When teaching:
Word Choice and Vocabulary
Clovis Crawfish and the Big Betail by Mary Alice Fontenot
Storytelling
Tales of TutuNene and Nele by Gale Bates
Sentence Structure and Point of View
A Catfish Tale: A Bayou Story of the Fisherman and His Wife
Onomatopeia, Description and Personification
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Dialogue
New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meter
Diction and Purpose:
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena
Characterization
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktate by Carmen Deedy
Marisol Mc Donald Doesn't Match: marisol Mc Donalt co combina by Monican Brown
Little red Hot by Eric A Kimmel
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
A Penguine named Patience: A Hurricane katrina Rescue Story by Suzanne Lewis