2014 Best of the Best Fiction for Younger Readers Dorsey Chambers

Ling and Ting Share a Birthday Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: gNk&feature=player_detailpage CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3d

I'm a Frog! Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 1.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.6 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.7

A Pet Named Sneaker Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 1.4 Would a snake make a great pet? Pair with a non-fiction snake book or webpage. Give evidence from both texts to support your answer. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.8 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.5

Penny and Her Marble Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 1.5 Penny series book trailer CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.4

Boris on the Move Interest Level: 1-3 Reading Level: 1.6 Discuss the differences between the ways the author uses narrative storyline, speech bubbles, labels and instructions to tell the story. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.6 Use context clues and web resources to identify unfamiliar vocabulary. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.4

Gone Fishing: A Novel Interest Level: Gr. K-3 Reading Level: 2.0 Use the Poet’s Tackle Box appendix to identify the types of poems on each page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.5CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.5 Identify the voice of each poem using details in the text to support your answer. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.2CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.2

The Year of Billy Miller Interest Level: Gr. 3-7 Reading Level:2.0 Ask students to write and share a poem about a family member, following Billy’s model. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.6 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.6 Use the free app “Visual Poet” to combine imagery and text to author mixed media works. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5

Ant and Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends in Winter Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 2.3 Challenge students to find examples of onomatopoeia, personification and homophones in the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.5 Challenge students to point to examples of illustrations and explain what they learned from the illustrations that was not available in the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7

Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 2.8 Which Fairy Tale, not included in this book, would you make into a comic and why? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.2 Begin the storyboard for your comic. Use the free Comic Creator from Read WriteThink.org if you like. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3a

Kiki: My Stylish Life Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 3.7 Explain how different text features; captions, quotes, dialogue boxes, and graphics add to your understanding of the characters and plot. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.3

Fortunately, the Milk Interest Level: Gr. 3-6 Reading Level: 4.2 Book Trailer 1:31 How does the phrase “fortunately, the milk” help tie all of the stories together? How does the milk finally help the father return home to his children? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.1 How does the reader know when the point of view changes from the son to the daughter and then to the father? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.6

My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish Interest Level: 3-6 Reading Level: 4.4 Mark, the big brother in the story, turns into an “evil scientist” with the hope of taking over the school. Is Mark “evil”? Why or why not? Give examples from the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.2

Interest Level: 3-6 Reading Level: 5.8 Author Iva Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. She disliked individuals who wanted money and power, and often created antagonists in her books who have these characteristics. She had a strong love of nature and married a naturalist. Describe how the author’s point of view influenced how events are described in the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.6 The Abominables