Test Sets G5.Qxd

Planning for Interactive Read-Aloud: Text Sets Across the Year—Grade Five

BIOGRAPHY RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS PIONEER LIFE NOVEL—HISTORICAL FICTION POETRY # Abe Lincoln Remembers # Nobiah’s Well (Guthrre) # Red Flower Goes West (Turner) # The Bronze Bow (Speare) # Been to Yesterday (Hopkins) (Turner) # The Orphan Boy (Mollel) # Cassie’s Journey (Harvey) # Extra Innings (Hopkins) # Thomas Jefferson (Giblin) # Nadia’s Hands (English) # My Prairie Year (Harvey) # Bronx Masquerade (Grimes) # The Amazing Life of Benjamin # Smoky Night (Bunting) # What You Know First Franklin (Giblin) # The Bat Boy and His Violin (MacLachlan) # Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a (Curtis) # Sod Houses on the Great Plains Vocal Virtuoso (Pinkney) (Rounds) # # EPTEMBER Duke Ellington: The Piano Prairie Primer A to Z (Stutson) /S Prince and His Orchestra # Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story (Pinkney) UGUST (McGugan) A # Snowflake Bentley (Briggs) # The Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles) # Game Day (Root) # Mandela: From the Life of the South Africa Statesman (Cooper)

MEMORABLE LANGUAGE INFORMATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR ECOLOGY/NATURE NOVEL—REALISTIC FICTION # Going Back Home: An Artist # The Top of the World (Jenkins) # Redcoats and Petticoats # Cave (Siebert) # Flying Solo (Fletcher) Returns to the South (Igus) # The Snake Scientist (Kilpatrick) # Sugaring Time (Lasky) # # The Wagon (Johnston) (Montgomery) Katie’s Trunk (Turner) # Three Days on a River in a Red POETRY # Now Let Me Fly (Johnson) # A Desert Scrapbook Dawn to # Shh! We’re Writing the Canoe (Williams) # Ordinary Things (Fletcher) # Voices of the Heart (Young) Dusk in the Sonoran Desert Constitution (Fritz) # Where the River Begins # Seeing the Blue Between # The Table Where Rich People (Wright-Frierson) # The Boston Tea Party (Kroll) (Locker) (Janeczko) # CTOBER Sit (Baylor) The Dead Sea Scrolls (Cooper) # Crossing the Delaware # No Star Nights (Smucker) # O A Kick in the Head (Janeczko) # Letting Swift River Go (Yolen) # Passage to Freedom: The (Peacock) # In November (Rylant) # From Slave Ship to Freedom Sugihara Story (Mochizuki) # When Washington Crossed the # Barn Owls (Johnston) Road (Lester) # The Brain: Our Nervous System Delaware (Cheney) (Simon) # The International Space Station (Branley)

MEMOIRS/PERSONAL NARRATIVES AUTHOR STUDY—JEAN CRAIGHEAD CIVIL WAR/SLAVERY OVERCOMING CHALLENGES NOVEL # Up North at the Cabin (Chall) GEORGE # A Strawbeater’s Thanksgiving # Molly Bannaky (McGill) # Love That Dog (Creech) # Canoe Days (Paulsen) # Summer Moon (Seasons of the (Smalls) # Children of the Dust Bowl Moon) # # Growing Up In Coal Country Under the Quilt of Night (Stanley) POETRY # (Bartoletti) Snow Bear (Hopkinson) # Fishing Day (Pinkney) # Learning to Swim: A Memoir # Little by Little (Clittle) # Julie of the Wolves # Nettie’s Trip South (Turner) # Coming on Home Soon (Turner) # Self-Portrait: Trina Schart # Visit with Jean Craighead # The Tin Heart (Ackerman) (Woodson) # The Flag of Childhood: Poems Hyman (Hyman) George # Sweet Clara and the Freedom from the Middle East (Nye) # Granddad Bill’s Song (Yolen) # Water Sky Quilt (Hopkinson) # Rising Voices (Hirschfelder and # # Galapagos George # Pink and Say (Polacco) Singer)

OVEMBER Great-Grandma Tells of N Threshing Days (Cross) # My Side of the Mountain # Vulpes the Red Fox # Fire Storm # One Day in the Woods # Tree Castle Island # The Fire Bug Connection # Frightful’s Daughter # Incredible Animal Adventures

BIOGRAPHIES CIVIL RIGHTS AUTHOR STUDY—KAREN HESSE NOVEL—HISTORICAL FICTION POETRY # Abe Lincoln Grows Up # The School is Not White: A True # The Cats in Krasinski Square # A Single Shard (Park) # From Mother to Son (Langston (Sandberg) Story of the Civil Rights # Witness Hughes) # Princess of the Priss: The Story Movement (Rappaport) # Music of Dolphins # Joyful Noise (Fleischman) # of Ida B. Wells-Barnett Freedom on the Menu: The # A Time of Angels # Creatures of Earth, Sea and Sky (Medearis) Greensboro Sit-Ins # Phoenix Rising (Heard) #

ECEMBER (Weatherford) Martha Graham: A Dancer’s # D Out of the Dust Life (Freedman) # Delivering Justice (Haskins) # Poppy’s Chair # Lincoln: A Photobiography # A Dream of Freedom: The Civil # (Freedman) Rights Movement (McWhorter) Just Juice # # Pioneer Girl (Anderson) # The Bus Ride (Miller) Lester’s Dog # Come on Rain

HISTORICAL FICTION MEMORABLE LANGUAGE AUTHOR STUDY—WRITERS NOVEL—HUMOROUS FICTION POETRY # The Babe and I (Adler) # Scarecrow (Rylant) # Nature: Wild and Wonderful # Frindle (Clements) # Soul Looks Back in Wonder # The Great American Gold Rush # Home Run (Burleigh) (Pringle) (Feelings) (Blumberg) # The Whales (Rylant) # Seeing the Circle (Bruchac) # What My Mother Doesn’t Know # The Great Migration # A Quiet Place (Wood) # Surprising Myself (Fritz) (Sones) # (Lawrence) # Nocturne (Yolen) # But I’ll Be Back Again (Rylant) A Poke in the I (Janeczko) ANUARY J # In the Times of the Drums # Childtimes: A Three Generation (Siegelson) Memoir (Greenfield) # The Wagon (Johnston) # The Memory Coat (Woodruff) # Laura’s Album (Anderson)

BIOGRAPHY—FACING CHALLENGES INFORMATION IMMIGRATION AUTHOR STUDY—JOSEPH BRUCHAC (POET) NOVEL # Minty: A Story of Young Harriet # Lightning (Kramer) # How Many Days to America? A # Heart of a Chief # The View from Saturday Tubman (Shroede) # Tornado (Kramer) Thanksgiving Story (Bunting) # Keepers of the Animals: Native (Konigsburg) # Sky Pioneer: Amelia Earhart # Eye of the Storm (Kramer) # Grandfather’s Journey (Say) American Stories and Wildlife (Szabo) # Monarchs (Lasky) # The Whispering Cloth (Shea) Activities for Children POETRY # # Sacagawea (Erdrich) # Hurricane (London) # Dia’s Story Cloth (Cha) Keepers of Life: Discovering # We, The People (Katz) # Plants through Native American Tall Chief, America’s Prima # The Great Fire (Murphy) # Escaping to America (Schanzer) # Wham! It’s a Poetry Jam Ballerina (Tall Chief & Wells) Stories and Earth Activities for # Tracks in the Wild (Bowen) # Journey to Ellis Island (Holbrook) # Children # Vision of Beauty: The Story of # (Bierman) Touch the Poem (Adoff) Bat (Arnold) # Sarah Breedlove Walker (Lasky) # Native American Animal Stories # Daily Life on a Southern My Father’s Boat (Garland) # Dear Benjamin Banneker (Myths and Legends) Plantation (Erickson) # A Place to Grow (Pak) (Pinkney) # Hidden Roots # Seven Brave Women (Carlson) # Lasting Echoes: An Oral EBRUARY

F History of Native American People # How Chipmunk Got His Stripes: A Tale of Bragging and Teasing # Children of the Longhouse # Bowman’s Store: A Journey to Myself # Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back # The Earth Under Sky Bear’s Feet

DIARIES/JOURNALS HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL WESTWARD EXPANSION CHALLENGES # Look to the North: A Wolf Pup # Maria’s Comet (Hopkinson) # Black Eyed Susan (Armstrong) # Dandelions (Bunting) # Stars in the Darkness (Joosse) Diary (George) # Samuel Eaton’s Day (Waters) # Calico and Tin Horns # Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a # Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy’s # Mr. George Baker (Hest) (Christiansen) Slave Family (Johnson) Civil War Journal (Crist-Evans) # The Wagon (Johnson) # The Bobbin Girl (McCully) # Birdie’s Lighthouse (Hopkinson) # A Civil War Journal (Nofi) # Dakota Dugout (Turner) # # ARCH My Prairie Year (Harvey) West By Covered Wagon POETRY M # Rachel’s Joural (Moss) (Patent) # Sidewalk Chalk (Weatherford) # A Desert Scrapbook: Dawn to # Black Cowboys, Wild Horses # Moon, Have You Met My Dusk in the Sonoran Desert (Lester) Mother (Kuskin) (Wright-Frierson) # My Black Me (Adoff) # Diary of a Worm (Cronin) # Diary of a Spider (Cronin)

MEMOIRS/PERSONAL NARRATIVES AUTHOR STUDY — JEAN FRITZ BIOGRAPHY PERSUASIVE TEXTS NOVEL # Canoe Days (Paulsen) # Shh! We’re Writing the # Duke Ellington (Pinkney) # Oil Spill! (Berger) # Ruby Holler (Creech) # Star of Fear, Star of Hope Constitution # Joan of Arc (Stanley) # Parks Are to Share (Hill) # (Hoestlandt) George Washington’s Breakfast # Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on # Be a Friend to Trees (Lauber) POETRY # Learning to Swim in Swaziland: # And Then What Happened, the Prairie (Warren) # I Have a Dream (King) # Summersaults (Florian) A Child’s Eye View of a Paul Revere? # Game Day (Barber) # Nobody Particular: One # Walk a Green Path i(Lewin) Southern African Country # Where Do You Think You’re # Ella Fitzgerald (Pinkney) Woman’s Fight to Save the # Hours of Freedom: American (Leigh) Going, Christopher Columbus? Bays (Bang) History in Poetry (Meltzer) # Homesick: My Own Story COURAGE # PRIL Can’t You Make Them Behave, #

A Sky: A True Story of Courage King George? During World War II (Ippisch) # Stonewall # Stars in the Darkness (Joosse) # Brendan the Navigator: A # Enemies of Slavery (Adler) History Mystery About the # Talkin’ About Bessie (Grimes) Discovery of America # Where was Patrick Henry on the 20th of May? # Constitution # The Cabin Faced West

NATIVE AMERICANS FAMILY ISSUES BIOGRAPHIES—ARTISTS JOURNEYS NOVEL # They Came From the Bronx: # Chasing Redbird (Creech) # Leonardo Da Vinci (Stanley) # The Trip Back Home (Wong) # Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry How the Buffalo Were Saved # Pictures of Hollis Woods (Giff) # Sebastian: A Book About Back # When Joe Louis Won the Title (Taylor) From Extinction (Waldman) # Going Home (Bunting and (Winter) (Rochelle) # The Legend of Ohio (Mackall) Diaz) # When Marian Sings (Ryan) # Old Coyote (Wood) POETRY UNE # /J Jingle Dancer (Smith) # My Name is Georgia (Winter) # The Sound That Jazz Makes # Home to Me: Poems Across AY # M Mystic Horse (Goble) (Weatherford) America (Hopkins) # Little White Cabin (Plain) # In the Land of Words (Greenfield) # My America: A Poetry Atlas (Hopkins)