My Electronic Reading File

GPS
ELA2W1f Begins to write a response to literature that demonstrates understanding of the text and expresses and supports an opinion.
ELA4W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
M1M2c Compare and/or order the sequence or duration of events (e.g., shorter/longer
and before/after).
S1L1a Identify the basic needs of a plant. 1. Air, 2. Water, 3. Light, 4. Nutrients
ELA4R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational
texts.
SKL2 Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of organisms.
ELA3R3e. Recognizes plot, setting, and character within text, and compares and contrasts
these elements between texts.
MKN2 Students will use representations to model addition and subtraction.

QCC
Fine Arts Grade 1: 4 Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing

Standard: Participates in group singing of rote songs.

Fine Arts Grade 1 Visual Arts: 2 Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing

Standard: Creates artworks (e.g., drawings, paintings, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media art ) emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture) and the principle of repetition (pattern).

Fine Arts Grade 4 Theatre Arts: 5 Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing

Standard: Identifies and applies observation as the basis for creating a role.

Bright from the Start
CD 1 Children will explore and use a variety of materials to develop
artistic expression

Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
Informational/ Caldecott	So You Want to Be President?	Judith St. George/David Small/2000	2nd-5th	"A "So You Want to be President" Quiz Show. Divide class into five groups and each group writes 10 questions and answers based on a fifth of the book. Each question and answer is written on a card, decorated with stars and stripes. Place quiz questions in an Uncle Sam top hat. Then divide class into two groups and take turns asking each team (Stars and Stripes) a question pulled from the hat. If team knows the answer it gets a point." This idea came from the following url: http://www.personal.psu.edu/ users/m/m/mmb216/waw1.htm	Funny facts about different presidents
Picture Book/ Caldecott	Color Zoo	Lois Ehlert/1989	Pre-K- K	Give the students pre-cut shapes and have them create their own animals out of the shapes.	It is a book of shapes. It teaches how to use the shapes to make animals.
Traditional Literature/ Caldecott 1968	Drummer Huff	Barbara Emberley/Ed Emberley/1967	1st-2nd	Do marching songs with the class. For example The Bonnie Blue Flag with the Stripes and Stars. (Fine Arts Grade 1: 4)	This book tells the story of seven soldiers that build a cannon, and Drummer Hoff fires it.
Caldecott 1947	The Little Island	Golden MacDonald/ Leonard Weisgard/ 1946	1st-3rd	Give the students a blank white paper and have them color what they imagine is under the sea. Then have students paint a light layer over their picture with blue watercolor paint, so that it looks like an ocean. (Fine Arts Grade 1 Visual Arts: 2)	The book talks about how the seasons change the island and how the storm effects the island. A kitty learns a secret from the island The secret was that all the land is one land under the sea.
Caldecott 1957	A Tree Is Nice	Janice May Udry/Marc Simont/1956	K-3rd	Have the class plant a tree and take care of it. (S1L1a)	The book lists several ways that trees can help people.
Modern Fiction/ Caldecott 1964	Where The Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak/1963	K-2nd	Have the students create their own wild thing masks.	Max dreams that he goes to this other world where there are monsters.
Traditional Literature/ Caldecott 1976	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears	Verna Aardema/Leo and Diane Dillon/1975	1st-3rd	Student will make a collage of African animals.	A mosquito annoyed an iguana. Iguana put sticks in his ears so he would not have to listen to the mosquito. This frightened the snake, which went into hiding in the rabbit’s hole. The rabbit ran out of her hole and that scared the crow. The crow sounds an alarm, which scared the monkey. The monkey inadvertently killed an owlet, which caused the mother owl to mourn and neglect her duties of waking the sun. When the animals finally figured out the tragedy, they blamed the mosquito and were angry with him. That is why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: they are asking if everyone is still angry with them.
Traditional Literature/ Caldecott 1998	Rapunzel	Paul O. Zelinsky/1997	1st-3rd	Have the students do an open-mind portrait of one of the characters. (ELA2W1f)	A young couple was having their first child; the young woman wanted some Rapunzel to eat out of a witch’s garden. The young man got some Rapunzel but had to promise the witch his unborn child. When the child was 12 years old, the witch put her in a tower with no stairs in it. A prince came along and got the girl out of the tower and they lived happy ever after.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy/ Newbery	Holes	Louis Sachar/ 1998	4th - 5th	Have the students bring in artifacts that would be in a museum about this book. (ELA4R1)	A family is cursed with bad luck and the youngest son has to dig holes in a youth detention camp to find a treasure for the warden.
	Historical /Newbery	Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison	Lois Lenski/ 1941	4th - 5th	Have the students do a double entry journal. The two columns should be headed as What I Read and What I thought about... (ELA4W2)	This is about the life of Mary Jemison. She was taken by Indians at a young age and was raised by them.
	Realistic Fiction/ Newbery	Sounder	William H. Armstrong/ James Barkley/1969	3rd-6th	Have the students make a shadow box that represents something that happen in the book.	A boy has to take care of his family after his father is put in jail.
	Historical Fiction/ Newbery 1941	Call It Courage	Armstrong Sperry/ 1940	3rd-5th	Have the students work in groups to draw a map of The South Pacific Islands. Have the students do research on the Internet and maps before drawing the map.	Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy, overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
	Realistic Fiction/ Newbery 1987	Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman/ Peter Sis/ 1986	4-5	Reader's Theater The play for this book is at the following website http://www.teachers.net/ lessons/posts/3145.html	Jemmy has to take the whippings that Prince Horace deserves for being bad. Jemmy and Prince Horace runs away from the castle. The King thinks that Jemmy kidnapped Prince Horace and is being charge with the crime. But in the end everything works out okay.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Coretta Scott King Award 2002	Goin' Someplace Special	Patricia C. Mckissack/Jerry Pinkney/2001	3rd-5th	Have the students get in to groups and have them produce a Oprah Whinfery Show to do in front of the class. (Fine Arts Grade 4 Theatre Arts: 5)	In the 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl has to overcome humiliations and obstacles to get to one of the few places in town that was not segregated: the public library.
	GA Children's Picture Storybook Award 1994-95	Hurricane City	Sarah Weeks/James Warhola/1993	K-5th	Have the student develop survival kit that someone might need if they were caught in a hurricane.	A family describes in humorous rhyme the impact of hurricanes on their city.
	Coretta Scott King 2005	Ellington Was Not A Street	Ntozake Shange/Kadir Nelson/1983	K-5	For the older children: After researching a famous African American person, have them do a 60 min interview	The book is about famous African American men that changed the world.
	Pura Belpre Award 2002	Esperanza Rising	Pam Munoz Ryan/2000	4-5	Bring something a migrant worker might pick.	At first Esperanza was a pampered girl, then her father was killed and the rest of her family was forced to move to California. They became migrant workers. Esperanza learns to overcome her surroundings.
		Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Russell Freedman	4-5	Have the student do a timeline that includes important facts about Franklin Delano Roosevelt life.	This Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins in his childhood and ends at his death. It talks little about what happened after his death concerning the World War II.

Picture of Book	Genere	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Concept	If you Hopped Like A Frog	David M. Schwartz/James Warhola	2-5	Have the students research a few animals and make their own book.	It compares what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals.
	Counting	Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book	Paul Giganti, Jr/Donald Crews/1992	K-3	Give the students slices of oranges. Have them work in groups to solve simple addition or counting problems. (MKN2)	It is an illustrated counting and simple addition book.
	ABC	Alphabatics	Suse MacDonald/ 1992	Pre-K-K	The students can make the letter with their bodies.	The book takes a letter and turns it into what it represents.

Picture of Book	Genere	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Predictable Books	Mmm, Cookies!	Robert Munsch/ Michael Martchenk/ 2000	K-2	Have the students make their own playdough cookies.	A little boy makes a playdough cookie and gives it to his parents to eat
	Predictable Books	No Jumping On The Bed!	Tedd Arnold/ 1987	1st - 2nd	Put several objects from the book into a feeling bag so that student can come up and put their hands into and try to guess what it is they are taking out of the bag.	A little boy dreams about falling through the floor when he jumps on his bed

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Picture of Book	Genere	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	The True Story of the Three Little Pigs	Jon Sciezka/ Lane Smith/ 1989	K - 2	Have the students act out the book while using inventive props.	It is told from the view of the wolf.
	Modern Fantasy	Miss Nelson is Missing!	Harry Allard/James Marshall/1977	K-2	Make a missing poster for Miss Nelson.	The misbehaving children miss their teacher when she goes missing because she is replaced by an evil substitute.
	Science Fiction	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	Hudson Talbott/1987	K-2	Have the students bring in object that they would want to put in a time capsule to send back in time to the dinosaurs.	Dinosaurs time travel to the 21st century and cause havoc in downtown New York.
	Modern Fantasy	Sideways Stories From Wayside School	Louis Sachar/Adam McCauley/1978	3-5th	Have students write a stange story that could happen at Wayside School. (ELA2W1f )	This book has thrity stories about stange kids in a sideways built school.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Japanese/ Caldecott 1994	Grandfather's Journey	Allen Say/ 1993	2nd-4th	Have the students make a traveling brochure about Japan.	A Japanese American Man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
	Multicultural	It's Back to School We Go! First Day Stories From Around the World	Ellen Jackson/ Jan Davey Ellis/2003	2nd-3rd	Write to a pen pal and tell their first day of school story.	This book has stories from children from the following countries: Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Peru, Germany, India, Russia, and US.
	Hawaiian, Multicultural	Luka's Quilt	Georgia Guback/1994	K-2	Have the student make quilt out of either felt that can be glue together or paper.	Luka's grandmother makes her a traditional Hawaiian quilt, but at first Luka did not like it, but in the end Luka liked it alot.
	Italian/ Multicultural	Maya's World	Maya Angelou/Lizzy Rockwell/2004	K-2nd	Give the student variety choices of materials from blocks, construction paper and toilet paper rolls, knex, to toothpicks. Have them make their own Leaning Tower of Pisa.	Maya thought that the Leaning Tower of Piza, was made out of Pizza. She was afraid that it was going to fall down.
	Autism/ Multicultural	Taking Autism to School	Andreanna Edwards/Tom Dineen/2001	1-2	Have the students write their daily schedule. (M1M2c)	This book helps students understand why an austistic child acts the way he/she does and some tips on how to make a student with autism feel more comfortable in the classroom.