MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Phoneme Awareness Teacher Resources

General: Power Points (all subjects)- http://www.pppst.com/

Thinking Maps- http://www.bookladymel.com/thinkingmaps.htm http://www.gcschools.net/thinkin_maps.htm

Grace, Kathryn E. Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping. Boston: Sopris West Educational Services, 2007.

Interactive Word Walls- http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/wordwall062599.html

Make a Word Wall- http://www.edhelper.com/word_walls.htm

Word Walls- http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/word_walls/words.html

Reading Strategy of the Month- http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratwordwalls.html

Reading Strategies- http://www.paec.org/david/reading/general.pdf

Balanced Literacy (professional resources)- http://www.primaryteachers.org/balanced_literacy.htm

Fountas, Irene C. and Pinnell, Gay Su. Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children: Heinemann

Diller, Debbie. Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All: Stenhouse Publishers

Southall, Margo. Differentiated Small Group Reading Lessons: Scholastic

Southall, Margo. Differentiated Literacy Centers: Scholastic

Burns, Marilyn and Sheffield, Stephanie. Math and Literature (Grades K-1): Math Solutions Publications

Bachman, Vicki. Fist-Grade Math: A Month-to-Month Guide: Math Solutions Publication

Standards- Based-Math Activites: http://www.mathwire.com

MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Alphabet Books (All Year)

Alphabet books can be used to review sounds, increase vocabulary, and give students enriched meaning and visual for words. Alphabet books can be used every week throughout the year to fit with other curriculum.

ABC USA. Jarre, Martin, illus. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2005. Coast to coast words across America, including landmarks and geography.

Ehlert, Lois. Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z. Orlando: Voyager Books, 1989.

Johnson, Stephen T. Alphabet City. New York: Viking, 1995. Alphabet is shown from buildings and objects throughout the city. Book has no words.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum ABC. New York: Little Brown and Company, Simple words are illustrated by four pictures taken from the museum collection.

Pallotta, Jerry & Bolster, Rob. The Construction Alphabet Book. Korea: Charlesbridge, 2006. This gives the word for the machine, and an explanation of how the machine is used.

Pearson, Debora. Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC. New York: Holiday House, 2002. Great to show vehicles around town, and signs to read.

Raczka, Bob. 3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet. Minneapolis: Millbrook, 2007. Words illustrated by sculptures.

Smith, Marie and Smith, Roland. Z is for Zookeeper. Chelsea, MI: Thomas Gale, 2005. Shows basic animals, and simple words of things used by the zookeepers in their work. More factual information is on each page for more in depth study.

Soboll, June. Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC. Orlando: Harcourt, 2006. Every first grader needs to learn to talk like a pirate! MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Phonics (All Year) Short A, T

Webb, Steve. Tanka, Tanka, Skunk! New York: Orchard Books, 2003. Rhythm and beat make this a student favorite!

Short A, Z

Roberts, Brenda C. Jazzy Miz Mozetta. New York: Farrar Straus Girioux, 2004.

Short I, Long O

Newman, Jeff. Hippo! No, Rhino! New York: Little Brown and Company, 2006. Center Use: Match pictures of animals and their names. Can self check back of picture.

Short I, W

Cronin, Doreen. Wiggle. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005. Sometimes first graders need a book where they can get wiggle!

Hard C, Schwa A

Gay, Marie-Louise. Caramba. Toronto: Groundwood Book, 2005.

Word Families

Salzmann, Mary Elizabeth. Word Families (series): Sandcastle

Word Family Tales:Scholastic

Word Families Sing-Along Flip Chart & CD: Scholastic MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Read Alouds

Reading stories is an integral part of balanced literacy. Students are able to increase vocabulary and develop a love of reading. Besides working on listening skills, teachers can introduce vocabulary, concepts, and check for understanding skills such as real and fantasy, as often fiction books may have realistic story elements.

Seasonal Reading: Fall (1st and 2nd Nine Weeks)

Archer, Peggy. Turkey Surprise. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2005. Have students look closely to see the turkey that is hiding!

Haper, Jamie. Miss Mingo and the First Day of School. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006. This silly story has facts about the animals in the story.

Hennessy, B.G. Mr. Ouchy’s First Day. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006. This clever story tells of a first day for a new teacher. Great to talk about what your students may want to learn during the year.

Landstrom, Lena and Olof. Boo and Baa Have Company. Stockhom: R&S Books, 2006. Fun adventures of raking leaves and rescuing a cat up a tree.

Rubel, Nicole. Ham and Pickles First Day of School. Orlando: Harcourt, 2006. Ham gives little sister Pickels some bad advise which she ignores.

Wells, Rosemary. Emily’s First 100 Days of School. New York: Hyperion Boors for Children, 2000. Read each week, as you progress through the first of school. .

Seasonal Reading: Spring (3rd and 4th nine weeks)

Bateman, Teresa. April Foolishness. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Co., 2004.

Burton, Virginia Lee. The Little House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Have students divide paper into four sections, and draw the house each of the four seasons. Excellent book to use in Social Studies about what is the city, what is the country.

Dragonwagon, Crescent. Alligators and Others All Year Long. New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Gibbons, Gail. Groundhog Day! New York: Holiday House, 2007.

Schofield, Jennifer. Animal Babies in Polar Lands. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. These beautiful photograph have simple text that describes the animals adaptations for the seasons. MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Animal Stories

Hindley, Judy. Do Like A Duck Does! Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2002. Momma duck outsmarts a fox who wants her ducklings for lunch. Large print and simple vocabulary makes a great story for beginning readers.

Joyce, Susan. ABC Animal Riddles. Columbus, NC: Peel Productions, 1999. This is great to follow animal studies. The beginning and ending letters are given, along with the shadow of the animals.

Kellogg, Steven. Pinkerton, Behave! New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1979. This simple story is great when introducing verbs.

Lobel, Arnold. Small Pig. New York: Harper Collins, 1988. This great I Can Read book is a student favorite as small pig sits down and sinks down into good, soft mud!

Martin, Bill. Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up? New York: Marshal Cavendish Children, 2008. Kitten has much to do before getting ready for school.

McMullan, Kate and Jim. I’m Bad! China: Harper Collins, 2008. The authors of I’m Bad & I’m Stinky new story is about a baby dinosaur, who even though he is big, misses his mother. Dinosaurs are listed on the fly pages, and the pages unfolds to show the mother.

Miranda, Anne. To Market, To Market. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 1997. Try to find the Scholastic tape that goes with this hilarious sequence story, that ends with making vegetable soup. Janet Steven’s illustrations make this extra funny.

Palatina, Margie and Cole, Henry. Bad Boys. China: Katherine Tegen Books, 2001. Those wolves in the fairy tales get into more trouble. Have students guess the stories the wolves came from, and predict what is going to happen next.

Rosoff, Meg and Blackall, Sophie. Jumpy Jack & Googily. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008. A snail, Jumpy Jack is scared, but monster Googily shows him to not be scared. A great story students will want to hear again and again.

Salley, Coleen. Epossumondas Saves the Day. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc, 2006. Janet Stevens hilarious illustrations give new meaning to a clever folk tales set in the Louisiana swamps, with all the swamp creatures. MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Language Arts

Stevens, Janet. From Pictures to Words: A Book About Making a Book. New York: Holiday House, 1995.

Choral Reading/ Books with Repetition (All Year)

These books are great with ELL classroom. Students repeat refrains, and practice speaking without being self-conscious. Teacher can have students make hats or pictures to act out the stories as they are being read.

Bateman, Donna M. Deep in the Swamp. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2007. This retake of Over in the Meadow by Langstaff, has the stanzas along with facts about animals in the swamp. Science information is at the end of the story.

Davis, Aubrey. The Enormous Potato. New York: Kids Can Press, 1998.

Here’s a Little Poem. Yolen, Jane and Peters, Andrew Fusek, eds. Cambridge, Ma: Candlewick Press, 2007. Simple poem are great for practicing aloud.

Himmelman, John. Chickens to the Rescue. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006.

Hoberman, Mary Ann. You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2001. This has great poems for two readers.

Peck, Jan. The Giant Carrot. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998.

Thompson, Lauren. The Apple Pie that Papa Baked. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.

Wheeler, Lisa, and Christie, R. Gregory. Jazz Baby. New York: Harcourt, 2007.

Yeoman, John and Black, Quentin. The Do-It-Yourself House that Jack Built. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995.

Punctuation (All Year)

Pulver, Robin. Punctuation Takes a Vacation

Salzmann, Mary Elizabeth. Punctuation (series): Sandcastle

Truss, Lynn. Twenty Odd Ducks: Why Every Punctuation Mark Counts MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Mathematics

Dr. Jean’s Totally Math CD

Dr. Jean’s Sing to Learn CD

Counting (1st nine weeks)

Chriselow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-And-Seek. New York: Clarion Books, 2004. Monkey that is it counts to 104.

Numeroff, Laura. 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. A great book to start students in making numbered lists. Also can be used as a writing tie-in, as students could write and illustrate what their monster might need!

Addition and Subtraction (All Year)

Chriselow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping. New York: Clarion Books, 2007. Use a whiteboard to write the math problems.

Chriselow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree. New York: Clarion Books, 1991. Have students write the addition and subtractions on the whiteboard as the story progresses.

Leedy, Loreen. Subtraction Action. New York: Viking, 2000. This is a book of number word problems. Work a word problem each day, and have students write the problem on a whiteboard. Book also has an index to use with parts of book lesson.

Thompson, Lauren. Little Quack. New York: Viking, 2003. Addition of more than one number is shown on the pages. Use die cut ducks or flannel board ducks and numbers to make the addition problems as the story progresses.

Measurement (4th nine weeks)

Axelrod, Amy. Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Measurements are listed in the back of the book. For best student understanding, after reading the story, chart the wrong measurements with the correct measurements.

Chriselow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake. New York: Clarion Books, 2004. The fireman help save the monkeys disastrous measurements!

Leedy, Loreen. Measuring Penny. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. The dog is measured using different units of measure.

Loughran, Donna. How Long Is It? New York: Children’s Press, 2005. This Rookie Read-About Math has photographs.

Sargent, Brian. How Heavy Is It? New York: Children’s Press, 2005. This Rookie Read-About Math series has excellent content using MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

photographs. The small book size make these better for small group learning.

Stevens, Janet and Crummel, Susan Stevens. Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. Unlike the story of the Little Red Hen, everyone helps make strawberry shortcake to comical results. The cooking measurements are discussed, and a recipe is attached.

Money (3rd nine weeks)

Amato, William. Math at the Store. New York: Children’s Press, 2002. Photographs show real life applications, from Math in My World series.

Wells, Rosemary. Bunny Money. New York: Viking, 2002. List the money the bunnies spend as the story progresses.

Wells, Rosemary. Max’s Bunny Business. New York: Viking, 2008. List the money the bunnies make as the story progresses.

Problem Solving (All Year)

Tang, Greg. Math for All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles. Various solutions to these problems, including counting by fives, counting by threes, addition, and subtraction.

Time (3rd Nine Weeks)

Archambault, John. Boom Chicka Rock. New York: Philomel Books, 2004. Mice rock around the clock!

Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Lady Bug: Scholastic

Viorst, Judith. Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Glass, Julie. A Dollar for Penny: Random House

Willliams, Rozanne Lanczak. The Coin Counting Book: Charlesbridge Publishing MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Science

Earth Resources

Davies, Nixola. One Tiny Turtle. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2001. The life cycle of a loggerhead turtle include the facts in a simply worded format. An index is included. The large format is a good read aloud.

Graham, Margaret Bloy. Be Nice to Spiders. Mexico: Harper-Collins Publisishers, 1967. This simple story by the author of Harry the Dirty Dog, tells the story of a pet spider who cleans up the flies at the zoo. Excellent in teaching out the animals and insects work together.

Luenn, Nancy. Squish! A Wetland Walk. New York: Atheneum, 1994. The seasons in the wetland and pollution are shown by watercolor illustrations and simple text.

Pfeffer, Wendy. Wiggling Worms at Work. New York: Harper Collins, 2004. Illustrations include simple cross section views, and good facts. The last page includes “Find Out More About Worm” with a simple experiment using flowerpots.

Romanova, Natalia. Once There Was a Tree. New York: Dial Books, 1995. The Russian story tells the life cycle of a tree, and shows how nature interacts and the rebirth of a new tree.

Rosen, Michael J. and Leonard, Tom. All Eyes on the Pond. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1994. This nonfiction book includes a cross section of an ant colony, and above and below pictures of the pond. Excellent simple text and soft realistic illustrations provide good information about habitat.

Organisms

Leber, Nancy. What Plants and Animals Need. Minneapolis, MI: Compass Point Books, 2004. This book includes a table and content, an index, and a word bingo game with vocabulary. The facts from the narrative can be charted after reading the story.

Animals

Bachelet, Giles. My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World. New York: Abrams for Young Readers, 2006. The humorous book can introduce patterns on animals, and classifications.

Carle, Eric. Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? China: Harper Collins, 2000.

Duvoisin, Roger. Petunia. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. This silly barnyard story is fanciful, but has a variety of farm animals that are the characters. Petunia learns you have to read a books in order to be wise.

Friend, Catherine. The Perfect Nest. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2007. A cat makes a perfect nest to trap breakfast, and ends up an unwitting mother. MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Jenkins, Steve and Page, Robin. Move. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. A book about how animals move, great to use to introduce verbs.

Plants

Bunting, Eve. Flower Garden. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. A little girl plants a flower box in the city. plant you can eat.

Driscoll, Laura. Apples and How They Grow. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. This science nonfiction book is an I Can Read choice.

Mann, Rachel. Plants Grow from Seeds. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2004. Pictures illustrate plant facts, and include an index.

Purmell, Ann. Christmas Tree Farm. New York: Holiday House, 2006. This fiction book lists facts and history about Christmas trees, and the different varieties of evergreen trees.

Stevens, Janet. Tops & Bottoms. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. The bear is tricked because the rabbits know which part of the plant you can eat.

Space/Universe

Beams, Margaret. Night Cat. New York: Orchard Books, 2000.

Gibbons, Gail. The Reasons for Seasons. New York: Holiday House, 1995. This book gives the Earth’s positions during the seasons of the year.

Weather

Sayre, April Pulley. Vulture View. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. Great for introducing the word up. The atmosphere is described as the sun warms the air. MNPS First Grade Standards- Suggested Book Resources

Social Studies

Culture

Cunnane, Kelly. For You Are a Kenyan Child. New York: Atheneum Books for Children, 2006. Beautiful illustrations grace this books that shows a Kenyan family. Glossary gives Swahili vocabulary used in the story.

Kimmel, Eric A. Anansi Goes Fishing. New York: Holiday House, 1992.

Economics See Math- Money

Geography Use online resources Culture Gram and Grolier Multimedia.

Government and Citizenship

Kroll, Steven. Jungle Bullies. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2006.

Lester, Helen. Hurty Feelings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. This large hippopotamus gets hurt when she thinks she is being compared to a human! The animals make friends in the end.

Lester, Helen. Me First. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. A witch plays a trick to make Pinkerton rethink always having to go first.

Wells, Rosemary. Otto Runs for President. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.

Willems, Mo. Time to Say “Please”! New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2005.

History

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving. New York, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Bradby, Marie. Momma, Where Are You From? New York: Orchard Books, 2000. A mother tells of her childhood with segregation.

Dahl, Michael. Row, Row, Row the Boats. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2004. Use to tell the history of George Washington and the Revolutionary War.

Kalman, Maira. Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002.

Neubecker, Robert. Wow! America! New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2006