Give the teaching and learning of writing a boost using picture books as your examples! Developed by curriculum specialists, If You Give a Teacher a Book provides you with strategies and lessons that make using picture books in the instruction of writing both pleasant and educational for students. Media specialists and teachers can collaborate on the lessons—the featured picture book can be read in the library followed by focused discussion on the author's craft of writing. The classroom teacher can follow up by rereading the book and presenting the writing activity.

Organized around the traits of writing (Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, Conventions and Presentation), each lesson includes a summary of the story, a writing prompt, a lesson that reinforces the skill and a list of the writing traits highlighted in the lesson. Grades 1–12. By Karen Gibson and Sheila Wise. 124 pp. ISBN 978-1-60213-005-0 2008.