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I've been teaching using the workshop model a la Nancie Atwell, Kelly Gallagher, Penny Kittle, and Donalyn Miller for about a decade now. In the past couple of years, I've started using Kelly Gallagher's noticing sentences at the beginning of my classes and taking the advice of all of these teacher experts to start "reading like a writer." Part of this is finding great sentences to emulate. Providing students with great examples of voice, grammar, punctuation, and just plain engaging writing. So I started by trying to put flags in books for sentences and passages that I loved or that I noticed the author did something interesting or unique with their language or grammar. I've been collecting these in a Google doc for a while now and it has grown to 20 or more pages. This isn't convenient for me to search through for what I want AND perhaps what I've collected can be of help to others. So here I am. I'm going to start collecting those sentences here