Elementary Literacy Connections
Topic
Warm Sun
Subtopics
Title
Author
Warm sun
Fiction (Early El)
Life during the week of a heat wave
Heat Wave
Eileen Spinelli
Warm sun
Fiction (Early El)
Warm sun & Cool wind
Non-fiction (Early El)
Keeping warm
Fiction (Early El)
Snow and Sun
Fiction (early El)
Ways to cool off on a hot day, early chapter book
Jen Van Leeuwen
Journey during a day of changing temperatures
Amanda Pig and the Really Hot
Day
The Warm Wind and the Sun
How to make a coat for winter, from sheep to coat
Charlie Needs a Cloak
Tomie dePaola
Adventures in snow and snow being melted by the sun
The Snow Day
Ezra Jack Keats
Temperature, earth location, food
Hot and Cold
Allan Fowler
Solids, melting and freezing, properties
Liquids, floating, sinking and properties
Solids: Elementary Physics
Liquids: Elementary Physics
Thomson Gale
Solar Eclipse and effects on light and sun safety picture book
Eclipse: Darkness in Daytime
Story about what traveling to the moon might be like
If You Decide to go to the Moon
Franklyn M.
Branley
Faith McNulty
The sun vs. the moon
Moon and tides, sun and warmth/clouds
Sun’s “location”, effects on earth and daily activities, prisms
Good Morning Good Night
Ivan Gantschev
Sun up, Sun down
Gail Gibbons
Follow the sun across the globe when it’s nighttime
Under the Sun
Ellen Kandoian
Norway legend about bringing back the sun
Welcome Back Sun
Michael Emberley
Tomie dePaola
Properties of Matter
Hot and cold
Non-Fiction (Early El)
Solids
Liquids
Non-fiction
Astronomy
Eclipse
Non-fiction
Moon
Fiction
Moon and Sun
Fiction (Early El)
Observation of sun and light
Fiction (Early El)
Sun’s “location”
Fiction (Early El)
Seasons
Fiction
Topic
Water and Waves
Polynesian voyage
Fiction
Tsunami
Fiction
Tsunami
Non-Fiction
Water Waves
Fiction (Early El)
Pond/Fountain
Fiction (Early El)
Subtopics
Title
Author
Story of voyage and discovery of Hawaii, connection to land and
sea
Historical picture book Tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii
Dogs of the Sea Waves
James Rumford
Tsunami Warning
Taylor Morrison
Historical chapter book about Tsunami in Hawaii
Tsunami Monster Waves
Catching a wave, energy change with moods
My Life with the Wave
Writing letters about a whale living in a fountain/pond
Dear Mr. Blueberry
Mary Dodson
Wade
Catherine Cowan
Mark Buehnew
Simon James
Wind carries seeds, plant life cycle
The Tiny Seed
Eric Carle
Icelandic story about how growing trees creates wind barriers
How the Ladies Stopped the
Wind
Bruce Mc Millan
Restoring a landscape that was destroyed for firewood, inspired by
true story from Africa
Wangari’s Trees of Peace
Jeanette Winter
Change in landscape over time as a child ages and a new
generation begins
Window
Jeannie Baker
Preserving Earth’s resources
The Lorax
Dr. Suess
Ecosystem dependence on a tree
The Great Kapok Tree
Lynne Cherry
Greenhouse effect, environment and effects on people/animals
Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?
Anne Rockwell
Wind
Wind carries seeds
Fiction (Early El)
Wind and Ecology
Fiction
Conservation and Resource Use
Restoration from
deforestation
Fiction
Environmental Resource
Use
Fiction
Conservation
Fiction
Earth’s Resources
Fiction
Climate change
Non-Fiction
Topic
Light and Energy
Light and energy
Fiction
Renewable energy
Non-Fiction
Solar and PV
Non-Fiction
Light
Non-fiction
Subtopics
Title
Author
All energy is connected to the sun, from the perspective of the sun
My Light
Molly Bang
Solar, wind, and hydro-power
Sun Power: A Book about
Renewable Energy
Solar Power of the Future
Esther Porter
Light- Eyewitness Science
David Burnie
Two cultures mirror each other on separate sides of this book
(Australia vs South Africa)
Zoom in and out and find how your new viewpoint changes
perspective
Observe what a mouse sees up close. View a map of the mouse’s
path
Observe what floats up in the tide
Mirror
Jeannie Baker
Zoom
Istvan BanYai
Mouse Views: What the Class
Pet Saw
Flotsam
Bruce McMillan
Observe patterns in Escher’s art (tessellations and more)
The Infinite World of M. C.
Escher
M. C. Escher
What it is, collection, home use, pros & cons, reference to other
renewables
Finding Out About Geothermal
Energy
Matt Doeden
Solar power, PV, energy consumption, chapter book
Ancient discoveries, optics, solar power, reflecting, colors, sight,
electricity and more
Susan Jones
Perspective and Observation
Mirrored cultures
Fiction
Observation and Perspective
Fiction
Observation skills and map
Non-Fiction (early El)
Observation skills
Fiction
Patterns and Observation
Non-fiction
David Wiesner
Geothermal
Geothermal Energy
Non-Fiction
Topic
Mathematics
Growing Patterns
Non-Fiction
Measuring
Fiction
Math Problems
Fractions
Fiction
Lights on Vehicles
Counting
Fiction (Early El)
Subtopics
Title
Author
Visual Fibonacci numbers in nature
Growing Patterns
Sarah C. Campbell
A boy relates his word to measurement of all kinds
Counting on Frank
Rod Clement
Math problems in a fun way- fractions, measurement, division and
more
Applying fractions to money, sharing, size, values
Math Curse
Fraction Action
Jon Scieszka
Lane Smith
Loreen Leedy
Count and observe the location of lights on vehicles
Night Light
Nicholas Blechman