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"With you as a guide, and literature as the landscape, you can open young writers' eyes to the full range of possibilites before them. Writing asks students to make decisions along the way: What will I write about? What am I trying to accomplish? How might I begin? Shall I be playful or serious? Is this the best word to use here? Student's can't make these choices in a vacuum. Literature fills that void"

(Fletcher & Portalupi, pg 82, Writing Workshop).