Category: 3rd-5th

Walk Two Moons (1995) Book Unit
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech, published and winner of the 1995 Newbery Medal. The major themes in the story include the development of new relationships, dealing with grief, love, death, cultural identity, women’s roles as mothers and wives, the hardships of life, and the adventures of misunderstandings and coming to terms with reality.

Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8 Reading level:
Grades 3 – 8

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Bridge to Terabithia (1978) Book Unit
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

About the book (Not included):
Bridge to Terabithia is a work of children’s literature about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom in their imaginations. It was written by Katherine Paterson and was published in 1977 by Thomas Crowell. In 1978, it won the Newbery Medal. Paterson drew inspiration for the novel from a real event that occurred in August 1974 when her son’s friend was struck dead by lightning.

The novel tells the story of fifth grader Jesse Aarons, who becomes friends with his new neighbor, Leslie Burke, after he loses a footrace to her at school. She is a smart, talented, outgoing tomboy from a wealthy family, and he thinks highly of her. He is an artistic boy from a poorer family who, in the beginning, is fearful, angry, and depressed. After his meeting Leslie, his life is transformed. He becomes courageous and learns to let go of his frustration. They create a kingdom for themselves, which Leslie names “Terabithia.”

Interest level: Grades 4 – 7 Reading level: Grades 3 – 7

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On the Banks of Plum Creek Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, “The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods“. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938.

Interest Level:
Grades 3 – 7 Reading Level:
Grades 4 – 5

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Dead End in Norvelt (2012) Book Unit
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

About the book (Not included):
Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the American author Jack Gantos, published in 2011. It features a boy named Jack Gantos and is based in the author’s hometown, Norvelt, Pennsylvania. According to one reviewer, the “real hero” is “his home town and its values”.

Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8 Reading level:
Grades 4 – 10

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Black and White | Caldecott Book Guided Reading and Activities
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This Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and student activities that will help students get the most from David Macaulay’s book, Black and White (1991 Caldecott Medal winner).

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These Happy Golden Years Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
$1.50

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
These Happy Golden Years written by Laura Ingalls Wilder is the eighth of nine books in her Little House series – although it originally ended it. It is based on her later adolescence near De Smet, South Dakota, featuring her short time as a teacher, beginning at age 15, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder. It spans the time period from 1882 to 1885, when they marry. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1944

Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8 Reading level:
Grades 4 – 6

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Ralph S. Mouse Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Ralph’s pesky cousins are wrecking his motorcycle, and his janitor friend, Matt, is in trouble because there seem to be mice in the hotel. All in all things are not going well at the Mountain View Inn. So Ralph persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school. Ralph is an instant hit with Ryan’s classmates. But he doesn’t like being forced to run through a maze or the threat of an exterminator coming to the school. Worst of all, Ryan gets into a fight with a classmate, and Ralph’s precious motorcycle is broken. Is Ralph S. Mouse smart enough to steer this sad situation to a happy ending?

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The Lion and the Mouse | Teaching Aesop’s Fable 2 Ways
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Here is a different way to teach Aesop’s fable, The Lion and the Mouse! This Language Arts resource will use both the Caldecott’s winning picture book by Jerry Pinkney and the actual fable itself to help students gain understanding of the central theme and develop and practice important skills which will require attention to detail (both with illustration and text evidence). Students will be asked to give character analysis, describe the setting, develop a story map, explain cause and effect, show textual evidence and give opinions.

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Farmer Boy Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Farmer Boy written by Laura Ingalls Wilder was the second-published one in the Little House series. The novel is based on the childhood of Wilder’s husband, Almanzo Wilder, who grew up in the 1860s near the town of Malone, New York. It covers roughly one year of his life, beginning just before his ninth birthday and describes a full year of farming. Itescribes in detail the endless chores involved in running the Wilder family farm, all without powered vehicles or electricity. Young as he is, he rises before 5am every day to milk cows and feed stock. In the growing season, he plants and tends crops; in winter, he hauls logs, helps fill the ice house, trains a team of young oxen, and sometimes—when his father can spare him—goes to school. The novel includes stories of his brother, Royal, and sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice.

Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8 Reading level:
Grades 4 – 6

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Muggie Maggie Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
A curse on cursive! Maggie doesn’t really mean it when she vows never to read and write those wiggly, squiggly, roller-coaster letters. After all, she uses the computer. But everybody seems to be taking her revolt very, very seriously.

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Freckle Juice Book Unit – Judy Blume
$1.25

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Nicky has freckles — they cover his face, his ears, and the whole back of his neck. Once, sitting behind him in class, Andrew counted eighty-six of them, and that was just a start! If Andrew had freckles like Nicky, his mother would never know if his neck was dirty.

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Shiloh (1992) Book Unit
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

About the book (Not included):
Shiloh is a Newbery Medal-winning children’s novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published in 1991. The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog. Naylor decided to write Shiloh after an emotionally taxing experience in West Virginia where she encountered an abused dog.

Interest level:
Grades 4 – 7 Reading level:
Grades 4 – 7

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Dear Mr. Henshaw Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
$1.50

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book
Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw.

After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever.

From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

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The Long Winter Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
$1.50

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
The Long Winter is a historical fiction children’s novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1940, the sixth of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in southeastern Dakota Territory during the severe winter of 1880–1881, when she turned 14 years old. The novel was one runner-up for the Newbery Medal in 1941 (Newberry Honor Book).

Interest Level:
Grades 4 – 8 Reading Level:
Grades 3 – 6

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Otherwise known as Sheila the Great – Judy Blume
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Is Sheila Tubman the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great? Or is she the secret Sheila, afraid of the dark, dogs, and swimming? Maybe this summer she’ll find out the truth.

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Little House on the Prairie Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Little House on the Prairie was the third novel published in the Little House series, continuing the story of the first, Little House in the Big Woods (1932), but not related to the second. Thus, it is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of “the Laura Years”.

Interest Level:
Grades 4 – 8 Reading Level:
Grades 4 – 5

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Fourth grader Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem – his little brother Fudge! The first in a very funny five book series.

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Holes (1999) Book Unit
$2.00

This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Holes is a 1998 novel written by Louis Sachar. It won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year’s “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children”. The story centers on an unlucky teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile corrections facility in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley’s life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as racism, homelessness, illiteracy, and arranged marriage.

Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8 Reading level:
Grades 3 – 8

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