Teaching Complex Sentence Writing Using Children's Books: Grades 2 & 3 Volume 3: Standing Up for Civil Rights - Softcover

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Your students have great ideas.

You know this — you hear them during class discussions. Their thinking is rich, detailed, and thoughtful.

But then you ask them to write. And those rich, layered thoughts? Gone. Replaced by short, stiff sentences that barely scratch the surface of what they actually understand.

This isn’t a comprehension or motivation issue. Many students have the ideas—they just need help learning how to get those ideas onto the page.

When students are taught how to build sentences to carry meaning — how to connect ideas, show relationships, express cause and contrast — writing stops being a mystery and starts being the natural extension of what they already think and say.

Teaching Complex Sentence Writing Using Children’s Books: Standing Up for Civil Rights pairs award-winning and well-respected children’s books with ready-to-use sentence-writing activities that help students build, combine, expand, and revise sentences.

All without scripted lessons or a separate writing program. Simply read the selected children’s book, choose an activity that fits your instructional goal, and guide students through focused sentence practice.

Every activity includes sample responses, making it easier to model, guide, and support students without creating examples from scratch.

Instead of using disconnected worksheets or random prompts, students practice sentence writing in the context of books worth reading. Activities repeat across multiple book titles so the structures become second nature, allowing students to focus on what they want to say instead of the mechanics.

Featuring activities based on the following 17 children’s books (each sold separately):

• Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, Leader, Legend by Justine and Ron Fontes
• The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko
• Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jean Marzollo
• Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President by Ann Malaspina
• Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
• I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer
• I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda Arms White
• Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
• The Listeners by Gloria Whelan
• Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington by Frances Ruffin
• Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
• A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David A. Adler
• Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story by Ruby Bridges
• Separate Is Never Equal: The Story of Sylvia Mendez and Her Family by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
• Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass by Dean Robbins

• 2nd and 3rd grade teachers
• Homeschool parents
• Reading and writing intervention teachers
• Literacy coaches
• Teachers using read-alouds as part of their ELA block
• Families who want writing practice connected to real children’s books

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