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I firmly believe that ALL children must have access to exemplary children's literature each and every day. Literature that will open their eyes, create vivid pictures in their minds, and leave them bursting with ideas for their own writing. Ralph Fletcher (1993), an author of books for teachers and students on writing said it perfectly, "The writer goes out into the world and returns with both fists clutching a mass of words, ideas, characters, places, stories, insights, possibly poisonous, hopefully not, and waves them, still squirming, still alive, before the reader." The children's texts that I have requested were carefully and specifically chosen to provide students with high quality examples of writing. I will use each text I selected to model specific writing traits that I want each of my children to develop within their own writing. Utilizing these writing traits will help them to become strong, engaging, and creative writers who can write for a variety of purposes and audiences. I will gather my children around me at the carpet area 2-3 times per week to read each of the texts specified in this project. Then I will use each text to teach a specific writing mini-lesson. The book/mini-lesson will focus on a specific writing trait. Students will learn how to develop inspiring ideas, use sparkling voice, expand their word choice, develop sentence fluently, strengthen their conventions, spotlight the presentation their writing, as well as organize their writing. I can't wait to get started with my budding writers!!

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I firmly believe that ALL children must have access to exemplary children's literature each and every day. Literature that will open their eyes, create vivid pictures in their minds, and leave them bursting with ideas for their own writing. Ralph Fletcher (1993), an author of books for teachers and students on writing said it perfectly, "The writer goes out into the world and returns with both fists clutching a mass of words, ideas, characters, places, stories, insights, possibly poisonous, hopefully not, and waves them, still squirming, still alive, before the reader." The children's texts that I have requested were carefully and specifically chosen to provide students with high quality examples of writing. I will use each text I selected to model specific writing traits that I want each of my children to develop within their own writing. Utilizing these writing traits will help them to become strong, engaging, and creative writers who can write for a variety of purposes and audiences. I will gather my children around me at the carpet area 2-3 times per week to read each of the texts specified in this project. Then I will use each text to teach a specific writing mini-lesson. The book/mini-lesson will focus on a specific writing trait. Students will learn how to develop inspiring ideas, use sparkling voice, expand their word choice, develop sentence fluently, strengthen their conventions, spotlight the presentation their writing, as well as organize their writing. I can't wait to get started with my budding writers!!

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