This book is an excellent source because it contains many examples that can help teach how to write a short story for all grade levels. This book provides cross-referenced themes, story comparisons, and much more. I believe it is important to offer your students a variety of not only topics but also cultures when writing short stories. This would give them the ability to take their culture and someone else's and cross-breed them together to create their masterpiece. It is important to provide students with information to enrich their experience by studying it. This book gives students the opportunity to identify many things from characters, themes, plots, and conflicts. This book describes not one individual culture, but many. This is an excellent way to ensure that your students become enriched not only in terms of literacy but also in culture