Children's Literature Web Sites:

Patricia Polacco - www.patriciapolacco.com - Often Patricia Polacco writes stories about her own experiences. Many of her stories provide helpful examples of narrative writing that include the essential elements of emotions, dialogue, significant event, good beginning, and closing.

Ezra Jack Keats - www.ezra-jack-keats.org - Ezra Jack Keats writes short stories about everyday experiences of young children. His stories provide examples of the essential elements of narrative writing.

Web Sites:

StoryCorps - www.storycorps.net "StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound."

Professional Resources:

Dorn, Linda J., and Soffos, Carla. Scaffolding Young Writers - A Writers’ Workshop Approach. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers, 2001.

New Standards Primary Literacy Committee – National Center on Education and the Economy and the University of Pittsburgh. Reading and Writing Grade by Grade – Primary Literacy Standards for Kindergarten through Third Grade. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh , 1999.

Zinsser, William K. Writing About Your Life – A Journey into the Past. New York , New York : Marlowe and Company, 2004.