Electronic Reading File--By Jessica Benson

ELA4W1. The student produces writing that establishes an approprate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a choherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
       a. Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.
       b. Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.
ELA3LSV1. The student uses oral and visual strategies to communicate.
       c. Uses oral language for different purposes: to inform, persuade, or entertain.
ELA2R4. The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text.
ELA4R4. The student reads aloud, accurately (in the range of 95%), familiar material in a variety of genres of the quality and complexity illustrated in the sample reading list, in a way that makes meaning clear to listeners.
ELA5LSV1. The student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions.
ELAKR3. The student demonstrates the relationship between letters and letter combinations of written words and the sounds of spoken words.
       b. Recognizes and names all uppercase and lowercase letter of the alphabet.
MKG1. Students will correctly name simple two and three-dimensional figures, and recognize them in the environment.
       a. Recognize and name the following basic two-dimensional shapes: triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles.

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Awards	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Tuesday	David Wiesner	Modern Fantasy	Caldecott Medal, ALA Notable Children's Book, Library of Congress Best Books for Children, Young Hoosier Picture Award	Ages 5-8/ Grades K-3	Make paper bag puppets of any animal and have the children pretend they are flying around town at midnight. Have them tell you what they see.	This is an almost wordless picture book that shows a bunch of frogs flying around town on their lily pads on a Tuesday night.
	Grandfather's Journey	Allen Say	Biography	Caldecott Medal, Bulletin Blue Ribbon, ALA Notable Book, Booklist Editor's Choice, Boston Globe/Horn Book Award	Ages 5-8/ Grades K-3	Use watercolors to paint a picture of a place the children would like to visit.	A Japanese American man tells the story of how his grandfather first came to the United States and how he finally went back home to Japan. He follows in his granfather's footsteps and also makes a journey to America, but he finds himself being torn for the love of two countries.
	The Little Island	Golden MacDonald/ Leonard Weisgard	Modern Fantasy	Caldecott Medal	Ages 4-7/ Grades PreK-2	Review the seasons and have the students draw how the island looks during each season.	The story tells of how the seasons change on this little island. It also discusses how the plants and animals change with different seasons.
	Ox-Cart Man	Donald Hall/ Barbara Cooney	Realistic Fiction	Caldecott Medal	Ages 5-8/ Grades K-3	Create a skit depicting the life of the Ox-Cart Man and his family.	This story describes a man and his family and how they spend the year preparing things to trade at the store. The man brings all of the items they make in his ox-cart and sells everything including the ox and the cart! He buys new things to help his family make more items for the next trip.
	Smoky Night	Eve Bunting/ David Diaz	Realistic Fiction	Caldecott Medal	Ages 5-8/ Grades K-3	Create a collage by tearing different colors of construction paper and glue it back together to create a scene from the book.	This is about a mother and child who live in a bad neighborhood. They see stealing and cheating around them. At night their apartment catches fire and they escape. They make friends with a lady who they didn't know or like before because their cats made friends.
	Song and Dance Man	Karen Ackerman/ Stephen Gammell	Realistic Fiction	Caldecott Medal	Ages 5-7/ Grades K-2	Spread out in the room and ask the children to try a tap dance of their own, or ask the kids to perform a talent that they have.	Three children visit their grandfather who was a song and dance man on the vaudeville stage. He dazzles children with a show he puts on just for them in the attic.
	Owl Moon	Jane Yolen/ John Schoenherr	Realistic Fiction	Caldecott Medal	Ages 4-8/ Grades PreK-3	Have the children think of their favorite night creature and tell them to draw a picture of it. Create a class book of all of the pictures	A father takes his daughter out on a winter night to find the Great Horned Owl. The moon is full, so they hope they find one. When the daughter has children of her own the father,who is now the grandfather, takes his grandchildren out like he did his own daughter to see the owl.
	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback	Traditional Literature	Caldecott Medal, National Jewish Book Award	Ages 4-8/ Grades PreK-3	Sing "I Had a Little Overcoat" and tell the students to bring pieces of clothing that Joseph made in the book.	Joseph has a very old and worn-out overcoat. He turned his coat into other articles of clothing and when that one gets old, he cuts it and turns it into something else until all he has is a button.

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Awards	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Holes *Chapter Book	Louis Sachar	Fantasy	Newbery Medal, Young People's Literature National Book Award, Christopher Award for Children's Books, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award	Ages 9-12/ Grades 4-7	Have the students keep a journal to write their feelings and predictions of the book after each chapter. (ELA4W1)	A boy named Stanley Yelnats is wrongly convicted of stealing and he thinks it is because of a curse that has been set on his family since his great-great grandfather. He is sent to a camp to dig holes all day where he later finds out the real purpose of his digging.
	A Wrinkle in Time *Chapter Book	Madeleine L'Engle	Fantasy/ Science Fiction	Newbery Medal	Ages 9-12/ Grades 4-7	Discuss the forces of good and evil and make a class chart that is divided into love and hate. Write down students' responses about the characteristics of each one. (ELA5LSV1)	This is a story about a girl named Meg Murry, who, with the help of her brother and another boy from school, is trying to rescue her father who is being held captive on another planet in outerspace. They meet three witches along the way who help her travel through a "wrinkle" in space to defeat the evil IT and rescue her father.
	Bridge to Terabithia *Chapter Book	Katherine Paterson	Realistic Fiction	Newbery Medal	Ages 9-12/ Grades 4-7	Ask the students to create their own fantasyland or use one that they created as a child. Make up a name for their fantasyland and write a description of it and the things they would do there. (ELA4W1)	This is a story about the friendship between a boy named Jess and a girl named Leslie. At first, Jess did not like Leslie because she was faster than him at running. Later they become friends and they created their own fantasyland in the woods called Terabithia. Here they play and tell stories to each other. One day Leslie goes to Terabitha by herself and an accident occurs, leading to her death.
	The Cat Who Went to Heaven *Chapter Book	Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth/ Lynd Ward	Multicultural	Newbery Medal	Ages 9-12/ Grades 4-7	Choose an animal the author did not mention and create a story that could be added to the book. (ELA4W1b)	This is a story about an artist who has been asked to paint a picture of Buddha. Each day the artist's cat, Good Fortune, sits by her while she paints other animals, but this time she was going to include Good Fortune in her painting of Buddha even though she thinks the painting will be rejected because of it. When Good Fortune sees the picture of herself in the painting, she dies and goes to heaven.
	Sarah Plain and Tall *Chapter Book	Patricia MacLachlan	Historical Fiction	Newbery Medal, Christopher Award, Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Children, Golden Kite Award for Fiction, Notable Children's Book of 1985	Ages 9-12/ Grades 4-7	Have the students visit a farm. Tell them to make an ad for the paper if they were looking for somebody to come and live with them. (ELA4W1a)	This story is about a father who is looking for a lady to come and live with him and his children after his wife died. Sarah decides to go and they learn to love her.

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Awards	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	On Market Street	Arnold Lobel/ Anita Lobel	ABC Book	Caldecott Honor, Boston Globe/Horn Book Illustration Honor Award	Ages 4-7/ Grades PreK-2	Make a class ABC book by assigning each student a different letter of the alphabet and have them draw a picture of something they could get from the market that starts with that letter. (ELAKR3b)	A boy goes down market street and buys different things that start with each letter of the alphabet.
	Always Room for One More	Sorche Nic Leodhas/ Nonny Hogrogian	Traditional Literature	Caldecott Medal	Ages 5-8/ Grades K-3	Teach the children the song "Always Room for One More" and have them sing it.	The house is too small for the family. Yet, they are continually interrupted by uninvited strangers passing through their town with problems of thier own, knocking at their door. Although there is no physical room in the house, the family somehow makes room for the visitors. When the house falls apart from being too small, the guests build a bigger house for them.
	Olivia	Ian Falconer	Modern Fantasy	Caldecott Honor, Book Sense Book of the Year	Ages 3-7/ Grades PreK-2	Have the kids paint a picture of an activity they like to do after school or on the weekend.	Olivia is a a pig with a ton of energy who can't seem to sit still. She is busy doing various activities throughout the day, and when asked to go to bed, she insists on reading a pile of books!
	The Dandelion Seed	Joseph Anthony/ Cris Arbo	Modern Fantasy	Benjamin Franklin Award	Ages 5-10/ Grades K-5	Obtain yellow dandelions, and allow the children to use them as paintbrushes to paint pictures of dandelions.	A dandelion seed is blown across the land and sees different parts of the world before landing and becoming a dandelion itself.
	Kitten's First Full Moon	Kevin Henkes	Modern Fantasy	Caldecott Medal, NY Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2004, Washington Post's Best Books for Young Readers	Ages 4-6/ Grades Pre-K-1	Use round sponges or other materials cut into circles to paint a picture of a moon or anything that is shaped like a circle. (MKG1a)	Kitten tries desperately to get a lick of milk from the bowl in sky (the moon). With no luck, she returns home with a bowl of milk waiting for her.

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Awards	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Alphabet Under Construction	Denise Fleming	ABC	American Library Association Notable Children's Books Booklist Editors' Choice	Ages 5-7/ Grades K-2	Provide a wide range of materials that start with different letters of the alphabet for the students to make a letter using the material that corresponds with that letter.	A mouse uses various tools and construction materials to perform task that starts with each letter of the alphabet.
	Count!	Denise Fleming	Counting	Parenting Magazine, Best Children’s Award Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year	Ages 5-8/ Grades K-3	Have the children make their own counting book by drawing a different animal for each number.	Different animals are used to count from one to ten as well as 20, 30, 40, and 50.
	Blue Hat, Green Hat	Sandra Boynton	Concept	N/A	Ages 4 and under/ Grades Pre-K	Bring in different articles of clothing and let the children tell you what color it is and then show you how to wear it correctly.	This book uses different articles of clothing to teach colors and show children how not to wear them.

Picture of Book	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Genre	Awards	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?	Bill Martin Jr./ Eric Carle	Predictable	N/A	Ages 4 and under/ Grades Pre-K	Have the student choose one of the animals in the book and make a mask out of paper plates.	This book asks questions about what different animals see. It helps students learn their colors and animals.
	The Napping House	Audrey Wood/ Don Wood	Predictable	N/A	Age 5/ Grades K	Make velcro cut-outs of each character and give them out to the students to stick onto a felt board as you read the story.	Granny is snoring on her bed, and then a boy and a dog and a cat and a mouse are all sleeping on top of her until a flea bites the mouse and chaos emerges.