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Literacy
Connections |
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Conclusions
| Descriptive Language | Dialogue
| Feature Articles | Intermediate
Memoirs
Intermediate Personal Narratives
| Leads | Mini-Lessons
| Parts of Speech | Persuasive
Writing | Poetry
Primary Letters | Primary
Memoirs | Primary Personal
Narratives | Reflective Writing
|
Conclusions |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Cloudland |
Burmingham |
|
Move Over! |
Cowley |
|
One Cold, Wet Night |
Cowley |
|
Strong to the Hoop |
Coy |
|
Possum Magic |
Fox |
|
Wilfred Gordon Mc-Donald
Partridge |
Fox |
|
My Momma Had a Dancing Heart |
Gray |
|
Is Your Mamma A Llama? |
Guarino |
|
Don’t Forget the Bacon |
Hutchins |
|
All The Places to Love |
MacLachlan |
|
The Paperboy |
Pilkey |
|
Hey Al |
Yorinks |
|
Surprise
Endings |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Charlie Anderson |
Abercrombie |
|
Just Like Daddy |
Ash |
|
Wolf |
Bloom |
|
Koala Lou |
Fox |
|
The Night The Scary Beasties
Popped Out of My Head |
Kamish |
|
Andrew’s Loose Tooth |
Munsch |
|
Paper Bag Princess |
Munsch |
|
Stephanie’s Ponytail |
Munsch |
|
Descriptive
Language |
|
Title |
Author |
|
How A Book is Made |
Aliki |
|
When I Go Camping with
Grandma |
Bauer |
|
Ghost’s Hour, Spooks’
Hour |
Bunting |
|
The Wall |
Bunting |
|
Smoky Nights |
Bunting |
|
The Wednesday Surprise |
Bunting |
|
When I Was Young in the
Mountains |
Bunting |
|
Fireflies |
Brinckloe |
|
The Screaming Mean Machine |
Cowley |
|
How Does It Feel to Be Old |
Farber |
|
How My Parents Learned to Eat |
Friedman |
|
Lotus Seed |
Garland |
|
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart |
Gray |
|
Grandma’s Joy |
Greenfield |
|
Grandpa’s Face |
Greenfield |
|
In Coal Country |
Hendershot |
|
Amazing Grace |
Hoffman |
|
Under the Quilt of Night |
Hopkinson |
|
Swamp Angel |
Isaacs |
|
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky |
Jeffers |
|
Midnight in the Mountains |
Lawson |
|
Sky Tree |
Locker |
|
All the Places to Love |
MacLachlan |
|
Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop |
Mitchell |
|
Harlem |
Myers |
|
My Ol’ Man |
Polacco |
|
Warm As wool |
Sanders |
|
Nothing Ever Happens on 90th
Street |
Schotter |
|
The Memory Box |
Shanley |
|
A Quiet Place |
Wood |
|
Rotten Teeth |
Simms |
|
The Amazing Bone |
Steig |
|
The Polar Express |
Van Allsburg |
|
Our Granny |
Wild |
|
All Those Secrets of the
World |
Yolen |
|
Letting Swift River Go |
Yolen |
|
Owl Moon |
Yolen |
|
The Seashore Book |
Zolotow |
|
Dialogue |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Happy Birthday Moon |
Asch |
|
Grandpa’s Teeth |
Clemet |
|
Strong To The Hoop |
Coy |
|
Hooway for Wodney Wat |
Lester |
|
I Hate English |
Levine |
|
White Dynamite and Curly Kid |
Martin |
|
Bill Pickett Rodeo Ridin
Cowboy |
Pinkney |
|
My Rotten Redheadded Older
Brother |
Polacco |
|
Wayside School is Falling
Down |
Sachar |
|
Glasses, Who Needs ‘Em |
Smith |
|
Fourth Grade Rats |
Spinelli |
|
Mufaro’s Beautiful
Daughters |
Steptoe |
|
Dr. DeSoto Goes To Africa |
Steig |
|
Alexander and the Terrible,
Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day |
Viorst |
|
Ira Sleeps Over |
Waber |
|
Magazines |
|
Title |
Publisher |
|
Calliope: World History For
Kids |
Cobblestone |
|
Click |
The Cricket Magazine Group |
|
Cobblestone |
Cobblestone |
|
Cricket |
The Cricket Magazine Group |
|
Disney Adventures |
Disney |
|
Faces: People, Places,
Cultures |
Cobblestone |
|
Highlights for Children |
|
|
Junior Scholastic |
Scholastic |
|
Kids Discover |
Kids Discover |
|
Ladybug |
|
|
National Geographic World |
National Geographic Society |
|
Racing For Kids |
|
|
Ranger Rick |
National Wildlife Federation |
|
Scholastic News |
Scholastic |
|
Sports Illustrated for Kids |
Time Inc. |
|
Time For Kids |
Time Inc. |
|
Tomorrow’s Morning: News
Stories For Kids |
|
|
US Kids |
|
|
Weekly Reader |
|
|
Zillions |
Consumers Union |
|
Zoobooks |
Wildlife Education Ltd. |
|
Trade Books
That Exhibit Characteristics of Feature Articles |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Animals and Their World |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Butterflies, Bugs, and Worms |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Energy and Power |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Flowers, Trees, and Fruits |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Flying and Floating |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Garbage and Recycling |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Maps and Mapping |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Mountains and Volcanoes |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Nature in Danger |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Pollution and Waste |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Rivers and Oceans |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Solids and Liquids |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Sounds and Light |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
The Human Body |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
Weather and Climate |
Kingfisher: David Glover |
|
The History News: Explorers |
Michael Johnstone |
|
The History News: Greeks |
Michael Johnstone |
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The History News: Medicine |
Michael Johnstone |
|
The History News: Explorers |
Michael Johnstone |
|
Snakes |
Resnick |
|
World’s Weirdest Bugs and
Other Creepy Creatures |
Roberts |
|
Trade Books That
Exhibit Characteristics of How-To Articles |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Bread and Jam for Frances |
Hoban |
|
Fifty Nifty Magic Tricks |
Wood |
|
Franklin Plants a Tree |
Bourgeois |
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How a Book Is Made |
Aliki |
|
How Teddy Bears Are Made |
Morris |
|
Maisy Makes Gingerbread |
Cousins |
|
Planting a Rainbow |
Ehlert |
|
Snowballs |
Ehlert |
|
Three Days on A River In A
Red Canoe |
Williams |
|
Waiting For Wings |
Ehlert |
|
How Is a Crayon Made? |
Oz |
|
Super Simple Origami |
Kneissler |
|
My First Book of How Things
Are Made |
Jones |
|
Instructional
Materials |
|
Title |
Publisher |
|
Fast Track Magazines |
Wright Group |
|
Newspaper in Education |
Lexington Herald-Leader |
|
Reading Safari |
Mondo |
|
Storypath |
Everyday Learning |
|
The Mini Page |
Mini Page Publishing Company |
|
Time For Kids: Exploring
Nonfiction |
Teacher Created Materials |
|
Write Time For Kids |
Teacher Created Materials |
Intermediate
Memoirs
|
Title |
Author |
|
Song and Dance Man |
Ackerman |
|
Those Summers |
Aliki |
|
The Memory Box |
Bahr |
|
Where the Forest Meets the
Sea |
Baker |
|
Secret Place |
Bunting |
|
Maybe Next Year |
Carlisle |
|
House on Mango Street |
Cisneros |
|
A Girl From Yamhill |
Cleary |
|
Hattie and the Wild Waves |
Cooney |
|
Roxaboxen |
Cooney |
|
Bigmamma’s |
Crews |
|
Old Henry |
Gammell |
|
My Mama Has A Dancing Heart |
Gray |
|
William and the Good Old Days |
Greenfield |
|
In Coal Country |
Hendershot |
|
Aunt Flossie’s Hats...and
Crab Cakes Later |
Howard |
|
Yonder |
Johnston |
|
Midnight in the Mountains |
Lawson |
|
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop |
Mitchell |
|
Mrs. Katz and Tush |
Polacco |
|
My Rotten Redheadded Older
Brother |
Polacco |
|
Pink and Say |
Polacco |
|
Thank You Mr. Falker |
Polacco |
|
Uncle Vova’s Tree |
Polacco |
|
The Chalk Doll |
Pomerantz |
|
An Angel For Solomon Singer |
Rylant |
|
Grandfather’s Journey |
Say |
|
Three Days on a River in a
Red Canoe |
Williams |
|
The Holocaust Lady |
Sender |
|
The Other Side |
Woodson |
Intermediate
Personal Narratives
|
Title |
Author |
|
More Than Anything Else |
Bradley |
|
Fly Away Home |
Bunting |
|
Ghosts Hour, Spooks Hour |
Bunting |
|
Night Tree |
Bunting |
|
Smoky Nights |
Bunting |
|
Sunshine Home |
Bunting |
|
The Wall |
Bunting |
|
The Moon and I |
Byars |
|
The Lost and Found House |
Cadnum |
|
Julian’s Glorious Summer |
Cameron |
|
Only Opal |
Cooney |
|
Screaming Mean Machine |
Cowley |
|
Homesick: My Own Story |
Fritz |
|
We Had a Picnic This Sunday
Past |
Greenseid |
|
A Little Excitement |
Harshman |
|
Sweet Clara and The Freedom
Quilt |
Hopkinson |
|
Farmer’s Market |
Johnson |
|
Lost |
Johnson |
|
Salt In His Shoes |
Jordan |
|
Night Ride to Nanna’s |
Koralek |
|
I Rode The Red Horse |
Libby |
|
Black and White |
Macauley |
|
Sarah Plain and Tall |
MacLachlan |
|
Knots on a Counting Rope |
Martin |
|
Journey to Jo’burg: A South
African Story |
Naidoo |
|
Operation: Dump the Chump |
Park |
|
Thundercake |
Polacco |
|
Tikvak Means Hope |
Polacco |
|
The Big Green Pocketbook |
Ransom |
|
Shiloh |
Naylor |
|
Going to the Wildcat Game |
Shiver |
|
When I Was Nine |
Stevenson |
|
Angel Child, Dragon Child |
Surat |
|
The Friendship and the Gold
Cadillac |
Taylor |
|
The Well |
Taylor |
|
Owl Moon |
Yolen |
|
Leads |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Willy The Wimp |
Browne |
|
Feathers For Lunch |
Ehlert |
|
Wilfred Gordon Mc-Donald
Partridge |
Fox |
|
My Momma Had a Dancing Heart |
Gray |
|
The Crack-of-Dawn Walkers |
Hest |
|
Best Friends |
Kellogg |
|
Wilma Unlimited |
Kull |
|
She’s Wearing a Dead Bird
on Her Head |
Lasky |
|
There’s A Nightmare In My
Closet |
Mayer |
|
Sitti’s Secrets |
Nye |
|
Thank You Mr. Falker |
Polacco |
|
Warm as Wool |
Sanders |
|
The Memory Box |
Shanley |
|
Shrek |
Steig |
|
The Mysteries of Harris
Burdick |
Van Allsburg |
|
My Momma Says There Aren’t
Any Zombies |
Viorst |
|
King Bidgood’s in the
Bathroom |
Wood |
|
Owl Moon |
Yolen |
|
Hey Al |
Yorinks |
|
Louis the Fish |
Yorinks |
Mini-Lessons
|
Voice |
|
Title |
Author |
|
More Than Anything Else |
Bradby |
|
All Over But The Shoutin’ |
Bragg |
|
Going Home |
Bunting |
|
Julian...Series |
Cameron |
|
The Screaming Mean Machine |
Cowley |
|
Big Mama’s |
Crews |
|
Shortcut |
Crews |
|
My Grandmother Is a Singing
YaYa |
D’Arc |
|
Honey, I Love |
Greenfield |
|
Tight Times |
Hazen |
|
Amazing Grace |
Hoffman |
|
Boundless Grace |
Hoffman |
|
Julius, The Baby Of The World |
Henkes |
|
Near the Window Tree |
Kuskin |
|
The Night I Followed the Dog |
Laden |
|
My House Has Stars |
McDonald |
|
Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop |
Mitchell |
|
My Rotten Redheadded Older
Brother |
Polacco |
|
Pink and Say |
Polacco |
|
Tikvah Means Hope |
Polacco |
|
Chicken Sunday |
Polacco |
|
Officer Buckle and Gloria |
Rathman |
|
The Frog Prince Continued |
Scieszka |
|
Math Curse |
Scieszka |
|
The True story of the Three
Little Pigs |
Scieszka |
|
How Dogs Really Work |
Snow |
|
You at the Airport |
Sharmat |
|
Glasses, Who Needs ‘Em |
Smith |
|
For Sale, One Brother |
Stren |
|
When I Was Nine |
Stevenson |
|
Fun/ No Fun |
Stevenson |
|
Alexander and the Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
Viorst |
|
Alexander Who Use To Be Rich
Last Sunday |
Viorst |
|
Earrings |
Viorst |
|
Ira Sleeps Over |
Waber |
|
Stringbean’s Trip To The
Shining Sea |
Williams |
Parts
of Speech
|
Nouns |
|
Title |
Author |
|
A Cache of Jewels |
Heller |
|
Merry-Go-Round |
Heller |
|
Your Foot’s On My Feet |
Terban |
|
Adjectives |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Guinea Pig ABC |
Duke |
|
Many Luscious Lollipops |
Heller |
|
Feet |
Parnall |
|
The Widow’s Broom |
Van Allsburg |
|
Verbs |
|
Title |
Author |
|
The Night Thief |
Allen |
|
The Big Sneeze |
Brown |
|
Things I Like |
Browne |
|
Kites Sail High |
Heller |
|
Watch Me |
Ann Mazer |
|
Jiggle, Wiggle, Prance |
Noll |
|
Storm in the Desert |
Lesser |
|
John Henry |
Lester |
|
You Push, I Ride |
Levine |
|
Here Are My Hands |
Martin |
|
Old Devil wind |
Martin |
|
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What
Do You Hear |
Martin |
|
Have You Seen Birds? |
Oppenheim |
|
Brave Irene |
Steig |
|
Shrek! |
Steig |
|
The House That Jack Built |
Stow |
|
I Think I Thought |
Terban |
|
Possum Come a-Knockin’ |
Van Laan |
|
Idioms |
|
Title |
Author |
|
In A Pickle and Other Funny
Idioms |
|
|
Mad as a Wet Hen and Other
Funny Idioms |
|
|
Who Let the Cat Out of the
Bag? |
Newcastle Avenue Elementary-
Fourth Grade Students |
|
Similes and
Metaphors |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Fishing Sunday |
Johnson |
|
Chicken Sunday |
Polacco |
|
Mrs. Katz and Tush |
Polacco |
|
Quick as a Cricket |
Wood |
|
Transition
Words and Phrases |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Yolanda’s Genius |
Fenner |
|
Sing Down the Moon |
O’Dell |
|
My Brother Louis Measures
Worms |
Robinson |
|
Persuasive
Writing |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Animals Should Definitely Not
Wear Clothing |
Barrett |
|
The Great Kapok Tree |
Cherry |
|
Just This Once |
Cowley |
|
Can I Have A Stegosaurus,
Mom? Can I? Please? |
Grambling |
|
Can I Have A Tyrannosaurus
Rex, Dad? Can I? Please? |
Grambling |
|
Parks Are to Share |
Hill |
|
Can I Keep Him? |
Kellogg |
|
Be a Friend To Trees |
Lauber |
|
The True Story of the Three
Little Pigs |
Scieszka |
|
Caps for sale |
Slobodkina |
|
Intermediate
Springboards |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Should There Be Zoos? |
Ballester |
|
The Pain and the Great One |
Blume |
|
Can We Save Them? |
Dobson |
|
Brother Eagle Sister Sky |
Jeffers |
|
The Cow Who Wouldn’t Come
Down |
Johnson |
|
I Have A Dream |
King |
|
Glasses Who Needs ‘Em |
Smith |
|
Grown-ups Get To Do All the
Driving |
Steig |
|
Earrings! |
Viorst |
|
If I Were In Charge of the
World |
Viorst |
|
The Good-Bye Book |
Viorst |
|
Letting Swift River Go |
Yolen |
|
Poetry |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Street Music: City Poems |
Adolff |
|
Paddy Pig’s Poems |
Charles |
|
Big Talk- Poems for Four
Voices |
Fleischman |
|
Joyful Noise- Poems for Two
Voices |
Fleischman |
|
Honey, I Love |
Greenfield |
|
Secret Places |
Huck |
|
Pass It On-African American
Poetry for Children |
Hudson |
|
The Place My Words Are
Looking For |
Janeczko |
|
The Music of What Happens:
Poems that tell Stories |
Janeczko |
|
Near the Window Tree |
Kuskin |
|
The New Kid on the Block |
Prelutsky |
|
Something Big Has Been Here |
Prelutsky |
|
Winter Poems |
Rogasky |
|
A Light in the Attic |
Silverstein |
|
A Missing Piece |
Silverstein |
|
Where The Sidewalk Ends |
Silverstein |
|
All the Small Poems and
Fourteen More |
Worth |
|
Poems for Children |
Viorst |
|
Primary
Letters |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Dear Peter Rabbit |
Ada |
|
With Love, Little Red Hen |
Ada |
|
Rosa’s Diary |
Benson |
|
Arthur Goes To Camp |
Brown |
|
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That
Type |
Cronin |
|
Toot & Puddle |
Hobbie |
|
Dear Mr. Blueberry |
James |
|
Postcards From Pluto |
Leedy |
|
Nice Try Tooth Fairy |
Olson |
|
The Jolly Postman |
Ahlberg |
|
The Jolly Postman Christmas |
Ahlberg |
|
One Monster After Another |
Mayer |
|
A Book of Letters |
Wilson-Max |
|
Intermediate
Springboards |
|
Title |
Author |
|
Flat Stanley |
Brown |
|
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Cleary |
|
A Fine, Fine School |
Creech |
|
Letters from Rifka |
Hesse |
|
My New York |
Jacobsen |
|
Amelia Hits the Road |
Moss |
|
Lizard Meets Ivana the
Terrible |
Scott |
|
I Hate Roland Roberts |
Selway |
|
Dear Mrs. LaRue |
Teague |
|
Stringbean’s summer
Vacation |
Williams |
|
Stringbean’s Trip to The
Shining Sea |
Williams |
P rimary
Memoirs
|
Ti|le |
Author |
|
The Song and Dance Man |
Ackerman |
|
Mandy |
Booth |
|
Fireflies |
Brinkloe |
|
Flower Garden |
Bunting |
|
Going Home |
Bunting |
|
Hairs |
Cisneros |
|
Miss Rumphius |
Cooney |
|
When I Was Little |
Curtis |
|
"My Grandmother Is A
Singing YaYa" |
D’Arc |
|
Now One Foot, Now The Other |
DePaola |
|
The Art Lesson |
DePaola |
|
Tomie |
DePaola |
|
Shoes From Grandpa |
Fox |
|
Me and Nessie |
Greenfield |
|
One Afternoon |
Heo |
|
My Great Aunt Arizona |
Houston |
|
Daddy Makes The Best
Spaghetti |
Hines |
|
When I was Five |
Howard |
|
The Leaving Morning |
Johnson |
|
My Mom Is My Show-And-Tell |
Johnson |
|
Papa’s Stories |
Johnson |
|
Boodil, My Dog |
Lindenbaum |
|
Basket |
Lyon |
|
Come A Tide |
Lyon |
|
All the Places To Love |
MacLachlan |
|
Annie and The Old One |
Miles |
|
The Rag Coat |
Mills |
|
Family |
Monk |
|
Getting Dressed |
Moore |
|
Good Morning |
Moore |
|
The Sunday Outing |
Pickney |
|
Goin’ Someplace Special |
Pinkney |
|
Babushka’s Doll |
Polacco |
|
My Ol’ Man |
Polacco |
|
The Keeping Quilt |
Polacco |
|
Too Many Tamales |
Soto |
|
Night Shift Daddy |
Spinelli |
|
Stevie |
Steptoe |
|
The Bracelet |
Uchida |
|
Rosie and Michael |
Viorst |
|
The Pain and the Great One |
Viorst |
|
I’ll Always Love You |
Wilhelm |
|
"More, More, More"
Said The Baby |
Williams |
|
The Moon Was Best |
Zolotow |
Primary
Personal Narrative
|
Title |
Author |
|
Dancing in the Wings |
Allen |
|
My Five Senses |
Aliki |
|
A Forever Family |
Banish |
|
The Best Town in The World |
Baylor |
|
Old Slippery |
Belanger |
|
The Wednesday Surprise |
Bunting |
|
Bigmamma’s |
Crews |
|
Shortcut |
Crews |
|
Nana Upstairs, Nana
Downstairs |
DePaola |
|
I’m the Big Sister Now |
Emmert |
|
Wilford Gordon McDonald
Partridge |
Fox |
|
Today Was a Terrible Day |
Giff |
|
Jamaica’s Find |
Havill |
|
Rosie’s Fishing Trip |
Hest |
|
There’s A Monster Under My
Bed |
Howe |
|
Fishing Sunday |
Johnson |
|
On Monday When It Rained |
Kachenmeister |
|
In My Momma’s Kitchen |
Nolen |
|
My Buddy |
Osofsky |
|
Coat of Many Colors |
Parton |
|
Chicken Sunday |
Polacco |
|
Some Birthday |
Polacco |
|
The Relatives Came |
Rylant |
|
Fun/ No Fun |
Stevenson |
|
I Meant to Tell You |
Stevenson |
|
Ira Sleeps Over |
Waber |
|
Alexander and The Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
Viorst |
|
A Chair For My Mother |
Williams |
|
Reflective
Writing |
|
Title |
Author |
|
The Table Where Rich People
Sit |
Baylor |
|
Rosie’s Fishing Trip |
Hest |
|
Near the Window Tree |
Kuskin |
|
A Promise is a Promise |
Munsch |
|
Big Green Pocketbook |
Ransom |
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Nothing Ever Happens on 90th
Street |
Schotter |
|
Intermediate
Springboards |
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Title |
Author |
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How a Book is Made |
Aliki |
|
Raewyn’s Got The Writing
Bug Again |
Caisley |
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A River Ran Wild |
Cherry |
|
A Girl From Yamhill |
Cleary |
|
On The Bus With Joanna Cole |
Cole |
|
Thank You, Mr. Falker |
Polacco |
|
Hooray For Diffendoofer Day! |
Seuss |
|
A Fire in My Hands |
Soto |
|
Rise & Shine Mariko Chan |
Tomioka |
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