Touchstone texts are texts that are used as exemplars or to model certain writing/story structures. They can be any piece of text (picture books, novels, newspaper articles, online writings). Consider including your own writing or student pieces from the class.
This list will continue to be revised as I find texts that fit with certain activities. If you have a favourite text, please add it to the list. (Click EDIT tab above. To add a row to the table, click in a cell, right click. Select Row, Insert.)
PICTURE BOOKS (these work for elementary and secondary)
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| Title |
Author
|
Notes
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| Mr. Peabody's Apple |
Madonna
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| Wretched Stone |
Van Allsburg
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| The Stranger |
Van Allsburg
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| Mysteries of Harris Burdick |
Van Allsburg |
images - imagination
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| Polar Express |
Van Allsburg |
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| Red Tree |
Tan
|
descriptions - metaphors
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| Grasper |
Lewis
|
courage - go against the crowd
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| Wings |
Myer
|
courage - outside the box
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| Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge |
Fox |
identify
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| All I See |
Rylant |
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| The Relatives Came |
Rylant |
memoir |
| Ish |
Reynolds |
see personal gifts
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| June 29, 1999 |
Weisner |
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| Voices in the Park |
Browne |
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| Changes |
Browne
|
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| Russell's Lost Treasure |
Scotton |
photography as message
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| Score One for Sloths |
Lester |
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| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
Viorst |
personal narratives |
| Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street |
Schotter |
personal narratives |
| The Paper Boy |
Pilkey |
personal narratives |
Knuffle Bunny - Cautionary Tale; Knuffle Bunny Too
|
Willems |
narrative |
| John Philip Duck |
Polacco |
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| Click, Clack, Moo - Cows that Type |
Cronin |
persuasive writing |
Night of the Gargoyles
|
Bunting |
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| Chrysanthemum |
Henke |
literary essay |
| Chester |
Wyatt |
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| The Book that Jack Wrote |
Scieszka |
pattern |
| The Recess Queen |
O'Neill |
social responsibility |
| Piggybook |
Browne |
|
| The Moon and the Oyster |
Clenman |
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| The Wump World |
Peet |
like Rabbits (allegory) |
| The Rabbits |
Marsden |
like Wump world (allegory) |
| Say Something |
Moss |
social responsibility
|
| This is our House |
Rosen |
community
|
| Owl Moon |
Yolen |
descriptive content; setting tone |
| Sector 7 |
Weisner |
|
Wolf
|
Bloom
|
twist
|
Because of Mr. Terupt
|
Rob Buyea
|
voice
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| I Wanna Iguana |
|
persuasive writing |
Thunder Cake
|
Polacco
|
facing our fears
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| What Really happened to Humpty? |
|
background, text clue, inference |
| Splat the Cat |
Scotton |
description - character feelings |
| Enemy Pie |
Munson |
different plot points |
| The Junkyard Wonders |
Polacco |
believing, community, transitions, character description (potential despite challenges) |
| Chalk |
Bill Thomson |
imagination |
| Earrings |
Viorst |
persuasive writing |
| more book stuff |
me |
writing well |
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