brennan.
Stepping
Out with Granda Mac.
2001 . Nikki
Grimes. Illus. by Angelo.
A text can communicate your message when it's
written to look like a kind of text readers don't normally read for
pleasure or recreation.
Books that provide text examples:
Everything
I Know About Pirates. 2000. Tom Lichtenheld. (written like a
reference book-- but obviously made up of funny bogus facts)
The
Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: The Second File.
2001. David Wisniewski.
A text (or part of a text) can use a repeated
phrase as a transitional device at the end of sections of text
vignettes, descriptions, or ideas.
Books that provide text examples:
Gifts.
1997. Phyllis Limbacher Tildes.
Grandpa
Never Lies.
2000. Ralph Fletcher.
Illus. by Harvey Stevenson.
Making
the World.
1998. Douglas Wood.
Illus. by Yoshi and Hibiki Miyazaki
Mothers
Are Like That. 2000. Carol Carrick. Illus. by Paul Carrick.
On
the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather.
2000.
Marilyn Singer. Illus. by Frane Lessac.
What
a Wonderful Day to Be a Cow.
1995. Carolyn Lesser. Illus. by
Melissa Bay Mathis.
A text (or part of a text) can use a repeated
phrase as a transitional device at the beginning of new sections of
text vignettes, descriptions or ideas.
Books that provide text examples:
A
Gift from the Sea. 2001. Kate Banks. Illus. by George
Hallensleben.
I
Loved You Even Before You Were Born.
2001. Anne Bowen. Illus. by Greg Shed.
This
Is the Tree.
2000. Mirian Moss.
Illus. by Adrienne Kennaway.
Up
North at the Cabin. 1992. Marsha Wilson Chall. Illus. by Steve
Johnson.
When
I Am Old with You. 1990. Angela Johnson. Illus. by David Soman
When
Spring Comes. 1993. Natalie Kinsey-Warnock. Illus. by Stacey
Schuett.
A text (or part of a text) can take a single
person, place, thing, or idea and describe it in different ways.
Books that provide text examples:
My
Dad. 2000. Anthony Brown.
Uptown.
2000. Bryan Collier.
Water.
1995. Frank Asch
The ending of a text can thread back through
details mentioned previously in the text.
Books that provide text examples:
If
You Find a Rock . Peggy Christian. Illus. by Barbara Hirsch
Lember.
If
You Were Born a Kitten.
1997.
Marion Dane Bauer. Illus. by JoEllen McAllister Stammen.
Making
the World.
1998. Douglas Wood.
Illus. by Yoshi and Hibiki Miyazaki.
Off
We Go! 2000. Jane Yolen. Illus. by Laurel Molk.
A text (or part of a text) can take a single idea
and look at it comparatively across many different times, settings, or
characters or creatures.
Books that provide text examples:
Animal
Dads. 1997. Sneed B. Collard III. Illus. by Steve Jenkins.
Birdsong.
1997. Audrey Wood. Illus. by Robert
Florczak. Diane Siebert. Illus. by Wayne McLoughlin.
Castles,
Caves, and Honeycombs.
2001. Linda
Ashman. Illus. by Lauren Stringer.
Grandad's
Prayers of the Earth. 1999. Douglas Wood. Illus. by P.J. Lynch.
Market.
1996. Ted Lewin.
Throw
You Tooth on the Roof.
1998. Selby B. Beeler. Illus. by G.
Brian Karas.
When
It Starts to Snow. 1998. Phillis Gershator. Illus. by Martin
Matje.
A text (or part of a text) can by organized to
follow some natural time pattern in the world -- seasons, months,
weeks, days, hour, minutes.
Books that provide text examples:
Cloud
Dance. 1000. Thomas Locker.
Everett
Anderson's Christmas Coming.
1991, Lucile Clifton. Illus. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
January
Rides the Wind.
1997. Charlotte F.
Otten. Illus. by Todd L.W. Doney.
Ma
Dear's Aprons. 1997. Patricia C. McKissack. Illus. by Floyd
Cooper.
Mice
and Beans. 2001. Pam Munoz Ryan. Illus. by Joe Cepeda.
Night
City. 1998. Monica Wellington.
Park
Beat. 2001. Jonathan London. Illus. by Woodleigh Marx Hubbard.
Pieces:
A Year in Poems and Quilts. 2001. Anna Gossnickle Hines.
The
Web Files. 2001. Margie Palatini. Illus. by Richard Egielski.
When
the Earth Wakes. 1998. Ani Rucki.
A text ( or part of a text) can set up an idea and
then simply list out examples that support the idea.
Books that provide text examples:
Hoops.
1997. Robert Burleigh. Illus. by Stephen T. Johnson.
Jessie's
Island .
1992. Sheryl McFarlane.
Illus. by Sheena Lott.
Tulip
Sees America.
1998. Cynthia
Rylant. Illus. by Lisa Desimini
A text (or part of a text) can by organized
to follow the natural course of something in nature--a storm, a river,
the budding of a flower, etc.
Books that provide text examples:
River
Story. 2000. Meredith Hooper. Illus. by Bee Willey.
Storm
on the Desert.
1997. Carolyn
Lesser. Illus. by Ted Rand.
A text (or part of a text) can be organized as a
series of different questions and answers.
Books that provide text examples:
Do
You Know What I'll Do? 2000. Charlotte Zolotow. Illus. by
Javaka Steptoe.
Have
You Ever Done That?
2001. Julie
Larios. Illus. by Anne Hunter.
Using Mentor Texts in Your Classroom
