Great Mentor Texts Narrative Picture Books The Memory String – Eve Bunting Knots on a Counting Rope – Bill Martin Amelia’s Road – Linda Jacobs Altman – Each Kindness Jacqueline Woodson – Peppe the Lamplighter Elisa Bartone – The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron Informational Picture Books Wolves – Seymour Simon No Monkeys, No Chocolate – Melissa Stewart The Whales – Cynthia Rylant If You Lived … series Persuasive/Argument Picture Books – I Wanna Iguana Karen Kaufman Orloff Poetry My Man Blue – Nikki Grimes Creatures of Sea and Sky (a collection of poems) - Georgia Heard A Drop Around the World – Barbara Shaw McKinney By Definition (a collection of poems) – Sara Holbrook Any by these authors would be great mentor texts. “A” – “A” List Narrative List - Informational Cynthia Rylant Seymour Simon Eve Bunting Cynthia Rylant Patricia Polacco Melissa Stewart Jacqueline Woodson Sandra Cisneros “A” List - Poetry Sara Holbrook Georgia Heard
Great Mentor Texts Narrative Picture Books The Memory String – Eve Bunting Knots on a Counting Rope – Bill Martin Amelia’s Road – Linda Jacobs Altman Each Kindness – Jacqueline Woodson Peppe the Lamplighter – Elisa Bartone The Stories Julian Tells – Ann Cameron Informational Picture Books Wolves – Seymour Simon No Monkeys, No Chocolate – Melissa Stewart The Whales – Cynthia Rylant If You Lived … series Persuasive/Argument Picture Books I Wanna Iguana – Karen Kaufman Orloff Poetry My Man Blue – Nikki Grimes Creatures of Sea and Sky (a collection of poems) - Georgia Heard A Drop Around the World – Barbara Shaw McKinney By Definition (a collection of poems) – Sara Holbrook Any by these authors would be great mentor texts. “A” List – Narrative “A” List - Informational Cynthia Rylant Seymour Simon Eve Bunting Cynthia Rylant Patricia Polacco Melissa Stewart Jacqueline Woodson Sandra Cisneros “A” List - Poetry Sara Holbrook Georgia Heard
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