Electronic
By
Takara Dudley
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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The Snowy Day
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Picture Book/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Ezra Jack Keats |
Grades: Pre K- 1st Ages: 3-6 |
Students can make and eat snow cones. |
A young boy
experiences his very first snowfall. |
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Hey, Al
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Picture Book/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Arthur
Yorinks/ Richard Egielski |
Grades: 2nd-3rd Ages: 7-9 |
Students
can create masks representing the birds in the story |
A hardworking janitor and his dog are
miserable with their simple lives. They
get a chance to taste the “sweet life” but soon realize they were happy
all along. |
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Jumanji
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Picture Book/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Chris
Van Allsburg |
Grades:
3rd-4th Ages:
8-10 |
Students
can play various board games of their interest. |
Two bored children are left home alone with
nothing to do until they find a board game that is beyond boring. |
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Swimmy
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Picture Book/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Leo
Lionni |
Grades: 1st- 2nd Ages:
6-8 |
Students
can create collages of underwater creatures. |
Little fish Swimmy journeys through the ocean in
search of something to do. |
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
Picture Book/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Mordicai
Gerstein |
Grades:
3rd-4th Ages:
8-10 |
ELA3R3. i Students
can discuss the 9-11 tragedy and relate it to why the |
A
tight ropewalker manages to perform his most daring act ever. . . he
walks between the |
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Color Zoo
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Picture Book/Concept/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Lois
Ehlert |
Grades: Pre K-K Ages:
3-5 |
SKL2. a Students
can draw their favorite animals by using shapes and colors. |
A
book of colors, shapes, and animals. |
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The
Polar Express |
Picture Book/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Chris Van Allsburg |
Grades: K-3rd Ages: 5-8 |
Students can write out a Christmas list of the
things they would like to have. |
A young boy gets the chance to meet Santa and
gets a special gift that only believers can understand its worth. |
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Kitten’s First Full Moon |
Picture Book/ Caldecott Medal winner |
Kevin
Henkes |
Grades: Pre K-K Ages:
3-5 |
Students
can interact with real kittens. |
Kitten
wanders through the night trying to figure out how to get to the big
bowl of milk in the sky. |
Newbery Award Winners
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre/ Awards |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade |
Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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**Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Historical Fiction/ Newbery Award winner |
Mildred D. Taylor |
Grades: 4th-5th Ages: 9-11 |
SS5H5
a Students can look around
their classroom or home to create a list of the things that they have
that wouldn’t be during the Depression |
Story of a young girl and her brothers as they
come of age and understanding while growing up in the South during the
Depression. |
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**Maniac Magee
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Realistic
Fiction/ Newbery Award winner |
Jerry
Spinelli |
Grades: 3rd- 5th Ages:
8-11 |
Students can create comic strips
corresponding to their favorite passages in the story. |
Jeffery Lionel Magee is on the run. Journey with him as he helps form bonds
between the lives of those he comes in contact with. |
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**Holes |
Realistic Fiction/ Newbery
Award winner |
Louis
Sachar |
Grades: 4th -6th Ages:
9-12 |
Students
can go on a treasure hunt on the school’s playground |
Stanley
Yelnats has been sent to an all boys detention center where the warden
makes them dig holes. |
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**Dear
Mr. Henshaw |
Realistic
Fiction/ Newbery Award winner |
Paul O. Zelinsky |
Grades: 3rd-6th Ages
8-12 |
ELA4W2 b. Students
can write a letter to their favorite author. |
Leigh
is a ten-year-old boy who is going through a lot of issues. He decides to write a letter to his favorite
author, Mr. Henshaw. |
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**Bud,
Not Buddy |
Historical Fiction/ Realistic Fiction/ Newbery
Award winner |
Christopher
Paul Curtis |
Grades: 4th -6th Ages:
9-12 |
ELA5W2 g Students
can research a family member who they’ve never met. |
A
ten-year-old orphan boy sets out on a journey to find his father. |
Picture Books
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade |
Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Mufaro’s
Beautiful Daughters |
Multicultural/ Traditional Literature/ Picture
Book/ Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award |
John L. Steptoe |
Grade: K-2nd Ages: 4-8 |
Students
can read other Cinderella variants from different cultures. |
An
African Cinderella variant. The tale of a
king and his two beautiful daughters. |
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Mirandy and Brother Wind |
Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Award |
Patricia C. McKissack/ Jerry Pinkney |
Grade: K-2nd Ages:
4-8 |
Students
can have their own cakewalk in the classroom and win prizes. |
Mirandy
wants to win the cakewalk and tries to get the wind to be her partner. |
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Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Award |
Faith
Ringgold |
Grade: K- 2nd Ages:
4-8 |
Students
can discuss some of the things that they would have had to live without
during the Great Depression. |
A young African American girl dreams she is
flying over obstacles living in |
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Patchwork Quilt |
Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Award |
Valerie Flournoy/ Jerry Pinkney |
Grade: K-3rd Ages: 5-9 |
Students
can bring in piece of old fabric and the class can design a quilt |
Young Tanya helps her mother and grandmother make a quilt telling stories about members in her family. |
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In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating
Fathers |
Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Award |
Javaka
Steptoe |
Grade: K-2nd Ages:
4-8 |
ELA1W1 b Students
can write poetry celebrating their fathers. |
A
collection of poetry celebrating African American fathers. |
ABC/Counting/Concept
Books
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade |
Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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One Yellow Lion |
Concept/ Engineered/ Counting book |
Matthew Van Fleet |
Grades: Pre K- K Ages: 3-5 |
Students
can create pictures of their favorite animal and number with a color
represented in the book. |
A
book of colors, numbers, and animals. |
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Count
|
Counting/
Concept book |
Denise
Fleming |
Grades:
Pre K-K Ages: 3-5 |
MKN1 a. Students
can sing a counting song with animals. |
A
book of animals and numbers |
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I Love You, Papa, In all Kinds of Weather |
Concept
book |
Nancy
White Carlstrom/ Bruce Degen |
Grades: Pre K- K Ages:
3-5 |
S1E1. a Students
can sing songs about the days of the week and make charts describing
the weather of the day or week. |
Go
through the days of the week with a young bear cub and his father as he
experiences different types of weather. |
Predictable
Books
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade |
Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Green Eggs and Ham |
Predictable book |
Dr. Seuss |
Grades: Pre K- 1st Ages: 3-6 |
Students
use green food coloring to make green eggs. |
Go
through the day with Sam I Am as he tries to get the man to eat green
eggs and ham. |
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The Very Busy Spider |
Predictable
book |
Eric
Carle |
Grades: Pre K –K Ages:
3-5 |
Students
and sing the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” song. |
Go
through the day with Spider as she spins her beautiful web. |
Traditional
Literature
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Cendrillon
|
Traditional Literature/ Multicultural Book |
Robert San Souci/ Brian Pinkney |
Grade: 4th-5th Ages: 9-11 |
ELA6W2 a Students
can create their own Cinderella variant. |
A
Caribbean Cinderella tale. Told from the fairy Godmother’s perspective. |
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Agua, Agua, Agua |
Fable/
Traditional Literature |
Retold by Pat Mora/ Jose
Ortega |
Grades: Pre K- K Ages:
3-5 |
Students
can play a game that focuses on working together to complete the game. |
Crow
learns how to work hard to get some food and water. |
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The Gingerbread Man |
Traditional
Literature |
Catherine McCafferty/ Doug
Bowles |
Grades: Pre K- K Ages:
3-5 |
Students
can create, bake, decorate, and eat gingerbread men. |
The
story of a gingerbread man as he outsmarts all those who try to eat him. |
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Stone
Soup |
Traditional
Literature |
Marcia
Brown |
Grade: K-2nd Ages: 4-8 |
Students
can make their own version of stone soup. |
The
story of three soldiers who come into a town where all the food has
been hidden. They find there own way to
make soup out to water and stones. |
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Lon
Po Po: A Red -Riding Hood Story from |
Multicultural/
Traditional Literature |
Ed
Young |
Grade: K-2nd Ages: 4-8 |
Students
can re-enact the story in there own words |
The
Chinese version of Little Red-Riding Hood. |
Modern Fantasy/
Science
Fiction
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade |
Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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**James
and the Giant Peach |
Modern Fantasy |
* Roald Dahl/ Lane Smith |
Grades: 3rd-4th Ages: 8-10 |
Students
can act out what they believe happened after the story ends. |
Young
James tries to escape the grasp of his two evil aunts.
He goes on an adventure with his insect friends in a giant
peach. |
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**Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory |
Modern
Fantasy |
* Roald Dahl/ Quentin
Blake |
Grades: 3rd-4th Ages: 8-10 |
Students
can create their own chocolate factory and sample different sweets
mentioned throughout the story. |
Charlie gets the opportunity of a lifetime to go
to the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. A
story of humble beginnings and a victorious ending. |
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The Wish
|
Modern
Fantasy |
Gail
Carson Levine |
Grade: 6th Age:
12 |
Students
can write a list of wishes that they would want to be granted. |
The
story of a middle school girl who wishes to be popular, and her wish is
granted. |
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**Ella Enchanted
|
Modern Fantasy/ Newbery
Honor Book |
Gail
Carson Levine |
Grade: 3rd -6th Ages: 8-12 |
Students
can illustrate their favorite part of the story. |
Young
Ella goes on a journey in search of way to break the curse that was
placed on her at birth. |
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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**Pictures of Hollis Woods |
Realistic
Fiction |
Patricia
Riley Giff |
Grade: 5th Ages:
10-11 |
Students
can draw pictures of personal experiences to create a class picture
book. |
Young
Hollis Woods goes from foster home to foster home in search of the one
thing she’s never had. . . a family. |
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**Stargirl
|
Realistic
Fiction |
Jerry
Spinelli |
Grade: 5th Ages:
10-11 |
ELA6RC4 a Students
can write about or share a time they were treated differently and how
it made them feel. |
A
story of how one girl comes and turns a whole school around by being an
individual. |
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**Matilda
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Realistic Fiction |
*Roald Dahl/ Quentin
Blake |
Grades: 3rd-4th Ages: 8-10 |
Students
can pretend to have magical powers and act out or discuss how they
would use them. |
A
young girl unleashes the powers she has inside to make her life just
right. |
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Amazing
Grace |
Realistic
Fiction |
Mary
Hoffman/ Caroline Binch |
Grade: K- 2nd Ages:
4-8 |
Children
can put on the play Peter Pan like the students in the book. |
Story
of young Grace as she explores her imagination and becomes whatever she
sets her mind to. |
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
Historical Fiction/ Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Award |
Alan Schroeder/ Jerry Pinkney |
Grade: K-2nd Ages:
5-8 |
Students
can discuss how they would have survived during slavery times. |
A
look into the life of Young Harriet Tubman |
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Shh!
We’re Writing the Constitution |
Historical
Fiction |
Jean Fritz/ Tomie
dePoala |
Grade: 3rd -5th Ages: 7-11 |
Students can create a classroom constitution and
all students must sign the document. |
A look into how the United States Constitution
was written. |
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The
Thanksgiving Story |
Historical
Fiction |
Alice Dalgliesh/ Helen Sewell |
Grade: K-2nd Ages:
5-8 |
Students
can re-enact the first Thanksgiving. |
A
look into the lives of a Pilgrim family and how they survived their
first Thanksgiving. |
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Where
the Sidewalk Ends |
Poetry
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Shel
Silverstein |
Grade:
4th – 6th Ages:
9-12 |
Students can create a class book of poetry. |
A
collection of silly poems for children. |
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It’s
Raining Pigs & Noodles |
Poetry
|
Jack Prelutsky/ James
Stevenson |
Grade 4th- 5th Ages:
8-10 |
Students
can illustrate their favorite poems in the story |
A
collection of silly poems for children. |
Multicultural
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Whoever You Are |
Multicultural/ Picture book |
* Mem Fox/ Leslie Staub |
Grade: Pre-K-K Age: 4-5 |
Students
can create a large collage of themselves displaying their differences |
A story of how children are different but yet,
still the same all around the world. |
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Everybody Cooks Rice |
Multicultural/ Picture book |
Nora Dooley/ Peter
J. Thornton |
Grade: K-2nd Age:
5-8 |
Teachers
can prepare different types of rice and have the students sample each
style |
Learn
how many different cultures prepare rice for dinner. |
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Me Llamo Maria Isabel |
Multicultural/ Picture
book |
Alda
Flor K.
Dyble Thompson |
Grade: 2nd-5th Age:
7-10 |
Students
can label different things in the classroom in Spanish. |
A
young girl from Puerto Rico moves to the |
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Dragon Dance: A Chinese New Year
|
Multicultural/ Picture
book |
Joan Holub/ Benrei Huang |
Grade: Pre-K-K Age:
4-6 |
Students
can make different Chinese decorations found in the book. |
This
story shows how Chinese families celebrate the Chinese New Year. |
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Happy to Be Nappy |
Multicultural/ Picture
book |
Chris Raschka |
Grade: Pre-K 4-5 |
Using
a manikin, students can recreate the hair styles in the book |
Story
of young African American girls and their different hairstyles. |
Informational
books
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Picture of
Book/ Title |
Genre |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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A Picture Book of Thurgood |
Biography/ Informational book |
David A. Adler/ Robert Casilla |
Grades: 2nd –3rd Ages:
7-9 |
Students
can write or discuss things they hope to accomplish in their lives. |
A
look into the life of Thurgood Marshall and the many accomplishments he
achieved as a civil rights activist. |
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Helen Keller
|
Biography/
Informational book |
Muriel
L. Dubois |
Grades: 2nd –3rd Ages:
7-9 |
Students can experience how it is to be
blind and deaf by walking around the classroom blindfolded and with
earplugs. |
A look into the life and accomplishments of
Helen Keller. |
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Martin’s
Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Biography/
Informational Book |
Doreen
Rappaport/ Bryan Collier |
Grades: K –3rd Ages:
5-9 |
Students can write their own version of the Dr.
King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. |
A
look into the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Ella
Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa |
Biography/
Informational Book |
Andrea Davis Pinkney/ Brian Pinkney |
Grades: K –3rd Ages:
5-9 |
Students
can listen to music from Ella Fitzgerald and other African American
musicians. |
The story of Ella Fitzgerald and how she became a well-known African American songstress. |
**- Chapter Books
* by author’s name- Author Study Books
ELA5W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
The
student produces informational writing (e.g., report, procedures,
correspondence) that:
g. Draws from more than one source of information such as speakers, books,
newspapers,
and online materials.
MKN1.
Students will connect numerals to the quantities they represent.
a.
Count a number of objects up to 30.
S1E1.
Students will observe, measure, and communicate weather data to see
patterns in
weather
and climate.
a.
Identify different types of weather and the characteristics of each
type.
SKL2.
Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of
organisms.
a.
Explain the similarities and differences in animals. (color, size,
appearance,
etc.)
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
ELA6W2
The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
The
student produces a narrative (fictional, personal) that:
a. Engages readers by establishing and developing a plot, setting, and point of
view that are appropriate to the story (e.g., varied beginnings, standard plot
line,
cohesive devices).
ELA3R3
The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from
grade-level text.
The
student
i.
Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences.
ELA6RC4
The student establishes a context for information acquired by reading
across
subject areas.
a.
Explores life experiences related to subject area content.
ELA4W2
The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
The student produces informational writing (e.g., report, procedures, correspondence)
that:
b.
Frames a central question about an issue or situation.
ELA1W1
The student begins to demonstrate competency in the writing process.
b.
Describes an experience in writing.
