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

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.”

Poetry-Poetry Aloud Here!/Sylvia Vardell

Poetry-Time You Let Me In/Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

Poetry-Hope Is An Open Heart/Lauren Thompson

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

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

Poetry-America At War/Lee Bennett Hopkins

Poetry-Audio

Poetry/Poetic Forms

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 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.

Poetry-Truckery Rhymes/Jon Scieszka

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

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

Drama-Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak/Kay Winters

Drama-Whose Tale Is True?/Nancy Polette

Fiction-Half Minute Horrors/edited by Susan Rich

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

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."

Fiction-Mama Says/Leo & Dianne Dillon

Fiction-A Book/Mordicai Gerstein

Fiction-Big, Bigger, Biggest/Nancy Coffeit

Fiction-Me and You/Anthony Browne

Fiction-Born Yesterday/James Solheim

Fiction-Speckle the Spider/Emma Dodson

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

Fiction-The Plot Chickens/Mary Jane Auch

Fiction-S is for Story/Ester Hershenhorn

Fiction-The Shadow/Donna Diamond

Fiction-Zero/Kathryn Otoshi

Fiction-Polar Opposites/Erik Brooks

Fiction-The 3 Little Dassies/Jan Brett

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

Fiction-It’s Christmas David/David Shannon

Fiction(Historical)- Steel Town/Jonah Winter

Fiction-It’s a Book/Lane Smith

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.

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

Fictional Adaptation-Always With You/Ruth Vander Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

Literary Nonfiction-Climbing Lincoln’s Steps/Susanne Slade

Literary Nonfiction-Listen To the Wind/Greg Mortensen

Literary Nonfiction-Two Bobbies/Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery

Literary Nonfiction- Redwoods/Jason Chin

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

Literary Nonfiction- Mama/Jeanette Winter

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?

Informational Text

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

Nonfiction-Pika/Tannis Bill

Nonfiction-EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures

Nonfiction-A Rain Forest Food Chain/Rebecca Wojahn

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

Nonfiction: What the World Eats/Faith D’Aluisio

Nonfiction: Butterflies and Moths/Nic Bishop

Nonfiction-Down Down Down Steve Jenkins

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

Nonfiction-Walden: Then & Now/Michael McCurdy

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

Nonfiction-What in the Wild?/David Schwartz

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

Persuasive

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

Persuasive-Do Not Build a Frankenstein!/Neil Numberman

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

Persuasive-I Want a Dog!/Helen Bansch

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

Procedual-Becoming a Citizen/John Hamilton

Procedural-I Need My Monster/Amanda Knoll

Procedural-How Is Chocolate Made?

Procedural-Write Your Own Poetry/Laura Salas

Procedural-Nibbles: A Green Tale/Charlotte Middleton

Procedural-Stega Nona’s Harvest/Tomie dePaola

Procedural-The Strange Case of Origami Yoda/Tom Angleberger