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Author: George O' Connor
Publication Date: January  2010
Text Level: Guided Reading Level V, 3-6
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, Fiction
Teaching Idea/Purpose: This book will be my tool for looking at striking visuals and using descriptive words to expand on the vocabulary that Kaeleb uses when describing an object, person, experience, or setting. This text offers many visual clues that are bright and offer much detail to expand on. This book ties into what my student was focusing on in his classroom, which was Greek Mythology as they were reading Percy Jackson, and gives him more background knowledge on the Greek Gods.
Teaser: Here's Where It All Starts: the beginning of everything - the world, the gods, and even humanity. Might Kronos, the most terrifying of all the Titans, reigns as the unchallenged tyrant of the cosmos...until his son, the god Zeus, stands up and takes on his own father in a battle intense enough to shatter the universe! Who will emerge triumphant?

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Author: Roald Dahl
Publication Date: January 1964
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Text Level: Lexile 810L
Interest Level- 3-5, 6-8
Teaching Idea: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Charlie-and-the-Chocolate-Factory-Novel-Study-Roald-Dahl-1033735 I used this teaching idea to have my student compare and contrast characters. To complete this activity, my student had to pull text evidence from a passage I gave them from the story, the passage included dialogue and descriptions of each of the main characters.

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Ocean Animals: Who's Who in the Deep Blue 

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Ocean Animals: Who's Who in the Deep Blue 

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Author: Johanna Rizzo
Publication Date: May 2016
Interest Level: Grade 3-6
Genre: Nonfiction
Text Level: Lexile 1170, Guided Reading Q
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Purpose: My student was very interested in reading books on animals and their habitat. I soon came to realize that he enjoyed anything nature and how animals behave. I used this book to make the lesson relevant to him, and to work on a lesson that focused on connecting prior knowledge to new knowledge learned from reading the text. We filled out a KWL chart when reading this story.
Teaser: From life in coral reefs, to sharks and rays, to sea birds, kids will meet incredible sea-based animals in action, including the blue tang fish and clownfish. It's all captured with beautiful underwater photography and features cool info about our oceans -- including fascinating facts, maps, and marine conservation tips and efforts.

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Author: R.J Palacio
Publication Date: February 2012
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Purpose: I never chose a lesson plan to work with my student on this, but I thought it was important to read passages from this book if we had extra time at the end of our tutoring session.
Teaching Idea: https://wonderthebook.com/for-teachers
Teaser:August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a severe facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, Auggie wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past his extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include the perspectives of his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These voices converge to portray a community as it struggles with differences, and challenges readers, both young and old, to wonder about the true nature of empathy, compassion, acceptance, friendship, and—ultimately—kindness. Auggie is a hero for the ages, one who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

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Author: Barbara Lehman
Publication Date: April 2008
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Teaser: A ride on the train is exciting. There’s always something new to see, even if you’ve been there before.
But some train rides are better than others..
What if a train took you somewhere else entirely? What if the doors opened in a strange, new place? This is one train stop you won’t want to miss!

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Author: David Wiesner
Publication Date: September, 1999
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Text Level: Interest K-3rd
Teaching Idea/Purpose: This book was the main focus during a lesson plan of creating our own story based off of pictures. In this lesson, we focused on sequencing and how to use transitional words, how to predict what might come next, and exploring our imagination to expand on a story using visual clues.
Teaser: There a boy makes friends with a mischievous little cloud, who whisks him away to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7 (the region that includes New York City). The clouds are bored with their everyday shapes, so the boy obligingly starts to sketch some new ones. . . . The wordless yet eloquent account of this unparalleled adventure is a funny, touching story about art, friendship, and the weather, as well as a visual tour de force.

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Author: Laura Murray
Illustrator: Mike Lowery
Publication Date: July 2011
Interest Level: K-3rd
Text Level: Lexile  GN580L
Teaser: When a class leaves for recess, their just-baked Gingerbread Man is left behind. But he's a smart cookie and heads out to find them. He'll run, slide, skip, and (after a mishap with a soccer ball) limp as fast as he can because: "I can catch them! I'm their Gingerbread Man!"
Purpose/Lesson: This book was in my text set just in case Kaeleb and I had finished a lesson plan early. Kaeleb liked silly stories like this one and the way it was set up like a comic book. This book covered areas of phonological awareness and phonics of rhyming. I am able to analyze Kaeleb's fluency in reading by asking him to read this book out loud.

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Author: Non-License
Publication Date: August 2014
Genre: Non-fiction
Text Level: 2-4
Teaching Idea/ Purpose: I used this book with my student to work on finding textual evidence and picking out the main ideas on every dinosaur.
Teaser: The IN A BOX series pairs complementary fiction, nonfiction, and activities, offering young readers different ways to connect to their favorite high-interest topics. Each IN A BOX will contain a photo-driven nonfiction title, an illustrated fiction title, an activity book with stickers, a fan deck of fascinating questions and answers, a poster, and a parent's guide. All of these formats work together in a fun, interactive, kid-friendly way to build a foundation of knowledge for readers ages five through six. Pairing complementary fiction and nonfiction reading is encouraged by the new Common Core State Standards, as it reinforces information and themes from the reading. The box sets will be equal parts fun and educational.

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Author & Illustrator: Kevin Henkes
Publication Date: August 1st, 1996
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Text Level:
Interest Level: K-3rd
Teaser: When Lilly the mouse brings her Lilly gets her purse taken away by her teacher, so she decides to get revenge. Lilly learns that revenge does not make someone happy, but forgiveness will
Teaching Idea: Read the story to the students, and have them do crafts to create their own purse or bag. Inside the purses and bags, have the children write the main importance of the stories on pieces of paper and turn their bags in.

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This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness

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This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness

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Author: Joyce Sidman
Illustrator: Pamela Zagarenski
Publication Date: February 25th, 2014
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Interest Level: 4th-5th grade
Teaser: When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back. This poetry collection covers an array of highly relatable topics, from first love, absent parents, and sibling spats to missing hamsters, stolen doughnuts, and dodgeball.
Teaching Plan: This would be a great start to a poetry unit as well as covering the topic of forgiveness in class. Student's will be read poetry from this book and will then be assigned to write their own poem to someone who they want to apologize to, or a poem about forgiveness and it's importance. This book shows a wide array of poems from serious to funny, the students can pick how they want it to be presented. Once the students have written their poems the class can create their own poem book.

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Author: Based on the Bob Marley Song 'Three Little Birds', Cedella Marley
Illustrator: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Publication Date: August 31st, 2012
Genre: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction/Childrens Books, Music Juvenile Fiction
Approximate Text Level:
Interest Level: Elementary Levels under 4th grade
Teaser: This story serves as a reminder to children that mistakes are easily forgiven. Through a young boy happiness and forgiveness is shown with the help of his three little bird friends.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4v273e8Hw
Sophia is angry at her brother Caleb for falling and breaking her toy on accident. Caleb feels very bad for hurting Sophia's feelings and making many mistakes. Sophia's dad helps her reflect on why forgiveness is important and that we all make mistakes.

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Multimedia- Singa and the Kindness Cubbies Video on Forgiveness

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Multimedia- Singa and the Kindness Cubbies Video on Forgiveness

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gs4XdsMc7s
Cal accidentally gets her friends boots wet right before his big soccer game, Cal apologizes and tries to make things better, but Tony gets angry and yells at her! He learns the important of forgiving his friend and apologizing, and that accidents happen.

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Multimedia- Doc McStuffins Forgiveness Song

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Multimedia- Doc McStuffins Forgiveness Song

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoWLtymijtg

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Multimedia- Veggie Tales Forgiveness Song

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Multimedia- Veggie Tales Forgiveness Song

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJud85zxA3c

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Author: Katja Reider and Rosemary Lanning
Illustrator: Angela Von Roehl
Publication Date: March 1st, 1997
Genre:
Approximate Text Level: K- 2nd Grade
Interest Level: K-2nd Grade
Teaser: This story tells about how words can really hurt others, and how it is important to be kind. It shows the effects of our actions and words and how to apologize and forgive others.
Teaching Idea:
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/4459.shtml

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Author: Cheri J. Meiners
Illustrator: Elizabeth Allen
Publication Date: May 1st, 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction,  Emotions and feelings
Approximate Text Level: Young Elementary
Interest Level: Young Elementary
Teaser: This book helps children learn forgiveness skills through examples and situations that children work through at school, home, etc.
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I Forgive You: Love We Can Hear, Ask For, and Give

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I Forgive You: Love We Can Hear, Ask For, and Give

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Author: Nicole Lataif
Illustrator: Katy Betz
Publication Date: August 1st
Genre:
Approximate Text Level: Preschool-2nd grade
Interest Level: Preschool through 2nd grade
Teaser:
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Author: Edith Hope Fine
Illustrator: Rene King Moreno
Publication Date: 1999
Genre:
Approximate Text Level: Second and Third
Interest Level: First through Third Grade Teaser: There is a young girl living in Mexico who has been stolen from, and her tree begins to get sick. She grasps the concept of forgiveness and people in need.
Teaching Idea: I would use this idea for this reading lesson plan https://www.brilliantstarmagazine.org/parents-teachers/teaching-tools-techniques/lesson-plans-and-activities/forgiveness-a-virtue-building-lesson-plan

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The Berenstain Bears: The Forgiving Tree book 

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The Berenstain Bears: The Forgiving Tree book 

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Author: Jan Berenstain and Mike Berenstain
Publication Date: January 26th, 2011
Approximate Text Level: Preschool to 3rd Grade
Interest Level: Preschool to 3rd Grade
Teaser: Brother Bear has one of his belongings damaged by a family member, which angers him. He needs to learn how to forgive with the help of his sister.
Teaching Ideas: http://www-tc.pbskids.org/berenstainbears/caregiver/BB_Sec_3.pdf

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Author and Illustrator: Mercer Mayer
Publication Date: August 5th, 2014
Genre:  Children's Books, Humorous, Juvenile Fiction
Approximate Text Level:  Lower Elementary
Interest Level- K through Second
Teaser: Little Critter needs to overcome and forgive his friend who has made a mistake that affects him, and learns an important message about Forgiveness.
Teaching Idea: I believe that this book would be a good choice for children to be read to during circle time. After the story is read, ask the student's questions about forgiving others.