This is such a helpful resource when starting a new reading standard for the week. My students and I love to start each week with a picture book focused on the skill of the week. Thank you so much.

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Behold! A complete list of picture books to use as mentor texts in your upper grade classroom!

I love reading picture books with my fifth graders. Not only do we share a good story, but students are also motivated to try new strategies in their own writing. From character development to figurative language to dialog to mechanics, we learn so much from the amazing books that we read aloud in class.

"By using mentor texts, the reader can virtually position him-or herself to sit beside the author and study how the text is constructed and how it communicates." - The Writing Thief, Ruth Culham

The 68 diverse stories on this list include a variety of characters, writing styles, and themes. When used as mentor texts, they will support the reading and writing standards while encouraging young authors to emulate new ideas in their own writing!

TEACHING POINTS:

Adjectives
Adverbs
Alliteration
Allusion
Beginning, Middle, End
Cause/Effect
Character Challenges
Character Change
Character Traits
Climax
Compare/Contrast
Conflict/Resolution
Conflict - Emotional
Context Clues
Descriptive Language
Dialog
Explanatory Text
Fact/Opinion
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
Friendly Letter Writing
Generating Ideas for Writing
Historical Non-Fiction
Hook
Humor
Hyperbole
Idioms
Imagery
Inference
Informational Writing
Lesson/Central Message
Main Idea/Supporting Details
Metaphors
Narrative Writing
Onomatopoeia
Opinion
Personal Narrative Writing
Personification
Perspective/Viewpoint
Persuasive Letter Writing
Persuasive Writing
Plot Structure
Poetry
Point of View - 1st Person
Point of View - 2nd Person
Point of View - 3rd Person
Predicting
Problem/Solution
Punctuation
Punctuation: Commas
Questioning
Reading Illustrations
Sensory Language
Sequence/Order
Setting
Simile
Suspense
SWBST Summarizing
Symbolism
Task, Purpose, Audience
Text + Graphic Features
Text Connections
Theme
Transitional Phrases
Visual Elements (RL.5.7)
Vivid Verbs
Vocabulary Acquisition
Word Choice

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CCSSRL.4.1

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

CCSSRL.4.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

CCSSRL.4.3

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).

CCSSRL.4.6

Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.

CCSSRL.4.7

Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.

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