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book was just mentioned as a powerful mentor text for children both in examining the text for examples of quality narrative writing and in examining larger ideas of character development and choice-making. The presenter read it aloud to 4th grade and used it as a group reading book with 7th grade.
Larger questions: What books do you use as mentor texts for your age writers? How do you draw attention to higher level analysis of text at any age?

- Colleen
I have a discussion guide with questions, further reading and websites with background information if anyone is interested.
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