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Grade K Literature Big BooksUnit 1, Week 1 What About Bear? by Suzanne Bloom
Unit 1, Week 2 Pouch! by David Ezra Stein
Unit 1, Week 3 Senses at the Seashore by Shelley Rotner
Unit 2, Week 1 The Handiest Things in the World by Andrew Clements
Unit 2, Week 3 I Love Bugs! by Emma Dodd
Unit 3, Week 1 How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen
Unit 3, Week 2 Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City by Robert Burleigh
Unit 3, Week 3 Please Take Me for a Walk by Susan Gal
Unit 4, Week 1 Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job by Stephen Swinburne
Unit 4, Week 2 What Can You Do with a Paleta? by Carmen Tafolla
Unit 4, Week 3 Roadwork by Sally Sutton
Unit 5, Week 1 My Garden by Kevin Henkes; Poems: "Tommy" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Maytime Magic" by Mabel Watts, "The Seed" by Aileen Fisher, "Garden" by Alma Flor Ada
Unit 5, Week 2 A Grand Old Tree by Mary Newell DePalma
Unit 5, Week 3 An Orange in January by Dianna Hutts Aston
Unit 6, Week 1 Mama, Is It Summer Yet? by Nikki McClure Poems: "New Snow" by Lillian Moore; "Rain Song" by Leland B. Jacobs, "Covers" by Nikki Giovanni, “Honey, I love” by Eloise Greenfield
Unit 6, Week 2 Rain by Manya Stojic
Unit 6, Week 3 Waiting Out the Storm by Joann Early Macken
Unit 7, Week 1 Zooborns! by Andrew Bleiman "Mischievous Goat" by Charley Hoce, "Over in the Meadow" John Langstaff, "Kitty Caught a Caterpillar" Jack Prelutsky
Unit 7, Week 2 The Birthday Pet by Ellen Javernick
Unit 7, Week 3 Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Unit 8, Week 1 When Daddy's Truck Picks Me Up by Jana Novotny Hunter
Unit 8, Week 3 Bringing Down the Moon by Jonathan Emmett
Unit 9, Week 1 Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Unit 9, Week 2 Hen Hears Gossip by Megan McDonald
Unit 9, Week 3 Bread Comes to Life by George Levenson
Unit 10, Week 1 What's the Big Idea Molly? by Valeri Gorbachev
Unit 10, Week 2 All Kinds of Families by Mary Ann Hoberman
Unit 10, Week 3 Panda Kindergarten by Joanne Ryder
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Grade 1 Literature Big BooksUnit 1, Week 1 This School Year Will Be the Best! by Kay Winters
Unit 1, Week 2 Alicia's Happy Day by Meg Starr, illustrated. by Ying-hua Hu and Cornelius Van Wright
Unit 1, Week 3 Cool Dog, School Dog by Deborah Heiligman, illustrated by Tim Bowers
Unit 1, Week 5 Move! by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Unit 2, Week 1 Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier
Unit 2, Week 2 The 3 Little Dassies by Jan Brett
Unit 2, Week 3 Babies in the Bayou by Jim Arnosky
Unit 2, Week 4 The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. by Johnny Ray Moore, illustrated by Amy Wummer
Unit 2, Week 5 Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney, illustrated by Annette Cable
Unit 3, Week 1 A Second Is a Hiccup by Hazel Hutchins
Unit 3, Week 2 Mystery Vine by Cathryn Falwell
Unit 3, Week 3 Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
Unit 3, Week 4 The Last Train by Gordon Titcomb, illustrated by Wendell Minor
Unit 3, Week 5 Where Does Food Come From? by Shelley Rotner and Gary Gross
Grade 1 Literature Anthology
Unit 1, Week 4 “There Are Days and There Are Days” by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Unit 1, Week 5 Time For Kids: Move It!; “Using Diagrams”
Unit 2, Week 3 “Way Down Deep” by Mary Ann Hoberman
Unit 2, Week 5 Time For Kids: Fun with Maps; "North, East, South, or West?"
Unit 3 Week 3 Mother Goose Rhymes: “Hickory, Dickory, Dock”; “Higglety, Piggelty, Pop”; “Hey! Diddle, Diddle”: “Star Light”
Unit 3, Week 5 Time for Kids: From Cows to You; "A Food Chart"
Unit 4, Week 3 Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre; illustrated by Steve Jenkins; “When It’s Snowing” by Aileen Fisher
Unit 4, Week 4 Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
Unit 4, Week 5 Time for Kids: Koko and Penny; “Saving Mountain Gorillas”
Unit 5, Week 1 A Lost Button (from Frog and Toad Are Friends) by Arnold Lobel
Unit 5, Week 2 Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Unit 5, Week 3 “Windshield Wipers”; “Scissors” by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Unit 5, Week 4 Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Unit 5, Week 5 Time for Kids: Building Bridges; “Small Joy”
Unit 6, Week 1 Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin; illustrated by Betsy Lewin
Unit 6, Week 2 “Abuelita’s Lap” by Pat Mora
Unit 6, Week 3 Rain School by James Rumford
Unit 6, Week 4 Lissy's Friends by Grace Lin
Unit 6, Week 5 Time for Kids: Happy Birthday, U.S.A.!; "A Young Nation Grows"
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Grade 2 Literature AnthologyUnit 1, Week 1 Help! A Story of Friendship; by Holly Keller “Crayons” by Helen H. Moore
Unit 1, Week 2 Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan; illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Unit 1, Week 3 Not Norman by Kelly Bennett; illustrated by Noah Z. Jones; “My Puppy” by Aileen Fisher
Unit 1, Week 4 Lola and Tiva: An Unlikely Friendship by Juliana, Isabella, and Craig Hatkoff; photos by Peter Greste
Unit 1, Week 5 Time for Kids: Families Working Together; “Why We Work”
Unit 2, Week 1 Sled Dogs Run by Jonathan London; illustrated by Jon Van Zyle
Unit 2, Week 2 Wolf! Wolf! By John Rocco
Unit 2, Week 3 Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! by April Pulley Sayre; illustrated by Annie Patterson
Unit 2, Week 4 Baby Bears by Bobbie Kalman
Unit 2, Week 5 Poems: "Beetles," by Monica Shannon "The Little Turtle" by Vachel Lindsay; "Gray Goose" by Julie Larios
Unit 3, Week 1 I Fall Down by Vickie Cobb; illustrated by Julia Gorton
Unit 3, Week 2 Mr. Putter and Tabby See the Stars by Cynthia Rylant; illustrated by Arthur Howard
Unit 3, Week 3 Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia by Jeanette Winter
Unit 3, Week 5 Time for Kids: Many Ways to Enjoy Music; “A Musical Museum”
Unit 4, Week 1 Rain Forests by Nancy Smiler Levinson; illustrated by Diane Dawson Hearn
Unit 4, Week 3 Dear Primo by Duncan Tonatiuh
Unit 4, Week 5 Poems: "April Rain Song," by Langston Hughes "Rain Poem" by Elizabeth Coatsworth; "Helicopters," by Sylvia Cassedy, "Windy Tree" by Aileen Fisher
Unit 5, Week 1 Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio; illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Unit 5, Week 2 Once Upon a Baby Brother by Sarah Sullivan; illustrated by Tricia Tusa
Unit 5, Week 4 The Woodcutter’s Gift by Lupe Ruiz-Flores; illustrated by Elaine Jerome
Unit 5, Week 5 Time for Kids: Setting the Rules; “American Symbols”
Unit 6, Week 1 The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico by Nina Jaffe; illustrated by Enrique O. Sánchez
Unit 6, Week 2 My Light by Molly Bang
Unit 6, Week 3 Astronaut Handbook by Megan McCarthy
Unit 6, Week 4 Money Madness by David A. Adler; illustrated by Edward Miller
Unit 6, Week 5 : Poems: "Books to the Ceiling," by Arnold Lobel, "I've Got This Covered," by Laura Purdie Salas, "Eating While Reading” by Gary Soto; "Clay Play," by Kristine O’Connell George, "Crayons" by Marchette Chute
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Grade 3 Literature AnthologyUnit 1, Week 1 Wolf! by Becky Bloom; illustrated by Pascal Biet
Unit 1, Week 2 Yoon and the Jade Bracelet by Helen Recorvits; illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska
Unit 1, Week 4 All Aboard! Elijah McCoy’s Steam Engine by Monica Kulling; illustrated by Bill Slavin
Unit 1, Week 5 Time for Kids: A Mountain of History; A Landmark Street
Unit 2, Week 1 Roadrunner’s Dance by Rudolfo Anaya; illustrated by David Diaz
Unit 2, Week 2 The Castle on Hester Street by Linda Heller; illustrated by Boris Kulikov
Unit 2, Week 3 Vote! by Eileen Christelow
Unit 2, Week 5 Poems: “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters,” by Patricia Hubbell “Ornithopter” by J. Patrick Lewis; “Montgolfier Brothers’ Hot Air Balloon” by J. Patrick Lewis
Unit 3, Week 1 Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by Carmen Agra Deedy; illustrated by Michael Austin
Unit 3, Week 2 Finding Lincoln by Ann Malaspina; illustrated by Colin Bootman
Unit 3, Week 3 Earth by Jeffrey Zuehlke
Unit 3, Week 5 Time for Kids: Riding the Rails West!; “Discovering Life Long Ago”
Unit 4, Week 1 The Real Story of Stone Soup by Ying Chang Compestine; illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Unit 4, Week 2 The Talented Clementine; Clementine and the Family Meeting by Sara Pennypacker; pictures by Marla Frazee
Unit 4, Week 4 Hot Air Balloons by Dana Meachen Rau
Unit 4, Week 5 “The Winningest Woman of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race”, by J. Patrick Lewis by Eloise Greenfield
"The Brave Ones"; “Narcissa" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Unit 5, Week 1 Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Unit 5, Week 2 Bravo, Tavo! by Brian Meunier; illustrated by Perky Edgerton
Unit 5, Week 4 Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone; illustrated by Rebecca Gibbon
Unit 5, Week 5 Time for Kids: It's All in the Wind; “Power for All"
Unit 6, Week 2 Nora’s Ark by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock; illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully
Unit 6, Week 4 Alligators and Crocodiles by Gail Gibbons
Unit 6, Week 5 Poems: “Ollie’s Escape”; by David Crawley “The Gentleman Bookworm” by J. Patrick Lewis
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Grade 4 Literature AnthologyUnit 1, Week 1 The Princess and the Pizza, by Mary Jane Auch
Unit 1, Week 2 Experts, Incorporated by Sarah Weeks
Unit 1, Week 4 A Crash Course in Forces and Motion by Emily Sohn
Unit 1, Week 5 Time for Kids: Kids in Business; "Starting a Successful Business"
Unit 2, Week 1 The Secret Message by Mina Javaherbin
Unit 2, Week 3 The Buffalo Are Back by Jean Craighead George
Unit 2, Week 4 Spiders by Nic Bishop
Unit 2, Week 5 Poems: "The Sandpiper" by Frances Frost "Bat" by X. J. Kennedy, "The Grasshopper Springs” by James W. Hackett, "Fireflies at Dusk" by Evelyn Rose; "Fog" by Carl Sandburg, "White Cat Winter" by Tony Johnston”
Unit 3, Week 1 The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Unit 3, Week 2 Aguinaldo by Lulu Delacre
Unit 3, Week 3 Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jim Haskins
Unit 3, Week 4 Abe’s Honest Words by Doreen Rappaport
Unit 3, Week 5 Time for Kids: “A New Kind of Corn; “The Pick of the Patch”
Unit 4, Week 1 See How They Run by Susan E. Goodman
Unit 4, Week 2 LaRue for Mayor by Mark Teague
Unit 4, Week 3 The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston
Unit 4, Week 4 Why Does the Moon Change Shape? by Melissa Stewart
Unit 4, Week 5 Poems: "Swimming to the Rock" by Mary Atkinson "The Moondust Footprint" by Bobbi Katz; "Genius" by Nikki Grimes, "Winner" by Gene Fehler
Unit 5, Week 1 Mama, I’ll Give You the World by Roni Schotter
Unit 5, Week 2 Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
Unit 5, Week 3 How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer
Unit 5, Week 4 A Drop of Water by Walter Wick
Unit 5, Week 5 Time for Kids: Rediscovering Our Spanish Beginning; “History's Mysteries"
Unit 6, Week 1 The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich
Unit 6, Week 2 Valley of the Moon by Sherry Garland
Unit 6, Week 3 Energy Island by Allan Drummond
Unit 6, Week 5 Poems: "The Drum" by Nikki Giovanni "Birdfoot's Grampa" by Joseph Bruchac, "My Chinatown" by Kam Mak; "Growing Up" by Liz Ann Báez Aguilar "My People” by Langston Hughes
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Grade 5 Literature AnthologyUnit 1, Week 1 One Hen by Katie Smith Milway
Unit 1, Week 3 Camping with the President by Ginger Wadsworth
Unit 1, Week 4 The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull
Unit 1, Week 5 Time for Kids: The Future of Transportation; “Getting From Here to There”
Unit 2, Week 1 Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution? by Candice Ransom
Unit 2, Week 2 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Unit 2, Week 3 The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies
Unit 2, Week 4 Blancaflor by Alma Flor Ada
Unit 2, Week 5 Poems: “Stage Fright” by Lee Bennett Hopkins, “Catching Quiet” by Marci Ridlon; “Foul Shot” by Edwin A. Hoey
Unit 3, Week 1 They Don’t Mean It! by Lensey Namioka
Unit 3, Week 2 Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
Unit 3, Week 3 The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson
Unit 3, Week 4 Winter’s Tail by Juliana, Isabella, and Craig Hatkoff
Unit 3, Week 5 Time for Kids: Machu Picchu: Ancient City; “Dig This
Technology!”
Unit 4, Week 1 Davy Crockett Saves the World by Rosalyn Schanzer
Unit 4, Week 3 Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Unit 4, Week 4 One Well by Rochelle Strauss
Unit 4, Week 5 Poems: “Words Free as Confetti” by Pat Mora, “Dreams” by Langston Hughes; “A Story of How a Wall Stands” by Simon J. Ortiz
Unit 5, Week 1 Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
Unit 5, Week 2 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Unit 5, Week 3 Global Warning by Seymour Simon
Unit 5, Week 4 When Is a Planet Not a Planet? by Elaine Scott
Unit 5, Week Time for Kids: The Case of the Missing Bee; “Busy, Beneficial Bee”
Unit 6, Week 1 The Unbreakable Code by Sara Hoagland Hunter
Unit 6, Week 2 The Friend Who Changed My Life by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Unit 6, Week 3 Survival at 40 Below by Debbie S. Miller
Unit 6, Week 4 Planting the Trees of Kenya by Claire A. Nivola
Unit 6, Week 5 Poems: “You and I” by Mary Ann Hoberman; “A Time to Talk” by Robert Frost
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