My Electronic Reading File

Picture of Book	Genre/Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Use in The Classroom	Description of Book
	Modern Fantasy/ Caldecott Winner	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak/	Grades K-2	Have the students create masks of their own and act out the book in the classroom If time permits the classroom can be decorated to look like a forest.	A little boy named Max is wearing his wolf suit and his mother called him a wild thing because he is causing mischief. Later that night his room becomes a forest.
	Modern Fantasy/ Caldecott winner	Tuesday	David Wiesner	Grades K-2	Use play-dough and let the students make figures from the book. Use the figures to create the pictures in the book.	Frogs float around on their lily pads one Tuesday night and peek in windows.
	Realistic Fiction/ Caldecott Winner	Grandfather’s Journey	Allen Say	Grades K-2; 3-4	Have origami paper and lead the students through making something from the book out of origami.	A Japanese American tells his grandfather’s story of how he came to America.
	Picture Book/ Caldecott Winner	Officer Buckle and Gloria	Peggy Rothmann	Grades K-2 Ages 4-8	Have the students make up safety rules for the classroom then make posters to hang in the classroom as reminders. GPS: SSKCG1	A police officer gives safety speeches at schools with his dog Gloria. Gloria acts out the accident, unbeknown to Officer Buckle. The children love it and everyone wants them to come give safety tips for them.
	Picture Book/ Caldecott winner- 2005	Kittens First Full Moon	Kevin Henkes	Ages 3 and up	Paint poster board black and let the students use a toothpick to draw picture from the book.	A little kitten is thirsty and sees a big owl of milk in the sky; he tries several times to get the bowl of milk.
	Modern Fantasy/ Caldecott Winner	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	Grades Pre-s; K-2	Read the story have the students make a necklace with a bell. Re-read the story let the students ring their bells where it is appropriate in the story.	A magical train ride takes a boy to the North Pole to see Santa.
	Picture Book	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback	Pre-k-2^nd grades	You could take an old shirt(s) you have and let the students make the different items that Joseph made out of his coat.	A man takes his worn out coat and keeps using it until there is nothing left.
	Picture Book/Fantasy	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	William Steig	k-2; 3-4	You could have a wishing rock and let the students make wishes with the rock and then paint picture their wish.	Sylvester collected rocks and found an unusual one and was looking at it when it started to rain. He wished it would stop and it did. He wished something else and realized he had a wishing rock. While going home he met a lion and it frightened him so he wished he was a rock. He then could not wish himself back. He was a rock for several months and finally his Mother and Father came used him for a picnic found the rock and put it on Sylvester. He wished himself back.

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	Historical Fiction/ Newbery Medal Chapter book	Caddie Woodlawn	Carol Ryrie Brink/ Trina Schart Hyman	Grades 3-5	Have the students do a book talk on the book. They could work in groups on this to save presentation time. GPS: SSKCG1	This is a story about the life of a frontier family and their life in the West during the Indian Wars and the Civil War.
	Realistic Fiction/ Newbery Medal; National Book Award; Boston Globe-Horn Book chapter book	Holes	Louis Sachar	Grades 5-6; 7+	Students can research the desert and create a mural in the classroom or in the hall using what they learned from their research. GPS: SS5G1	This book is about Stanley Yelnats, a boy cursed by his great-great-grandfather. Due to the curse is blamed for something he didn’t do and is sent to a detention center where boys dig all day and the holes are 5ft. deep and 5ft. wide.
	Historical Fiction/ Newbery Winner Chapter book	Sarah Plain & Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	Grades 3-4	Students can compare Maine and a Midwestern state. Make maps of each state and discuss the similarities and differences. GPS: ELA3W1	A man with two children whose wife dies puts an ad in a paper hunting a wife. He finds Sarah. She comes to live with them in the West during a drought. They do not love each other but decide to marry and eventually fall in love.
	Realistic Fiction/ Newbery Winner Chapter book	Dear Mr. Henshaw	Beverly Cleary/ Paul O. Zelinsky	Grades 3-4; 5-6	Have students write letters to their favorite authors. Have them prepare the envelopes. When their response comes have them share with the class. GPS: ELA3W1	A boy writes to his favorite author over a period of time. This is a collection of his letters.
	Realistic Fiction Newbery winner Chapter book	Jacob Have I Loved	Katherine Paterson	5-6; 7+		This book tells how a girl that feels unloved by her parents and grandmother all her life found her identity.

Picture of book	Genre/Awards	Title Of Book	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Use In The Classroom	Description of Book
	Picture Book/ 1978 Boston Globe; Horn Book Award; American Library Association Notable Children’s book	Anno’s Journey	Mitsumasa Anno	Grades K-2; 3-4	Let the students draw pictures of the area around their homes/school and put it together to make a class book.	This is a wordless picture book about people in towns or farms and different places living their lives.
	Picture Book/ Caldecott Honor Book; Charlotte Zolotow Award	When Sophie Gets Angry	Molly Bang	Grades K-2	The students could be called up by the teacher a couple at a time and act out a situation given to them and the class could help them solve their problem.	Sophie is angry and doesn't know how to manage her to anger, so she runs away and climbs a tree.
	Picture Storybook/ Caldecott Honor	Owen	Kevin Henkes	Grades K-2	The student could weave paper strips to make a blanket like Owen’s or their favorite blanket.	Owen the mouse has a favorite blanket that his parents try to get him to give up before starting school. His mother solves the problem
	Picture storybook	Bubble, Bubble	Mercer Mayer	Ages 4-8	Have the students paint a picture by blowing bubbles with food coloring on white paper.	A little boy is walking and sees bubbles floating. He follows the bubbles and finds a man with a magic bubble blower. He gets one and blows all kinds of bubbles. When he is finished with the bubble blower he throws it in the trash can.
	Biography/ Picture Book	A picture Book of Harriet Beecher Stowe	David A. Adler/Colin Bootman	2^nd-4^th grade	The students could write a story explaining how Harriet Beecher Stowe helped give rights to those that had none. GPS: SS3H2	This book tells the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and how her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin started the Civil War.

Picture of book	Genre/Awards	Title Of Book	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Use In The Classroom	Description of Book
	ABC	Little Critter ABC’s	Mercer Mayer	Ages 3-6	Use Alpha Bits cereal and/or letter noodles let the students glue letters on paper and draw something that starts with the letters on their paper.	Little Critter explains the ABC’s with things that he does himself.
	Counting	Chicka Chicka 123	Bill Martin Jr./ Lois Ehlert	Grades Pre-K -2	Have the students make a tree and put numbers on it. They can write the numbers themselves or use stickers or glue them on from some other source.	The numbers climb a tree and fall out.

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Modern Fiction

Love You Forever

Robert Munsch

Sheila McGraw

All ages

Draw a picture of something special done with an adult. Write about the picture.

A Mother loves her baby so much that she follows him throughout his life and rocks him when he is asleep. It also shows that the man remembers his mother doing this because he goes and rocks her when she is old.

Picture Book

Brown Bear Brown Bear

Bill Martin Jr./ Eric Carle

Grades K-2

Let the students make an animal that is in the story and glue it on a stick to hold up when the story is re-read and their animal is called.

This book goes through colors by asking the brown bear what he sees he tells you by using a color to describe what he sees.

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	Traditional	Goldilocks and The Three Bears	Adapted by: Jane Jerrand/ Book: Burgandy Nilles Cover: Sam Thiewes	Any age	Use brown paper bags to make puppets and use them while reading the story again. GPS: ELAKR6	A little girl walks through the woods and finds a house. She knocked; no one answered so she went in. She ate the food on the table, broke a chair, and then went to bed in the beds. The bears came home and found her asleep in one of the beds.
	Traditional	The legend of the Candy Cane	Lori Walburg/James Bernardin	All ages	The students could make candy canes out of pipe cleaners and attach the legend to it.	This book tells how the candy came to be. It also explains the semblance of the candy cane.
	Traditional GA Children’s Picture Storybook Award 93-94	The Rough-Face Girl	Rafe Martin/ David Shannon	grades 3-4; 5-6	The students could make an Indian village and make shell necklaces and miniature bows. GPS: SS4H1	This is a Cinderella story in an Indian culture.
	Traditional Fantasy/Folklore Caldecott Winner	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears	Verna Aardema/ Leo& Diane Dillon	Grades K-2	The students can make instruments that make the sounds of the animals . Re-read the story with the students making the sounds with their instruments.	This book explains why mosquitoes buzz people’s ears and why we swat them. The mosquito causes problems with the owl and this causes a ruckus.
	Folktale	What about Me?	Ed Young	grades K- 2	Read the story with the students acting out the story.	A young boy decides he needs knowledge. He goes to a grand master to get it. The grand master sends him on a voyage after a carpet but does not realize he already has knowledge.

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	Modern Fantasy	When Everyone was Fast Asleep	Tomie de Paola	Grades K-2	Play some music and let the students make up their own fairy dance.	When everyone was asleep the Fog Maiden sent the cat to wake up the kids for a fantasy trip she has planned.
	Fantasy Chapter book	The Mouse & the Motorcycle	Beverly Cleary/ Louis Darling	Grades 3-4	Divide into groups and use maps/atlases and find how many routes the family took to get where they ended up and figure how much money it cost with our gas prices and if they broke their budget. GPS: SS5E4	A boy is on vacation staying in a hotel where a mouse lives. The boy has a motorcycle and the mouse wants to ride it. He asks the boy if he could ride the motorcycle.
	Traditional Caldecott-1981	Fables	Arnold Lobel	grades 3-4	Have the children write a Fable of their own or rewrite one they know. GPS: ELA4R1	A collection of fables about all different animals.
	Modern Fantasy	The Little Polar Bear	Hans de Beer	Pre-k-3^rd grade	I made a board game from this book. The younger children would have to have the words read to them, but the older children could play with out help.	A young polar bear and his father were hunting and the youngster gets separated from hid father. He ends up in a jungle and a hippo helps him find his way home.

Picture of book	Genre/Awards	Title Of Book	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Use In The Classroom	Description of Book
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction/ Newbery Honor Book Chapter book	Ramona Quimby, Age 8	Beverly Cleary/ Alan Tiegreen	Grades 3-4	Ramona likes art, so you could give the students the supplies Ramona uses (crayons, paper, staples, and tape) and let them create anything they would like using those supplies.	This book is about an 8 year-old girl in the third grade who wants people to let her do some things by herself. Her mother has returned to work so her father could go back to college.
	Realistic Fiction Chapter book	Pictures Of Hollis Woods	Patricia Reilly Giff	Grades 5-6; 7+	Have students pair up and have them draw portraits of each other to hang somewhere in the classroom or school.	This is a book about a girl that has been in many foster homes. When she starts to get comfortable in the home she runs away.
	Realistic Fiction Chapter book	The Night Watchers	Sheila Rice/ Chris Youngblood	grades 3-5	Create pictures of the Night Watchers	A girl moves from the North to a rural South Georgia town called Ray City. At first she hates the move, but she meets her neighbor, an elderly woman, and starts to learn about the secrets of the town. She also meets a girl her own age that is related to the elderly lady.
	Picture Storybook	Now One Foot, Now the Other	Tomie de Paola	Grades 3-4	Make a family tree for Tommy or one for their own family.	Bobby’s grandfather taught him how to walk. His grandfather had a stroke and needed help walking again Bobby taught him how to walk again.

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	Historical Fiction Chapter book	Love comes Softly	Janette Oke	7^th +	This book could be used when studying the wagon trains and movement west and how life was after they got out there. The students could use shoe boxes and make wagons of their own.	This book is about a young wife and her husband traveling West to claim land and start their life together. The husband gets killed and leaves the girl alone. Some neighbors find him and help her bury him. After all this she has nowhere to go so a man whose wife had died and left him with a small child suggests that they marry and she could help him with his daughter and he would provide her a place to stay. The young wife was so distraught that she did this. She was expecting and had a baby in later winter. The man she married had told her in the spring he would get on the wagon train back East if she wanted to go. By the time spring had come and time for her to go she did not want to go. She wrote a note and asked the man to ask her to stay he did not get the note until she was on the train. He chased the wagons and brought her back home.
	Historical Fiction Chapter book	Skylark	Patricia Maclachlan	3^rd-4th	The children could make a class book with their idea of what the dust bowl would be like and what Maine would have been like using the descriptions from the book. GPS: SS5H5	This book is about a prairie family during the Dust Bowl. The father has the wife and children leave and go to Maine where his wife is from. The children wonder if they will ever be a family again. They stay until he tells them it has rained some. They return home with the news of a new baby for the father. And water for them.
	Historical Fiction Chapter book	Survival in the Storm : The dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards	Katelan Janke	5^th -7^th grade	The children could keep a diary for the school year and even further if they wanted. This could be encouraged by explaining that it could some day be used as historical document.	This book is about a girl during the Depression and the Dust Bowl. She got a diary form someone on her birthday. She uses this diary to keep up with the family’s history during this time. This book also has pictures from the time frame of the book.

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Poetry anthology

Winter Lights

Anna Grossnickle

The students could quilt there own blanket. They could use blunt needles with thread and quilt together pieces of construction paper.

This book has the poems written on the quilts hat the poem is about. There are several quilt designs in the book and it has the directions for a couple of the quilts.

Poetry Anthology

If I Ran the School

Selected by & Introduced by Bruce Lansky/cover-Stephen Carpenter; interior- Stephen Carpenter& Mike Gordon

You could let the students either draw a picture or write a story about what they would do if they ran the school and make a bulletin board with their ideas.

This book is a book of poems about school.

Picture of book	Genre/Awards	Title Of Book	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Use In The Classroom	Description of Book
	Fiction/multicultural Coretta Scott King-1978	Africa Dream	Eloise Greenfield/ Carole Byard	4-8 years old Grades K-2	Use play dough/ clay to make a map of Africa and discuss what is happening in the story.	A child’s dream is about people and places in Africa.
	Folklore/ Caldecott-1971	A Story A Story	Gail E. Haley	gradesK-2; 3-4	Show the students how to make a ladder using yarn and make spider webs using cotton and yarn.	Explains how spider stories cam into being
	Traditional Fiction	Adelita	Tomie de Paola	Grades K-2; 3-4	Students can write a bio poem using this form: First name; 3 thing they love; 3 words to describe how they feel; 3 things they need in life; 3 things they would like to see in life; Hometown; Last name.	This is a Mexican Cinderella story
	Traditional Fiction/ Caldecott Winner	Lon Po Po	Ed Young	Grades K-2; 3-4	The students can make up an ending by having the girls tell their mama about the wolf.	A Red Riding Hood Story From China. In this story the wolf comes to the house of the lady that leaves to go visit her PoPo (grandmother). The children tricked the wolf.
	Picture Book/Realistic Fiction Caldecott Honor Book	A Chair For My Mother	Vera B. Williams	K-2^nd grade	You could have the students bring in pennies for a jar in the classroom to save for something for the room. The students could act out how they would act if their house caught on fire.	A girl, her mother, and grandmother lose everything they have in a house fire. They could not afford to furnish it properly so they start saving their change to be able to by a nice comfy chair for the mother because she works so hard all day.

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	Biography	The Librarian of Basra	Jeanette Winter	k-3rd	Take the students to a library to see how many books are in one. Ask them if they would be willing to do what this lady did. Have them tell how they would save the books.	This is about a librarian in Iraq that saves most of the books in the library before it is destroyed in a war.
	Informational	Loopy Lupus helps tell Scott’s Story	Lupus Foundation	Grades: Pre-S- 4	This book could be used to help explain an illness a person around the classroom may have. The class could also become pen-pals with children the hospital.	Talks about a boy with the disease Lupus. It just describes his life with the disease.
	Biography	Bravery The story of Sitting Bull	Peter Murray/Robin Lawrie	2^nd-4^th grade	Feathers and leather could be used to make headdress pieces and sticks with string or rubber bands could be used to make bows and arrows.	This book tells the story of Sitting Bull from birth to death. It also gave factual tidbits throughout the book.
	Biography Chapter Book	Martha Washington	Lavere Anderson Cary	2^nd-4^th grade	The students could pretend to be at the first ball in the White House. They could act out what they thought might have went on from reading the book.	This book starts when Martha Washington was 10 and goes through her becoming the first First Lady. It also told how she learned to be the First Lady. She just remembered something her father had told many years before.

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Picture Storybook

Pancakes for Breakfast

Tomie de Paola

Pre-S

Make pancakes in the classroom. Children can help measure and mix.

An old lady tries to cook pancakes for breakfast, but as she is making them she finds she needs stuff to finish. She goes out and about to find the supplies. She gets them and returns home to find her animals have ruined the ingredient s she had. She smells the neighbors cooking pancakes and goes to eat with them.

Picture Storybook

Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs

Tomie de Paola

Pre-S; K-2

Allow the students to discuss how Tommy feels and how they would /did feel when a grandparent or someone close to them dies. Then draw a picture showing how they feel.

A little boy named Tommy learns about death when his great grandmother died. Then later in life his grandmother died.

Traditional Fiction

Strega Nona

Tomie de Paola

k-2; 3-4

Spaghetti could be glued on a paper to make the town.

Strega Nona had a boy that helped her with her work. She fed this boy everyday and one day he came in and saw her using her magic pot. He told people in twon about it and they did not believe him. She went out of town one day so Anthony decided that he would show the towns people how the pot cooked by magic. The only thing he did not know was how to stop it. He could not get it to stop so spaghetti filled the town. Strega Nona came back and made it stop. She then made Anthony eat all the spaghetti.

Modern Fantasy

Benny’s Big Bubble

Jane O’Connor/Tomie de Paola

Pre-k-Kindergarten

The students could blow bubbles onto a bulletin board and make a picture using the bubbles.

This book is about a boy tha is the best bubble blower in the world. He blows a really big bubble that floats through town and then returns back to the boy.

ELA4LSV1 The student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions. The student

d. Uses language cues to indicate different levels of certainty or hypothesizing (e.g., “What if…”; “Very likely…”; “I’m sure whether…”).

e. Confirms understanding by paraphrasing the adult’s directions or suggestions.

j. Volunteers contributions and responds when directly solicited by teacher or discussion leader.

l. Clarifies, illustrates, or expands on a response when asked what to do so; asks classmates for similar expansions.

a. locate important physical features to include the Grand canyon, Salton Sea, Great Salt Lake, and the Mojave Desert,

ELA3W1 The student demonstrates competency in the writing process. The student

b. Begins to select a focus and an organizational pattern based on purpose, genre, expectations, audience and length.

SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy.

b. explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome, and describe how they overcame them

SS4H1 The student will describe how early Native American cultures developed in North America.

b. describe hoe the American Indians used their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter

SS5E4 The student will identify the elements of a personal budget and explains why personal spending and saving are important.

ELA4R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.

For Literary texts, the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of reading that:

SS5H5 The student will explain how the Great Depression and New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans.

a. discuss the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, the Dust Bowl, and soup kitchens