ELA-Author-Rep-F

Author's Craft - Repetition - Print - Fiction Resources
K-2
 * //When Donkeys Fly,// Ginger Hodge. 2009. Repeats phrase, "When donkeys fly." Helps students really get into the story. Also good for teaching goal-setting and achievement.

Repeats phrase: "Click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. Clickety, clack, moo." Farmer Brown finds himself compelled to listen to his farm animals via their letters they type him.
 * //Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type// by Doreen Cronin, ISBN 10-0439216486

//"He was tough. All pirates are tough."// The repeated structure in this book is //He was ___. All pirates are__ _.// Boris the pirate is a mean, scary pirate. But when his pirate dies, there is a different side to him.
 * //Tough Boris// by Mem Fox, ISBN 10-0152018913

Repeats the phrase //The important thing about...// Margaret Wise Brown takes familiar things and finds basic associations of them.
 * //The Important Book// by Margaret Wise Brown, ISBN-10: 0064432270

Repeats the phrase //The important thing about...// This book goes through the years of a child with each birthday.
 * //Another Important Book// by Margaret Wise Brown, ISBN 10-006443785X