Units of Study in Opinion/Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing, Grades K-5

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1 Units of Study in Opinion/Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing, Grades K-5 Grade 3 MENTOR TEXT AND SUGGESTED RESOURCE LIST UNIT 1 Crafting True Stories Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse (trade book pack) Exemplars Student exemplar writer s notebook: Rebecca s notebook entry (Session 1 Teaching) Student exemplar possible endings: Jill tries out several endings (Session 18 Share) Writing A Life by Katherine Bomer What a Writer Needs by Ralph Fletcher Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement by John Hattie A Writer Teaches Writing by Donald Murray Life in a Crowded Place: Making a Learning Community by Ralph Peterson On Writing Well by William Zinsser To Help Teach Qualities of Good Writing Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Mr. Entwhistle from Hey World, Here I Am! by Jean Little Journey by Patricia MacLachlan UNIT 2 The Art of Information Writing Deadliest Animals (National Geographic Reader) by Melissa Stewart (trade book pack) VIP Pass to a Pro Baseball Game Day (Sports Illustrated for Kids) by Clay Latimer Information Texts

2 Cats vs. Dogs by Elizabeth Carney Fashion Design: The Art of Style by Jen Jones Great Migrations: Amazing Animal Journeys by Laura Marsh Plants Bite Back! by Richard Platt Tomatoes Grow on a Vine (How Fruits and Vegetables Grow) by Mari Schuh Texts for Struggling Students Let s Talk Tae Kwon Do by Laine Falk Going to a Restaurant by Melinda Beth Radabaugh How s It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers by Carl Anderson A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation by Noah Lukeman If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland Great Non-Fiction Writers (voice, zeal, wonder) Rachel Carson Clifford Geertz John Muir UNIT 3 Changing the World: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials Additional Texts and Resources for Students Video Clips Severn Suzuki s speech to the UN Earth Summit (CD-ROM) (Search terms: Severn Suzuki, speech, UN Earth Summit, 1992) Change Your Words, Change Your World (CD-ROM) (Search terms: Change Your Words, Change Your World ) Sample Petition Tell LEGO to stop selling out girls! Excerpt of petition written by Bailey Shoemaker Richards and Stephanie (CD=ROM) (Search terms: Tell LEGO to spot selling out girls, #LiberateLEGO, Bailey Shoemaker Richards, Stephanie Cole) Excerpt from Book or Article about Class Opinion Topic Battling Bullies by Laura D. Egodigwe ingsr&topic=0 (Search terms: Battling Bullies, Egodigwe, Scholastic)

3 Helpful Research Links for Students (CD-ROM) Littering: Recycling: Recycling (higher level): Endangered species: What kids can do to stop global warming: Penguins and Global Warming: Threats to Tigers: What you can do to help tigers: Help Save Polar Bears: Smoking Stinks: Be a fit kid: Health: Bullying: ingsr&topic=0 This site also has links to other articles on this topic. for Teachers Writing Craft Wild Mind: Living the Writer s Life by Natalie Goldberg

4 A Writer Teaches Writing by Donald Murray The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland On Writing Well by William Zinsser Spelling Spelling K-8: Planning and Teaching by Diane Snowball and Faye Bolton UNIT 4 Once Upon a Time: Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales Prince Cinders by Babette Cole (trade book pack) Additional Texts and Resources Classic Versions of Fairy Tales (full text on CD-ROM) The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Old Norwegian version) Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault Little Red Cap by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Grimm s version of Little Red Riding Hood) Adaptations of Fairy Tales (full text on CD-ROM) Cinderelle by Maggie Beattie Roberts Winderella by Shana Frazin Fairy Tales and Other Stories (CD-ROM list) Cinderella, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown The Random House Book of Fairy Tales Amy Ehrlich and Diane Goode Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone Classic Fairy Tales by Scott Gustafson Little Red Riding Hood, retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China, retold by Ai-Ling Louie The Three Little Pigs retold by James Marshall* The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed Mufaro s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China, retold by Ed Young * Other favorites from James Marshall: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood Adapted Fairy Tales (CD-ROM list) Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella by Susan Lowell and Jane Manning

5 Cinder-Elly by Frances Minters The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin (Algonquin Native American version of Cinderella) Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, as told to Jon Scieszka The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Sleeping Ugly by John Scieszka and Lane Smith The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas and Helen Oxenbury Picture Books (to demonstrate tethering objects to characters) Owen by Kevin Henkes Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts The Stuff of Fiction by Gerald Brice On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner One Writer s Beginnings by Eudora Welty

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