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Binky to the Rescue
Graphic Novel-- Video of reading story: Narrative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUCzCVM-kM
Author & Illustrator: Spires, Ashley
Reader: Maya
Publication date: 2010
Genre: Comic Humor
Approximate interest level: 2-5
Approximate text level: 1st grade
Lexile Measure: 360L
Brief teaser: Binky must rescue Ted from the clutches of these evil aliens. Will he be able to save his best friend? Can Ted survive his ordeal? Does Binky still suffer from space gas?
Teaching idea: Practice reading a comic, then practice writing their own.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/comic-strip-creations

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Hey There, Stink Bug!
https://www.charlesbridge.com/products/hey-there-stink-bug
Author: Bulion, Leslie
Illustrator: Evans, Leslie
Publication date: 2008
Genre: Poetry
Approximate interest level: 1-4
Approximate text level:
Brief teaser: Witty nonfiction poems describe how insects capture prey, trick predators, attract mates, and have managed to survive for 400 million years.
Teaching idea:  Have students go outside and find a bug to watch for a couple minutes. Then they can come inside and write a poem about their creature.
https://www.teachervision.com/poetry/printable/54548.html

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type of non-fiction writing used to convince the reader to agree with the author about an issue.

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1551701.Earrings_
Author: Viorst, Judith
Illustrator: Langner Malone, Nora
Publication date: 1993
Genre: Friendship
Approximate interest level: 1-5
Approximate text level: 2nd Grade
Lexile: 470L

DRA: 20

Guided Reading: L

Brief teaser: Find out in this delightful tale that perfectly captures the yearnings of a young girl in desperate need of beautiful, glorious earrings!
Teaching idea:  Have students fill out a chart of what the persuasive techniques are that she uses throughout the book.
http://languageartsreading.dadeschools.net/pdf/Writing/WritingSampleLessons/Composing%20Lessons/1-EarringsPersuasiveLesson.pdf

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http://web.b.ebscohost.com/novp/detail?vid=3&sid=9b5a8fe7-8e21-44b5-9290-3754a45ec1de%40sessionmgr1&bdata=JnNpdGU9bm92cC1saXZl#UI=384602&db=neh
Author: Bob Raczka
Illustrator: Doniger, Nancy
Publication date: 2013
Genre: Poetry
Approximate interest level: 2-6
Approximate text level: 3rd grade
Lexile: 760L
Brief teaser: A brand-new poetic form that turns word puzzles into poetry.
Teaching idea: Having students do a poetry lesson where they make up their own poems like Raczka.
http://kristenremenar.com/lemonade-and-other-poems-squeezed-from-a-single-word/

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1204282.You_Forgot_Your_Skirt_Amelia_Bloomer
Author: Corey, Shana
Illustrator: McLaren, Chesley
Publication date: 2000
Genre: Informational/
Historical Fiction
Approximate interest level: PreK-3
Approximate text level: 1st grade
Lexile Measure: AD350L
Brief teaser: Amelia was a woman that wasn't very ladylike. She met a woman that had pants on and decided to make some of her own. This idea stuck with other women and it became a new sensation and stuck.
Teaching idea: On top of the history content, dialogue comprehension would be a good lesson to use.
http://6elementssje.blogspot.com/2011/10/you-forgot-your-skirt-amelia-bloomer.html

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101018-the-day-the-crayons-quit
Author: Daywalt, Drew
Illustrator: Jeffers, Oliver
Publication date: 2013
Genre: Humor
Approximate interest level: PreK-2
Approximate text level: 3rd grade
Lexile: AD730L

DRA: 24

Guided Reading: M

Brief teaser: The crayons quit because they are tired of being used for the same coloring activities all of the time.
Teaching idea: Draw pictures of objects using unusual color groupings.
http://www.crayonspicturebooks.com/day-crayons-quit-activities/

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http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/here-come-girl-scouts#cart/cleanup
Author: Corey, Shana
Illustrator: Hadley, Hooper
Publication date: 2012
Genre: Biography
Approximate interest level: Preschool - 3
Approximate text level: 3rd grade
Lexile: AD720L

DRA: 40

Guided Reading: Q

Brief teaser: This book is about the founder of the girl scouts. It explains how adventurous she was and how she wanted to change the world somehow. This was how Girl Scouts came about.
Teaching idea: Vocabulary should be a focus with this book because it uses advanced descriptive words.
http://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/yl_260319.pdf

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766955.Click_Clack_Moo
Author: Cronin, Doreen
Illustrator:  Lewin, Betsy
Publication date: 2010
Genre: Humorous stories
Approximate interest level: Pre-Kindergarten - 2
Approximate text level: Kindergarten
Lexile: 160
Brief teaser: Farmer Brown has a problem when his cows and other animals start typing him letters with a typewriter and threatening to stop providing him with their services unless he cooperates.
Teaching idea: Have the students type a letter to the animals in response to their letters sent to Farmer Brown.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/learning-about-word-families-847.html?tab=4#tabs

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http://web.a.ebscohost.com/novp/detail?vid=2&sid=62841595-afe7-447e-bafe-53d124c147a8%40sessionmgr4007&hid=4212&bdata=JnNpdGU9bm92cC1saXZl#UI=098614&db=neh
Author & Illustrator: Silverstein, Shel
Publication date: 1981
Genre: Humorous Poetry
Approximate interest level: 3-5
Approximate text level: 4th grade
DRA: 40

Guided Reading: R

Brief teaser: Humorous poetry and visuals.
Teaching idea: The students can pick one of their favorite poems and then change it to how they would write it.
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-elementary-school/127812-shel-silverstein/

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Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly William, America's First Female Firefighter

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Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly William, America's First Female Firefighter

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14454656-molly-by-golly
Author: Ochiltree, Dianne
Illustrator: Kemly, Kathleen
Publication date: 2012
Genre: Biography
Approximate interest level: 2-4
Approximate text level: 4th grade
Lexile Measure: 830L
Brief teaser: This book is about the first female firefighter who originally helped in the kitchen of the firehouse, but ended up working hard with an actual fire and became a firefighter.
Teaching idea:  On top of learning author's craft through punctuation of italicized words and "…" at the end of sentences, there are pages of research and a bibliography. This would be a great way to start a lesson on how to research for their writing and how to cite it properly.
http://www.greatexpectations.org/3rd-6th-literature-for-visiondream-goal-setting-and-self-reflection

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191117.Don_t_Let_the_Pigeon_Stay_Up_Late_
Author & Illustrator: Willems, Mo
Publication date:  2006
Genre: Beginning Readers
Approximate interest level: PreK-2
Approximate text level: 1st grade
Lexile: AD270L

DRA: 18

Guided Reading: K

Brief teaser: The sleepy bus driver leaves the reader to being in charge of making the pigeon go to bed.
Teaching idea: The pigeon makes a suggestion that five minutes isn't that much time, so have the children take five minutes to do an activity, so that they can get the sense of time.
http://books.disney.com/content/uploads/2013/10/Pigeon-Series-Guide.pdf

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http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/i-wanna-new-room#cart/cleanup
Author:  Kaufman Orloff, Karen
Illustrator: Catrow, David
Publication date: 2010
Genre: Humor
Approximate interest level: K-3
Approximate text level: 2nd Grade
Lexile: AD540L

DRA: 24

Guided Reading: M

Brief teaser: When Alex is forced to share a room with his little brother, he chooses to write a letter to his parents to get his own room.
Teaching idea: Have students write a persuasive letter to their parents
http://castle.eiu.edu/~reading/IWannaNewRoomOpinionWritingAlignedtoCCSS.pdf

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a subset of the larger category of non-fiction

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7770.One_Fish_Two_Fish_Red_Fish_Blue_Fish
Author & Illustrator: Dr. Seuss
Publication date: 2005
Genre: Educational Text
Approximate interest level: Preschool - 2
Approximate text level: Kindergarten
Lexile: 180L
Brief teaser: It is a simple rhyming book for beginning readers, with a freewheeling plot about a boy and a girl named Jay and Kay and the many amazing creatures they have for friends and pets.
Teaching idea: This can be used for sight word practice.
http://www.education.com/lesson-plan/one-fish-two-fish/

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https://www.amazon.com/Tomie-dePaolas-Mother-Goose-dePaola/dp/0399212582
Author & Illustrator: Tomie dePaola
Publication date: 2009
Genre: Fairytales
Approximate interest level: K-2
Approximate text level: 2nd Grade
Brief teaser: From Humpty Dumpty and Georgie Porgie to Little Miss Muffet and the old woman who lived in a shoe, children will love reading and laughing along with all of their favorite characters. The accessible trim and beautiful illustrations by Tomie dePaola make this book the perfect addition to any child's library.
Teaching idea: Students can go through the book and pick out all of the adjectives. They can discuss/write about the affect that the adjectives have when describing other words in the stories.
http://themes.atozteacherstuff.com/960/mother-goose-nursery-rhymes-activities-printables-lessons-and-teaching-ideas/

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Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

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Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13519632-touch-the-sky
Author: Malaspina, Ann
Illustrator: Velasquez, Eric
Publication date: 2012
Genre: Multicultural Biography
Approximate interest level: 1-4
Approximate text level: 2nd grade
Lexile Measure: 600L
Brief teaser: This story is about an African American female who became a higher jumper through hard work and discipline.
Teaching idea: This would be a great book to do an onomatopoeia lesson! Words such as Leap and Swoosh. Also, there could be a lesson on free-verse.
www.albertwhitman.com/wp-content/.../AWhitman_Touch-the-Sky.pdf

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Life in the Ocean: The story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

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Life in the Ocean: The story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12220103-life-in-the-ocean
Author & Illustrator: Nivola, Claire
Publication date: 2012
Genre: Biography
Approximate interest level: Preschool - 3
Approximate text level: 7
Lexile Measure: 1170L
Brief teaser: This is a motivational picture book biography that encourages children for exploration. Sylvia Earle was a woman that loved and explored the ocean and shared her findings.
Teaching idea: This book uses the punctuation of dashes often, so there could be a lesson about author's craft of dashes.
http://www.theclassroombookshelf.com/2012/05/life-in-the-ocean-the-story-of-oceanographer-sylvia-earle/

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http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/its-raining-pigs-and-noodles#cart/cleanup
Author: Prelutsky, Jack
Illustrator: Stevenson, James
Publication date: 2000
Genre: Comedy
Approximate interest level: K-2
Approximate text level: 4.9
Lexile: AD1090L

DRA: 40

Guided Reading: R

Brief teaser: From the title poem to "Burp" and "I'm Glad I'm Not a Firefly," readers will be charmed and entranced by his creativity. Readers, even reluctant ones, will love this compendium of humorous poems. They'll enjoy poetry, perhaps as never before, and wordplay.
Teaching idea: Write their own funny poem.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/its-raining-pigs-and-noodles-poems

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writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.

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A narrative or story is any report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, and/or still or moving images.

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18763344-i-am-jazz
Author: Herthel, Jessica & Jennings, Jazz
Illustrator: McNicholas, Shelagh
Publication Date: 2014
Genre: Autobiography
Approximate interest level: Preschool - 3
Approximate text level: 3rd grade
Brief teaser: The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere.
Teaching idea: Group discussion about how this book makes them feel and how to accept everyone the way that they come.
http://www.tolerance.org/sex-identity-expression

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http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/night-kitchen#cart/cleanup
Author and Illustrator: Sendak, Maurice
Publication date: 1970
Genre: Adventure
Approximate interest level: K-2
Approximate text level: 2.8
Lexile® Measure: AD330L
Brief teaser: The dream-fantasy of a little boy named Mickey in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter  during an unusual nocturnal excursion.
one teaching idea plus Teaching ideas: Discuss graphic novels- have children make their own.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/In-the-Night-Kitchen-Activities-Lesson-Plan-and-Worksheet-Package-1853381

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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs 

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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs 

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http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/true-story-3-little-pigs-0#cart/cleanup
Author: Scieska, Jon
Illustrator: Smith, Lane
Publication date: 1989
Genre: Comedy, Fables
Approximate interest level: K-3
Approximate text level: 3rd grade
Lexile® Measure: AD570L

DRA: 40

Guided Reading: Q

Brief teaser: The big bad wolf has spent ten years in pig prison for the destruction of the three little pigs, and he has quite a story to tell that just might prove his innocence!
Teaching idea: Letter to A. Wolf
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/true-story-3-little-pigs-extension-activities

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https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Bah-Phil-Cummings/dp/193527922X
Author Cummings, Phil
Illustrator Rycroft, Nina
Publication date: 2010
Genre: Picturebook
Approximate interest level : PK-2
Approximate text level: 1st grade
Lexile: 630
Brief teaser: "Shhh! Listen! Whats that sound? It starts with a Ting! When a tiny mouse taps a cup with a spoon. And ends with a triumphant Tah-dah!, as one by one, all the other animals join in. Ting! Tong! Clickety-click! Follow the band and tap your toe! Boom Bah! Here we go!
Teaching idea: Have children create own song! http://www.thelittlebigbookclub.com.au/sites/thelittlebigbookclub.com.au/files/files/title_resource/boom_bah_learning_time.pdf

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http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/velcome#cart/cleanup
Author and Illustrator: O'Malley, Kevin
Publication date: 1997
Genre: Comedy and Supernatural
Approximate interest level: Grades 3-5
Approximate text level: 2.8
Lexile® Measure: 370L
Brief teaser: Velcome is a collection of scary stories, riddles, and jokes narrated by a spooky character
Teaching idea: Use the story as a writing prompt
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/thrills-chills-using-scary-407.html