A sweet story just in time for Thanksgiving! 🦃 . Use this mentor text to analyze author’s craft: 📖 a sweet rhyming story to inspire gratitude and prayer 📖 descriptive adjectives: wooly, cozy, chilly, bear-hug, juicy 📖 specific nouns: sunbeams, raindrops, patches 📖 prepositional phrases: beneath the shining moon, among the stars Use this text to analyze illustrator’s craft: 🎨 Notice & note: easily could be used with younger children for counting and animal identification 🎨Medium: adorable illustrations of woodland creatures dressed in fall attire #picturebooks #earlyliteracy #readingstrategies #middleschoolminilessons #middleschoolreadalouds #minilessons #middleschoolmentortexts #mentortext #explorepicturebooks #qualitypicturebooks #authorscraft #illustratorscraft #analyzingtext #partsofspeech #figurativelanguage #literaryelements #storystructure #inferences #authorspurpose #closereading #evaluatetext #beautifulwords #homeeducation #homeschool #homeschoolresources #readathome #literacy #childrensliterature #readandwritelikeitmatters 
After you read this story, I highly encourage you to find the short film that goes with it; it is truly delightful! Use this mentor text to analyze author’s craft: 📖 descriptive details- “dog-eared pages,” “lonely little volume,” “stooped and crinkly” 📖 unique & specific nouns: “happy bit of happenstance” & “festive squadron of flying books” 📖 cyclical story telling- foreshadowing of Morris’ fate & ending reveals the next “librarian” Use this text to analyze illustrator’s craft: 🎨 Notice & note: This story powerfully portrays the theme (everyone’s story matters) and mood through the use of color (or lack thereof). Can you identify what brings color back into the lives of the characters? (the joy of reading) - creative use of spacing and letter placement- main character slides down the words - illustrations in the Humpty Dumpty book change to show emotion & to bring the book to life as a character in the story 🎨Medium: multi-media Pair this picture book with my close reading/text analysis worksheets or my #PictureBookEvaluationProject to guide your students through an in-depth analysis of quality children’s literature 📖 (Link in profile👆🏼) #picturebooks #earlyliteracy #readingstrategies #middleschoolminilessons #middleschoolreadalouds #minilessons #middleschoolmentortexts #mentortext #explorepicturebooks #qualitypicturebooks #authorscraft #illustratorscraft #analyzingtext #partsofspeech #figurativelanguage #literaryelements #storystructure #inferences #authorspurpose #closereading #evaluatetext #beautifulwords #homeeducation #homeschool #homeschoolresources #readathome #literacy #childrensliterature #readandwritelikeitmatters 
“Kid’s yoga, with all its components, is a toolbox for helping a person manage a world that often feels too big to handle.” 🧘🏼♀️🧘🏽🧘🏾♂️ Use this mentor text to analyze author’s craft: 📖 theme: teaches readers how to speak to their mind & strengthen/relax their body when they feel overwhelmed - “I tell my racing breath: be slow.” 📖 alliteration: “sparkle, stars, shimmer, shine” 📖 repetition of growth mindset phrases: “I can” & “I am” 📖 contains glossary of kid-friendly yoga poses with pictures and in-depth descriptions Use this text to analyze illustrator’s craft: 🎨 Notice & note: the size of the earth from beginning to end (it shrinks as the girl calms and controls her mind & body) & the pictures match the mental images the girl is creating as she does each yoga pose 🎨Medium: ink, gouache, watercolor, and tea #picturebooks #earlyliteracy #readingstrategies #middleschoolminilessons #middleschoolreadalouds #minilessons #middleschoolmentortexts #mentortext #explorepicturebooks #qualitypicturebooks #authorscraft #illustratorscraft #analyzingtext #kidsyoga #yoga #literaryelements #storystructure #mindfulness #meditation #closereading #evaluatetext #beautifulwords #homeeducation #homeschool #homeschoolresources #readathome #literacy #childrensliterature #readandwritelikeitmatters 
Use this mentor text to analyze author’s craft: 📖 delightful word choice to help readers quickly love Chrysanthemum -she wore “her sunniest dress and her brightest smile” - she felt “a trifle better after her favorite dessert (chocolate cake with buttercream frosting)” 📖 the changing tone with which “Chrysanthemum” is read throughout the story 📖 strong verbs & adverbs: wilted, scarcely, miserably 📖 descriptive adjectives: dreadful, winsome, pleasant, begrudging, discontented, indescribable 📖 alliteration: blushed, beamed, bloomed Use this text to analyze illustrator’s craft: 🎨 Notice & note: Each time sweet Chrysanthemum comes home distressed and anxious, her father has his nose in self-help books 🎨Medium: Watercolor paints and black pen Pair this picture book with my close reading/text analysis worksheets or my #PictureBookEvaluationProject to guide your students through an in-depth analysis of quality children’s literature 📖 (Link in profile👆🏼) #picturebooks #earlyliteracy #readingstrategies #middleschoolminilessons #middleschoolreadalouds #minilessons #middleschoolmentortexts #mentortext #explorepicturebooks #qualitypicturebooks #authorscraft #illustratorscraft #analyzingtext #partsofspeech #figurativelanguage #literaryelements #storystructure #inferences #authorspurpose #closereading #evaluatetext #beautifulwords #homeeducation #homeschool #homeschoolresources #readathome #childrensliterature #kevinhenkes #readandwritelikeitmatters 
Use this mentor text to analyze author’s craft: 📖 descriptive adjectives: leafy, narrow, zebra-striped, buttery yellow, scarlet 📖 strong gardening specific verbs: weeded, pruned, hoed, harvested, burrowed, sprouted 📖 specific gardening related nouns: marigolds, seedlings, tendril 📖 Grace’s note is written out in letter format within the text **Be sure to read the final page to learn the true story of a teacher who spread kindness & promoted community through tomato plants! Use this text to analyze illustrator’s craft: 🎨 Notice & note: read the letters the students share with community members to spread kindness through tomato plants of all things! 🎨Medium: gouache paint & colored pencils, final touches added digitally Pair this picture book with my close reading/text analysis worksheets or my #PictureBookEvaluationProject to guide your students through an in-depth analysis of quality children’s literature 📖 (Link in profile👆🏼) #picturebooks #earlyliteracy #readingstrategies #middleschoolminilessons #middleschoolreadalouds #minilessons #middleschoolmentortexts #mentortext #explorepicturebooks #qualitypicturebooks #authorscraft #illustratorscraft #analyzingtext #partsofspeech #figurativelanguage #literaryelements #storystructure #inferences #authorspurpose #closereading #evaluatetext #beautifulwords #homeeducation #homeschool #homeschoolresources #readathome #literacy #childrensliterature #readandwritelikeitmatters