Textbooks:

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• Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children’s Literature, K--‐6, Second Edition, by Lynne R. Dorfman and Rose Cappelli

• Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Amy Krouse Rosenthal  https://www.textbookamykr.com/

• Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School by Georgia Heard

• Kids’ Poems: Teaching _______ to Love Writing Poetry by Regie Routman 

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Children’s Literature:

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• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Happy Like Soccer by Maribeth Boelts and Lauren Castillo

• Shortcut by Donald Crews

• Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko

• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

• All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth

• Forest Has a Song by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater

• I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins

• What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings by Joyce Sidman

• This is Just to Say by Joyce Sidman

• Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else by Elise Paschen

• The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects by Paul Janeczko

• Things To Do by Elaine Magliaro

• Ask Me by Bernard Waber

• Fireflies! by Julie Brinckloe

• Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina

• 100 Things That Make Me Happy by Amy Schwartz

• How To Be An Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith

• 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle

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