Helpful+Literature

Sharing with Students the importance of Journal Writing:

//A Writer's Notebook// by Ralph Fletcher (series, introducing and providing ideas for a writer's notebook)

Read Aloud books that will encourage children to write:

//Bunny Cakes// by Rosemary Wells (Early Writers)

//Max's Words// by Kate Banks (Early Writers)

//Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School// by Mark Teague (fun story about letters- good for dialogue journals perhaps)

//Judy and the Volcano// by Wayne Harris (Motivating any student to be creative writers)

//How I Spent My Summer Vacation// by Mark Teague (beginning of the year, prompting journal writing)

(Tracy I'm sure you may know others, or have ideas, good or bad about these... but these are in my sister's collection, she said they are very helpful with her students) I'll bring them with me today... perhaps if we feel we don't have enough material (haha) we could read one to the class. ~Kristin