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Writing Wednesday: Using MARTIN AND MAHALIA as a Writing Mentor Text

martin and mahalia

MARTIN AND MAHALIA: HIS WORDS, HER SONG

By Andrea Davis Pinkney

Illustrated by Brian Pinkney

Little, Brown 2013

 

This book moves me to tears every time I read it. The beauty of the words and the illustrations feel like a song and celebration. The Pinkneys have woven two important people with amazing gifts together in this nonfiction piece about Martin Luther King Jr’s and Mahalia Jackson’s impacts on the Civil Rights Movement. It is the perfect book to read to celebrate Martin Luther King day, but it’s also the perfect book to study as a nonfiction writing mentor text.

 

Writing Skills:

* Leads (beginning lines)

* Vivid Verbs

* Metaphor

* Adjectives

* Sensory Words

* Rhythm

* Use of poetic language in a nonfiction text

* Use of a refrain in a nonfiction text

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