Third+ELA

= Unit 1 =

Lesson 1
//I’m Gonna Like Me// by Jamie Curtis //Freckle Juice// by Judy Blume //A Case of Stripes// by David Shannon

Lesson 2
//An Angel for Solomon Singer// by Cynthia Rylant

Lesson 3
//Agatha’s Featherbed// by Carmen Agra Deedy //Ramona Quimby, Age 8// by Beverly Cleary = Unit 2 =

Lesson 1-Paired Texts
Verdi by Janell Cannon/Slinky, Scaly, Slithery Snakes by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett/Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids by Seymour Simon Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert/Why Do Leaves Change Color? By Betsy Maestro The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinA Tree is Growing by Arthur Dorros Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman/The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss/What Neat Feet by Hana Machotka Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox/Foxes Emilie U. Lepthien I'm Going to be a Firefighter by Edith Kunhardt/Fire! by Joy Masoff The Whales by Cynthia Rylant/Whales by John Bonnett Wexo The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle/Spiders by Gail Gibbons Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell/The Post Office Book: Mail and How it Moves by Gail Gibbons Paper Bag Princess by Michael Martchenko/Behold...the Dragons! by Gail Gibbons Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown/The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons Lizards for lunch: a Roadrunners Tale by Conrad J. Storad/Deserts by Gail Gibbons Frog and Toad by Arnold Loebel/Frogs by Gail Gibbons

Lesson 2
//The Story of Ruby Bridges// by Robert Coles

Lesson 3
Marc Chagall, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso by Mike Venezia //Song and Dance Man// by Karen Ackerman //My Great Aunt Arizona// by Gloria Houston //My Rotten Red-Headed Brother// by Patricia Polacco

Lesson 4
//Family Pictures, Cuadros de Familia// by Carmen Lomas Garza //The Crayon Box That Talked// by Shane Derolf and Michael Letzig • //The Relatives Came// by Cynthia Rylant • //The Table Where Rich People Sit// by Bryd Baylor • //Families: The Global Family Album// by Uwe Ommer • //One Hundred is a Family// by Pam Ryan Munoz • //Who’s Who in My Family// by Loreen Leedy • //Families Are Different// by Nina Pellegrina

Lesson 5
Nursery Rhymes

= Unit 3 =

Lesson 1
//The Little Engine That Could// by Watty Piper //Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day// by Judith Viorst. //If I Were In Charge of the World// by Judith Viorst //Horton Hatches the Egg// by Dr. Seuss //One Monday Morning// by Uri Shulevitz //Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?// by Bill Martin Jr. //Is Your Mama a Llama?// by Deborah Guardino //If You Give a Mouse a Cookie// by Laura Numeroff //Do You Know What I’ll Do?// By Charlotte Zolotow //King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub// by Audrey Wood //Love you Forever// by Robert Munsch //Three Billy Goats Gruff// by Marcia Brown //The House that Jack Built// by Rodney Peppe //The Little Red Hen// by Margot Zemach //The Very Busy Spider// by Eric Carle //The Napping House// by Audrey Wood //At Mary’s Bloom’s// by Aliki //Ten Black Dots// by Donald Crews //Tomorrow’s Alphabet// by George Shannon //The Important Book// by Margaret Wise Brown //Fortunately// by Remy Charlip

Lesson 2
//The Polar Express// by Chris Van Allsburg //The Polar Express// movie

Lesson 3
//The Pickety Fence// by David McCord //From a Railway Carriage// by Robert Louis Stevenson //Don’t Ever Seize a Weasel// by the Tail by Jack Prelutsky //Beautiful Soup// by Lewis Carroll //Lullaby// by Christina Rossetti //Far and Few: Rhymes of the Never Was and Always Is// by David McCord //A Child’s Garden of Verses// by Robert Louis Stevenson //Rhythm Road: Poems to Move To// by Lillian Morrison //Children Poetry Preferences, National Survey of Upper Elementary Grades (NCTE Research)// by C. Ann Terry //The Poetry Troupe compiled// by Isabel Wilner //Today is Saturday// by Zilpha Keatley Snyder //A Gopher in the Garden and Other Animal Poems// by Jack Prelutsky //Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland// by Lewis Carroll //Sing-Song// by Christina Rossetti //Rhymes by Christina Rossetti// The Owl and The Pussycat //by Edward Lear// Gazelle //by Mary Ann Toberman// The Meal //by Karla Kushkin// Rain //by Aileen Fisher// Vowel Owl //by John Hollander// Galoshes //by Rhoda Bacmeister// The Book of Pigericks //by Arnold Lobel// Millions of Cats //by Wanda Gag// The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme //by Jane Yolen// Louder Than a Clap of Thunder //by Jack Prelutsky//

= Unit 4 =

Lesson 1
//The Legend of the Bluebonnet// by Tomie De Paola //Beauty and the Beast// by Jan Brett Three different versions of //Cinderella// [] //American Folk Songs for Children// by Ruth Crawford Seeger //Snow White// by Trina Schart Hyman //St. George and the Dragon// by Margaret Hodges

Lesson 2
//King Midas and the Golden Touch// by Charlotte Craft and illustrated by K.Y. Craft

= Unit 5 =

Lesson 1
//Books by Beverly Cleary: Muggie Maggie Excerpts from A Girl from Yamhill, My Own Two Feet Socks Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Ramona the Pest Ramona Forever Beezus and Ramona Ralph S. Mouse Lucky Chuck Janet’s Thingamajigs Petey’s Bedtime Story The Real Hole Two Dog Biscuits The Growing Up Feet It’s Great to be Eight The Twins Again// Books about Beverly Cleary: //Beverly Cleary; the Young At Heart// by Julie Berg, Abdo & Daughters, 1993 //Living Legends Interview with Beverly Cleary// (sound recording). Interview by Sybille A. Jagusch, Library of Congress, 2000 //Beverly Cleary: She Makes Reading Fun by// Patricia Stone Martin, Rourke 1987 //Beverly Cleary, Favorite Author Series// by Susan Onion, Teacher Created Materials, 1994 //Beverly Cleary// by Pat Pflieger, Twayne’s United States Author Series, No. 572 Children’s Literature. Twayne, 1991

= Unit 6 =

Lesson 1
//The Raft// by Jim La Marche //Going Home// by Eve Bunting //Train to Somewhere// by Eve Bunting //Dandelions// by Eve Bunting //Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey// by Jean Van Leewen //Amelia’s Road// by Linda Jacobs Altman //Playing Lotería// by Rene Colato Lainez

Lesson 2
//Knots on a Counting Rope//, by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, and illustrated by Ted Rand