Touchstone Book Wish List
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Touchstone Text Wish-List (for writing composition)
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Books, especially picture books, are the best source of examples when developing curriculum for writing. Many mini lessons can be garnered from text... the authors become Co-Teachers! The books listed below are "Touchstone Texts," and provide clear and masterful examples of different types and styles of writing .
Books don't need to be new to be precious, so if you have or find a used copy, we'll gladly accept it!
Thank you for any books that you can provide. Remember, all donated items are tax deductible .
Each Book Will Be Celebrated
A Bookplate will be permanently affixed to the inside cover acknowledging the gift. The child of the donating family will be offered the opportunity of presenting the book to the class, and asked to select a favorite passage to read to the class.
Please Read the following example of how text can be used to teach and recognize concepts:Curriculum statement:
A simile is made striking when the two things compared are very, very different---except for one quality they share (which drives the simile).
Book that provides text examples:
Gentle Giant Octopus . 1998. Karen Wallace. Illus. by Mike Bostock Text example:
"Then [a Wolf eel] sinks like a nightmare deep into his den."
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Listed below are 72 touchstone books. I've included curriculum statements (taken from Katie Wood Ray's book What You Know By Heart) to help qualify their purchase. If more than one text example is listed, choose your favorite to donate! Our 2006-07 Goal: ONE BOOK FOR EACH OF THE 19 CURRICULUM STATEMENTS. -
If the book has been donated, the small silhouette next to the description will be removed. Thank you, from all of us in Room 32 on this HUGE endeavor.
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A text can be written as a collection of short narrative pieces about a place, time, event, or topic. Each narrative piece can stand alone.
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The narrator of a text can be an inanimate object.
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A text can be written as an accompaniment to an album of photos.
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A text can be written as a series of letters.
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A piece of writing can be introduced with a collage of quates (on the topic of the writing) from different people.
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A text can be written with a series of different narrators.
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A text can be written entirely as a conversation.
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The main body of a text (story, description, essay, etc.) can have fats embedded around it.
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A text might be a collection of poems that tells about a topic or tells a story. If the poems tell a story, they are written as a series that moves through time.
Books that provide text examples:
Love That Dog. 2001. Sharon Creech. (novel)
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A text can communicate your message when it's written to look like a kind of text readers don't normally read for pleasure or recreation.
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A text (or part of a text) can use a repeated phrase as a transitional device at the end of sections of text vignettes, descriptions, or ideas.
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A text (or part of a text) can use a repeated phrase as a transitional device at the beginning of new sections of text vignettes, desciptions or ideas.
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A text (or part of a text) can take a single person, place, thing, or idea and describe it in different ways.
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The ending of a text can thread back through details mentioned previously in the text.
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A text (or part of a text) can take a single idea and look at it comparatively across many different times, settings, or characters or creatures.
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A text (or part of a text) can by organized to follow some natural time pattern in the world -- seasons, months, weeks, days, hour, minutes.
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A text ( or part of a text) can set up an idea and then simply list out examples that support the idea.
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A text (or part of a text) can by organized to follow the natural course of something in nature--a storm, a river, the budding of a flower, etc.Books that provide text examples:
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A text (or part of a text) can be organized as a series of different questions and answers.
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