Subtitle: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6. This resource shows teachers how to help students become confident accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation. The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing - focus, contents, organization, style, and conventions. It shows teachers and students how to discover the ways that authors make writing comes alive and how to use that knowledge to inspire and improve their own writing.

Reinventing the writer with mentor texts -- Digging for treasure: discovering personal stories by connecting with read alouds -- What are you really writing about? Discovering the inside story -- When writers use a magnifying lens -- Creating powerful beginnings and satisfying endings -- Using scaffolds to organize texts -- Poetry: everybody can be a writer -- Choice, voice, and all that jazz -- Walk around in the author's syntax -- A treasure chest of books.