STATE TESTED READING STANDARDS


Standard 4 : Learners demonstrate skills needed to read and respond to literature.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader uses literary concepts to interpret literature.
Indicators: 1. Identify and describe the main characters to narrative literature.
Allard	It’s so Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House Miss Nelson is Missing There’s a Party at Mona’s
Barbour	Little Nino’s Pizzeria
Bemelmans	Madeline
Black	Little Old Man Who Could Not Read
Blame	The Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House
Blos	Old Henry
Blume	The Pain and the Great One
Bornstein	Little Gorilla
Bridwell	Clifford the Big Red Dog
Brown	Arthur’s Baby
Cameron	Julian’s Glorious Summer
Carle	Mixed-up Chameleon
Carlson	Harriet’s Halloween Candy
Clifton	Amifika
Engel	Josefina the Great Collector
Flack	Story of Ping
Flournoy	The Patchwork Quilt
Freeman	Corduroy Dandelion
Friedman	How My Parents Learned to Eat
Gauch	Christina Katerina and the Time She Quit the Family
Greenfield	Grandpa’s Face
Griffith	Grandaddy’s Place
Harper	Gunniwolf
Hest	Crack-of-Dawn Walkers The Purple Coat
Hoban	Best Friends for Frances
Johnston	The Quilt Story
Keats	Peter’s Chair
Kellogg	Best Friends
Lewin	Jafta’s Father
Lobel	Giant John Martha and the Movie Mouse
Marshall	George and Martha
Matsuno	Pair of Red Clogs
Mosel	Funny Little Woman
Ness	Sam, Bang, and Moonshine
Parish	Amelia Bedelia
Potter	Tale of Peter Rabbit
Rey	Curious George
Ross	Lazy Jack
Sendak	Where the Wild Things Are
Sharmat	Bartholomew the Boss I’m Terrific
Steig	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Vipont	Elephant and the Bad Baby
Wilhelm	Let’s Be Friends Again
Williams	A Chair for My Mother
Winthrop	Best Friends Tough Eddie
Woolley	Popcorn Dragon
Zion	Harry the Dirty Dog
(Use other stories with strong characters or stories that highlights character relationships.)

2. Restate the main idea in narrative literature.

3. Describe the setting in narrative literature.
Blume	Freckle Juice
Cohen	Lost In the Museum
Jonas	Round Trip
Mahy	17 Kings and 42 Elephants
Marshall	Three By the Sea
Naylor	Shiloh
Peet	Caboose Who Got Loose Ella Pamela Camel Whingdingdilly
Rylant	Relatives Came When I Was Young in the Mountains
Scieszka	Time Warp Trio Books
Speare	Sign of the Beaver
Sims	Speak Up, Blanche
Williams	Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea
Wood	The Napping House
Yolen	Owl Moon
(Or use other stories with vivid descriptions.)

4. Identify the problem and solution in narrative literature.
Bang	Wiley and the Hairy Man
Browne	Willy the Wimp
Bunting	Mother’s Day Mice Wednesday Surprise
Carle	Do You Want To Be My Friend?
Chapman	Barney Bippie’s Magic Dandelions
Cohen	Liar, Liar Pants on Fire'
Daly	Not So Fast, Songolo
dePaola	Big Anthony and the Magic Ring
Flora	Great Green Turkey Creek Monster
Fox	Hattie the Fox
Freeman	Mop Top
Gag	Millions of Cats
Gage	Squash Pie
Ginsburg	Mushroom in the Rain
Graham	All About Arthur
Hutchins	Doorbell Rang Happy Birthday, Sam Very Worst Monster
Keats	Pet Show
Kellogg	Can I Keep Him? Much Bigger Than Martin
Kent	Joey Runs Away
Khalsa	I Want a Dog
Lester	Porcupine Named Fluffy
Lionni	Swimmy
Lobel	Frog and Toad Together —"Cookies"
Lord	Giant Jam Sandwich
McCully	Mouse Practice
McPhall	Fix-It
Marshall	Fox on the Job
Mosel	Tikki Tikki Tembo
Namioka	Yancy the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
Rylant	When I was Young in the Mountains
Seeger	Abiyoyo
Shannon	Dance Away
Sharmat	Mitchell Is Moving
Siegal/Thomas	No More Baths
Sims	Speak Up, Blanche
Slobodkina	Caps for Sale
Snyder	Boy of the Three Year Nap
Swope	The Araboolies of Liberty Street
Williams	Something Special for Me
Winthrop	Lizzie and Harold
Wood	Hegedy Peg King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
Yashima	Crow Boy
Yolen	Owl Moon
Zion	No Roses for Harry
Zolotow	Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
(Or use other stories that highlight a problem and its solution.)

5. Identify the concept and supporting details in expository literature.
Aardema	Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Aliki	Corn Is Maize My Five Senses Wild and Woolly Mammoths
Baker	Where the Forest Meets the Sea
Berger	Switch On, Switch Off
Branley	Comets Flash, Crash, Rumble and Roll The Sky Is Full of Stars What is the Moon Like?
Broekel	The True Book of Football
Chlad	Bicycles Are Fun to Ride Poisons Make You Sick
Cole	Cars and How They Go
DePaola	Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs
DeSantis	Dentist’s Tools
Dorros	Feel the Wind
Fradin	Drug Abuse
Gibbons	Farming Fill It Up! All About Gas Stations Milk Makers Paper, Paper Everywhere Up Goes the Skyscraper
Hader	Big Snow
Heller	Color Reason for a Flower
Hennessy	The Dinosaur Who Lived My Backyard
Hirsch	What is a Bird?
Hoban	Concept Books
Jacobsen	The True Book of Computers
Jonas	Color Dance
Krementz	Visit to Washington, D.C.
Lane	Spiders
Lyon	Biggest Truck
Maestro	Ferryboat
Milton	Whales, the Gentle Giants
Morris	Dolphin
Parish	Dinosaur Time
Podendorf	The True Book of Insects
Poliock	Water is Wet
Possell	Deserts
Rockwell	Fire Engines
Rodgers	New Baby
Rosenthal	The True Book of Baseball
Selsam	Egg to Chick First Look At Owls, Eagles, and Other Hunters in the Sky
Showers	What Happens to a Hamburger?
Simon	Meet the Computer
Sis	Going Up
Tresselt	Beaver Pond
Yabruichi	Whose Baby?
(Use other selections that give information or selections with a clear TOPIC and MAIN IDEA)

STATE TESTED READING STANDARDS
Fifth Grade
By the of fifth grade, the students
Standard 1: Learners demonstrate skill in reading a variety of materials for a variety of purposes
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader comprehends whole pieces of narration, exposition, persuasion, and technical writing.
Indicators:
1. Identify a correct restatement of the main idea.
Anderson	Pioneer Children of Appalachia
Rylant	Appalachia: The Voices of the Sleeping Birds
Stanely	Children of the Dustbowl

2. Identify details to support their understanding.
Ada	Dear Peter Rabbit
Simon	Sharks

3. Identify author's purpose.
Ada	Dear Peter Rabbit Yours Truly, Goldilocks
Ahlberg	The Jolly Postman
Cleary	Dear Mr. Henshaw
Hubalek	Butter in the Well
Murphy	West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelina Viscardi Other titles in the Dear America series
Myers	The Journal of Joshual Loper: A Black Cowboy Other titles in the My Name is America series

4. Connect predictions with information read.
Ayres	Family Tree
Blume	Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
DeFelice	The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Fenner	Yolanda's Genius
Fleischman	Bandit's Moon
George	My Side of the Mountain
Hobbs	Far North Jason's Gold
Kehret	Earthquake Terror
Korman	The 6^th Grade Nickname Game
Petersen	White Water

5. Identify characteristics of narrative text and expository text.
Cushman	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Kroll	Oh, What a Thanksgiving

6. Reread as necessary for understanding.

7. Compare and contrast information in texts.
Brink	Caddie Woodlawn
Galdone	The Three Little Pigs
McDermott	Anansi the Spider
Perrault	Cinderella
San Souci	Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella
Schroeder	Smoky Mountain Rose
Sciezka	The True Story of the Three Little P
Sharmat	Gila Monsters Meet You At the Airport
Wilder	Little House in the Big Woods

8. Link causes to effects.
Aardema	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Ada	Dear Peter Rabbit
Babbit	Tuck Everlasting
Blume	Tales of a Fourth Grade Noth
Calvert	Glennis Before and After
Charlip	Fortunately
Clements	Frindle
Cuyler	That's Good, That's Bad
Fleischman	Scarebird
Fletcher	Flying Solo
Franklin	Lone Wolf
Freeman	Dandelion
Franklin	Lone Wolf
Freeman	Dandelion
Hobbs	Far North Jason's Gold
Kehret	Earthquake Terror
Kipling	Just So Stories
Korman	The 6^th Grade Nickname Game
Lobel	Fables The Rose in My Garden
Numeroff	If You Give a Moose a Muffin If You Give a Mouse a Cookie If You Give A Pig a Pancake If You Take a Mouse to a Movie
Park	Mick Harte
Paterson	Jip, His Story
Peterson	White Water
Polacco	Pink and Say
Smith	The War with Grandpa
Spinelli	Crash

9. Use the skills of skimming to get an overview of the text and scanning to to find specific information in the text.
Nature’s Children Series

10. Recognize problem and solution.
Graham	Crusher is Coming!
Scieszka	Time Warp Books
Soto	Too Many Tamales
Stevenson	The Night After Christmas
Uchida	The Bracelet

11. Use various parts of a book such as table of contents, appendix, and glossary, to locate information.
Lauber	Hurricanes Nature's Children Rookie Read-About Science Books True Books (Children's Press

12. Identify text organizers such as headings, topic and summary sentences, and graphic features.
Curtis	Animals You Never Even Heard Of
Krupp	Let’s Go Traveling
Moss	Amelia Books
Rockwell	The Way to Captain Yankee’s


Benchmark 2: The proficient reader decodes accurately and understands new words in reading materials.
Indicators:
1. Use context clues such as definition, reinstatement, and example to determine meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.
Bunting	The Blue and Gray
Martin	Knots on a Counting Rope
Peet	Farewell to shady Glade
Soto	Too Many Tamales Chato's Kitchen
Waters	Sarah's Morton's Day

2. Use synonyms, antonyms, homographs, and homophones.
Synonyms/Antonyms
Burningham	John Burningham's Opposites
Hanson	Words That Are Different More Antonyms Still More Antonyms
Hoban	Push, Pull, Empty, Full: A Book of Opposites
McMillan	Becca Backward, Becca Forward Here a Chick, There a Chick
Maestro	Traffic: A Book of Opposites
Merriam	"Argument" in A Sky Full of Poems
Spier	Fast-Slow, High-Low: A Book of Opposites
Wilbur	Opposites
Homograph/Homophone
Basil		How Ships Play Cards
Bossom		A Scale Full of Fish and Other Turnabouts
Clifford		A Bear Before Breakfast
Grossman		My Little Sister Ate One Hare
Gwynne		16 Hand Horse A Chocolate Mousse The King Who Rained A Little Pigeon Toad
Hanlon		How a Horse Grew Hoarse on the Site Where He Sighted a Bare Bear
Maestro		What's Mite Might? Homophone Riddles to Boost Your Word Power
Terban		Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles
White		Word Twins
Wiseman		Morris Goes to School
Yolen		Owl Moon

3. Use a dictionary or a glossary to determine the meaning of vocabulary.
Clements		Frindle
Hall		Sniglets
Krauss		A Hole Is to Dig
Paulson		Hatchet

4. Use phonetic including rimes (phonograms) and structural analysis to determine meaning of unfamiliar words

5. Identify figurative language (similes, metaphors, and idioms)
Similes
Ackerman		Song and Dance Man
Asch		I Can Blink
Fleischman		The Scarebird
Kraus		My Son the Mouse
Lewin		Jafta
Merriam		"Simile" and "Cliché" in It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme
Nixon		Fat Chance, Claude
Ormerod		Just Like Me
		Our Ollie
Say		Bicycle Man
Spinelli		Wringer
Turner		Dakota Dugout
Turner		Nettie's Trip South
Yolen		Owl Moon
Metaphors
Howe		I Wish I were a Butterfly
Martin		Knots on a Counting Rope (The rope is a metaphor for passage of time)
McNulty		Lady and the Spider
Mayne		Patchwork Cat (The garbage truck is a cat)

STATE TESTED READING STANDARDS Third Grade By the of third grade, the students:
Standard 3: Learners demonstrate knowledge of literature from a variety of cultures, genres, and time periods.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the effects of cultures on literature.
Indicators: 1. Recognize customs as expressed in literature from a variety of cultures.
Anaya	Farolitos of Christmas
Behrens	Pow Wow Gung Hay Fat Choy
Burns	Arbor Day
Chocolate	Kwanzaa
Cohen	Make a Wish Molly Molly's Pilgrim
Deines	Charlotte
Erlbach	Happy Birthday, Everywhere
Hoyt-Goldsmith	Potlatch
Lawlor	Addie Across the Prairie
Mosel	Tikki Tikki Tembo
Polacco	The Keeping Quilt
Say	How My Parents Learned to Eat
Shachtman	Parade (Thanksgiving
Uchida	Jar of Dreams
Waters	Lion Dancer-Ernie Wan’s Chinese New Year
Yarbrough	Cornrows

2. Relate literature from a variety of cultures to personal experiences.
Bradley	Ruthie’s Gift
Burleigh	Hoops
Carrick	Left Behind
Cohen	Make a Wish Molly The Day of Ahmedi's Secret
Lord	In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Polacco	Chicken Sunday


Benchmark 2: The proficient reader identifies characteristics of a wide variety of literary genres in various formats.
Indicators: 1. Identify fiction and nonfiction and a variety of genres, such as folklore (fairy tale, folk tale, and tall tale), poetry, animal fantasy, and informational text.
de Paola	Legends
Goble	Legends
Kellogg	Tall Tales
Lobe	Frog and Toad Books
See Card Catalog Under Subject


Benchmark 3: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the effects of time periods on literature.
Indicators: 1. Distinguish between past and present settings
Anderson	The First Thanksgiving Feast
Bunting	How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story
Dalgliesh	The Courage of Sarah Noble The Thanksgiving Story
Hamilton	The Bells of Christmas
Kroll	Oh, What a Thanksgiving!
Luenn	Charlotte
Pryor	The House on Maple Street
Waters	Samuel Eaton’s Day Sarah Morton’s Day


Benchmark 2: The proficient reader evaluates literature with criteria based on purposes for reading and derived from time periods and cultures.
Indicators: 1. Recognize connections between characters and events and people and events in their lives.
Alexander	Mom Can't See Me
Markham	Helen Keller
St George	Dear Dr. Bell…Your Friend, Helen Keller
Walker	Amy: The Story of a Deaf Child

2. Share responses with peers.
Cohen	Molly's Pilgrim

3. Select literature based on purposes for reading.