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The Craft Table for A SWEET SMELL OF ROSES is complete!

Stacey Shubitz

I dissected Angela Johnson’s Book, A Sweet Smell of Roses, to the best of my ability today. I created wordy teaching points so you can truly help your students to see what craft moves Johnson made (at least, the ones I think she made). This will help you show the writers in your classroom how to make the same craft moves Johnson made by using precise language to help them understand how to go about making a particular craft move.

The craft table for this book includes explanations of the following craft moves:

  • Conventions: Points of Ellipsis
  • Fragments
  • Movement Through Time & Place
  • Pronouns
  • Repetition
  • Action Verbs
  • Symbolism

    • I hope this table is useful to you when you confer.

    Published by Stacey Shubitz

    I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island. I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010). I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.

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