Resources for Persuasive Writing
Read Alouds
Earrings by Judith Viorst
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
My Brother Dan's Delicious by Steven Layne
Can I Keep Him? by Steven Kellogg
Dear Mrs. LaRue by Marc Teague
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
A Pig Named Perrier by Elizabeth Spurr
All Pigs are Beautiful by Dick King-Smith
Wilson Sat Alone by Debra Hess
Alexander, Who’s Not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move by Judith
Viorst
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
Broadway Chicken by Jean-Luc Fromental
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles by Jack Prelutsky
Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg
Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola
Should There Be Zoos by Tony Stead
The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The Little Red Hen retold by Dr. Alvin Granowsky
Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker
Georgia State Reading/Writing Frameworks – Persuasive Writing
http://www.georgiastandards.org/elaframework.aspx
Resources for Response to Literature
Read Alouds
Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Clara Caterpillar by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Crow Bow by Tara Yahima
Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe
Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andrede
Hally Tosis by Dave Pilkner
Hazel’s Amazing Mother by Rosemary Wells
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
I Wish I Were A Butterfly by James Howe
Koala Lou by Mem Fox
My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tommie dePaula
The Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Tacky the Penguin by H. Lester
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
The Two of Them by Aliki
Authors
Kevin Henkes:
Chrysanthemum
Jessica
Sheila Rae, the Brave
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Julius, Baby of the World
Cynthia Rylant:
The Relatives Came
When I Was Young in the Mountains
Silver Packages
Scarecrow
The Year’s Garden
Eve Bunting:
Butterfly House
Someday a Tree
The Night Tree
Georgia State Reading/Writing Frameworks-Response to Literature http://www.georgiastandards.org/elaframework.aspx