• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This story uses a mix…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Ramona and Beezus, tw…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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In this trickster tale, Bear and Hare are involved in a gardening partnership. Industrious, clever Hare makes a deal with Bear— H…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. The main character, L…

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. The story is about a …

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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Most kids collect something. Prudy collects everything! Rocks, stamps, foil, worn-out toothbrushes, pretty paper napkins, tufts of hair…

Grade 3

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More than one Maria in class causes Maria Isabel to worry for weeks about not being in the pageant, when the teacher confuses their nam…

Grade 4

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In this story, Francisco comes from Mexico to a new school, and he has difficulty understanding the English language and communicating …

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This nonfiction story…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Dogzilla is a fantasy…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. With the help of the …

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. In this tale, a girl …

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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This is a story about Saruni, a young boy, and his family, who are both consumers and sellers in a market in Tanzania. There are many e…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. To keep their only so…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Ruby wants to fit in …

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Justin is upset that …

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This is a biography o…

Grade 3

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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Chester Cricket meets…

Grade 4

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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This is a story of th…

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. In the story Wings, I…

Grade 3

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The folktale “Half-Chicken” is about a chicken hatched with only half a body, one leg, one wing, one eye, and only half as …

Grade 3

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Patricia’s Great-Grandmother comes to America as a child from Russia. She creates a quilt that is passed on from generation to ge…

Grade 3

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Julian meets Gloria, a new girl in his neighborhood. Together they make a wish kite, with wishes fastened to its tail; both wish for la…

Grade 3

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Pilot Amelia Earhart and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt are good friends and one night, after dinner at the White House, Amelia then offe…

Grade 4

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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. For as long as she co…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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This fantasy tells the story of a wolf who learns to read to gain the respect and friendship of farm animals. (McGraw-Hill Treasures, 2…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Throughout her life, …

Grade 5

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“Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest” takes the reader on a journey around the world to various continents found on Earth th…

Grade 3

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A little boy loses his neighbor’s dog inside the mysterious garden of Abdul Gasazi, who tells the boy that he has turned the dog …

Grade 3

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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Puffins raise their y…

Grade 4

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Tradition in the Lakota Sioux involves giving a name to a child based on his actions, so a young child who moves slowly in all he does …

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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Silversmith Paul Revere takes his famous midnight ride to warn Americans that British soldiers are advancing. (Houghton Mifflin Harcour…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. “The Land I Los…

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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Judy Moody is on a mission to save the rain forest. Not only has she chosen to make this her mission, she is also determined to make it…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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Despite obstacles in his life such as a family illness and the Great Depression, Uncle Jed achieved his dream of opening a barbershop a…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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In this nonfiction selection, an Emperor penguin lays an egg in the bitter cold of Antarctica. The penguin parents battle the harsh env…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. A boy named Taro help…

Grade 3

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This biography details the life of Wilson Bentley, a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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In this story Gertrude Ederle overcomes obstacles, both physical and social, in order to prevail at her lifelong dream of being the fir…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. In this fantasy story…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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In this story, several different families from other countries prepare to become US citizens. Characters from different cultures share …

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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A Prince must find a girl who will love him, in spite of his frightening curse. (McGraw-Hill Imagine It!, 2008) This lesson was create…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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The author, Helen Lester, traces her writing career from the age of three to adulthood. She shares her struggles with writing in elemen…

Grade 3

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In this work of fiction, Rooster and his eager friends set out to make strawberry shortcake, a recipe from Little Red Hen’s cookb…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This story is an excerpt from a novel. It is about a boy named Marty who wants to save a runaway dog from being abused. He brings the d…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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A fantastic heat wave hits a Kansas farm, roasting the geese, popping the corn in the fields, and causing other distressing events. The…

Grade 4

• 09/14/14
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Police Officer Buckle gives safety speeches that no one listens to until a police dog, Gloria, joins him. Because Gloria acts out the s…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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Tricia Ann begs her grandmother to be allowed to go to Someplace Special all on her own, and reluctantly, her grandmother agrees, telli…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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In this expository text, the author provides important factual highpoints, influential people, and interesting morsels of information a…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. In this biography, Es…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Mary (Yingmei) Yang i…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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When ten-year old Jamal’s grandfather hears that the boy is in trouble for fighting to sit in the back of the bus, he tells Jamal…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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A young boy, Peter, is hesitant to spend the summer with his great aunt in Chinatown. Peter finds an aging parade dragon in a store and…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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Allie has a new basketball. She has a hard time finding someone to play with her because they believe basketball is a boys’ game.…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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This historical fiction story takes place in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression in New York City. Baseball was king and Babe Rut…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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Tanya is initially thrilled to be heading early to Grandma’s Virginia family farm for a reunion, but it's not as much fun as she …

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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Wildfires can cause damage but also play a critical role in the renewal of forests and grasslands. Through the example of the 1988 Yell…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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This story takes place in the 1930s in the Great Plains region of the United States devastated by a great drought. Leah had been given …

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This book describes how storm chaser Warren Faidley finds storms and photographs them, as well as how he makes a living off his photogr…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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Manuel, a fifth grader, feels average and lacks confidence in himself. He has doubts about volunteering for the elementary school talen…

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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This realistic fictional story is about Steven and his Aunt Carolyn. The two have always shared a special bond; each time Aunt Carolyn …

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. The king wants to fly…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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“Pioneer Girl” relates the real-life experiences of the McCance family, Nebraska homesteaders in 1885, combining narrative …

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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As a child, the author’s father was fascinated by rocks.This interest consumed the young boy as he collected them in all of his s…

Grade 3

• 09/19/13
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This nonfiction piece tells about Barbara del Colorado, a village in Costa Rica. People needed a way to make money; a scientist suggest…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Galileo refines the t…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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Along with her worldwide musical fame, Gloria Estefan also experienced tragedy, but continued to help others in unfortunate situations.…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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Ephram loves to play the violin, and when he discovers that a blind neighbor was once a musician, but stopped playing the piano due to …

Grade 4

• 09/14/14
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In this excerpt, Brady and his friends don’t demonstrate good judgment when they choose not to warn Mrs. DiAngelo early that morn…

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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Curt, a young Tewa Indian, and his grandfather, Andy, prepare for Feast Day. They enjoy the good food, beautiful dances, colorful costu…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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This informational, nonfiction selection describes how schools are different in various parts of the world and includes “amazing …

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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“Just Plain Fancy” is the story of a young Amish girl, Naomi, who longs to have something fancy in her life. But when an sh…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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“How Animals Talk” is an informational, nonfiction selection describing how various animals communicate or send messages. A…

Grade 3

• 09/22/14
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This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This story is about a…

Grade 6

• 09/06/13
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A boy on a family backpacking adventure discovers an amazing waterfall and decides he wants to climb to the top. The boy becomes a lead…

Grade 3

• 09/14/14
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In this poem, Charlie loses access to his favorite activities, panics, and makes an impulsive decision that hurts his sister’s fe…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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“The Go-Around Dollar” is a selection that combines two genres: realistic fiction and expository text. It provides an enter…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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“Danitra Brown Leaves Town” is a series of poems about two young city girls, Danitra and Zuri, who are best friends, and Da…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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Young Jose’ Mendez is a terrific centerfielder but a weak hitter. Jose’ wants his father to be proud of him. When his fathe…

Grade 3

• 09/06/13
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Poppa buys himself some new pants that need hemming. The women of his family are too tired to hem the pants before church the following…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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The family of a Japanese diplomat, Mr. Sugihara, living in Lithuania in 1940, is confronted by Jewish refugees asking for Japanese visa…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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The Story of Jumping Mouse is a legend told by the Native Americans of the Great Plains. This is a tale of a compassionate, courageous …

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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A poor but generous old woman gives two roguish travelers a night’s lodging and a dinner that includes slices of her treasured ha…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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In this realistic fiction story, young children’s powers of imagination create the town of Roxaboxen filled with houses, building…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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Seventy-four years ago, Spencer gave his sister Hattie a wooden box as a wedding gift, and though it was empty, told her there was some…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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This play is about a group of boys and girls who are summertime campers at the National Sea Base camp in the Florida Keys. Their advent…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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A raja decrees that the villagers must give most of the rice they harvest to him. He promises to store it safely and distribute it in t…

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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This nonfiction text discusses how a fourth grade class at Union Avenue School worked hard to protect the New Jersey shoreline by plant…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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Internationally known scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall offers ten suggestions for ways we can all help save wildlife. From th…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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An African American named Leroy ʺSatchelʺ Paige was one of the greatest baseball pitchers that ever lived, but baseball was a segregate…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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In this legend, the author uses the struggles of a poverty stricken boy and his grandmother to show how even in their trials, the decis…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This article describes the out-of-control fires that took place during the summer of 1988. It focuses on the unpredictable fires of the…

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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"Cows in the Parlor: A Visit to a Dairy Farm" is an expository article about the daily running of a dairy farm. Students learn about a …

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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In 1934, 12-year-old Kai travels alone by steamship from China to Gold Mountain (United States) to live with his father. When Kai arriv…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This is an autobiographical account of Michelle Kwan’s rise to figure skating fame. It details her transformation from a novice t…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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This expository nonfiction text is about how living things have adapted traits of mimicry or camouflage to either fool or attract prey …

Grade 4

• 10/23/14
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This lesson was initially created through the Basal Alignment Project and was then further developed by the 4th grade team from Pleasan…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This nonfiction narrative is an account of two battles of the Revolutionary War, Trenton and Princeton. American soldiers faced many di…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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In this story, Carlos and Gloria have been friends since they were young, and Carlos begins to develop feelings for Gloria, so he decid…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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In “The Golden Lion Tamarin Comes Home,” the golden lion tamarin’s survival has been threatened by human development.…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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When Axel and his family take a rafting trip down the swift Salmon River, they sense little risk when smoke appears in the quiet, dry w…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This nonfiction story presents facts and details about how and where hurricanes are formed, the ways in which people are warned of hurr…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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This autobiography takes place in the 1960’s, when girls were not allowed to play on boys’ baseball teams, so even though T…

Grade 5

• 09/14/14
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This informational text describes the ways in which trees are made up of many important parts that grow and change. (Houghton Mifflin H…

Grade 3

• 09/14/14
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While cleaning the schoolyard, Louis accepts a package for Mrs. Jewls. It is very large and heavy, but he carries it up 30 flights of s…

Grade 5

• 09/10/14
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A third grade girl named Beany creates a science fair project with her partner, Kevin. Beany is not confident that their project is the…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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During the Mexican Revolution, a heroic mother, Elena, struggles to protect her family after her husband dies from an accident, and she…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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With the help of her friends and family, Mariah plans a surprise party for her sister Lynn. After many close calls, the party is succes…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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The pilgrims from England traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in hopes of establishing a new colony in North America. The separatists or…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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Terrence Cheromcka and Martin Jacobs, two Time For Kids reporters, report on two very different organizations that involve children pla…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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The story tells us about Josie’s relationship with her great-great-grandma. Josie and her family return to their homeland of Sene…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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The entire Tex family is involved in the hard work of basket making, preserving a tribal tradition. They gather materials from various …

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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A typical day in the life of a 1840's pioneer began early in the morning and involved a great deal of hard work and persistence from ea…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This play takes place in South Carolina in 1780 during the American Revolution, when a mother and her daughter are going about their da…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This informational narrative in the form of a play is about a group of fourth grade students who volunteer to work with rangers on Padr…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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In this text, students learn about the daily role of a firefighter and the importance of firefighters in communities past and present. …

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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This is an informational article about a woman named Maya Lin who has designed monuments around the country honoring historic events. (…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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Major medical discoveries are detailed over time. Diverse individuals, using scientific methods and innovation, determined causes for d…

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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In this story, Rache is learning about the shocking history of her family through her Nana Sashie’s story about her family’…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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Scientists Dr. Roger Payne and Dr. Katherine Payne have discovered that the use of infrasonic sounds is a method of communication used …

Grade 4

• 08/22/13
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In this story, a young girl shares what it is like to spend time with her grandmother at her home and at her job at the crab chong wher…

Grade 5

• 10/23/14
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Suki's favorite possession is her blue cotton kimono. A gift from her obachan (grandmother), it holds special memories of her grandmoth…

Grade 3

• 09/14/14
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This text depicts how the Westward Expansion left a lasting impact on America. The massive migration of people to the American West dur…

Grade 5

• 10/23/14
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Exploding Ants is an expository non-fiction text that explains how animals adapt to survive in their environment. (Pearson Reading Stre…

Grade 5

• 09/24/13
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In this narrative, Gary Paulsen describes the relationship, which develops between himself and a dog named “Storm,” the lea…

Grade 5

• 08/22/13
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Schlemiel is a lazy peasant from the town of Chelm with dreams of travelling. Taking a trip to Warsaw, he is tricked into retracing his…

Grade 5

• 09/06/13
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During her first days at school in America, Ut experiences alienation and separation. Later, she finds understanding and acceptance. Wi…

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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In this article, Mr. Koffi Annan spoke to world leaders on the issue of protecting our environment. He states that since the beginning …

Grade 5

• 11/18/14
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Leroy Brown, otherwise known as Encyclopedia, is a great detective and helps his father solve crimes.  One night at dinner, they d…

Grade 4

• 09/14/14
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Lydia Grade is sent to live with her Uncle Jim while her parents look for work.  She happily settles in to her new home where she …

Grade 4

• 09/14/14
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Since ancient times, people have used bones and fossils to imagine what animals that lived in the past were like. When scientists and p…

Grade 4

• 09/14/14
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The article gives factual information about the when, where and how the game of basketball began and how it is played. (Houghton Miffli…

Grade 3

• 09/14/14
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With Papa away on a cattle drive, fourteen-year-old Travis is in charge of looking after the family homestead on the Texas plains, mile…

Grade 5

• 09/14/14
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The Olympic Games have grown and changed since the first contests were held in Ancient Greece. However, one aspect of the games remains…

Grade 3

• 11/18/14
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A group of fifth grade students interview the first Hispanic American astronaut, Ellen Ochoa.  The interview is a question and ans…

Grade 5

• 09/14/14
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This non-fiction article gives information about the Chinese immigrants who came to California in the 1800’s seeking prosperity. …

Grade 3

• 09/22/14
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In this story, after their car crashes in a blizzard and their parents are injured, Danielle and Jake must climb to a weather station n…

Grade 6

• 09/14/14
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Before they ever met her, Rory and Derek made a pact not to speak to Bolivia, the new girl in town.  After Bolivia orchestrates a …

Grade 5

• 11/18/14
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The author describes the life of Jean-Francois Champollion. This selection uses text and graphics together as a vehicle to deepen the r…

Grade 4

• 09/14/14
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“Journey to the Moon” reflects a huge achievement of landing men on the moon. In 1969, three astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Bu…

Grade 3

• 10/23/14
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The Lewis and Clark expedition explored unmapped territory from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean from 1804-1806. The expedition …

Grade 5

• 09/22/14
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The selection is about Ghana, an ancient culture that was one of Africa’s great trading empires in the third century A.D.  G…

Grade 6

• 09/22/14
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The Lost City of the Aztecs is about the demise of the Aztec Empire and how Montezuma, the last Aztec emperor, reacted to the arrival o…

Grade 6

• 09/14/14
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Gloria waits in a checkout line, tossing around the onion her mother had sent her to buy. She tosses it too far and fears it’s go…

Grade 4

• 09/14/14
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In this story, Dag and his son Axel are at their climbing school in the Teton Mountains when the family dog, Grits, is stranded on Cath…

Grade 3

• 09/14/14
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This informational article is about how TV advertisers intend to persuade viewers to buy products through television advertising.  …

Grade 4

• 09/06/13
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In this nonfiction article, the author addresses the problems associated with urban sprawl. Urban sprawl destroys animal and plant habi…

Grade 3

• 10/23/14
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Saturdays and Sundays are very special days for the young girl in this story. On Saturdays, she visits Grandma and Grandpa, who come fr…

Grade 3

• 09/22/14
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Franklin R. Chang-Diaz is an immigrant from Costa Rica who began thinking about space at age seven when the Soviet Union launched the f…

Grade 6

• 10/23/14
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The story is presented through the eyes of the authors and goes back and forth between documenting for the reader the events of the mos…

Grade 5

• 09/14/14
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The story follows the lives of three new-born wolves over a ten and one half month period.  It encompasses the various stages thro…

Grade 4

• 09/22/14
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One definition of a protagonist is a character that goes through change.  And part of the definition is that the antagonist is the…

Grade 6

• 09/10/14
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In this story, Jangmi moves from her home in Korea to a new home in the United States. At first she is sad about leaving behind her fri…

Grade 3

• 09/14/14
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This selection is a narrative nonfiction story about supply and demand.  It gives readers information about the basics of starting…

Grade 3

• 09/14/14
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Before language was written, people from all over the world have recorded their family histories orally.  They have used storytell…

Grade 3

• 09/11/14
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Richard moves to a new town and has to make new friends and face the challenge of climbing the rope in gym class. He makes a friend in …

Grade 5

• 09/14/14
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Young Louis Armstrong, “Satchmo,” longs to play the horn, but his family has no money for such things.  He was inspire…

Grade 5

• 09/14/14
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Modern inventions used to make lives easier harm the planet.  There are several predictions about how towns of the future will be …

Grade 3

• 08/22/13
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This is the grade 3 version of this lesson for this title.  A grade 5 version is also available. A crew of sailors captained by S…

Grade 3

• 02/17/16
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The author explains the complete water cycle and also discusses ocean currents, ocean and lake habitats, and hydroelectricity. He also …

Grade 3

• 02/17/16
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Who ever heard of a girl glassblower? In Mexico, where the sun is called el sol and the moon is called la luna, a little girl called El…

Grade 3