Mentor Text: Word After Word

 

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This week's topic is back to language arts books. I'm going to share one that I hadn't read until about a year ago. Word After Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan was a reading assignment for an upper elementary language arts class I was in and I loved it. 

The book follows a group of children who have a writer visit their classroom for a period of time. Throughout Ms. Mirabel's stay, the children learn to understand the power of written word. Throughout the book, there are so many noteworthy passages and quotes to ponder and cherish. A part of the reading assignment I had in college was to collect quotes throughout the book and that wasn't hard at all. Here is just one quote from this book:

"I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever."

This past spring I shared this book with a young lady who had been struggling with reading. I got a kick out of her trips across the hall to my room several times a day to share pieces of the book that spoke to her. The book is a quick read, large print and small pages. I attribute the drive of this student to continue to pursue "bigger books" and her "want" to read attitude as stemming from reading this wonderful book!

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