Picture Book of the Day

The Searcher and Old Tree by David McPhail is an allegory about a safe place…

While the Searcher sleeps, the wind starts to blow.

Teach the traits of ideas and sentence fluency as students write about a safe place they know.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

In Trouble Talk by Trudy Ludwig (Author) and Mikela Prevost (Illustrator), Bailey loves to gossip…

“I know a girl who has a really big mouth. Her name is Bailey. Big Mouth Bailey. She doesn’t know I’ve called her that because I’ve never said it out loud. But that’s what I think.

Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students write a “gossip” story.

(Teaching Tolerance Tuesday was created by Read. Imagine. Talk.)

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Making Cents by Elizabeth Keeler Robinson (Author) and Bob McMahon (Illustrator) is about counting and earning money.

Look! We have five pennies.
We can trade them for a…
Nickel!

Teach the traits of ideas and voice as students write about what they can buy with the money they earn.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops