1. Text Set
Weather Unit

2. World Book Encyclopedia Presents Weather
By Deborah Kespert
Publisher: World Book, Inc.
This is a kid friendly encyclopedia that has various information on different types of weather. It has facts on the different storms and how the weather patterns change throughout the year. I used this book as a resource to help explain weather concepts to my students. Students will be able to reference this book throughout the unit. This book is a level

3. Weather Words and What They Mean By Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House
Before understanding weather, you need to have the basic terms understood. This book introduces and defines the common terms that are used when describing weather patterns. I will use this book at the beginning of my unit to lay the fundamental vocabulary for my students. This is a 3.5 AR reading book. Not all my students will be able to read this book on their own because it is classified as non-fiction.

4. Illustrations by Brian Share Publisher: Kids Can Press
Weather
By Valerie Wyatt
Illustrations by Brian Share
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Kids are full of questions about something they are unfamiliar with. This book will help me with those questions. This book answers common questions about the weather such as, where does wind come from? It also has fun facts about record setting weather. This book includes many different experiments that will enhance a weather unit. This is a 5.7 AR reading book.

5. Can it Rain Cats and Dogs? By Melvin and Gilda Berger
Illustrated by Robert Sullivan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Can it really rain cats and dogs?! This is another fun book for students who have questions about the mysteries of the weather. It covers the basic information that a child might have about weather, but it also goes a step further by answering questions such as, can it rain cats and dogs?, by providing facts about record breaking weather. This book is a 4.6 AR reading book.

6. Publisher: Rourke Publishing LLC
The Weather and Us
By Ted O’Hare
Publisher: Rourke Publishing LLC
This book highlights key information on how weather is formed and how it changes. It also explains how weather can affect us in how we dress and where we live. I will use this reading when we are focusing on climate and wind. This book also provides supplementary websites to use during instruction. This book is on a 4.1 AR reading level.

7. Publisher: Rourke Publishing LLC
Rain, Snow, and Ice
By Ted O’Hare
Publisher: Rourke Publishing LLC
This book highlights the key concepts of rain, snow, and ice and how they are formed. It explains key terms of different types of precipitation. I will use this book when talking about precipitation and the water cycle. This book is on a 3.6 AR reading level.

8. By Patricia Relf and Carolyn Bracken Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Wet All Over
By Patricia Relf and Carolyn Bracken
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Ms. Frizzle is at it again. In this book, students are taken on a field trip through the water cycle. This book explains and illustrates in a kid friendly way how the water cycle works. It explains evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. This book is on a DRA level of

9. Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today
By Trish Rabe
Illustrated By Aristides Ruiz
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Dr. Seuss takes Dick and Sally on a hot air balloon ride which teaches them about weather. This will be used as a fun read for the students for a read aloud. One of the main focuses I am going to take out of this book is the weather instruments that Dr. Seuss uses when discussing weather. This book is on a 3.7 reading level.