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Kansas State Tested Reading Standards Support Materials Elementary
Prepared by the USD 475 Library Media Specialists This is out of date but titles might be useful until it can be updated.
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STATE TESTED READING STANDARDS By the of third grade, the students: |
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Standard 3: Learners demonstrate
knowledge of literature from |
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Benchmark 1: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the effects of cultures on literature. |
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Indicators: 1. Recognize customs as expressed in literature from a variety of cultures. |
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Anaya |
Farolitos of Christmas |
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Behrens |
Pow Wow |
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Burns |
Arbor Day |
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Chocolate |
Kwanzaa |
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Cohen |
Make a Wish Molly |
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Deines |
Charlotte |
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Erlbach |
Happy Birthday, Everywhere |
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Hoyt-Goldsmith |
Potlatch |
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Lawlor |
Addie Across the Prairie |
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Mosel |
Tikki Tikki Tembo |
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Polacco |
The Keeping Quilt |
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Say |
How My Parents Learned to Eat |
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Shachtman |
Parade (Thanksgiving |
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Uchida |
Jar of Dreams |
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Waters |
Lion Dancer-Ernie Wan’s Chinese New Year |
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Yarbrough |
Cornrows |
| 2. Relate literature from a variety of cultures to personal experiences. | |
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Bradley |
Ruthie’s Gift |
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Burleigh |
Hoops |
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Carrick |
Left Behind |
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Cohen |
Make a Wish Molly |
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Lord |
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
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Polacco |
Chicken Sunday |
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Benchmark 2: The proficient reader identifies characteristics of a wide
variety |
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Indicators: |
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de Paola |
Legends |
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Goble |
Legends |
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Kellogg |
Tall Tales |
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Lobe |
Frog and Toad Books |
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See Card Catalog Under Subject |
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Benchmark 3: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the
effects of |
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Indicators: |
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Anderson |
The First Thanksgiving Feast |
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Bunting |
How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story |
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Dalgliesh |
The Courage of Sarah Noble |
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Hamilton |
The Bells of Christmas |
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Kroll |
Oh, What a Thanksgiving! |
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Luenn |
Charlotte |
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Pryor |
The House on Maple Street |
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Waters |
Samuel Eaton’s Day |
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Standard 4 : Learners demonstrate skills needed to read and respond to literature. |
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Benchmark 1: The proficient reader uses literary concepts to interpret literature. |
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Indicators: |
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Allard |
It’s so Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House |
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Barbour |
Little Nino’s Pizzeria |
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Bemelmans |
Madeline |
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Black |
Little Old Man Who Could Not Read |
Blame |
T he Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House |
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Blos |
Old Henry |
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Blume |
The Pain and the Great One |
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Bornstein |
Little Gorilla |
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Bridwell |
Clifford the Big Red Dog |
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Brown |
Arthur’s Baby |
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Cameron |
Julian’s Glorious Summer |
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Carle |
Mixed-up Chameleon |
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Carlson |
Harriet’s Halloween Candy |
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Clifton |
Amifika |
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Engel |
Josefina the Great Collector |
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Flack |
Story of Ping |
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Flournoy |
The Patchwork Quilt |
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Freeman |
Corduroy |
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Friedman |
How My Parents Learned to Eat |
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Gauch |
Christina Katerina and the Time She Quit the Family |
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Greenfield |
Grandpa’s Face |
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Griffith |
Grandaddy’s Place |
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Harper |
Gunniwolf |
Hest |
Crack-of-Dawn Walkers |
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Hoban |
Best Friends for Frances |
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Johnston |
The Quilt Story |
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Keats |
Peter’s Chair |
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Kellogg |
Best Friends |
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Lewin |
Jafta’s Father |
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Lobel |
Giant John |
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Marshall |
George and Martha |
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Matsuno |
Pair of Red Clogs |
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Mosel |
Funny Little Woman |
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Ness |
Sam, Bang, and Moonshine |
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Parish |
Amelia Bedelia |
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Potter |
Tale of Peter Rabbit |
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Rey |
Curious George |
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Ross |
Lazy Jack |
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Sendak |
Where the Wild Things Are |
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Sharmat |
Bartholomew the Boss |
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Steig |
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
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Vipont |
Elephant and the Bad Baby |
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Wilhelm |
Let’s Be Friends Again |
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Williams |
A Chair for My Mother |
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Winthrop |
Best Friends |
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Woolley |
Popcorn Dragon |
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Zion |
Harry the Dirty Dog |
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2. Restate the main idea in narrative literature. |
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| 3. Describe the setting in narrative literature. | |
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Blume |
Freckle Juice |
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Cohen |
Lost In the Museum |
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Jonas |
Round Trip |
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Mahy |
17 Kings and 42 Elephants |
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Marshall |
Three By the Sea |
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Naylor |
Shiloh |
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Peet |
Caboose Who Got Loose |
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Rylant |
Relatives Came |
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Scieszka |
Time Warp Trio Books |
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Speare |
Sign of the Beaver |
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Sims |
Speak Up, Blanche |
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Williams |
Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea |
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Wood |
The Napping House |
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Yolen |
Owl Moon |
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(Or use other stories with vivid descriptions.) |
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| 4. Identify the problem and solution in narrative literature. | |
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Bang |
Wiley and the Hairy Man |
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Browne |
Willy the Wimp |
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Bunting |
Mother’s Day Mice |
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Carle |
Do You Want To Be My Friend? |
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Chapman |
Barney Bippie’s Magic Dandelions |
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Cohen |
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire' |
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Daly |
Not So Fast, Songolo |
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dePaola |
Big Anthony and the Magic Ring |
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Flora |
Great Green Turkey Creek Monster |
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Fox |
Hattie the Fox |
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Freeman |
Mop Top |
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Gag |
Millions of Cats |
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Gage |
Squash Pie |
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Ginsburg |
Mushroom in the Rain |
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Graham |
All About Arthur |
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Hutchins |
Doorbell Rang |
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Keats |
Pet Show |
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Kellogg |
Can I Keep Him? |
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Kent |
Joey Runs Away |
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Khalsa |
I Want a Dog |
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Lester |
Porcupine Named Fluffy |
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Lionni |
Swimmy |
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Lobel |
Frog and Toad Together —"Cookies" |
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Lord |
Giant Jam Sandwich |
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McCully |
Mouse Practice |
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McPhall |
Fix-It |
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Marshall |
Fox on the Job |
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Mosel |
Tikki Tikki Tembo |
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Namioka |
Yancy the Youngest and His Terrible Ear |
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Rylant |
When I was Young in the Mountains |
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Seeger |
Abiyoyo |
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Shannon |
Dance Away |
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Sharmat |
Mitchell Is Moving |
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Siegal/Thomas |
No More Baths |
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Sims |
Speak Up, Blanche |
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Slobodkina |
Caps for Sale |
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Snyder |
Boy of the Three Year Nap |
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Swope |
The Araboolies of Liberty Street |
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Williams |
Something Special for Me |
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Winthrop |
Lizzie and Harold |
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Wood |
Hegedy Peg |
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Yashima |
Crow Boy |
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Yolen |
Owl Moon |
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Zion |
No Roses for Harry |
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Zolotow |
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present |
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(Or use other stories that highlight a problem and its solution.) |
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5. Identify the concept and supporting details in expository literature. |
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Aardema |
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain |
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Aliki |
Corn Is Maize |
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Baker |
Where the Forest Meets the Sea |
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Berger |
Switch On, Switch Off |
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Branley |
Comets |
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Broekel |
The True Book of Football |
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Chlad |
Bicycles Are Fun to Ride |
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Cole |
Cars and How They Go |
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DePaola |
Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs |
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DeSantis |
Dentist’s Tools |
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Dorros |
Feel the Wind |
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Fradin |
Drug Abuse |
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Gibbons |
Farming |
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Hader |
Big Snow |
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Heller |
Color |
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Hennessy |
The Dinosaur Who Lived My Backyard |
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Hirsch |
What is a Bird? |
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Hoban |
Concept Books |
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Jacobsen |
The True Book of Computers |
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Jonas |
Color Dance |
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Krementz |
Visit to Washington, D.C. |
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Lane |
Spiders |
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Lyon |
Biggest Truck |
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Maestro |
Ferryboat |
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Milton |
Whales, the Gentle Giants |
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Morris |
Dolphin |
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Parish |
Dinosaur Time |
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Podendorf |
The True Book of Insects |
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Poliock |
Water is Wet |
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Possell |
Deserts |
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Rockwell |
Fire Engines |
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Rodgers |
New Baby |
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Rosenthal |
The True Book of Baseball |
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Selsam |
Egg to Chick |
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Showers |
What Happens to a Hamburger? |
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Simon |
Meet the Computer |
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Sis |
Going Up |
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Tresselt |
Beaver Pond |
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Yabruichi |
Whose Baby? |
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(Use other selections that give information or selections with a clear TOPIC and MAIN IDEA) |
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Benchmark 2: The proficient reader evaluates literature with criteria
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Indicators: 1. Recognize connections between characters and events and people and events in their lives. |
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Alexander |
Mom Can't See Me |
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Markham |
Helen Keller |
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St George |
Dear Dr. Bell…Your Friend, Helen Keller |
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Walker |
Amy: The Story of a Deaf Child |
| 2. Share responses with peers. | |
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Cohen |
Molly's Pilgrim |
| 3. Select literature based on purposes for reading. | |
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STATE TESTED READING STANDARDS |
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Fifth Grade |
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By the of fifth grade, the students |
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Standard 1: Learners demonstrate skill in reading a variety of
materials for a |
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Benchmark 1: The proficient reader comprehends whole pieces of
narration, |
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Indicators: |
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| 1. Identify a correct restatement of the main idea. | |
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Anderson |
Pioneer Children of Appalachia |
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Rylant |
Appalachia: The Voices of the Sleeping Birds |
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Stanely |
Children of the Dustbowl |
| 2. Identify details to support their understanding. | |
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Ada |
Dear Peter Rabbit |
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Simon |
Sharks |
| 3. Identify author's purpose. | |
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Ada |
Dear Peter Rabbit |
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Ahlberg |
The Jolly Postman |
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Cleary |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
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Hubalek |
Butter in the Well |
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Murphy |
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa |
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Myers |
The Journal of Joshual Loper: A Black Cowboy |
| 4. Connect predictions with information read. | |
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Ayres |
Family Tree |
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Blume |
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing |
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DeFelice |
The Ghost of Fossil Glen |
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Fenner |
Yolanda's Genius |
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Fleischman |
Bandit's Moon |
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George |
My Side of the Mountain |
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Hobbs |
Far North |
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Kehret |
Earthquake Terror |
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Korman |
The 6th Grade Nickname Game |
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Petersen |
White Water |
| 5. Identify characteristics of narrative text and expository text. | |
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Cushman |
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple |
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Kroll |
Oh, What a Thanksgiving |
| 6. Reread as necessary for understanding. | |
| 7. Compare and contrast information in texts. | |
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Brink |
Caddie Woodlawn |
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Galdone |
The Three Little Pigs |
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McDermott |
Anansi the Spider |
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Perrault |
Cinderella |
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San Souci |
Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella |
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Schroeder |
Smoky Mountain Rose |
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Sciezka |
The True Story of the Three Little P |
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Sharmat |
Gila Monsters Meet You At the Airport |
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Wilder |
Little House in the Big Woods |
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Aardema |
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
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Ada |
Dear Peter Rabbit |
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Babbit |
Tuck Everlasting |
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Blume |
Tales of a Fourth Grade Noth |
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Calvert |
Glennis Before and After |
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Charlip |
Fortunately |
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Clements |
Frindle |
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Cuyler |
That's Good, That's Bad |
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Fleischman |
Scarebird |
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Fletcher |
Flying Solo |
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Franklin |
Lone Wolf |
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Freeman |
Dandelion |
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Franklin |
Lone Wolf |
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Freeman |
Dandelion |
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Hobbs |
Far North |
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Kehret |
Earthquake Terror |
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Kipling |
Just So Stories |
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Korman |
The 6th Grade Nickname Game |
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Lobel |
Fables |
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Numeroff |
If You Give a Moose a Muffin |
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Park |
Mick Harte |
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Paterson |
Jip, His Story |
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Peterson |
White Water |
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Polacco |
Pink and Say |
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Smith |
The War with Grandpa |
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Spinelli |
Crash |
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9. Use the skills of skimming to get an overview of the text and
scanning to to find specific information in the text. |
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Nature’s Children Series |
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| 10. Recognize problem and solution. | |
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Graham |
Crusher is Coming! |
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Scieszka |
Time Warp Books |
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Soto |
Too Many Tamales |
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Stevenson |
The Night After Christmas |
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Uchida |
The Bracelet |
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11. Use various parts of a book such as table of contents, appendix, and
glossary, to locate information. |
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Lauber |
Hurricanes |
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12. Identify text organizers such as headings, topic and summary
sentences, and graphic features. |
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Curtis |
Animals You Never Even Heard Of |
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Krupp |
Let’s Go Traveling |
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Moss |
Amelia Books |
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Rockwell |
The Way to Captain Yankee’s |
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Benchmark 2: The proficient reader decodes accurately and
understands new words in reading materials. |
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1. Use context clues such as definition, reinstatement, and example
to determine meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary. |
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Bunting |
The Blue and Gray |
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Martin |
Knots on a Counting Rope |
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Peet |
Farewell to shady Glade |
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Soto |
Too Many Tamales |
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Waters |
Sarah's Morton's Day |
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Burningham |
John Burningham's Opposites |
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Hanson |
Words That Are Different |
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Hoban |
Push, Pull, Empty, Full: A Book of Opposites |
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McMillan |
Becca Backward, Becca Forward |
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Maestro |
Traffic: A Book of Opposites |
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Merriam |
"Argument" in A Sky Full of Poems |
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Spier |
Fast-Slow, High-Low: A Book of Opposites |
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Wilbur |
Opposites |
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Homograph/Homophone |
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Basil |
How Ships Play Cards |
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Bossom |
A Scale Full of Fish and Other Turnabouts |
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Clifford |
A Bear Before Breakfast |
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Grossman |
My Little Sister Ate One Hare |
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Gwynne |
16 Hand Horse |
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Hanlon |
How a Horse Grew Hoarse on the Site |
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Maestro |
What's Mite Might? |
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Terban |
Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles |
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White |
Word Twins |
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Wiseman |
Morris Goes to School |
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Yolen |
Owl Moon |
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Clements |
Frindle |
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Hall |
Sniglets |
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Krauss |
A Hole Is to Dig |
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Paulson |
Hatchet |
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4. Use phonetic including rimes (phonograms) and structural analysis to
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Similes |
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Ackerman |
Song and Dance Man |
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Asch |
I Can Blink |
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Fleischman |
The Scarebird |
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Kraus |
My Son the Mouse |
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Lewin |
Jafta |
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Merriam |
"Simile" and "Cliché" in It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme |
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Nixon |
Fat Chance, Claude |
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Ormerod |
Just Like Me |
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Our Ollie |
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Say |
Bicycle Man |
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Spinelli |
Wringer |
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Turner |
Dakota Dugout |
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Turner |
Nettie's Trip South |
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Yolen |
Owl Moon |
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Metaphors |
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Howe |
I Wish I were a Butterfly |
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Martin |
Knots on a Counting Rope |
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McNulty |
Lady and the Spider |
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Mayne |
Patchwork Cat |
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