Wallace's Lists is a story  is about a mouse who can do almost anything, as long as he has a list. Wallace meets his neighbor, Albert and Albert introduces Wallace to the joy of experiencing lives adventures without a list. 

Wallace's Lists is a good mentor text to teach children about ideas.  It teaches students that creating lists can help students come up with different ideas. Wallace uses his lists to come up with ideas about cooking,  adventures, and just about everything. 

Within the classroom, I would use this book to help my students learn about idea. I would tell my students that Wallace is a mouse who loves to write lists and that lists can help us brainstorm ideas when students don't know what to write about. I would then read the story to my students in order to teach them about lists.  As a class, we could create a list of possible writing ideas on an anchor chart for students to look at when they struggle with coming up with ideas to write about. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a story about a caterpillar who hatches from an egg and eats a variety of foods. Each day, the caterpillar eats an increasingly large amount of different food. After eating all the food, the caterpillar feels sick and wraps himself into a cocoon. At the end of the story, the caterpillar transforms into a beautiful butterfly. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a good mentor text to teach students about organization. This book can teach students about structure and sequence when it comes to writing a story. 

Within the classroom, I would use this story to help my students clearly identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Students can identify the progression of the caterpillar transforming into the butterfly. Students can then use their knoweldge about organizing the beginning, middle, and end of a story to create thier own story. 

Today I Feel Silly is a story that explores the different range of emotions that a child experiences throughout the day. 

Today I feel Silly is a good mentor text for students because it shows students how different emotions can be shown through different voices. It shows students that their voice can show through within their own writing and encourages students to use their own voice and viewpoints within their writing. 

Within the classroom, students can use this book to compare the different voices used within the text to the different emotions that the characters are experiencing. Students can write a story about a specific emotion and use a specific voice to describe how their character is feeling. 

Punctuation Takes a Vacation is a story about a lesson in Mr. Wright's class that goes wrong. Due to the lesson going wrong, Punctuation decides to take a vacation in hopes that the kids will appreciate the hard work that the punctuation does! 

Punctuation Takes a Vacation is a good mentor text to teach students about conventions because it shows how important punctuation is to reading and writing and helps demonstrate how different punctuation works. 

Within the classroom, I would use this story to teach my students about different conventions and punctuation that is needed for both reading and writing. After reading the story, as a class we could go through the story and apply punctuation where it is needed. 

There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly is a story about a lady who tries to catch a fly and ends up swallowing increasingly larger animals. Each time she tries to solve the problem she swallows a different creature. 

This book can be used as a mentor text to teach students about sentence fluency. Students can learn about repetition, pattern, sentence lengths, and transition words while reading this story.

Within the classroom, after reading this book students can examine the mixture of sentence lengths and repeated phrases used. Students can then practice experimenting with different sentence lengths and patterns in order to enhance sentence fluency in their own writing. 

Max's Words is about a boy whose brother's have collections of stamps and coins that they will not share with Max. Max starts his own collection of words. He starts collecting small words that he cuts out of newspapers and magazines . His collection grows but he struggles to find ways to use his words creatively. He arranges the words into sentences, and discovers the joy of storytelling and word choice. 

This story is a good mentor text because it encourages readers to explore different words. It shows readers the power that language and word choice have in writing. 

Within the classroom, I would use this story to enhance student's' word choice within their writing. Students could create word banks of descriptive words that they can use within their writing. Students could pull out descriptive words from the story and put them into their word banks.