Literature Connections
Writing
Grades 3-5
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Focus
  • Kirby Kelvin and the Not Laughing Lessons by Ivon Cecil
  • 26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie de Paola
  • Here We All Are by Tomie de Paola
  • What You Know First by Patricia MacLachlan
  • How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague
  • Weird Parents by Audrey Wood
  • A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams
  • Something Beautiful by Sharon Wyeth
  • The Magic School Bus by Joanna Cole
  • Shortcut by Donald Crews
  • Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
  • Jordi's Star by Alma Flor Ada
  • Corduroy by Don Freeman
  • Baseball, Snakes, and Summer Squash by Donald Graves
  • Come On, Rain by Karen Hesse
  • Clever Tom and the Leprechaun by Linda Shute
  • When I Was Five by Arthur Howard
  • Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz
  • SWISH by Bill Martin
  • Moses Goes to a Concert by Isaac Millman
  • When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
  • The Great Gracie Chase by Cynthia Rylant
  • Dear Mr. LaRue by Mark Teague

Organization
  • Verdi by Janell Cannon
  • Testing Miss Malarkey by Judy Finchler
  • Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James
  • Pond Year by Kathryn Lasky
  • Epossumondas by Coleen Salley
  • The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
  • The Araboolies of Liberty Streetby Sam Swope
  • Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya
  • Grandpa's Teeth by Rod Clement
  • Aunt Flossie's Hat by Elizabeth Howard
  • There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer
  • Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant
  • Sierra by Diane Siebert
  • Shrek by William Steig
  • The Lost and Found by Mark Teague
  • The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg
  • The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
  • Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
  • Peepers by Eve Bunting
  • Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
  • Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes
  • The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston
  • The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

Support and Elaboration
  • Alejandro's Gift by Richard Albert
  • Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour by Eve Bunting
  • Miss Alaineus by Debra Frasier
  • Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter by Osceola Mays and Alan Govenar
  • Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James
  • The Ghost-Eye Tree by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
  • Insects Are My Life by Megan McDoanld
  • Ma Dear's Aprons by Patricia McKissack
  • The Black Snowman by Phil Mendez
  • Zora Hurston by William Miller
  • Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Mosso
  • Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
  • It's an Ant's Life by Steve Parker
  • The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
  • Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
  • Say Hi! by Charlotte Zolotow
  • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
  • The Egg by M. P. Robertson
  • The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci
  • The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
  • I Wonder If I'll See a Whale by Frances Weller
  • All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth
  • The Crane Wife by Sumiko Yagawa

Style
  • Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie de Paola
  • Olivia by Ian Falconer
  • The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant
  • Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant
  • Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour by Eve Bunting
  • Look Out, Jack! The Giant Is Back! by Tom Birdseye
  • Some Smug Slug by Patricia Edwards
  • Night Noises by Mem Fox
  • Miss Alaineus by Debra Frasier
  • Amber on the Mountain by Tony Johnston
  • Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
  • Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull
  • Barn Dance by Bill Martin, Jr.
  • Moosetache by Margie Palatini
  • Big, Bad Bruce by Bill Peet
  • The Seashore by Charlotte Zolotow
  • Dog Tales by Bill Peet
  • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
  • Brave Irene by William Steig
  • When Everyone Wore a Hat by William Steig
  • Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
  • Miz Berlin Walks by Jane Yolen
  • Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

Conventions
  • I Love Words by Barbara McGrath
  • Wonderful Words by Ed Bennett
  • Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
  • America: A Patriotic Primer by Lynn Cheney
  • Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? by Brian P. Cleary
  • Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? by Ed Bennett
  • A Mink, A Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? by Brian P. Cleary
  • Yo Yes! by Raschka Chris
  • To Root, to Toot, to Parachute by Brian P. Cleary
  • Under, Over, by the Clover by Brian P. Cleary
  • Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
  • Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
  • The Paper Dragon by Marguerite W. Davol
  • How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You by Ralph Fletcher
  • Behind the Mask by Ruth Heller
  • The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants by Priscilla Turner
  • A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns by Ruth Heller
  • Fantastic! Wow! and Unreal!: A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions by Ruth Heller
  • Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
  • Good Night, Good Knight by Shelley Moore Thomas
  • Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver
  • Eight Ate by Marvin Terban
  • Your Foot's on My Feet by Marvin Terban