Electronic Reading File by Jessica Schmidt

Electronic Reading File
By Jessica Schmidt Caldecott Medal Winners


Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	Once A mouse	Marcia Brown 1961	K-2	A good science lesson would go along great with this book because you can let the students know how things change over time.	The mouse changes to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet and also becomes apart of the East Indian life.
	Modern Fantasy	The Little Island	Golden MacDonald 1946	4-8	The little Island can also be a science lesson. You can read the book and explain to the students that the islands out in the ocean change and explain to them what makes them change.	The little island changes as the seasons come and go. The storm and the day and night change it. So do the lobsters and seals and gulls that stop by. Then one day a kitten visits the little island and learns a secret.
	Traditional Fantasy	Ox-Cart Man	Donald Hall 1979	1st-3rd	Allow the students to pick out their favorite part in the book and draw that part.	A New England farmer talks about his day-to-day activities with the changing seasons.
	Traditional Fantasy	One Fine Day	Nonny Horgrogian 1972	Pre K-2	Have the students draw a picture of when they wee punished for doing something wrong.	A tale of a fox that is punished by getting his tail cut off for drinking all of the milk in an old women's pail.
	Modern Fantasy	The Big Snow	Berta and Elmer Hader 1948	Pre K- 2	Have the students to draw a picture of a winter day and allow them to glue cotton for the snow.	The woodland animals were all getting ready for the winter. After the winter was over they slowly emerge to find food.
	Modern Fantasy	Madeline's Rescue	Ludwig Bemelmans 1953	K-2	Have students draw a picture of them helping someone.	When Madeline is rescued from the river by a dog, the dog becomes a hero. The girls love the dog, but the trustees say it must go.
	Modern Fantasy	Owl Moon	Jane Yolen 1988	4-8	This is a good science lessons to teach about owls.	The story is about a little girl and her father going owling one winter night. They are searching for an owl, but they have to be silent going into the dark and scary woods.
	Biography	The Man Who Walked Between The Towers	Gerstein 2003	3-4	Have the students draw a picture of where they were when the towers fell.	A true story about a man who walked on a high wire between the World Trade Center Towers.
	Modern Fantasy	The Polar Express	Van Allsburg 1985	Pre K-2	Allow the students to paint a picture of what they think the North Pole is like.	A little boy takes an adventure to the North pole and he received his first gift from Santa Clause.
	Modern Fantasy	Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine	Evaline Ness 1966	3-4	This short story would be good to teach the students between what is real and what's not.	Samantha is a fisherman's daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams. She learns the difference between make believe and real life.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	**Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli	6th	This would be a great book to read for an English class and allow the students to get into groups and talk about it.	After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary.
	Realistic Fiction	**Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech	6th- 8th	Allow the students to make up a poem to go along with the book	A thirteen year old girl take a trip with her grandparents to find some missing answers about her mother.

ABC BOOK

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	Thomas's ABC Book	Kenny McArthur; David Mitton; Terry Permane; W Awdry 1990	K-2	This book would be a good way to teach young students their ABC's.	The ABC's are introduced with every page that has a special character.
	Informational	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr.; John Archambault 1989	K-2	Make a large coconut tree and allow the students to glue the letters on the tree as you discuss them.	All of the letters want to climb to the top of the coconut tree but the tree can not hold the letters.

Counting Book

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	Pigs from 1 to 10	Arthur Geisert 1992	Pre K-2	This book is a good way to teach students how to count and to recognize their numbers.	Ten pigs go on an adventure and the reader has to find the numbers from zero to ten.

Picture Books

Picture of Book

Genre

Title

Author/
Illustrator/
Copyright

Recommended Age/Grade
Level

Ideas for Classroom Use

Brief Description of the Book

Poetry

Rub-a-Dub Sub

Linda Ashman
2003

Pre-K

This book is a good and fun way to show students that when they are in the tub they too can make it fun. Also it can be good for when the starts.

A young boy meets many animals as he travels underwater in his submarine which is his bathtub.

Modern fantasy

A Mouse Told His Mother

Bethany Roberts

1997

Pre K- 2

This book would be great right before nap time. It would also be good for parents to read to their children at night.

The little mouse makes his bedtime an adventure as he takes fantasy trips.

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Modern Fantasy

The Rainbow Fish

Pfister
1992

K-2

Allow the students draw their own fish and let them glue sparkles on the fish that they drew.

Rainbow Fish is very beautiful and he has very little friends until one day he gave all the fish a scale and he was left with only one scale.

Traditional Fantasy/Author Study-Jan Brett

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	The Mitten	Jan Brett 1989	Pre K- 2	This book can show students just what could happen to lost things. This story will teach students that they need to keep up with their things.	The boy wants mittens and the grandmother does not want to make him any because she thinks he will lose them. Well he did and many different animals climbed into the mitten trying to keep warm in the winter.
	Traditional Fantasy	Gingerbread Baby	Jan Brett 1999	Pre K- 2	This story is good to read during Christmas. You could bring in some already made gingerbread babies/boys and allows the children to decorate them.	The Gingerbread cookie is taken out of the oven too soon and escapes as a baby instead of a boy. The cookie leads the characters on a chase and Matti, the boy who created him, was at home making a gingerbread house.
	Traditional Fantasy	Daisy Comes Home	Jan Brett 2002	Pre K-2	Have students make a collage of things they like and dislike. Let the students explain what they like and dislike.	Mei Mei has the six happiest hens in China. She gives them fresh hay and baths, and when she calls to them, Gu-gu-gu-gu! they all run to her as fast as they could.
	Traditional Fantasy	Town Mouse Coutry Mouse	Jan Brett 1994	K-2;3-4	The students will paint a picture of the mouse and his country home.	After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.
	Traditional Fantasy	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Jan Brett 1987	K-2;3-4	Have the students act out the the three little bears.	Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep.

Predictable Book

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Preditable / Informational	Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?	Martin/Carle 1967	K-2	With the use of paper plates, construction paper, glue and scissors the students can make their own bear.	Different animals that see different other animals of different colors.

Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction/ Newberry Award	**Pictures of Hollis Woods	Patricia Reilly Giff/ 2002	5-6	Have the students draw a specific sense from the story.	A twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
	Realistic Fiction	Song and Danceman	Karen Ackerman	Pre K- 2	The Song and Danceman can go along with a music lesson. Have children sing and dance around.	Grandfathers recreates the magic of vaudeville for his grandchildren.
	Realistic Fiction	Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now	Dr. Seuss	Pre K-2	Allow the students to discuss how it makes them feel when they don't want to leave somewhere.	Marvin does not want to go and they try to send him every way possible until he finally leaves.
	Realistic Fiction	Time For Bed	Copper Beech 1996	Pre K -2	Students will make a little sheep out of cotton balls.	After Benny Bear's tired woodland friends fall asleep at his birthday party, the reader can tuck them into bed.
	Realistic Fiction	Freckle Juice	Judy Blume; Sonia Lisker 1971	3-6	Allow the students to write down things that they wish they had.	Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

Poetry Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	The Spider and the Fly	Mary Botham Howitt	2-4	Allow the students to tell what they want to be for Halloween and then read this book.	About a spider tries to get the fly into her web.
	Poetry	The Night before Summer Vacation	Natasha Wing	Pre K -3	This book would be great to read right before summer break. Allow the students to draw a trip that they went on or will be going on.	This book is about a family who is doing things at the last minute upon leaving.

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	The Hat	Jan Brett 1997	Pre K -2	Allow the students to pick their favorite animal in the story and let them make a story up about that animal.	Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, along with other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.
	Modern Fantasy	Who's that knocking on Christmas Eve?	Jan Brett 2002	Pre K- 2	Tell this story before Christmas Break. Allow the students to make a list of foods they have at Christmas.	A boy from Finnmark and his ice bear help scare away some hungry trolls so that Kyri and her father can enjoy their Christmas Eve meal.
	Modern Fantasy	Corduroy	Freeman 1968	K-2	The students will draw a picture of their best friend and frame the picture.	The little bear lives in a department store but a little girl comes in wanting him but was unable to get him that day but eventually the bear went home with her.
	Modern Fantasy	Where the Wild Things Are	Sendark, Maurice	3	Have the children think of a dream they have had and allow them to draw it out.	A boy named Max, who is sent to bed without supper. He dreams that he is in the land of the wild things, and is king. Max starts to miss home, so he sails back finding his dinner awaiting him.
	Modern Fantasy	The Grouchy Ladybug	Eric Carle 1971	Pre K- 2	Let the students make a clock out of construction paper.	A ladybug who is looking for a fight, challenges everyone she meets through the day from six in the morning to six at night.

Informational Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational	The very hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle 1984	Pre K-3	This would be a great book to read right before lunch when you have just a few minutes to spare.	The book is about a caterpillars journey from it's egg hatching through becoming a beautiful butterfly and this is one hungry caterpillar.
	Informational	Welcome to the Sea of Sand	Jane Yolen 1996	Pre K-3	Students will draw the different types of weather (raining,sunny, cloudy ect.)	The wildlife, weather, and natural wonders of the Sonora Desert.
	Informational	Today is Monday	Eric Carle 1993	Pre K-2	Students will learn the days of the week by reading this book and drawing a different type of food for each day of the week.	Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can "come and eat it up."

Biographies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Biograhpics	**World at her fingertips	Joan Dash 2001	5-6	Allow the students to paint a portiort of someone they admire.	An accomplished woman and her childhood relationship with Annie Sullivan and John Macy, and the ideas which inspired her life.
	Biographics	**Rosa Parks	Mary Hull 1994	3-5	Allow the students to make a collage of things that have happened to them that upset them.	A biography of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, led to a bus boycott that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.

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	**The Awakening	Katie Chopin 1996	6-8	Have students write an essay of how thier life has changed.	Edna experiences the first pangs of passion and desire. An awakening so intense that Edna compromises herself changing her life forever.
	Historical Fiction	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens 1990	5-7	Have students come up with a way to help Scrooge and another ending to the story.	Ebenezer Scrooge, a selfish man who is visited by several ghosts on Christmas Eve and is warned to change his ways.
	Historical Fiction	A Time of Angels	Karen Hesse 1995	5-7	Have students write about how they felt when they were sick and how they did not want to do anything.	Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.
	Historical Fiction	Yankee Doodle	Steven Kellogg 1996	K-2	Group students together and let them explain to one another how they feel about war.	One colonial boy took witness to the day Captain George Washington took control of the rebel troops during the American Revolution.
	Historical Fiction	The Thanksgiving Story	Alice Dalgliesh 1954	K-2;3-4	Have students discuss what it is like at their house at Thanksgiving.	A Pilgrim family's struggle to survive in their harsh new homeland in a thanksgiving feast.

Multicultural Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Multicultural	The Jolly Christmas Postman	Allan & Janet Ahlerg 1991	Pre-S;K -2	Have the students write a postcard to a friend for Christmas.	A jolly postman delivers Christmas cards to several famous fairy tale characters, such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Each card may be removed from its envelope page and read separately.
	Multicultural	Funnybones	Allan & Janet Ahlberg 1980	Pre-S; K -2	Have students make a skeleton out of straws,	Three skeletons--a grownup, a child, and a dog--take a walk at night through a dark town.
	Multicultural	Thumbelina	Andersen Hans Christian 1979	3-4;5-6	Students will make a puppet that looks like little Thumbelina.	A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale about a girl who is only one inch tall.
	Multicultural	No jumping On the Bed	Ted Arnold 1987	K-2	Draw a picture of something you have done and have been trouble for.	Walter lives near the top floor of a tall apartment building, where one night his habit of jumping on his bed leads to a tumultuous fall through floor after floor, collecting occupants all the way down.
	Multicultural	Berlioz the Bear	Jan Brett 1991	K-2	Have the students act out a play with musical instruments.	Berlioz the bear and his fellow musicians are due to play for the town ball when the mule pulling their bandwagon refuses to move.