TY - BOOK AU - Saccardi,Marianne TI - Books that teach kids to write SN - 1598844512 (pbk. : acidfree paper) PY - 2011/// CY - Santa Barbara, Calif. PB - Libraries Unlimited KW - Children KW - Books and reading KW - United States KW - Children's literature KW - Bibliography KW - Creative writing (Elementary education) KW - Creative writing (Secondary education) KW - English language KW - Composition and exercises KW - Study and teaching (Elementary) KW - Study and teaching (Secondary) KW - Literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The word snoop -- A fabulous fair alphabet -- Wonderful worlds -- Busy chickens -- Hooray for fish -- Have you ever tickled a tiger -- Barnyard banter -- The real mother goose -- Noah Webster -- Fancy Nancy's favorite fancy words -- I don't want a cool cat! -- Please don't tease tootsie -- Ooh la la polka-dot boots -- The rain stomper -- Ballerina! -- A crossing of zebras -- Bounce -- Princess Pigtoria and the pea -- Roar! -- One duck stuck -- Dancing feet! -- Mom and dad and palindromes -- How do you wokka-wokka? -- Grandpappy snippy snappies -- There's a frog in my throat! -- The wonder book -- Mirror mirror -- You have to write -- Every Friday -- I am a backhoe -- Muddy as a duck puddle and other American similes -- With a little luck -- Yes day -- Shark vs. train -- How to clean your room in 10 easy steps -- The fabled fifth graders of Aesop elementary school -- Al Capone shines my shoes -- The gardener -- Rules of the road -- Cat diaries -- Shooting Kabul -- The accidental adventures of India McAllister -- Phineas L. MacGuire...gets slimed -- Imaginalis -- The end -- The last great getaway -- Dogs don't brush their teeth! -- Jump! -- There was an old monster! -- And here's to you! -- Love-a-duck -- Small beauties -- Farm -- Lincoln: a photobiography -- Nature's paintbox: a seasonal gallery of art and verse -- Project mulberry -- The other side -- The librarian of Basra -- Red sings from treetops -- Jane Kurtz and you -- Everything but the horse -- My Havana: memories of a Cuban boyhood -- The can man -- Spillin ink -- The Wednesday wars -- Because of Winn-Dixie -- On the wings of heroes -- As simple as it seems -- Duck! rabbit! -- Marcelo in the real world -- Mockingbird -- All the broken pieces -- Camille McPhee fell under the bus... -- Lost -- Louise the big cheese and the la-di-da shoes -- My dog is as smelly as dirty socks -- My best friend is as sharp as a pencil -- Bugs and bugsicles -- The great fire -- Seymour Simon's book of trains -- Written anything good lately? -- Dogs and cats -- Cicadas! strange and wonderful -- Children of the Great Depression -- Underwear: what we wear under there -- Horse song -- Lungs: your respiratory system -- Appalachia: the voices of sleeping birds -- Prehistoric actual size -- The schocking truth about energy -- Marching for freedom -- Tigress -- The great and only Barnum -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- The extraordinary Mark Twain -- Dave the potter: artist, poet, slave -- A seed is sleepy -- Factory girl -- Mali under the night sky N2 - "This book provides a wealth of read aloud titles and related activities that provide busy teachers with the tools to help students in grades 3-12 become successful writers"-- ER -