This book follows the storyline of a child who has an idea. The child questions what they are supposed to do with this idea. They worry about what others would think about this idea that won't leave them alone. The idea wanted a lot of attention but the child felt like they shouldn't get rid of it. The child decides to show other children their idea and they make fun of the idea and say that it is silly and the child should probably forget out it. But the child decides to let their idea grow, feed it and nourish it. The idea was so well taken care of that it decided to take flight and the child realized that now that the idea is on it's own that other people can now enjoy her idea too. 

This book is a perfect choice of an idea mentor text, it shows that ideas that enter your mind can be transformed into anything. Even if the student doesn't think it is a good or worthy idea it shows that it doesn't have to be perfect from the start. 

This book would be good to start a new narrative writing unit with, helping the students choose an idea for the writing assignment that is being introduced. 

This story follows an exclamation mark that doesn't understand why he does not fit in with anybody. He stands out next to all the periods and it makes him very sad. Until one day he meets a question mark, the question mark asks him all sorts of questions before the exclamation mark screams at him to stop. He didn't know that he could be so loud. He tries again with different phrases and feels like he finally found himself. 

This book would be great for conventions specifically punctuation. It shows the students that the correct use of punctuation can elevate their writing so much more. 

This book would be great to use in the revising stage of the writing process in the classroom. It would give students an idea of how to amp up their writing and make it have that much more power or questioning. 

This book follows a little girl who gives a pig a pancake. She describes how after she gives the pig a pancake the pig is going to want syrup too.  Then she describes how the syrup will make the pig sticky then the pig will want a bath then a bath toy and it goes on telling the story of how the pig keeps asking for more things after another is offered. 

This book shows great examples of organization. It shows how the story builds off each part that happens follows the idea and the storyline in order. 

This book would be great to read before the drafting of any kind of writing. It shows a great example of how organized text is much simpler to read than something that jumps around randomly. 

This story starts off with two siblings going to visit their Bubbie and the girl talks about how much she loves her Bubbie but can't understand why she loves her brother Richard. She describes her brother in great detail about how obnoxious he acts and looks. He teases her about how he can do everything better than she can.  She talks about how he can pick more berries than her, run faster, spit farther, and eat more rhubarb.  Her Bubbie tucked her into bed one night and made a wish on a shooting star, then she decided to make one too to do anything better than her older brother. They ended up going to a carnival and finally the little girl did something longer than her brother- ride the carousel. But as she got off she passed out. Her brother carried her all the way home and went and got the doctor. The little girl felt differently about her brother from there on out. 

This story shows such a good sense of a writer as a person, it shows that even as bland of an idea of just how annoying your brother is could be turned into an eventful and detailed story that shows a lot about who you are as a writer.

This story would be great to share before a narrative writing unit to show the way the author uses her voice

This book shows a girl named Maya who finds a lost cat and captures it. She leurs the cat around by putting fish in her pocket, she was trying to find the cats home. She knocks on doors and asks if anyone lost a cat. Maya ends up bringing  the cat around the town in her bicycle basket. They went to the pier and the cat jumped out of the basket into a boat. The cat was home. Maya was sad to leave the cat, but the cat brought a gift to Maya, one of her kittens. Maya took the kitten home. 

This story shows great use of word choice. The author uses great descriptive words along with intriguing similes

This book could be used at any step of the writing process, it would be great for a show not tell revising lesson to show the way that descriptive words really amp up someones writing. 

This story is about a fly that has had a very bad day. The story goes through the alphabet talking about how bad of a day the fly has had with each senerio starting with the next letter of the alphabet

This story would be great for a sentence fluency lesson because it shows how the author goes in alphabetical order to describe the things that have happened to the fly. The students would be able to see how the author follows an order in their sentences.

This book would be great to use for younger ages before they start writing long writing assignments.