Electronic Reading File

Electronic Reading File
By Farrah Moore

Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Idea for Clasroom Use	Brief Description
	Where the Wild ThingsAre	Maurice Sendak	Modern Fantasy	1st/2nd	PreK-1st	The students could make their own Max mask out of paper plates.	This is about a young boy named Max who uses his imagination to turn his room into a far away land of wild things
	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	Modern Fantasy	2nd	PreK-2nd	You could let the students write a sentence of what they would choose as a first gift.	This is the story about a young boy who takes a train ride to the North Pole to meet Santa. He is allowed to pick the first gift of Christmas.
	The Paper Boy	Dave Pilkey	Realistic Fiction	K-2nd	2nd	The students could be assigned to do a job to show that they are responsible enough to do it.	This book is about being responsible for a job.
	Ella Sarah Gets Dressed	Margaret Chodos-Irvine	Realistic Fiction	1st/2nd	PreK-1st	Have the students to bring some dress up clothes and have a tea party.	Ella Sarah wants to choose her own clothes to wear. Her parents and sister try to help but she insists on doing it herself. She is having a tea party with her friends.
	My Friend Rabbit	Eric Rohmann	Fantasy	2nd	PreK-2nd	When teaching about letter R, have them to create a Rabbit puppet using paper bag.	This is about a friendship between a rabbit and a mouse who always seems to have trouble following them.
	The Three Pigs	Retold by David Weisner	Modern Fantasy	3rd	K-3	I would let the kids choose a story that they would like to visit in a book and draw a picture showing it.	It starts off as the traditional story of the threes pigs but turns out that the pigs can jump off the pages of the book and explore other parts of literature stories.
	Officer Buckle and Gloria	Peggy Rathmann	Fantasy	2nd Grade	K-2nd	Have the students to write some of the safety tips for their own classroom and post them inside the classroom for everyone to see.	This is about an officer and his dog that go to schools to give safety speeches. Gloria helps Officer Buckle with the speeches by acting out some of the safety tips.
	Jumanji	Chris Van Allsburg	Fantasy	2nd-3rd Grade	2nd-4th Grade	Let them watch the movie. Then have them to write a story of their own adventure that they would like to take.	This is about a brother and sister that discover while playing a game that it becomes real. They must finish the game in order to return to a normal life.
	Owl Moon	Jane Yolen/ JohnSchoenerr	Realistic Fiction	1st Grade	PreK-2nd Grade	Have the students to draw a beautiful winter scene from the book showing an owl.	This is about a girl and her father who go owling on a moonlit winter night. She must be very quiet in order to see the owl.
	So You Want to Be President	Judith St. George/David Small	Realistic Fiction	3rd Grade	2nd-4th Grade	Have the students to draw their own president. He can be fat, skinny, ugly, brown, black, etc.	Anyone can be a president, a fat man, skinny man, an oldster, etc. This book is to remind kids that the American presidents have been a motley group of individuals, not a row of marble busts.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Idea for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt	Realistic Fiction	Grade 5-6th	Grade 5-6th	Have the students to write a story about what they would do if they found a fountain of youth. Would they tell everyone or keep it a secret?	This is about a young girl that is tired of being at home and bored. She gets to have the adventure of a life time. She finds something that is great but discovers that it is not what it is cracked up to be, a fountain of youth.
	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	Realistic Fiction	Grade 5-6th	Grade 5-6th	If studying this time period, have the students to write a story about how they would help hide and protect their best friend if in a situation like that.	Set in 1943, Denmark. A young danish girl helps her Jewish friend and her family escape the Nazi occupied Denmark.

Multicultural

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the Book
	Amazing Grace	Mary Hoffman/ Caroline Binch	Multicultural	Grade 2	Grades 1-3		This book emphasizes that someone can be whatever they want if they persevere. Have the students write an Amazing You poem.
	Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry	Mildred D. Taylor	Multicultural	Grade 9th-12th	Grade 9th-12th		This book is about the hard battle that a black family from Mississippi went through the time during the Great Depression. Have students to research on the internet, library, etc. about the Great Depression and write a research paper about it.
	Brown Like Me	Noelle Lamperti	Multicultural	2nd Grade	2nd-5th Grade		This is about a young girl named Noelle. She liked to go and hunt for things that were brown, just like her. Have students to divide up into groups of 4 or 5. Have to them to write down several things that are brown and compare their answers within the group.
	Grandfather Counts	Andrea Cheng/Ange Zhang	Multicultural	2nd Grade	K-2nd Grade		Helen's grandfather, Gong Gong, comes from China to live with her family. He is shocked to find that none of his grandchildren speak Chinese. He joins Helen in watching the train beside their house. They begin to communicate by counting the train cars in each others language. Read the book to the students and them have the students to learn to count to ten in Chinese.
	Sounder	William Armstrong	Multicultural	4th	4th-6th Grade	Newberry	A little African-American boy manages to take on man's work to help his family in a time of need. He faces a lot of difficult situations along the way but has the help of his dog Sounder. Have the students to draw their own pictures about the story and then put them all together to make a picture book of the story.

Poetry

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the Book/Ideas for Classroom Use
	A Light in the Attic	Shel Silverstein	Poetry	2nd Grade	2nd-5th Grade		You will meet several people in this attic. You will find Backward Bill, Sourface Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactly Watt, etc. Have the students to make up their own crazy person and write a poem relating to them.
	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein	Poetry	3rd Grade	3rd-5th Grade		The sidewalk never ends in this book. You will meet a boy who turns into a TV set, a girl who eats a whale, etc. Have the students to write their own poem relating to the book.
	Falling Up	Shel Silverstein	Poetry	2nd-3rd Grade	2nd-5th Grade		Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this book. Have them to draw a picture of their own Screamin' Millie and a poem about her.

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the book/ Idea for Classroom Use
	Cook-A-Doodle Doo!	Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel	Modern Fantasy	3rd-5th Grade	PreK-5th Grade		This book is about several friends cooking a strawberry short cake. It is also about working as a team. Divide the students into 4 or 5 groups. Have each group pertake in making a strawberry short cake. Each child will have a part to do and they will have to work as a team.
	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein	Modern Fantasy	3rd-4th Grade	2nd-5th Grade		This is about a boy and a tree. This is not a regular old tree. This is a giving tree and it helps the little boy up until he is a grown man. As he gets older the tree cannot give as much and the only left to offer is his stump as a resting place. Have the students to draw a picture relating to the book. Have them to write a paragraph about what part they drew and why?
	The True Story of the Three Little Pigs	John Scieszka/Lane Smith	Modern Fantasy	3rd	PreK-4th Grade		This is the traditonal story of the three little pigs but told by the wolfe.
	If You Give a Pig a Pancake	Laura Numeroff/ Felicia Bond	Modern Fantasy	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		This book tells you about what happens when you give a pig a pancake. The pig asks for more than just a pancake. Have the students to draw a picture of their favorite part and relate to the words in the book that start with the letter P.
	The Gingerbread Man	Karen Schmidt	Modern Fantasy	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		This book is about when a little old woman makes a gingerbread man and it comes to life. He escapes from the little old woman. He runs so fast that no one can catch him until he meets up with a fox. Have the students to make their own gingerbread man out of sandpaper and cinnamon sticks.

Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the Book/Idea for Classroom Use
	Train to Somewhere	Eve Bunting/Ronald Himler	Historical	Grade 4	Grade 1st-3rd		This is about the Orphan trains which were from the 1800's-1920's that transported children from New York to adoptive families in the West.
	The Wall	Eve Bunting/Ronald Himler	Historical	3rd Grade	3rd-6th Grade		This book is about the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Wall. This would be good to use on Veteran's Day, 4th of July, etc.
	Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	Historical	3rd Grade	3rd-5th Grade	Newbery	Caleb and Anna are overwhelmed when their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home. They hope that she can stay. Have the students to write their own letter for a mail-order bridge or groom.
	Strawberry Girl	Lois Lenski	Historical	3rd Grade	3rd-5th Grade	Newberry	Birdie Boyer was a Florida girl. She was raised by a large "strawberry family". She lived on a farm where they grew strawberries for a living. Even though she battled the tough weather during the seasons of the crop she still wanted an education that included playing the organ. Have the students to draw a picture of their own strawberry girl.
	Moonstick The Seasons of the Sioux	Eve Bunting/ John Sandford	Historical	3rd Grade	3rd-5th Grade		A young Sioux boy learns to count the changing seasons from his father. Every moon is marked on a moonstick and it tells the changes in peoples lives and nature. This custom continued on and is followed by his grandson. Have the students to create their own moonstick.

Informational/Biography

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the Book/Idea for Classroom Use
	The Very Hungary Caterpillar	Eric Carle	Informational	Grade 1	PreK-1st		This about how the caterpillar is formed into a butterfly. Can use this book to demonstrate the life cyle of a butterfly.
	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin and John Archambault/Lois Ehlert	Informational	K-1st	PreK-2nd Grade		This book is about the alphabet. This could be used to get children interested in the alphabet by making an ABC Tree.
	Helen Keller	Margaret Davidson	Biography	3rd Grade	3rd-6th Grade		This is the life story of Helen Keller. It tells about the struggles she went through growing up blind. Have the students to close their eyes and try to relate to how Helen Keller felt. Have them to walk around the room and feel their way around just like Helen did.
	Pumpkin Pumpkin	Jeanne Titherington	Informational	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		Jaime plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and, after watching it grow all summer, he carves a face into it to make a jack-o-lantern. He saves some of the seeds so he can plant again next spring. Have them to do a worksheet on the sequence pattern of a pumpkin.
	Dinosaurs	Howard Zimmerman	Informational	2nd Grade	PreK-2nd Grade		It provides information about different dinosaurs. It tells you the size, speed, eating habits and appearance of different dinosaurs. Have students to paint a picture of the dinosaur they are most interested in.

Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the Book/Idea for Classroom Use
	Modern Fantasy	Judith Viorst/Ray Cruz	Realistic	2nd Grade	PreK-2nd Grade		This book is about Alexander bad day he has and how he deals with it. You could have the students draw a picture showing how they feel when they are having a bad day.
	Today I Feel Silly	Jaime Lee Curtis/Laura Cornell	Realistic	2nd Grade	K-2nd Grade		This book is about moods. This could be used for the first week to teach about feelings. Have them make a self-portrait.
	Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon	Patty Lovell/David Catrow	Realistic Fiction	2nd-3rd Grade	K-3rd Grade		This about a little girl who stood tall even though she was different. This could be used to teach the students about self-esteem.
	Billy and the Big New School	Lawrence Anholt & Catherine Anholt	Realistic Fiction	2nd Grade	PreK-2nd Grade		Billy is nervous about starting school. He finds a sparrow that helps him to overcome the frightened feeling about going to school. Read this to them the first week of school. Have them to tell you different feelings they had and write it on the board to show them they they are not alone.
no image available	Casey the Greedy Young Cowboy	Michael P. Waite/ Anthony Derosa	Realistic Fiction	2nd Grade	PreK-2nd Grade		A young boy, who wants his parents to buy him more cowboy equipment, learns to be thankful for what you have when he meets a rodeo star who has no family. Have them to tell you what things they are thankful for. Then have them to write a sentence about what they are thankful for the most.

Traditional

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the Book/Idea for Classroom Use
	The Little Engine That Could	Watty Piper, George Hauman, Doris Hauman	Traditional	3rd Grade	PreK-1st Grade		This is one of the greatest tales for motivation and positive thinking. A little train carrying oodles of toys to all of the good boys and girls is confronted with a difficult mountain. Have the students to draw a picture of the train trying to make it over the mountain. Have them to write at the top "I think I can, I think I can".
	The Three Little Pigs	Patricia Seibert	Traditional	2nd Grade	PreK-1st Grade		Each little pig is confident that there house is the strongest until the big bad wolfe shows them who's is the strongest. Have the students to make little finger puppets of the three little pigs and make a big puppet of the big bad wolfe. Then have them to act out the book.
	Little Red Riding Hood	Candice Ransom	Traditional	2nd Grade	PreK-1st Grade		Little Red Riding Hood is going to visit her grandmother when along the way she meets a wolf. When she gets to her grandmother's house she discovers that her grandmother looks a lot like the sly wolfe she met. Use this to tell them the dangers of talking to strangers.
	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Candice Ransom	Traditional	2nd Grade	PreK-1st Grade		The three bears go off into the woods for a little while only to return to a suprise. A curious blonde girl has made herself at home. She slept in their beds and ate their pourage. Have the students create the three bears out of brown construction paper and goldilocks out of yellow paper.
	Rapunzel	Catherine McCafferty	Traditional	2nd Grade	PreK-1st Grade		Rapunzel is hidden away in a tower by an evil witch. Her true love comes to rescue her. He rescues her by climbing on her long braid. Have the students to make their own long braid out of yarn.

Same Author

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Reading Level	Interest Level	Awards	Brief Description of the Book/Idea for Classroom Use
	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	Informational/ Modern Fantasy	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		This about how the caterpillar is formed into a butterfly. Can use this book to demonstrate the life cyle of a butterfly.
	The Very Lonely Firefly	Eric Carle	Informational/ Modern Fantasy	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		A firefly is in search of his friends. He sees other flickers in the sky but there not of his kind. Have the students to make a firefly out of construction paper and pipe cleaners.
	The Very Busy Spider	Eric Carle	Informational/ Modern Fantasy	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		It tells about a spider's day. The other animals in the farmyard ask her to play but is too busy spinning her web. Make a spider's web out of construction paper, glue and glitter.
	The Grouchy Ladybug	Eric Carle	Informational/ Modern Fantasy	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		It is about a grouchy ladybug who wants to fight everyone but they are not big enough for him. They really are bigger than him but he does not realize because he is in a bad mood. I would use this to teach about being kind because there will be days that you are grouchy and do not realize it.
	The Very Quiet Cricket	Eric Carle	Informational/ Modern Fantasy	1st Grade	PreK-1st Grade		A cricket is born one day and is unable to greet everyone when he rubs his wings together. As night falls he is finally able to greet another cricket and it is the most beautiful sound. Have the students to create their own cricket sound.