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Resources

Teacher Books

Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children’s Literature, K-6, 2nd ed. by Lynne Dorfman & Rose Cappelli

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Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School by Georgia Heard

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Kids’ Poems: Teaching Third and Fourth Graders to Love Writing Poetry by Regie Routman

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Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Children's Literature & Mentor Texts

  • All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth

  • Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha Archer

  • Kids’ Poems: Teaching Third & Fourth Graders to Love Writing Poetry by Regie Routman

  • If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky

  • Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko

  • Mathematickles! By Betsy Franco

  • A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems by Paul B. Janeczko

  • Forest has a Song: Poems by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater

  • Six Words Fresh off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Assimilation, and Identity by Famous and Obscure

  • Love that Dog by Sharon Creech

  • The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko

  • All the Wild Wonders: Poems of our Earth by Wendy Cooling

  • The Llama Who Had No Pajama by Mary Ann Hoberman

  • Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems by Bob Raczka

  • Baseball, Snakes, and Summer Squash: Poems About Growing Up by Donald Graves

  • Once I Ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest

  • 100 Things That Make Me Happy by Amy Schwartz

  • In My Momma’s Kitchen by Jerdine Nolen

  • Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

  • The Day the War Came by Nicola Davies

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

  • Shortcut by Donald Crews

  • I’m In Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor

  • Punctuation Celebration by Elsa Bruno

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Digital Resources

https://twowritingteachers.org/


http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/

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https://www.sharoncreech.com/

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https://www.georgiaheard.com/poetry/

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http://www.sharingournotebooks.amylv.com/

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http://georgeellalyon.com/where.html

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Craft Moves: Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts by Stacey Shubitz

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Beth Newingham's January Top Ten List: Writing Lessons and Resources

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Nat Geo WILD 

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http://pennykittle.net/

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https://www.writingmindset.org/teach

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https://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/


https://pawlpblog.org/

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Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

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https://writerswhocare.wordpress.com/

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http://www.theclassroombookshelf.com/

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https://twoapplesaday.org/

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http://imwritingtoo.blogspot.com/

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https://tomakeaprairie.wordpress.com/

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http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/

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Blogs of my Fellow Colleagues

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Alana Nottage

http://teachingthelanguagearts.home.blog


Alyssa Scarfato

https://scarfatoaa.wixsite.com/blog


Sarah Isenhour

http://childrenslitnerd.wordpress.com


Kayla Pitman

https://mrspitmansclassroom.home.blog/


Antonia Kolosieke

http://engagedreaders.home.blog

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Tonya Moore

https://tonyastrunk.wordpress.com

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Madison Lee

https://criticalthinkingofchildrensliterature.wordpress.com

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Emily Cox

https://re5140.home.blog/


Meredith Price

https://pricema3.wordpress.com

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Barbara Ritchie

https://badrblog.home.blog/

Kelly Dancy

https://kldbookreviews.weebly.com

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Allie Grainda

https://magic-of-reading.weebly.com/

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Madeleine Campbell

https://campbellma1.wixsite.com/childrenslit

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Mary McVay

https://marymcvay769529752.wordpress.com/

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Josh Boone

https://lazyreadsandthoughts.home.blog/


Jenna Doares

https://msjennasjots.wordpress.com/


Taylor Dale

https://daletm4.wixsite.com/readcreateeducate

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Children's Literature Resources

TeachingBooks.net: https://www.teachingbooks.net/

Disability in Children’s Literature http://disabilityinkidlit.com/ 

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/

Nerdy Book Club: https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/

Worlds of Words: https://wowlit.org/

The Classroom Bookshelf: http://www.theclassroombookshelf.com/

Welcoming Schools: http://www.welcomingschools.org/resources/books/diverse-families/

Children’s Book Council: http://www.cbcbooks.org/

 CCBC Awards and Best-Of-the-Year Lists https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/links/links.asp?idLinksCategory=2

Social Justice Books: https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/

African American Literature Book Club: https://aalbc.com/

A Mighty Girl’s Diverse List of Books: https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=13481

CCBC Annual Statistics on Multicultural Literature in Publishing https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp

Little Parachutes https://www.littleparachutes.com/picture-books-library/ 

https://www.usbby.org/

ADL book sources: https://www.adl.org/education-and-resources/resources-for-educators-parents-families/childrens-literature 

Reading Rockets: http://www.readingrockets.org/

We Need Diverse Books: https://diversebooks.org/

https://diversebooks.org/resources/where-to-find-diverse-books/

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