1. Get A Grip! Pictures, Poetry, & Prose by Hope Krum, Bowie Librarian and Mary Boyd, MacArthur Librarian

3. Poetry-Poetry Aloud Here!/Sylvia Vardell, p.3 Poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes “Poetry wasn’t trying to get us to DO anything, it was simply inviting us to THINK, and FEEL, and SEE.”

4. Poetry-Poetry Aloud Here!/Sylvia Vardell

5. Poetry-Time You Let Me In/Naomi Shihab Nye

6. Poetry-Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse/Marilyn Singer

7. Verse ReversibleReversible Verse Fairytales written Up and down Back and front Characters good and bad Reversed Poetry unveiled Unveiled poetry Reversed Bad and good characters Front and back Down and up Written fairytales

8. Poetry-Hope Is An Open Heart/Lauren Thompson

9. Poetry-More Than Friends: Poems From Him and Her/Sara Holbrook and Alan Wolf

10. Poetry-Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems

11. Poetry-America At War/Lee Bennett Hopkins

12. Poetry-Audio

13. Poetry/Poetic Forms

14. Poetry-Tap Dancing on the Roof SijoBoston Tea Party Line 1-one sentence 7-8 syllables (single idea) Line 2-one sentence 7-8 syllables (tells more about topic Line 3-one sentence-7-8 syllables Line 4-gives details about line 3- 7-8 syllables Line 5- Write a sentence that goes in the opposite direction of first 4 lines Line 6- Finish idea in line 5 with surprise, twist, or pun Boston Party Celebration Taxation-Representation No tea please! Justice is served. Overboard in the ocean Cry Conflict resolution? Let’s talk at Starbucks instead.

15. Poetry-Truckery Rhymes/Jon Scieszka

16. Drama “in academically rigorous literature classes students read challenging texts: classic and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction, poetry and drama. Students learn how to interpret analyze, and evaluate what they read.” Carol Jago- incoming president of the National Council of Teachers of English

17. Drama-Acting Out!: Six One Act Plays/Justine Chanda

18. Drama-Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak/Kay Winters

19. Drama-Whose Tale Is True?/Nancy Polette

20. Fiction-Half Minute Horrors/edited by Susan Rich

21. Fiction-Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villanous Tales/ ed. Ellen Datrow

22. Whitehurst, Lucinda. School Library Journal, Oct2000, Vol. 46 Issue 10, p38, 2p Children's literature professor Barbara Elleman says, "Short enough to read aloud in one sitting, picture books are ideal to stimulate classroom discussion; often filled with lyrical prose, they make good writing models; multilayered in story and content, they work in numerous connections across the classroom; and, containing a wealth of art styles and mediums, they offer rich aesthetic opportunities."

23. Fiction-Mama Says/Leo & Dianne Dillon

24. Fiction-A Book/Mordicai Gerstein

25. Fiction-Big, Bigger, Biggest/Nancy Coffeit

26. Fiction-Me and You/Anthony Browne

27. Fiction-Born Yesterday/James Solheim

28. Fiction-Speckle the Spider/Emma Dodson

29. Fiction-Cat Diaries: Secrets of the MEOW Society/Betsy Byars

30. Fiction-The Plot Chickens/Mary Jane Auch

31. Fiction-S is for Story/Ester Hershenhorn

32. Fiction-The Shadow/Donna Diamond

33. Fiction-Zero/Kathryn Otoshi

34. Fiction-Polar Opposites/Erik Brooks

35. Fiction-The 3 Little Dassies/Jan Brett

36. Fiction-Tell The Truth B.B. Wolf/Judy Sierra

37. Fiction-It’s Christmas David/David Shannon

38. Fiction(Historical)- Steel Town/Jonah Winter

39. Fiction-It’s a Book/Lane Smith

40. Fictional Adaptation of Literary Nonfiction Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction Describe the structural and substantive difference between an autobiography or a diary and a fictional adaptation of it.

41. Fictional Adaptation-Otto-The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear/Tomi Ungerer

42. Fictional Adaptation-Always With You/Ruth Vander Lee

43. Fictional Adaptation-Ron’s Big Mission/Rose Blue & Corrine Naden

44. Fictional Adaptation-Eight Days: A Story of Haiti/Edwidge Dandicat

45. Literary Nonfiction-Biography You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?/Jonah Winter

46. Literary Nonfiction-Biography A Picture Book of John and Abigail Adams

47. Literary Nonfiction-Biblioburro-A True Story From Columbia/ Jeanette Winter

48. Literary Nonfiction-Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson/Charles R. Smith

49. Literary Nonfiction-Climbing Lincoln’s Steps/Susanne Slade

50. Literary Nonfiction-Listen To the Wind/Greg Mortensen

51. Literary Nonfiction-Two Bobbies/Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery

52. Literary Nonfiction- Redwoods/Jason Chin

53. Literary Nonfiction-I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets:Six Word Memoirs

54. Literary Nonfiction- Mama/Jeanette Winter

55. Genre Exchange Naked Reading/Terri Lesesne, p.76 Jonas, Jonas, what do you see? I see the Giver looking at me. Giver, Giver, what do you see? I see war hurting me. War, war, what do you see? I see a soldier dying for me. Soldier, soldier what do you see? I see Jonas hurting for me. Jonas Jonas what do you see? I see Gabriel needing me. Gabriel, Gabriel, what do you see? I see Jonas escaping with me. Jonas, Jonas, what do you see?

56. Informational Text

57. Nonfiction-2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow’s Kids/Amy Zuckerman & James Daly

58. Nonfiction-Pika/Tannis Bill

59. Nonfiction-EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures

60. Nonfiction-A Rain Forest Food Chain/Rebecca Wojahn

61. Nonfiction-Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel /C.M. Butzer

62. Nonfiction: What the World Eats/Faith D’Aluisio

63. Nonfiction: Butterflies and Moths/Nic Bishop

64. Nonfiction-Down Down Down Steve Jenkins

65. Nonfiction-If America Were a Village/David J. Smith

66. Nonfiction-Walden: Then & Now/Michael McCurdy

67. Nonfiction-What's the Difference Between a Dolphin and a Porpoise?/Trisha Shaskan

68. Nonfiction-What in the Wild?/David Schwartz

69. Nonfiction-Leo/Neo: Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci/Gene Baretta

70. Persuasive

71. Persuasive-Help Me, Mr. Mutt/Janet Stephens and Susan Crummel

72. Persuasive-Do Not Build a Frankenstein!/Neil Numberman

73. Persuasive-Have I Got a Book for You/Melanie Watt

74. Persuasive-I Want a Dog!/Helen Bansch

75. Persuasive-Pros and Cons of Coal, Oil, and Gas/Sally Morgan

76. Procedual-Becoming a Citizen/John Hamilton

77. Procedural-I Need My Monster/Amanda Knoll

79. Procedural-How Is Chocolate Made?

80. Procedural-Write Your Own Poetry/Laura Salas

81. Procedural-Nibbles: A Green Tale/Charlotte Middleton

82. Procedural-Stega Nona’s Harvest/Tomie dePaola

83. Procedural-The Strange Case of Origami Yoda/Tom Angleberger