My Reading File

Electronic Reading File
By Cody Greene

Chapter book will be noted with a #.
Author study and read aloud project books with a *.

Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	The Snowy Day	Erza Jack Keats/ 1962	1st-2nd	The students can identify different types of weather and discuss what the weather is like when it snows. (S1E1)	A little boy spends all day out in the snow. He plays all kinds of games by himself.
	Fantasy	The Little House	Virginia Lee Burton/ 1943	K-2nd	Children could draw a picture of their home using colored pencils.	This story is about a little house that wants to live in the city. Once the city is built around her she wants to move back to the country.
	Fantasy	Tuesday	David Weisner/ 1992	K-2nd	Children could draw and color a frog. Then wash over it with diluted black paint using a sponge brush.	There are not many words in this story. The frogs fly through the air while everyone else is asleep.
	Predictable	Drummer Hoff	Adapted by Barbara and Ed Emberley/ 1968	K-2nd	Have children create a rhyme with their names. Decorate a bulletin board with their rhymes.	This is a rhyming story. All people bring objects that rhyme with their last name.
	Picture	Noah's Ark	Illustrated by Peter Spier/ 1978	K-5th	Let children tell about their favorite pet or animal. Then allow them to cut pictures of animals out of magazines.	This is a wordless picture book. It gives the story of Noah and the flood. It has a short poem at the beginning before the pictures start.
	Modern Fantasy	My Friend Rabbit	Eric Rohmann/ 2002	K-1st	Children can draw a picture. Go over it with glue, then color in with markers.	This book is about Rabbit. Rabbit has bad luck and trouble follows him everywhere.
	Realistic Fiction	Smoky Night	Eve Bunting/Illus. by David Diaz/ 1995	2nd-4th	Let children create a collage using items similar to the ones in the book.	A lot of different people come together in this story because of riots in their neighborhood.
	Modern Fantasy	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg/ 1986	2nd-5th	Set up the classroom and arrange the desk so that they can pretend that they are on a train while listening to the story.	A little boy takes a ride on a magical train during Christmas time. He meets Santa Clause.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	A Visit to William Blake's Inn	Nancy Williard/ 1981	4th-5th	Children could print out a vacation place on the internet and tell why they would like to visit there.	This book is made up of many poems. It is about an imaginary inn run by William Blake.
	Historical fiction	# The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman/Peter Sis/1986	4th-5th	The students could make stick puppets of Prince Brat and Jemmy. They could act out their adventure.	The prince has somebody who takes all of his whippings. The end up running away on an adventure.
	Historical fiction	# Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan/1985	3rd-4th	The kids can write a short song with the help of the teacher and then they can sing it together.	Their mother dies and their father puts an ad in the paper looking for a wife. She is plain and tall and the family ends up loving her.
	Fiction	# Holes	Louis Sachar/2000	5th	The teacher can have a class discussion about the book and ask questions about what the students think.	A boy gets sent to a youth detention center. The warden makes all of the boys dig holes and the boy figures out that the warden is looking for something.
	Historical Fiction, chapter	# Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis/ 1997	4th-5th	Students could read other stories about the Great Depression to see how hard it was to live during this time. (SS5H5)	Bud is an orphan who goes out and tries to find his father. Bud has a hard time during this story.

5 Picture books that have won other awards

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Activities for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	ABC, picture, Young Australian's Best Book Award Picture Book	Animalia	Graeme Base/1986	4th-5th	Students could take a letter and draw a picture with everything in the picture beginning with that letter.	This is a book that has very detailed illustrations. It takes each level of the alphabet and gives words to go along with the page.
	Picture, Coretta Scott King Medal Award	Tar Beach	Faith Ringgold/ 1991	3rd	Students could write a short story about their home and what they would like to have around their home.	A little girl dreams that she is flying all over her home in Harlem. She wants everything for her family.
	Boston Globe Horn Book Award-Picture Book Winner, Wordless	The Snowman	Raymond Bridges/ 1978	K-3rd	The students could make a snowman out of modeling clay.	A little boy has a snowman that comes to life. The snowman takes the boy on a flight.
	Boston Globe Horn Book Award-Picture Book Winner, Multicultural	The Fortune-Tellers	Lloyd Alexander/Trina Schart Hyman/ 1992	4th	Students could use finger-paints to a paint a picture of what they hope their life will be like.	A man is a carpenter and he wonders if he will do this for the rest of his life. He goes to see the fortune-teller.
	International Reading Association Children's Book Award-Younger Reader, Realistic fiction	Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt	Deborah Hopkinson/James Ransome/ 1993	3rd	Every student could bring a piece of cloth from home and the teacher could help the students sew it together to make a quilt.	A girl is a slave on a plantation. She is a seamstress and uses scraps of cloth to make a map.

ABC/Counting/Concept

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Activities for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	ABC/ Caldecott Honor	Alphabatics	Suse MacDonald/ 1986	K-1st	Let the children try and make their name by making letters with their bodies.	This book has a page for each letter in the alphabet.
	ABC	Christmas Alphabet Book	Pat Whitehead/ Deborah Borgo/ 1985	K-1st	The students can go through the book and count the number of letters in the alphabet. (MKN1)	Santa is sleeping and it is time for him to go. Every letter is used throughout this book.
	Concept	Purple, Green, and Yellow	Robert Munsch/ Helene Desputeaux/ 1992	1st-3rd	Let the children use markers to write the color words matching color with word name. Ex. Write "red" using the red marker.	This is a book about colors. The girl always wants new and better markers.

Predictable

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Activities for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Fiction	* The Napping House	Audrey Wood/Don Wood/ 1984	1st-3rd	Compare and contrast how things look in the light and in the dark. (S1P1)	Everyone climbs on top of each other and falls asleep. A flea bites the top one and everyone else wakes up.
	Fantasy	If You Give a Moose a Muffin	Laura Joffe Numeroff/Felicia Bond/ 1991	1st-2nd	The students will write a paragraph about why you should not give a moose a muffin. (ELA2W1)	A little boy gives a moose a muffin. After he does this the moose needs something else and this continues until the end of the book.

Traditional Literature

Picture of Book

Genre

Title

Author/Illustrator/Copyright

Recommended Age/Grade Level

Activities for Classroom Use

Brief Description of Book

Fairy Tale

Yeh-Shen, A Cinderella Story for China

retold by Ai-Ling Louie/Ed Young/ 1996

3rd-5th

Let the children make a prince or princess crown and wear them.

This is a Cinderella story from China. She has magic fish bones to help her.

Traditional/Caldecott Medal

Frog, Went a Courtin'

retold by John Langstaff/ Feodor Rojankovsky/ 1956

K-3rd

There is a song at the end of the book that the children could sing.

The frog went along and asked Miss. Mouse to marry him. This is a rhyming story.

Traditional

Sleeping Beauty

retold by Mahlon Craft/Kinuko Craft/2002

K-3rd

Students could create stick puppets of the princess, king, queen, and prince and put on a puppet show.

A witch casts a spell on the princess and she is doomed to sleep for 100 years.

Traditional

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs

retold by Brothers Grimm/Charles Santore/ 2004

K-3rd

The students could do drama and let seven people be the dwarfs and one person be Snow White. They could act out how they lived.

Snow White was treated badly by her step-mother. She is helped out by the 7 dwarfs.

Traditional

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

retold by Jan Brett/1990

K-3rd

The children could role play the story.

A little girl is going through the woods and she finds a house and eats their food and sleeps in their beds.

Informational Books/Biography/Autobiography

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Activity for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Biography/ Chapter	# Daniel Boone: Taming the Wilds	Katharine Wilkie/ E. Harper Johnson/ 1960	3rd-5th	The children could turn the classroom into the Fort. They could act out the roles of the characters as they protect it.	This is a biography of Daniel Boone. It talks about Daniel as a boy and then as he helped lead the way to Kentucky.
	Biography/ Chapter	# Jeremy Mayfield	Mike Bonner/ 2000	4th-5th	They could make a race car out of a shoe box. They could decorate it any way that they choose.	This is the biography of Jeremy Mayfield. It ends with his first career win at Pocono Motor Speedway.
	Biography/ Chapter	# Will Bill Hickok	Carl Green and William Stanford/ 1992	3rd-5th	The children can write another problem for the lawman to solve.	This biography is about Wild Bill. His many adventures as a lawman are written in this book.
	Informational	The Iroquois	Richard Bial/1998	4th-5th	The students could take shoeboxes and make longhouses with them and decorate them with straw and sticks.	This book talks about the history of these people and how they built longhouses.

Modern Fantasy

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Activities for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Fantasy	* The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear	Audrey Wood/ Don Wood/ 1989	K-2nd	Cut and paste a strawberry from construction paper.	The mouse tries to keep the strawberry away from the bear. He eats it at the end so the bear will not find it.
	Fantasy	* King Bidgood's in the Bathtub	Audrey Wood/ Don Wood/ 1985	1st-4th	The students can write another scenario for the king to play out in his bathtub. (ELA3W1)	People keep trying to get the king out of the bathtub. He keeps having wild adventures in the tub.
	Fantasy/ chapter	#* Culpepper's Cannon	Gary Paulsen/1992	4th-5th	The students will have a discussion about the Civil War and life during the war. (SS5H1)	Two boys find a time portal and go back to the Civil War. They found a note in a cannon that led them to the portal.
	Fantasy	Agatha's Feather Bed, Not Just Another Wild Goose Story	Carmen Agra Deedy/Laura Seeley/ 1991	1st-3rd	Students can go to the library and research some of the items in this book to help students discover the scientific background of many different things.	A woman who ordered a new feather bed has a dream that there are naked geese outside her window that want their feathers back.

Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Realistic/chapter	#* The Tent	Gary Paulsen/1995	5th	Let the students write about why it is wrong to steal from people and how you can make up for it.	A father and son who are poor decide to go out and preach to become rich. After they trick people into giving them money for their ministry they feel guilty and quit.
	Realistic/chapter	#* Brian's Winter	Gary Paulsen/1996	5th	The students can track weather patterns and make predictions about the weather. (S4E4)	This book is a spin-off of Hatchet. It takes Brian through the winter while he is stranded.
	Realistic, Picture	The Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House	Marge Blaine/John C. Wallner/1975	2nd-4th	The students could write a story about how their families get through each day.	A little girl thinks her mother is falling apart because her mother is going back to work.
	Realistic, Picture	Oliviatown	Allen Levi/Garry Pound/2003	3rd	The teacher can take the students outside and let them do sidewalk drawings just like Olivia did in the story.	This book is about a girl named Olivia. Olivia has a great imagination and uses it to do her sidewalk drawings.

Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Activities for Classroom Use	Brief description of Book
	Historical Fiction, chapter	#* The Rifle	Gary Paulsen/ 1995	5th	Give the students a piece of paper and tell them to come up with another way that the rifle could be brought out and used.	A gunsmith works months to finish the best rifle. He trades it to a man who uses it in the Civil War.
	Historical Fiction, chapter	#*Tucket's Ride	Gary Paulsen/1997	4th	The students will go research westward expansion and explain what it was like to go out west. (SS4H6)	Tucket and two children try to find their way to Oregon. They were separated from there families.
	Historical, Multicultural	Rose Blanche	Roberto Innocenti/Christophe Gallaz/1985	3rd-4th	Students could create read other stories about children in Germany during the war.	It is war time and a little German girl finds a prison camp where kids are starving and she takes food to them.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	The Dream Keeper and other Poems	Langston Hughes/Brian Pinkey/1994	3rd-5th	This book will be used during black history month and the students will write their own poem in the style of Hughes.	This is a collection of poems. A lot of the poems are about the African-American experience.
	Poetry, Two Voice Poems, Newbery Award	Joyful Noise	Paul Fleischman/1988	2nd-5th	While the students are reading this book they can pair up and read the poems together. (ELA3R1)	This collection of poems is written to be read by two people. All of the poems are about insects.

Multicultural

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy/ Caldecott Honor	Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters	John Steptoe/ 1987	4th-5th	Children could search for Zimbabwe on the internet. They can decorate a shoebox with a scene from that area.	One daughter did not treat the other one nicely. The nice daughter ended up marrying the king, while the other one became a servant.
	Traditional Fantasy/ Caldecott Medal	Lon Po Po	Ed Young/ 1990	1st- 4th	Discussion-Compare the Chinese version with the basic English version.	This is the Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf acts like Po Po to try to get in the house.
	Realistic Fiction	Something for Nothing	Phoebe Gilman/ 1992	3rd-5th	Glue and paste construction paper shapes to design a blanket like Joseph's grandfather made for him.	Joseph had a blanket as a baby. As the blanket became worn out, he used it as smaller and smaller items.
	Realistic Fiction	Liliana's Grandmothers	Leyla Torres/ 1998	2nd-4th	Weaving activity using construction paper strips to create a quilt like Liliana and Grandmother made.	Liliana's Grandmothers live in two very different places. As she visits them she sees how their lives are different.
	Realistic Fiction	In My Family	Carmen Lomas Garza/ 1996	1st-4th	Children could bring supplies from home and have a real Mexican fiesta.	This book tells about what it is like to grow up in a Hispanic family.

SS5H5 The students will explain how the Great Depression and the New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans.
S1E1 Students will observe, measure, and communicate weather data to see patterns in weather and climate.
S1P1 Students will investigate light and sound.
ELA2W1 The student demonstrates competency in the writing process.
SS4H6 The students will explain westward expansion in America between 1801 and 1861.
S4E4 Students will analyze weather charts/maps and collect weather data to predict weather events and infer patterns and seasonal changes.
ELA3R1 The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression.
MKN1 Students will connect numerals to the quantities they represent.
ELA3W1 Student demonstrates compentency in the writing process.
SS5H1 Students will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.