• When teaching:

     

    Word Choice and Vocabulary

     

    Clovis Crawfish and the Big Betail by Mary Alice Fontenot

     

    Storytelling

     

    Tales of TutuNene and Nele by Gale Bates

     

     Sentence Structure and Point of View

     

    A Catfish Tale: A Bayou Story of the Fisherman and His Wife

     

    Onomatopeia, Description and Personification

     

    Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith

     

    Dialogue

     

    New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meter

     

    Diction and Purpose:

     

    Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena

     

    Characterization

     

    Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktate by Carmen Deedy

     

    Marisol Mc Donald Doesn't Match: marisol Mc Donalt co combina by Monican Brown

     

    Little red Hot by Eric A Kimmel

     

    Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki

     

    A Penguine named Patience: A Hurricane katrina Rescue Story by Suzanne Lewis