CORE BOOKS
English Language Arts Revised 2014
GRADE
Literature
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Literature:
• The Anglo-Saxons
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1215-1355
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Informational:
• Angela’s Ashes
• Beowulf
• Macbeth
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The Romantics:
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Lamb; The Tyger
Ozymandias: Ode to the West
Wind
Literature
Informational
Literature: 2-3
The Wanderer
The Seafarer
• Capstone research
• Shakespeare’s Theatre
• Author’s Biography
• Witches, Superstition sand Ghosts
• Elizabethan Theatre p.7
• A Modest Proposal
• “Men of England”
Informational texts: 1-2
“The Changing English Language”
• Capstone research
• Shakespeare’s Theatre
• Author’s Biography
• Witches, Superstition sand Ghosts
• Elizabethan Theatre p.7
• Conditions in Ireland
Video 5: The Irish Potato Famine
• Rebels and Dreamers” p. 614-622
• Introduction to Frankenstein
• Speech to Parliament: In Defense of the Lower Classes
• “On the Passing of the Reform Bill”
Literature:
• The Crucible
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• The Great Gatsby
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• Raisin in the Sun
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• Catcher in the Rye
Informational:
• Age of Reason/
Romanticism/Realism
Literature: 2-3
• Anne Bradstreet, “Upon the Burning of my House”
• The Devil and Tom Walker,” Irving
• “Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne
• “The Pit and the Pendulum,” Poe
• Realism –
o “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” Chopin
o “the Lowest Animal,” Twain
o “The Celebrated Jumping Frog,” Twain
• Winter Dreams”
Informational texts: 1-2
• “ The Chosen People of God: Mary, Rowlandson’s Captivity
Narrative” by Caroline Gleason
• “Hester Prynne: Sinner, Victim, object, Winner” NPR Radio
address by Jacki Lyden
• “Witch Hunting in Salem” by David Hall
• “Witchcraft or Mycotoxin? Salem Witch Trials” by Alan Woolf
• “Justice Medieval Style” Peter Leeson
• “The Lives of America’s English Foremothers” by Beverly
Vorpahl
• “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards
• From the Crisis, Thomas Paine
• Speech to the Virginia Convention
• Letters from the American Farmer , Crevecoeur
• Excerpt from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Declaration of Independence
Literature:
Informational:
• Falling Leaves (Chinese
Cinderella)
Literature: 2-3
• Short stories
Informational texts: 1-2
• Newspaper and magazine articles about:
o children and crimes
o Freudian psychology theory
o Pavlov and conditioning experiments/theories
• Articles on the reality/fallacy of the Oedipus complex
• Shakespeare background information
• “Tiger Moms”
• Foot binding articles
• Lord of the Flies
• Oedipus Rex
• Julius Caesar
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Literature
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Lexile rates 10801305
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955-1155
Informational
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Literature:
Informational:
• Of Mice and Men
• Autobiography of a Face
• Romeo and Juliet
• I Am Malala
Literature:
Informational:
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Night by Elie Weisel
• Black Ships Before Troy: The
Story of the Iliad
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955-1155
Literature:
Informational:
• Adrift by Steven Callahan
• Lost Boy/Lost Girl by John Bul
Dau
• The Education of Little Tree by
Forrest Carter
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Informational
• Educational systems
• Cultural differences
Informational texts: 1-2
• Other short stories from Great Depression
• www.steinbeckstudies
• “My Left Foot”
• “William Shakespeare’s Life: A Genius from Stratford
• “Shakespeare and His Theater: A Perfect Match”
• “How to Read Shakespeare”
• “Romeo and Juliet in Bosnia
• Lives in the Crossfire”
• “A Country Divided”
• “Internment”
• “Peace Isn’t Impossible”
Literature: 2-3
• “Marigolds”
• “A Christmas” Memory
• “The Scarlet Ibis”
• “A Christmas” Memory”
• “Your Laughter”
• “How Do I Love Thee”
• “Barefoot in the Park”
• “The Sniper”
• “Cranes”
• “Liberty”
• “Exile”
• An American Story”
• “Ex-Refugee is Nominated”
• “Papa Who Wakes Up in Tired in the Dark”
• “Those Winter Sundays”
Literature: 2-3
• Icarus and Daedahus
• Demeter and Perephone
• Other Greek Myths
• Oh Captain, Oh Captain
• Mother to Son
• Dream Deferred
• Sympathy
• I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• I Never Saw a Butterfly
• Holocaust Poetry
• The Diary of Anne Frank (play)
Informational texts: 1-2
• Heinrich Scheilmiche Article
• City States of Greece
• I Have A Dream
• Letters From the Birmingham Jail
• Brown vs. The Board of Education
• Gettysburg Address
• The Declaration of Independence
• “Kristallnacht”
• “The Book Burning”
• The Holocaust
Literature: 2-3
• “Blizzard”
• Suzy and Leah, Jane Yolen
• My First Summer, Julia Alvarez
• Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
• “You Have to Live in Somebody Else’s Country to Understand”
poem
• Excerpts from Whalerider
Informational texts: 1-2
• Challenge and
• Survival (several texts)
• Several informational articles from other sources
• The Suitcase (various authors)
• Melting Pot Anna Quindlen
• Discovering a Paper Son, Byron Yee
• Ta-Na-E-Ka” Mary Whitebird
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Literature:
Informational:
• Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Immigrant Kids by Russell
Freedman
• The Watsons Go to
Birmingham 1963 by
Christopher Paul Curtis
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770-980
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Lexile rates
770-980
Literature:
Informational:
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
• National Geographic
Continents/Cultures
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O’Dell
Literature:
Informational
Literature: 2-3
• “If” by Rudyard Kipling
• “All I really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten”
• If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island, by Ellen Levine
• When Jessie Came Across the Sea, By Amy Hest
• “Before We Were Free” (excerpt from Daybook)
Informational
• Class President by: Johanna
Hurwitz
• Love That Dog by Sharon
Creech (read aloud)
Middletown Public Schools
• I am Native of North America, Prentice Hall
• “Memorial and Recommendations of the Grand Council of
American Indians”
Informational texts: 1-2
• Rules to Live by Steve Jobs
• President Obama’s 2009 Back-to School Speech
• “On Discovering America”: by Pearl Buck
• Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• The New York Times: “Birmingham Bomb Kills Four Negro
Girls in Church; Riots Flare; Two Boys Slain”
• Articles about:
o Montgomery Bus Boycott
o Montgomery Sit-ins
o Central High School integration
o Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church
o March on Washington
Literature: 3-5
• Flush, Scat, Chomp, Carl Hiaasen
• “Wol Walks on Water,” Farley Mowatt
• Native American folktales/legends
Informational texts: 1-2
• Who Was Jane Goodall? Roberta Edwards
• Articles about
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burrowing owls
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Florida everglades
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endangered species
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bullying
• Short articles about dolphins, sea elephants, otters
• Weekly Reader , “Hunt for the Gray Whale”
• “Shackleton’s Epic Voyage)
Literature: 5-9
• Woodrow, the White House Mouse
• House Mouse, Senate Mouse
• Woodrow for President
by: Peter W. Barnes and
Cheryl Shaw Barnes
• Hate that Cat by: Sharon Creech
• Just Juice by: Karen Hesse
• Robin Hood and Little John (poem) by: Anonymous
• Why Dragons? (poem) by: Jane Yolen
Informational texts: 1-2
• Bill of Rights and Constitution
by: Christine Taylor-Butler
• Declaration of Independence
by: Elaine Landau
• Constitution – Translated for Kids
by: Cathy Travis
• The Circulatory System (A True Book) by: Darlene R. Stille
• The Respiratory System (A True Book) by: Darlene R. Stille
• Davy Crockett: A Photo-Illustrated Biography by: Kathy
Feeney
• Clara Barton by: Time for Kids Editors
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(Read Aloud):
• Young American Colonial
Williamsburg John’s Story:
1775 by: Joan Lowery Nixon
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• Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing by: Judy Blume
Informational
Extended Text
Literature
Informational
(Read Aloud)
• The Castle in the Attic by:
Elizabeth Winthrop
• The Treasure Chest – Angel of
the Battlefield by: Ann Hood
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Lexile rates
450-725
Literature:
• Because of Winn Dixie ( 1 of
each) by Katie DiCamillo
• Author Study- (6 of each)
Patricia Polacco (see unit for
specifics
• The Orphan of Ellis Island by
Elvira Woodruff
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by
Patricia Mclaughlin
Informational
• Science
• Author Study- (7 of each) by
Mary Jo Rhodes
• Partners in the Sea
• Predators of the Sea
• Sea Turtles
• Life on a Coral Reef
• Dolphins, Seals, and other
Sea Mammals
• Seahorses and Sea Dragons
Literature: 5-9
• Fables & Folktales (6 of each)
• MTH: Tonight on the Titanic
Informational:
Informational:
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Link to Science Kit
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Life Cycles
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(Add Frogs to Kit)
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(Add Chicks to kit)
Literature: 5-9
• The Empty Pot (Demi)
• The Greatest Treasure (Demi)
• The Wise Old Woman (retold by Yoshiko Uchida)
• The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale (retold by Yumi Iko)
• The Legend of the BlueBonnet (Tomie DePaola)
• Moon Rope (Lois Ehlert)
• Why the Tides Ebb and Flow by Joan Chase Bowden (7 of each)
The Titanic: Lost and Found by Judy Donnelly Emma’s Rug (6 copies)
by Allen Say
• The Sign Painter (6 copies) by Allen Say
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• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (teacher copy)
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• Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1 of
each)
• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob
Buyea (1 of each)
• Snowflake Bentley by
Jacqueline Briggs Martin (1 of
each)
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450-725
Literature:
• Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story
from China by Ai-Ling Louie
(RA)
• The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe
Martin (RA)
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters:
An African Tale (Jon Steptoe)
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Informational texts: 1-2
• National Geographic Kids World Atlas 4th Edition (Classroom
Set-27)
• Time for Kids/Scholastic News (Classroom Set-27)
• Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne (Classroom Set-27)
• Dolphin Adventure: A True Story by Wayne Grover (classroom
set- 27
• Who Was: Walt Disney (7 copies) by Whitney Stewart
• Time for Kids: Jackie Robinson (7 copies) by Editors of Time
for Kids
• DK Readers: Thomas Edison: The Great Inventor (7 copies) by
Caryn Jenner
• Marvelous Mattie (7 copies) by Emily McCully
• Lewis and Clark (history makers biographies) (7 copies) by
Candice Ransom
Informational:
• Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground
Railroad (1849) by Ellen Levine & Kadir Nelson) (RA)
• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Cole (RA) (Informational
Assessment)
• Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story (1960) by Ruby
Bridges (RA) (Informational Assessment)
• Martin Luther King Jr. & The March on Washington (1963) by
CORE BOOKS
English Language Arts Revised 2014
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(RA)
• The Golden Sandal: A Middle
Eastern Cinderella Story by
(Rebecca Hickox) (RA)
• Cinderella by (James Marshall)
(RA)
• The Three Little Hawaiian Pigs
and the Magic Shark, Donivee
Martin Larid
• The Three Little Pigs, James
Marshall
• The True Story of the Three
Little Pigs, Jon Sciesvka
• The Three Little Wolves and
the Big Bad Pig, Eugene
Tribizas
• The Three Little Javelinas
Susan Lowell
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Slower than the Rest by Cynthia Rylant (RA- Narrative Writing)
Oliver Button by Tomie DePaola (RA)
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman (RA)
My First American Friend by Sarunna Jin (RA)
Fairy Tales:
• The Fisherman and His Wife
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• Beauty and the Beast
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Folk Tales and Legends:
• Paul Bunyan
• Pecos Bill
• John Henry
• Casey Jones
Frances E. Ruffin and Stephen Marchesi (RA)
• Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(1963) by Doreen Rappaport & Bryan Collier)
• “Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down “(1960) by
Andrea D. & Brian Pinkey)
6 copies of the following:
• The Liberty Bell
• The Lincoln Memorial
• The Washington Monument
• The American Flag
• The Bald Eagle
• The Whitehouse
• Mount Rushmore
• The Alamo
• The Statue of Liberty
Informational:
• Owen and Mzee (RA)
• Spiders by Gail Gibbons (RA)
• Pigs by Gail Gibbons (RA)
• Farming by Gail Gibbons (RA)
• Butterflies by Gail Gibbons (RA)
6 copies of the following:
• Spiders by Nic Bishop
• Frogs by Nic Bishop
• Butterflies and Moths by Nic Bishop
Fables:
Aesop Fables
Arnold Lobel
Read Alouds
• Charlotte’s Web (RA)
• Gooney Bird Greene (RA)
• Molly Lou Melon by Patty
Lovell (RA)
• The Brand-New Kid by Katie
Couric (RA)
Poetry:
• Honey I Love
6 copies of the following:
• Frog and Toad Series
• Henry and Mudge Series
• George and Martha Series
• Poppleton Series
• Bing and Golly Series
• Mercy Watson Series
6 copies of the following:
• Frog and Toad Series
• Henry and Mudge Series
• George and Martha Series
• Poppleton Series
• Bing and Golly Series
• Mercy Watson Series
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Informational
• The Other Side
• Barefoot
• Dad, Jackie, and Me by Myron Uhlber
• The Diary of Clotee, a Slave
Girl: A Picture of Freedom by
Patricia C. McKissack (Dear
America Series)
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Literature
Literature: Read Alouds
• Stand Tall Molly Lu Mellon by Patty Lovell
Middletown Public Schools
Informational:
• Manners by Aliki
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Informational
The Recess Queen by Alexis ONeill
Bucket Filler
David by David Shannon
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
Boy Who Cried Wolf
Little Red Hen
Tortoise and The Hare by Jan Brett
Town Mouse Country Mouse
Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver
Officer Buckle And Gloria
Different versions of Folktales such as Three Little Pigs,
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Guided Reading Texts
• Levels A-F
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Informational Read Alouds:
• Look What Came From China(Miles Harvey)
• Look What Came from Australia (Kevin Davis)
• Look What Came from Egypt (Miles Harvey)
• Ancient Egypt: A First Look at People of the Nile (Bruce
Strachan)
• Look What Came from Africa (Miles Harvey)
• DK First Atlas (Anita Ganeri and Chris Oxlade)
When Sophie gets Angry- Really Really Angry by Molly Bang
Alexander and The Horrible Terrible Day
Julius Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes
Owen by Kevin Henkes
Lily and the Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Sheila Rae the Brave by Kevin Henkes
Guided Reading Texts
• Levels D-I
Read Alouds
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins
• My Father’s Dragon
• Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, etc. by Doreen Cronin
• Mem Fox (Animal themes books)
• A Color of His Own by Leo Lioni
• The Ugly Duckling
• The Owl and the Pussycat
• My Father’s Dragon
• Yo?Yes!
Guided Reading Levels F-J
• Yen-Shen : A Cinderella Story from China
• (Ai-Ling Louie and Ed Young)
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Hello! Good-bye! By Aliki
“Scholastic News”
149 2Christopher Columbus
Thanksgiving/Pilgrims
Poems
Tornadoes by Gail Gibbons
Scholastic News
Gail Gibbons author study (animal books)
Jim Arnosky books
(All About Owls, All About____)
National Geographic Science series Plants and Animals and
Living Things
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Literature
Informational
• The Egyptian Cinderella Story
• (Shirley Climo and Ruth Heller)
• Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale (Robert D.
Souci and Sergio Martinez)
• Fair Brown and Trembling: An Irish Cinderella Story (Jude Daly)
• The Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story (Penny Polluck and Ed
Young)
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Literature:
Rhythm and Rhyme
• The Hungry Thing
• A Hunting We Will Go
• Llama Llama series
• Pete the Cat series
• Nursery Rhymes
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
• LMNO Peas
• Eating the Alphabet
• The Alphabet Tree
• ABC Animal Jamboree
• Building a Classroom Community
• Big Al
• Swimmy
• Rainbow Fish
• When Sophie Gets Angry
• The Elephant and the Rainbow
• “David” series
• Where the Wild things Are
• Pigeon Books
• Officer Buckle and Gloria
• Bucket Filler
• How to Lose your Friends
• The Kissing Hand
• The Crayon Box that Talked
• Will I have a Friend by PK Hallinan
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Author Study
• Nancy Carlson
• Laura Numeroff
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Informational
• Scholastic Weekly Readers
• Gail Gibbons
• Melvin and Gilda Berger
• Jim Arnosky
Me & My Community
• Fire! Fire!
• Whose Hat is this?
• Whose Tools are These?
• Whose Vehicle is This?
• When I Grow Up by PK Hallinan
• Delivering Your Mail
Seasons & Holidays
• Giving Thanks
• The First Thanksgiving
• Growing Apples and Pumpkins
• Red Leaf Yellow Leaf
• Leaf Man
• Its Pumpkin Time
• A Tree for All Seasons by R. Bernard
Science:
• 5 Senses/ Nat Geo
• My 5 Senses by Aliki
• Listening Walk by P. Showers
• My 5 Senses by M. Miller
• “National Geographic”
• The Sky
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Informational
• Jamica’s Find
• Snowy Day
• The Mitten
by Jan Brett
Alvin Tresselt
• Move Over Rover
• Gingerbread Books
• Day and Night
• Seasons and Holidays
• Weather:
Social Studies:
• Helping others
• Rules
• Being Responsible
• “National Geographic:
Animals:
Compare/Contrast
• The Mitten and Move Over Rover
• Stellaluna and Owl Babies
Author Study
• Denise Flemming
• Ezra Jack Keats
• “National Geographic”
Plants:
• Plenty of penguins
• The Emperor’s Eggs
Story Maps
• Owl Babies and Owls
by Jim Arnosky
• Life in a Tree, Melvin Berger.
Author study:
Eric Carle
• Brown Bear Brown Bear what Do You see?
• Polar Bear Polar Bear What do you Hear?
• A House for Hermit Crab
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• The Very Busy Spider
• The Tiny Seed
• Friends
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