Electronic Reading File by Brooke McCranie

Electronic Reading File
By: Brooke McCranie

*Caldecott Medal Winners*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Folktale	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears	Verna Aardema/ Leo & Diane Dillon/ 1975	Grades 2-5	Let each student make a mask with a paper plate of one of the animals mentioned in the book.	A pesky mosquito causes a disaster in the jungle and only King Lion can sort it out.
	Traditional Fantasy	The Three Little Pigs	David Wiesner/2001	Grades K-3	Each child could use paper bags and art supplies to create their own pig puppet to help retell the story.	The three little pigs have a big, bad wolf chasing them. In order for them to get away, they begin visiting other fairy tales.
	Modern Fantasy	Kitten's First Full Moon	Kevin Henkes/2004	Grades Pre-K-2	Have each child use finger paint to create their own full moon and tell what the moon reminds them of.	The kitten in the story sees the full moon for the first time and thinks that it is a large bowl of milk.
	Modern Fantasy	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg/ 1985	Grades K-2	Give each student a plastic cup to decorate and put a piece of yarn with a bell in the middle of the cup to make a bell.	A young boy receives an unforgettable train ride to the North Pole where he receives his first Christmas gift from Santa Claus.
	Historical Fiction	Ox-Cart Man	Donald Hall/Barbara Cooney/1983	Grades K-3	Give the students a piece of paper and tell them to draw some daily routines of a farmer and make a class book.	The story tells about the daily routine of a New England farmer in the 1800s.
	Realistic Fiction	Owl Moon	Jane Yolen/John Schoenherr/1987	Grades Pre-K-2	Let the students draw a picture with markers, crayons, or colored pencils of an owl in the woods. (ELAKR6f)	A young girl and her father go hunting for owls and she is taught all about calling up an owl.
	Modern Fantasy	Where the Wild Things are	Maurice Sendak/1963	Grades K-2	Give each child a piece of paper and let them create their own wild thing with either crayons, markers, or colored pencils.	Max imagines that his room turns into a magical forest where the wild things are.

*Newbery Award Winners*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction	Caddie Woodlawn	Carol Ryrie Brink/Trina Hyman/1935	Grades 5-6	Let each student get up in the front of the class and allow them to pick a character and act out a part in the book.	The adventures of an energetic tomboy named Caddie who lives on a farm with her family.
	Historical Fiction	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry/1989	Grades 5-6	Have each student write about their favorite character in the book and tell why.	A young girl, along with her family find a way to help her Jewish friends escape from the Nazis.
	Modern Fantasy	Charlotte's Web	E.B. White/ Garth Williams/ 1952	Grades 3-4	Give each student a black sheet of construction paper and a piece of chalk. Allow them to draw their own spider web with a word in it. (ELAKR6a)	A pig named Wilber is saved from being slaughtered by his friend Charlotte the spider who creates a web above his pen.
	Modern Fantasy	The Giver	Lois Lowry/1993	Grades 5-7 +	Allow the students to write a brief essay on benefits of a town where there is no poverty or no crime.	This story tells of a town where there is no poverty and no crime. The boy, Jonas becomes the receiver of the memories of the past and is helped by the giver in the end.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Pictures of Hollis Woods	Patricia Reilly Griff/2002	Grades 3-6	Before the students read the last chapters of the book, allow them to write their own ending and share them with the class.	In this story a young girl named Hollis Woods who is a foster child is always running away when she gets put in a home.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech/1994	Grades 5-7	Before the students finish the final chapters, allow them to write what they think will happen in the end.	A little girl and her grandparents take a trip and try to find her mother who has not returned from Idaho.

*Multicultural*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	Juan Bobo Goes to Work	Marisa Montes/Joe Cepeda/2000	Grades K-4	Talk to the class and ask questions on why it's important to mind grown ups and follow the rules.	A young Puerto Rican boy named Juan Bobo goes off to find a job. His many adventures take him to work at a farm and a store.
	Modern Fantasy	Butterflies for Kiri	Cathryn Falwell/2003	Grades K-3	Give each student a coffee filter and some finger paint. Let them decorate the filter and tell them to gather it in the middle with a pipe cleaner to make a butterfly. (ELA1LSV1a)	An Asian American girl named Kiri receives an Orgami book for her birthday and can't wait to make a butterfly like her Auntie Lu.
	Modern Fantasy	Africa Brother and Sisters	Virginia Kroll/Vanessa French/1993	Grades K-3	Allow each student to draw a picture of their own family, along with their brothers and/or sisters.	A boy asks his father why he doesn't have any brothers and sisters. His father replies that he has thousands of brothers and sisters from other tribes.
	Traditional Fantasy	Elena's Serenade	Campbell Geeslin/Ana Juan/2004	Grades K-2	Give each child a flute and allow them to make their own music. Tell the children to pretend that they are glassblowers making glass figures.	A little girl named Elena wants to be a glassblower just like her father so she starts practicing on the pipe and finds that she can make both unique glass figures and music.
	Folktale	Anansi the Spider	Gerlad McDermott/1987	Grades 2-4	Give each child pieces of construction paper and allow them to cut the paper into different shapes to make their own spider.	The tale of a mischievous spider, Anansi who helps his six sons place the moon in the sky in Africa.

*Picture Books that have won awards*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	The Napping House	Audrey Wood/Don Wood/1984	Grades Pre-K - 2	Have each student draw their own napping house with different things or animals piled up on top of a bed.	While Granny is sleeping, everyone in the house decides to come in and pile on top of her in the bed until a flea bites the mouse and they all jump up.
	Modern Fantasy	Click, Clack Moo Cows that type	Doreen Cronin/Betsy Lewin/2000	Grades K-2	Give each student black and white finger paint to make their own cow on a piece of paper.	Farmer Brown's cows soon find a typewriter in the barn and start making many demands. They eventually go on strike.
	Modern Fantasy	Chrysanthemum	Kevin Henkes/1991	Grades K-2	Have each student draw a picture of themselves and write their name. They could then tell the class what would they change their name to if they could.	Chrysanthemum believes she has a beautiful name like a flower until she goes to school and the other students pick on her because of her name.
	Informational Picture Book	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle/1971	Grades Pre-K-2	Give each student a paper plate and magazine with food to tear out and put on their plate. At the end, put all the paper plates together to make a caterpillar.	This book tells of the life process of a caterpillar from an egg to a beautiful butterfly.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback/1977	Grades K-2	After reading the story, have the children sing the song that goes along with the story. (ELAKLSV1d)	A very old overcoat is used over and over again for many other garments.

*ABC/Counting/Concept Books*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	ABC	Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault/Lois Ehlert/1989	Grades Pre-K-2	Let each student draw a tree on a piece of paper and then give them some alphabet cereal to glue on their tree. (ELAKR3b)	An alphabet story that tells what happens when all the letters of the alphabet try to climb a coconut tree.
	Colors Concept Book	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?	Bill Martin Jr./Eric Carle/1970	Grades K-2	Let each child create their own page for a book with any animal of any color. (ELAKR1b)	This book helps teach different colors by telling what color animal brown bear sees.
	Counting	Chicka,Chicka 123	Bill Martin Jr. & Michael Sampson/ Lois Ehlert/2004	Grades Pre-K-2	Allow the students to create a yummy number tree with a celery stick, peanut butter, and numbers cereal.	All the numbers begin piling up the tree and are saved from a bumblebee by the number zero.

*Predictable Books*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Predictable Picture Book	There was an Old Lady who swallowed a fly	Simms Taback/1997	Grades K-4	Allow each student to paint their own type of animal to make a class story. The teacher could make the old lady page.	The old lady swallows a fly first and then goes on to swallow many other types of animals. She finally dies when she swallows a horse.
	Predictable Picture Book	Love You Forever	Robert Munsch/Shelia McGaw/1987	Grades K-3	Let each child draw a picture of themselves and a person who is special to them. (ELA3R4i)	A mother rocks her son to sleep every night, even when he gets older and tells him how much she loves him.

*Traditional Literature*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	The Ugly Duckling	Jerry Pinkney/ 1999	Grades K-2	Give each student a mirror and allow them to take turns telling some things they like about themselves.	An ugly duckling that is very unhappy because the other animals pick on him. Soon he turns into a beautiful swan.
	Traditional Fantasy	The Little Red Hen	Paul Galdone/1973	Grades Pre-K - 2	Give each child a brown paper bag, wiggly eyes, pipe cleaners, and some markers to create their own farm animal puppet to retell the story. (ElAKR6e)	A little red hen decides to make some bread, but when she asks her friends for help they will not help her so she doesn't share the bread with them.
	Traditional Fantasy	Chicken Little	Steven Kellogg/1985	Grades Pre-K - 2	After reading the story, allow the children to act out the story of Chicken Little.	Chicken Little and all his friends think that the sky is falling and that the fox may get them.
	Traditional Fantasy	Little Red Riding Hood	Candice Ransom/2001	Grades Pre-K - 2	Have students take turns saying the lines that the wolf says to the little girl in their mean wolf voice.	A little girl goes to visit her grandmother and sees that her grandmother looks very different. She soon realizes that a wolf is disguised as her grandmother.
	Traditional Fantasy	Anansi Finds A Fool	Retold by Verna Aardema/Bryna Waldman/1985	Grades K-2	Allow the students to draw a picture of Anansi fishing and give them goldfish to glue down on the paper.	In this story, lazy Anansi thinks he can fool his partner into doing all the work while fishing. Instead Anansi is fooled into his own chores by himself.

*Modern Fantasy*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	Oh, the Places You'll Go	Dr. Seuss/1990	Grades 5-6	Show the class a map and ask each student, if you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?	This book gives advice about the choices we make during life and tells that we shouldn't be afraid of trying new things.
	Modern Fantasy	Caps for Sale	Esphyr Slobodkina/1940	Grades Pre-K - 2	Give each child a piece of paper and let them create their own peddler selling anything they like with either crayons or markers.	One day while a peddler takes a nap under a tree, some mischievous little monkeys decide to steal all the peddler's caps he is selling off his head.
	Modern Fantasy	King Bidgood's in the Bathtub	Audrey Wood/ Don Wood/ 1985	Grades K-2	Allow each student to draw a crown and decorate it with sticker rhinstones or any way they want.	Although the King's court tries to get him out of the bathtub, he refuses and instead invites them in for a bath.
	Modern Fantasy	If I Ran the Zoo	Dr. Seuss/ 1950	Grades K-4	Allow each student to make a mask of their favorite animal in the zoo with a paper plate and cotton balls to help retell the story.	A boy who searches in weird places to find strange animals.

*Realistic Fiction*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Amazing Grace	Mary Hoffman/Caroline Binch/1991	Grades K-4	Ask each student to pick a goal that they would like to reach and allow them to practice each day for five minutes until they reached that goal.	A classmate tells Grace that she can not be Peter Pan in the school play because she is black. However, Grace knows that she can do anything when she sets her mind to it.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	No, David	David Shannon/ 1998	Grades K-2	Have each student draw a picture of themselves and let them share with the class what they did in the picture to get in trouble. (ELAKW1b)	A boy named David is constantly getting into trouble by his mother as she tells him "No, David."
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Because of Winn Dixie	Kate DiCamillo/	Grades 5-7+	The students could act out a scene in the book using reader's theatre.	A little girl named India Opal tells about all the good things that happen to her because of her dog Winn Dixie.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Freckle Juice	Judy Blume/ Sonia O. Lisker/1971	Grades 3-6	Give the students paper and art supplies so they can draw their self portraits and add something to their face that they have always wanted.	A little boy named Andrew wants freckles so bad. He finally decides to buy freckle juice to get them.

*Historical Fiction*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction	Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls/1961	Grades 5-6 & 7+	Have each student write a short essay on a time in their life when they wanted something really bad. (ELA1W1b)	A young boy named Billy who lives in the Ozarks longs for his own coon hounds and soon earns enough money to buy two redbone hounds.
	Historical Fiction	Old Yeller	Fred Gipson/Carl Burger/1956	Grades 5-7+	Allow the students to get into groups and take turns acting out their favorite part of the book using reader's theatre.	A boy's faithful dog named Old Yeller is bitten by a rapid wolf one day as he protects his loved ones and has to be shot by the boy's father.
	Historical Fiction	Pink and Say	Patricia Polacco/1994	Grades 3-6	Have the students draw or write a paper about their very best friend and a tragedy they may have overcome together.	A black civil war solider finds and helps a white civil war solider who is wounded. The two friends go through many emotional times together.

*Poetry Anthologies*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein/ Silverstein/1964	Grades K-4	Have each student draw their own tree with them standing beside it and let them tell or write three things that they would use the tree for.	A young boy finds that a tree which gives him anything becomes his companion as he grows older and asks for nothing in return.
	Poetry	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein/1974	Grades K-7+	Give each student a piece of paper and tell them to create their own silly poem.	This book is a collection of extremely humourous and silly poems.

*Informative/Biography/Autobiography*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational	Mouse Paint	Ellen Stoll Walsh/1989	Grades Pre-K - K	Give each student the colors red, blue, and yellow. Allow them to mix the colors to see what color they can make.	In this story, three white mice find red, blue and yellow paint and decicde to cover themselves and find that by mixing the colors they can make a new color.
	Biography/ Informational	So You Want to be President?	Judith St. George/David Small/2000	Grades 3-5	Allow each student to write down three things they would change if they were President.	This book tells about all the different Presidents and the good and bad things they do sometimes.

*Author Study*

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	A Chair for my Mother	Vera B. Williams/ 1982	Grades K-2	Give each student a piece of paper and let them draw their own gift for someone special.	A little girl, along with her mother and grandmother save money to buy a new chair since their furniture burnt up in a fire.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Music, Music for Everyone	Vera B. Williams/1984	Grades K-4	Give each child a variety of art supplies to make their own musical instruments.	A little girl named Rosa and her friends decide to create a band so they can earn money to pay for her sick grandmother's expenses.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe	Vera B. Williams/1981	Grades K-2	Allow each child to draw and color a picture showing a special place that they have travelled to.	A mother and her two children, along with their aunt rosie decide to go out and make a three-day camping trip in a red canoe.

ELAKR6f-The student f. Uses prior knowledge, graphic features (illustrations), and graphic organizers to understand text.

ELAKR6a - The student a. Listens to and reads a variety of literary (e.g.,short stories, poems) and informational texts and materials to gain knowledge and for pleasure.
ELA1LSV1a - The student a. Follows three-part oral directions.
ELAKLSV1d - The student d. Recites short poems, ryhmes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns.
ELAKR3b - The student b. recognizes and names all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
ELAKR1b - The student demonstrates knowledge of concepts of print. The student b. Demonstrates that print has meaning and represents spoken language in written form.
ELA3R4i - The student i. Makes connections between texts and/or personal experience.
ELAKR6e - The student e. Retells familiar events and stories to include beginning, middle, and end.
ELAKW1b - The student b. Uses drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to create meaning.
ELA1W1b - The student b. Describes an experience in writing.