Title/Author |
TEK/Topic |
Misc. |
Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds |
Social Studies, Civil Rights, Black History, Point of View, Inspiration, Determination, |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzYV_eATGY
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All Star! Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever by Jane Yolen |
Sports-Baseball, Overcoming adversity, |
http://baseballhall.org/hof/wagner-honus
http://www.honuswagner.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T206_Honus_Wagner
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Fifty Cents And A Dream Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim
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Determination, Black History |
http://www.biography.com/people/booker-t-washington-9524663
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Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems |
Inference, Sarcasm, Moral, Parody |
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/goldilocks_story.htm
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Tito Puente Mambo King by Monica Brown |
Expository Writing |
Invite percussionists to teach the students how to drum out a beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT7nE1cwsjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIWkzwc1EAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fhsmVyNaw
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The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane and Herm Auch |
The Writing Process, Word Play |
http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/Page/9296
http://www.holidayhouse.com/docs/plot_chickens_the.pdf
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Mr. Wuffles! by David Wiesner |
Wordless Book, Inference, Cause and Effect |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjNSxn3MVaM
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Write On, Mercy! The Secret Life of Mercy Otis Warren by Gretchen Woelfle |
Social Studies-American Revolution, Women's Rights |
http://www.revolutionary-war.net/mercy-otis-warren.html
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Rosa by Nikki Giovanni |
Social Studies-Segregation, Black History, Civil Rights |
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-rosa-parks
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The Monsters' Monster by Patrick McDonnell |
Irony |
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Just Being Audrey by Margaret Cardillo |
Social Studies-World War II, Holocaust, Theatre, Acting, Determination, Humanitarianism |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirBWk-qd9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQVzgEO_w8
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Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher |
Poetic Prose, Figurative Language, Personification |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO61nJWWp2I
Have students read the book. Then play the video above. Did the narrators style give different meaning to the reading?
http://collaborationcuties.blogspot.com/2013/09/twilight-comes-twice-figurative.html
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When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan |
Jim Crow Laws, Black HIstory, Civil Rights |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2asMAfRKH0
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Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson |
Apartheid, South Africa, Segregation, Determination |
http://www.history.com/topics/nelson-mandela
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The Quiet Place by Sarah Stewart |
Letters, Immigrants, |
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Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley |
Point of View, Tone, Style |
http://campus.kellerisd.net/librarycurr/Curriculum%20Connection/C-PAK%20%28Curriculum%20Connections%29%20Lessons/Once%20Upon%20a%20Cool%20Motorcycle%20Dude.pdf
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Press Here by Herve Tullet |
Prediction, Interactive |
http://www.chroniclebooks.com/landing-pages/presshere/images/PressHereActivitySheets.pdf
http://www.anddev.org/other-coding-problems-f5/download-ebook-press-here-by-herve-tullet-doc-pdb-pdf-t2195193.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj81KC-Gm64
Have students design their own interactive book.
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Wumbers by Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
Decoding, |
Compare to texting language.
http://www.chroniclebooks.com/landing-pages/pdfs/Wumbers_TeachersGuide.pdf
http://us.macmillan.com/cdc/williamsteig
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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream retold by Bruce Coville |
Introduction to Shakespeare |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUDvZaMl4RU Does the tone of this musical piece match the action of the story? |
The Lily Cupboard A Story of the Holocaust by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim |
Social Studies-WWII, Holocaust, Netherlands, |
http://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/hidden-children/stories_of_the_hidden/
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Mousterpiece A Mouse-sized Guide to Modern Art by Jane Breskin Zalben |
Art-Styles of prominent artists |
Have students identify the artists being imitated. |
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