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(Anchor Book)
By Joan Sweeney

Summary: This book introduces and explains the many ways objects are measured.

Important Features: The book explains the difference between weight, size, length, and wet and dry measurements in a way that young students can understand.

Subtopic: Standard Measurement

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(Anchor Book)

By David Adler and Nancy Tobin

Summary: This is an introduction to the history of measurement that discusses cubits, paces, the English inch-pound system and metric system.

Important Features: The reader can partake in activities like measuring height, 'pacing' the neighborhood, making a metric ruer, and determining distances in kilometers .

Subtopic: Standard measurement and tools

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(Anchor Book)
By Stuart Murphy

Summary: In this story, there is the explaining of basics of standard and non-standard measurement by using a sandcastle building contest to capture the attention of the students.

Important Features: Students can see the difference when the children use non-standard measuring objects to see the size of their castles and when a tape measure is used at the end of the contest.

Subtopics: Measure and Compare

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By Leo Lionni

Summary: This book is about an inch worm that measures different objects, such as flamingos, beaks, tails, songs, and other objects.

Important Features: This book features different  items to measure in a non-standard, humorous way that could create conversations with a class, such as how to measure a song like shown in the book.

Subtopics: Non-standard measurement

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By Brian Cleary
Illustrated by Brian Gable

Summary:  In this book, the zany cats compare metric and American units of measurement.

Important Features: This book shows different measurement tools and how they are used. (rulers, meter sticks..) Introduces vocabulary like length, wide, tall.

Subtopic: Measurement

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By Rod Clement

Summary: This book uses a boy and his dog to show size comparisons and give mathematical facts that will help students see the difference between objects and their measurements.

Subtopics: Non-standard Measurement and Comparisons

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By Loreen Leedy

Summary: Lisa measures everything she sees using different standard and non-standard objects.

Important Features:  Lisa measures using height, width, length, volume, temperature, time, and volume.

Subtopic: Standard and non-standard measurement

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Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?

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Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?

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By Robert E. Wells

Summary: This books brings students to use their imagination and thoughts to make comparisons of measurement with large items.

Important Features: The data and comparisons in the book can be used for graphing and other measurement activities

Subtopics: Graphing and Measurement Comparisons