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Literary Classics That Teachers ® Love to Teach. Informational Texts That Students Want to Read. A Rich Collection of Classic and Contemporary Literature ®
Literary Classics That Teachers Love to Teach Expert 21 features a rich collection of classic literature that provokes critical thinking and discussion. Within each workshop, students will read seven selections across a number of genres including short story, poetry, play, novel excerpt, myth, and more. Each literary reading helps students read critically and develop skills and metacognitive strategies to synthesize and communicate their understanding. A Rich Collection of Classic and Contemporary Literature
Informational Texts That Students Want to Read Approximately half of the readings in Expert 21 are nonfiction. Informational and expository texts form the basis of most content that students will be asked to read outside the classroom walls. Being able to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information, data, and multiple points of view are the new basic literary skills. They form the foundation for higher order thinking and reading skills. Expert 21 Literature
® course i Workshop # READING 1 READING 2 READING 3 Peak Performance The No-Guitar Blues Playing to Win Samantha Larson Gary Soto Derek Jeter How can I (as told by Alyssa Short Story Autobiography get what I Giacobbe) Fiction Excerpt Magazine Article Lexile Level: 760 Nonfiction want out Nonfiction Lexile Level: 900 of life? Lexile Level: 820 1 AWARD WINNER The New Wonders of The First Seven Hercules the World Wonders Adapted by Trina Photo Essay Magazine Article Robbins from What makes Nonfiction Nonfiction Hercules by Geraldine something Lexile Level: 960 Lexile Level: 910 McCaughrean amazing? Myth Fiction 2 Lexile Level: N/A from The Down-to- Traffic from Earth Then Earth Guide to Global William Sleator and Now: Amazing Warming Short Story Images of Our How are we Laurie David and Fiction Changing World Cambria Gordon changing Science Book Lexile Level: 810 Fred Pearce the Earth? Excerpt Photo Essay Nonfiction Nonfiction 3 Lexile Level: 1100 Lexile Level: N/A from We Are Becoming an Immigration by Americans American the Numbers Dorothy and Thomas Barbara Beirne Infographic: What does Hoobler Photo Essay Time Line it take Social Studies Text Nonfiction Nonfiction to fit in? Nonfiction Lexile Level: 880 Lexile Level: N/A 4 Lexile Level: 935 One Hand Gone, But from Deep Survival: Could You Survive Not His Spirit Who Lives, Who Dies, on a Desert Island? Marco R. della Cava and Why Libby Tucker Who will News Feature Laurence Gonzales Magazine Article Nonfiction Nonfiction Excerpt Nonfiction survive? Lexile Level: 940 Nonfiction Lexile Level: 930 5 Lexile Level: 890 Dog’s Best Friend Elephant Attack! Talking With Alex Cari Jackson Matthew Scott Virginia Morell How do humans Magazine Article Feature Article Profile and animals Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 900 Lexile Level: 870 Lexile Level: 830 change 6 each other? The Dog of Pompeii The Buried Treasures Cities of the Dead Louis Untermeyer of Pompeii Denise Rinaldo Short Story Lily Mayer Social Studies Text How can we find Fiction Fine Art Nonfiction out what really Lexile Level: 830 Nonfiction Lexile Level: 850 7 happened? Lexile Level: N/A from Three Cups The War of the Wall It Only Takes a Smile of Tea Toni Cade Bambara Katie Kramer Greg Mortenson and Short Story Magazine Article What is our David Oliver Relin Fiction Nonfiction responsibility Biography Excerpt Lexile Level: 920 Lexile Level: 950 to others? Nonfiction 8 Lexile Level: 900 The Power of Literature The Power of Information Classic and contemporary fiction offers adolescents a “mirror to Research indicates that exposure to informational text can dramatically themselves and a window to the world.” Selected for their ability to enhance students’ literacy skills. Being able to analyze, synthesize, and provoke critical thinking and discussion, each literary reading in evaluate information, data, and multiple points of view are the new basic Expert 21 helps students develop the comprehension and literary literacy skills. Expert 21 supports the goal of forming a foundation for higher analysis skills they’ll need to be lifelong readers. order thinking and reading.
Workshop # READING 1 READING 2 READING 3 READING 4 READING 5 READING 6 Expert Reading Peak Performance The No-Guitar Blues Playing to Win Ryan and Jimmy and Fa Mulan Dream Poems Picture Perfect Samantha Larson Gary Soto Derek Jeter the Well in Africa Robert D. San Souci Langston Hughes Heather Mayer How can I (as told by Alyssa Short Story Autobiography That Brought Them Legend Poetry Interview get what I Giacobbe) Fiction Excerpt Together Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction Magazine Article Lexile Level: 760 Nonfiction Herb Shoveller Lexile Level: 880 Lexile Level: 600 want out Nonfiction Lexile Level: 900 Nonfiction Book of life? Lexile Level: 820 Adaptation Nonfiction AWARD WINNER 1 Lexile Level: 830 The New Wonders of The First Seven Hercules from Frank O. Gehry: Industrial-Strength Talking About World The Great Wall of the World Wonders Adapted by Trina Outside In Poetry Wonders China: The Story Photo Essay Magazine Article Robbins from Jan Greenberg and Jessie Wilmore Murton; Joy Nolan Behind a World Wonder What makes Nonfiction Nonfiction Hercules by Geraldine Sandra Jordan Langston Hughes; Interview Mary Meinking from something Lexile Level: 960 Lexile Level: 910 McCaughrean Biography Excerpt Francisco Alarcón; Carl Nonfiction AppleSeeds magazine Myth Nonfiction Sandburg Lexile Level: 780 Magazine Article amazing? Nonfiction Fiction Lexile Level: 980 AWARD WINNER Poetry 2 Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 820 from The Down-to- Traffic from Earth Then Squid Girl Teens Tackle Green House Recycled Wardrobe Earth Guide to Global William Sleator and Now: Amazing Todd Strasser Pollution in Their Emily Busch Cody Crane from Warming Short Story Images of Our Short Story Communities Infographic: Science World How are we Laurie David and Fiction Changing World Fiction Sara Steindorf Diagram magazine Cambria Gordon changing Science Book Lexile Level: 810 Fred Pearce Lexile Level: 900 News Feature Nonfiction Magazine Article the Earth? Excerpt Photo Essay Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 1080 Lexile Level: 1250 3 Lexile Level: 1100 Lexile Level: N/A from We Are Becoming an Immigration by Inside Out The All-American Cultures Converge It’s a Good Thing Americans American the Numbers Francisco Jiménez Slump Diana Chang and Pat Citizens Aren’t Tested Dorothy and Thomas Barbara Beirne Infographic: Personal Narrative Lensey Namioka Mora Clyde Haberman and What does Hoobler Photo Essay Time Line Nonfiction Short Story Poetry Holli Chmela it take Social Studies Text Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 890 Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Newspaper Article to fit in? Nonfiction Lexile Level: 880 Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 830 Nonfiction 4 Lexile Level: 935 Lexile Level: 1080 One Hand Gone, But from Deep Survival: Could You Survive Dirk the Protector Tuesday of the Life Doesn’t Frighten How to Survive When Not His Spirit Who Lives, Who Dies, on a Desert Island? Gary Paulsen Other June Me Lost in the Mountains Marco R. della Cava and Why Libby Tucker Memoir Norma Fox Mazer Maya Angelou Joshua Piven and Who will News Feature Laurence Gonzales Magazine Article Nonfiction Short Story Poetry David Borgenicht Nonfiction Nonfiction Excerpt Nonfiction Lexile Level: 950 Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction survive? Lexile Level: 940 Nonfiction Lexile Level: 930 Lexile Level: 740 Lexile Level: N/A 5 Lexile Level: 890 AWARD WINNER AWARD WINNER Dog’s Best Friend Elephant Attack! Talking With Alex from Every Living The Boy Who Lived The Wolf and Play Time at the Zoo Cari Jackson Matthew Scott Virginia Morell Thing With Bears the House Dog Elizabeth Carney How do humans Magazine Article Feature Article Profile Cynthia Rylant Joseph Bruchac Aesop Feature Article and animals Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Short Story Play: Native Fable Fiction Lexile Level: 900 Lexile Level: 870 Lexile Level: 830 Fiction American Folktale Fiction Lexile Level: 1175 change Lexile Level: 840 Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 990 6 each other? AWARD WINNER The Dog of Pompeii The Buried Treasures Cities of the Dead Beowulf Against A Dinosaur Named Mummies 101 New Discoveries in Louis Untermeyer of Pompeii Denise Rinaldo Grendel Dakota Adapted from PBS Ancient Egypt Short Story Lily Mayer Social Studies Text from Beowulf: A New Dr. Phillip Lars Man- NOVA, WGBH.org Bryan Brown How can we find Fiction Fine Art Nonfiction Telling, retold by ning and Tyler Lyson Social Studies Text Magazine Article out what really Lexile Level: 830 Nonfiction Lexile Level: 850 Robert Nye Science Text Nonfiction Nonfiction happened? Lexile Level: N/A Classic Epic Nonfiction Lexile Level: 1020 Lexile Level: 1100 Fiction Lexile Level: 990 7 Lexile Level: 800 from Three Cups The War of the Wall It Only Takes a Smile Tale of a Wealthy Man Marina Silva “If I Can Stop The Bird Who Broke of Tea Toni Cade Bambara Katie Kramer Dianne Stewart Ziporah Hildebrandt One Heart From Through the Window Greg Mortenson and Short Story Magazine Article Folktale Profile Breaking” Dylan Kaufman-Obstler What is our David Oliver Relin Fiction Nonfiction Fiction Nonfiction & “Goodness” Essay responsibility Biography Excerpt Lexile Level: 920 Lexile Level: 950 Lexile Level: 980 Lexile Level: 940 Emily Dickinson and Nonfiction to others? Nonfiction Benny Anderson Lexile Level: 740 Lexile Level: 900 Poetry 8 Lexile Level: N/A Expert 21 Literature
® course iI Workshop # READING 1 READING 2 READING 3 The Explosion from Call Me Maria The Road Not Taken Homer H. Hickam, Jr. Judith Ortiz Cofer Robert Frost Memoir Novel Excerpt Poetry Where am Nonfiction Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 730 Lexile Level: 940 I going? 1 AWARD WINNER Casey at Bat The Cost of Winning Boiling Sports Ernest L. Thayer Ellen Labrecque Controversies Poetry Magazine Article Infographic: Table Do we care Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction Nonfiction too much Lexile Level: 1010 Lexile Level: N/A 2 about winning? Super Disasters of Get Inside the Earth’s Greatest Hits the 21st Century Tornado Infographic: How can we Jacqueline Adams Shuhaidah Saharani Fast Facts deal with and Ken Kostel Interview Nonfiction Science Magazine Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A natural Feature Lexile Level: 790 disasters? Nonfiction 3 Lexile Level: 1030 from Oh, Freedom! A More Perfect Union Poetic Justice Casey King and Barack Obama and Langston Hughes, Linda Barett Osborne Mark Z. Barabak James Berry, Sarah How do we Interview Speech Holbrook protect Nonfiction Nonfiction Poetry 4 our rights? Lexile Level: 770 Lexile Level: 1270 Lexile Level: N/A Coming to America from Barrio Boy American Music, from PBS’s In the Mix: Ernesto Galarza African Roots What does Reality Television for Personal Narrative Time Line it mean Teens Nonfiction Nonfiction Transcript Lexile Level: 1080 Lexile Level: N/A to be Nonfiction 5 American? Lexile Level: 700 A History of Deadly Thomas, The Doctor’s Hunting Down a Killer Diseases Son Jacqueline Adams How can we Jacqueline Adams Laura Amy Schlitz Magazine Article fight the battle Time Line Poetry Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 1010 against Lexile Level: 990 6 disease? AWARD WINNER 600 Miles to Northward Bound: A Song for Timbuktu African-American Sacagawea Does the thrill Kira Salak Polar Explorer Jane Yolen of adventure Travel Memoir Matthew Henson Poetry Nonfiction Matthew Henson Lexile Level: N/A outweigh the Lexile Level: 950 Primary Source risks? AWARD WINNER Nonfiction AWARD WINNER 7 Lexile Level: 1170 Jeffrey Sachs’ The Scribe Saving the World One $200 Billion Dream Kirstin Hunter Click at a Time What can I do Nina Munk Short Story Renée Carver to make the Magazine Article Fiction Web Pages Nonfiction Lexile Level: 680 Nonfiction world a better Lexile Level: 950 Lexile Level: 1070 8 place? The Power of Literature The Power of Information Classic and contemporary fiction offers adolescents a “mirror to Research indicates that exposure to informational text can dramatically themselves and a window to the world.” Selected for their ability to enhance students’ literacy skills. Being able to analyze, synthesize, and provoke critical thinking and discussion, each literary reading in evaluate information, data, and multiple points of view are the new basic Expert 21 helps students develop the comprehension and literary literacy skills. Expert 21 supports the goal of forming a foundation for higher analysis skills they’ll need to be lifelong readers. order thinking and reading.
Workshop # READING 1 READING 2 READING 3 READING 4 READING 5 READING 6 Expert Reading The Explosion from Call Me Maria The Road Not Taken from We Beat the Street Start Your Own What’s Your Life’s Decide What Homer H. Hickam, Jr. Judith Ortiz Cofer Robert Frost Drs. Sampson Davis, Business Blueprint? You Want Memoir Novel Excerpt Poetry George Jenkins, and Bob Hugel Dr. Martin Luther Jack Canfield & Kent Where am Nonfiction Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Rameck Hunt, with Magazine Article King, Jr. Healy Lexile Level: 730 Lexile Level: 940 Sharon M. Draper Nonfiction Speech Book Excerpt I going? Biography Lexile Level: 990 Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction AWARD WINNER Lexile Level: 980 Lexile Level: 830 1 Lexile Level: 780 Casey at Bat The Cost of Winning Boiling Sports Raymond’s Run Bombardment The Winner Too Much Pressure Ernest L. Thayer Ellen Labrecque Controversies Toni Cade Bambara Joseph Bruchac Sharon Jaynes Amy Miller Poetry Magazine Article Infographic: Table Short Story Memoir Narrative Magazine Article Do we care Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction Nonfiction Fiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction too much Lexile Level: 1010 Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 1260 Lexile Level: 850 Lexile Level: 890 Lexile Level: 930 2 about winning? Super Disasters of Get Inside the Earth’s Greatest Hits from Storm in the from The Big Wave Cartoonists Capture Flooding Wipes Out the 21st Century Tornado Infographic: Night Pearl S. Buck Nature’s Fury Two Communities How can we Jacqueline Adams Shuhaidah Saharani Fast Facts Terry Trueman Novel Excerpt Cartoons by Olle Brian Thevenot and deal with and Ken Kostel Interview Nonfiction Novel Excerpt Fiction Johansson and Manuel Torres Science Magazine Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A Fiction Lexile Level: 830 Bob Englehart Newspaper Article natural Feature Lexile Level: 790 Lexile Level: 740 Editorial Cartoons Nonfiction disasters? Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 1110 3 Lexile Level: 1030 Lexile Level: N/A from Oh, Freedom! A More Perfect Union Poetic Justice Hum Gracie Letters From a America Is Stronger Casey King and Barack Obama and Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye Lisa Marie Petersen Concentration Camp When All of Us Take Linda Barett Osborne Mark Z. Barabak James Berry, Sarah Short Story and Karen Janszen, Yoshiko Uchida Care of All of Us How do we Interview Speech Holbrook Fiction adapted by Kristin Letter Christopher Reeve protect Nonfiction Nonfiction Poetry Lexile Level: 800 Lewis and Shannon Fiction Speech our rights? Lexile Level: 770 Lexile Level: 1270 Lexile Level: N/A Blake Lexile Level: 890 Nonfiction Play Lexile Level: 900 4 Lexile Level: N/A Coming to America from Barrio Boy American Music, Where Young I, Too, Sing América I Hear America Listening Is an from PBS’s In the Mix: Ernesto Galarza African Roots Refugees Find a Julia Alvarez Singing Act of Love What does Reality Television for Personal Narrative Time Line Place to Fit In Essay Walt Whitman Dave Isay it mean Teens Nonfiction Nonfiction Fernanda Santos Nonfiction Poetry Oral History Transcript Lexile Level: 1080 Lexile Level: N/A News Article Lexile Level: 920 Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction to be Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 830 5 American? Lexile Level: 700 Lexile Level: 1420 A History of Deadly Thomas, The Doctor’s Hunting Down a Killer from Fever 1793 A Day’s Wait We Are All the Same Typhoid Mary Diseases Son Jacqueline Adams Laurie Halse Anderson Ernest Hemingway Nkosi Johnson Victor M. Parachin How can we Jacqueline Adams Laura Amy Schlitz Magazine Article Novel Excerpt Short Story Speech American History fight the battle Time Line Poetry Nonfiction Fiction Fiction Nonfiction magazine Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 1010 Lexile Level: 590 Lexile Level: 910 Lexile Level: 900 Magazine Article against Lexile Level: 990 Nonfiction disease? Lexile Level: 1080 6 AWARD WINNER 600 Miles to Northward Bound: A Song for Escape From the from Into the Wild High-Tech Trekkers Facing Death on K-2 Timbuktu African-American Sacagawea Land of the Cyclops Jon Krakauer Sunita Apte Stephen Graham Does the thrill Kira Salak Polar Explorer Jane Yolen Homer, retold by Biography Magazine Article News Article of adventure Travel Memoir Matthew Henson Poetry Barbara Leonie Picard Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Matthew Henson Lexile Level: N/A Myth Lexile Level: 1140 Lexile Level: 1150 Lexile Level: 1120 outweigh the Lexile Level: 950 Primary Source Fiction risks? Nonfiction Lexile Level: 1160 7 Lexile Level: 1170 Jeffrey Sachs’ The Scribe Saving the World One The Wager Design for the Other Return Journey Kiva: Loans That $200 Billion Dream Kirstin Hunter Click at a Time Mitali Perkins 90 Percent Christy Damio Changed Lives What can I do Nina Munk Short Story Renée Carver Short Story Sandhya Nankani Article Brochure to make the Magazine Article Fiction Web Pages Fiction Exhibition Catalog Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 680 Nonfiction Lexile Level: 730 Nonfiction Lexile Level: 910 Lexile Level: 1260 world a better Lexile Level: 950 Lexile Level: 1070 Lexile Level: 1180 8 place? Expert 21 Literature
® course iII Workshop # READING 1 READING 2 READING 3 Playing the Game Finding Their Future Options, Options, and Walter Dean Myers Karen Fanning More Options Novel Excerpt Profiles Infographic How can I get Fiction Nonfiction Nonfiction ready for the Lexile Level: 790 Lexile Level: 950 Lexile Level: N/A future I want? 1 AWARD WINNER The Last Dog Exposed to the Max Virus Katherine Paterson Leah Paulos Neil Gaiman What are the Short Story Magazine Feature Poetry costs and Fiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 810 Lexile Level: 1000 benefits of 2 technology? AWARD WINNER The Story of Keesh Crisis on Top of the Life at the Poles Jack London World Photo Essay How do people Short Story Patty Janes Nonfiction survive in Fiction Personal Narrative Lexile Level: 990 Lexile Level: 980 Nonfiction extreme Lexile Level: 980 3 environments? from I Have a Dream On the Front Line in A Decade to Dr. Martin Luther Vietnam Remember King, Jr. Correspondence Lydia Okutoro How can Speech Nonfiction Infographic: Nonfiction Lexile Level: 730 Time Line we be heard? Lexile Level: 1120 Nonfiction 4 Lexile Level: N/A Ten Artists Who Sounds of Success Behind the Lens Changed the World Christy Damio Profile Francesca Alta Profile Nonfiction What makes Fine Art Nonfiction Lexile Level: 1030 Nonfiction Lexile Level: 660 5 art powerful? Lexile Level: 1060 Zero Hour Crash Course Bizarre Beings From Ray Bradbury Nancy Honovich Beyond: Creatures Graphic Novel Science Feature From Science Fiction Should we Fiction Nonfiction Infographic: explore Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 980 Comparison Chart outer space? Fiction 6 AWARD WINNER Lexile Level: N/A from The Diary of a The Fall of the Wall From Iraq With Love Young Girl Gillian Cox and Sergeants Tina M. Anne Frank Time.com Beller and John What was it like Diary Excerpt Essay McCary Nonfiction Nonfiction Correspondence to be there? Lexile Level: 1010 Lexile Level: 1100 Nonfiction 7 Lexile Level: 890 The Lady, or the A Retrieved New Brand of High- Tiger? Reformation Seas Pirates Lurks Frank R. Stockton, O. HeN/Ay Off Somali Coast What values do adapted by Jay Nolan Short Story Alex Seitz Short Story Fiction News Article we live by? Fiction Lexile Level: 860 Nonfiction 8 Lexile Level: 1010 Lexile Level: 1200 The Power of Literature The Power of Information Classic and contemporary fiction offers adolescents a “mirror to Research indicates that exposure to informational text can dramatically themselves and a window to the world.” Selected for their ability to enhance students’ literacy skills. Being able to analyze, synthesize, and provoke critical thinking and discussion, each literary reading in evaluate information, data, and multiple points of view are the new basic Expert 21 helps students develop the comprehension and literary literacy skills. Expert 21 supports the goal of forming a foundation for higher analysis skills they’ll need to be lifelong readers. order thinking and reading.
Workshop # READING 1 READING 2 READING 3 READING 4 READING 5 READING 6 Expert Reading Playing the Game Finding Their Future Options, Options, and How to Survive, My People Essays That Make a On the Cutting Edge Walter Dean Myers Karen Fanning More Options Thrive, and Prepare Margaret Peterson Difference Jonathan Gromer and Novel Excerpt Profiles Infographic for What’s Next Haddix Christina Mendoza, Alex Hutchinson How can I get Fiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Susan Abel Lieberman Short Story James Gregory, Magazine Article ready for the Lexile Level: 790 Lexile Level: 950 Lexile Level: N/A Procedural Text Fiction Hugh Gallagher Nonfiction future I want? Nonfiction Lexile Level: 740 Essays Lexile Level: 1020 Lexile Level: 910 Nonfiction 1 Lexile Level: 980 The Last Dog Exposed to the Max Virus Welcome to the La Vida Robot Robo-Legs Futuristic Fashion Katherine Paterson Leah Paulos Neil Gaiman Future Joshua Davis Michael Marriott Gets Smart What are the Short Story Magazine Feature Poetry Science Text Magazine Feature Profile Mark Tutton for CNN costs and Fiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Article Lexile Level: 810 Lexile Level: 1000 Lexile Level: 1130 Lexile Level: 980 Lexile Level: 1120 Nonfiction benefits of Lexile Level: 1160 2 technology? The Story of Keesh Crisis on Top of the Life at the Poles Blue People of the from Shabanu Extreme Athletes Run How to Survive in Jack London World Photo Essay Sahara Suzanne Fisher Staples Length of Sahara Antarctica How do people Short Story Patty Janes Nonfiction Sean McCollum Novel Excerpt The Associated Press Lucy Jane Bledsoe survive in Fiction Personal Narrative Lexile Level: 990 Magazine Article Fiction News Article Procedural Text Lexile Level: 980 Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 960 Nonfiction Nonfiction extreme Lexile Level: 980 Lexile Level: 1090 Lexile Level:1200 Lexile Level: 950 3 environments? from I Have a Dream On the Front Line in A Decade to from America Icons of the Times The Times They Are The Football Player Dr. Martin Luther Vietnam Remember Dreaming: How Youth Images and Design A-Changin’ and the Student King, Jr. Correspondence Lydia Okutoro Changed America in Nonfiction Bob Dylan Council President How can Speech Nonfiction Infographic: the ‘60s Lexile Level: 1030 Song Lyrics Phillip Hoose Nonfiction Lexile Level: 730 Time Line Laban Carrick Hill Lexile Level: N/A Profile we be heard? Lexile Level: 1120 Nonfiction Social Studies Text Nonfiction Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction Lexile Level: 790 4 Lexile Level: 1090 Ten Artists Who Sounds of Success Behind the Lens Zebra Letters to a “I Want to Write” and from Shelf Life Changed the World Christy Damio Profile Chaim Potok Young Artist “If I Were a Poem” Gary Paulsen Francesca Alta Profile Nonfiction Short Story Anna Deavere Smith Margaret Walker; Memoir What makes Fine Art Nonfiction Lexile Level: 1030 Fiction Letters Sara Holbrook Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 660 Lexile Level: 860 Nonfiction Poetry Lexile Level: 1260 5 art powerful? Lexile Level: 1060 Lexile Level: 800 Lexile Level: N/A Zero Hour Crash Course Bizarre Beings From Who’s There? The Case for Space Elegy for Challenger Postcards From Ray Bradbury Nancy Honovich Beyond: Creatures Arthur C. Clarke Neil deGrasse Tyson Diane Ackerman Space Graphic Novel Science Feature From Science Fiction Short Story Editorial Poetry Adam Fisher Should we Fiction Nonfiction Infographic: Fiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 800 Personal Account explore Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 980 Comparison Chart Lexile Level: 1130 Lexile Level: N/A Nonfiction outer space? Fiction Lexile Level: 920 6 Lexile Level: N/A from The Diary of a The Fall of the Wall From Iraq With Love No More Strangers A Refugee in One Giant Leap for Remembering 9/11 Young Girl Gillian Cox and Sergeants Tina M. Now Her Own Country Humankind Juliette Kessler Anne Frank Time.com Beller and John Bandile Mashinini and Loung Ung Andrés Eloy Mendoza Personal Essay What was it like Diary Excerpt Essay McCary Mark Abrahamson Memoir Rodriguez Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Correspondence Personal Narrative Nonfiction Personal Narrative Lexile Level: 1000 to be there? Lexile Level: 1010 Lexile Level: 1100 Nonfiction Nonfiction Lexile Level: 1030 Nonfiction 7 Lexile Level: 890 Lexile Level: 1030 Lexile Level: 1040 The Lady, or the A Retrieved New Brand of High- To Cheat or Not to Frankenstein Dear Olivia: Letters to Someone Falls Down Tiger? Reformation Seas Pirates Lurks Cheat Mary Shelley, adapted a Bullied Girl on the Sidewalk: Frank R. Stockton, O. HeN/Ay Off Somali Coast Carolyn Kleiner and by Sunita Apte Olivia Gardner, with What Do You Do? What values do adapted by Jay Nolan Short Story Alex Seitz Mary Lord Play: Classic Emily and Sarah Buder Geoff Martz and Short Story Fiction News Article Magazine Article Retelling Letters Anna Norman we live by? Fiction Lexile Level: 860 Nonfiction Nonfiction Fiction Nonfiction News Article Lexile Level: 1010 Lexile Level: 1200 Lexile Level: 1360 Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 940 Nonfiction 8 Lexile Level: 930 Literature Circle recommendations
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Literature Circles Extend Reading and Help Differentiate Instruction Expert 21 features three Literature Circle recommendations for every workshop in each course. These 72 quality novels, not included in the program, include a range of Lexiles and are commonly found in middle and high school libraries. These novels provide opportunities for students to have meaningful conversations about literature and expand their knowledge of the literacy elements and topics in each workshop.
Workshop Literature Circle Recommendations: Course I Diary of a Wimpy Kid Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time Milagros: Girl From Away Jeff Kinney Lisa Yee Meg Medina 1 Humorous Fiction Humorous Fiction/Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction/Magical Realism Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 650 Lexile Level: 770 The 39 Clues: Maze of Bones The Invention of Hugo Cabret All of the Above Richard Riordan Brian Selznick Shelley Pearsall 2 Mystery Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 610 Lexile Level: 820 Lexile Level: 1000 Hoot The Color of My Words Green Boy Carl Hiaasen Lynn Joseph Susan Cooper 3 Suspense Realistic Fiction Fantasy Lexile Level: 760 Lexile Level: 840 Lexile Level: 930 Any Small Goodness: A Friendship for Today Blue Jasmine A Novel of the Barrio Patricia McKissack Kashmira Sheeth 4 Tony Johnston Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 600 Lexile Level: 670 Lexile Level: 740 Out From Boneville (Bone) The Graveyard Book Shiloh Jeff Smith Neil Gaiman Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 5 Graphic Novel Horror/Suspense Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 360 Lexile Level: 820 Lexile Level: 890 The Tiger Rising Paint the Wind Julie of the Wolves Kate DiCamillo Pam Muñoz Ryan Jean Craighead George 6 Realistic Fiction Contemporary Fiction Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 520 Lexile Level: 780 Lexile Level: 860 House of Dies Drear The Westing Game The Wright 3 Virginia Hamilton Ellen Raskin Blue Balliett 7 Mystery Mystery Mystery Lexile Level: 670 Lexile Level: 750 Lexile Level: 870 Number the Stars Carlos Is Gonna Get It Elijah of Buxton Lois Lowry Kevin Emerson Christopher Paul Curtis 8 Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction Lexile Level: 670 Lexile Level: 870 Lexile Level: 1070 Workshop Literature Circle Recommendations: Course II Trino’s Choice The Wanderer Jacob Have I Loved Diana Gonzalez Sharon Creech Katherine Paterson 1 Realistic Fiction Adventure Historical Fiction Lexile Level: 780 Lexile Level: 830 Lexile Level: 880 There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock Taking Sides Game Jerry Spinelli Gary Soto Walter Dean Myers 2 Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 520 Lexile Level: 750 Lexile Level: 800 Night of the Howling Dogs The Dead and the Gone The Killing Sea Graham Salisbury Susan Beth Pfeffer Richard Lewis 3 Realistic Fiction Science Fiction Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 530 Lexile Level: 680 Lexile Level: 760 El Bronx Remembered Ask Me No Questions Fire From the Rock Nicholasa Mohr Marina Budhos Sharon Draper 4 Short Stories/ Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction Lexile Level: 610 Lexile Level: 790 Lexile Level: 830 American Born Chinese Downtown Boy Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Gene Luen Yang Juan Felipe Herrera Mildred D. Taylor 5 Graphic Novel Verse Novel Historical Fiction Lexile Level: 530 Lexile Level: 740 Lexile Level: 920 Fever 1793 Kira-Kira Code Orange Laurie Halse Anderson Cynthia Kadohata Caroline B. Cooney 6 Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Suspense/Thriller Lexile Level: 580 Lexile Level: 740 Lexile Level: 850 The True Confessions Peak Dogsong of Charlotte Doyle Roland Smith Gary Paulsen 7 Avi Adventure Adventure Historical Fiction Lexile Level: 740 Lexile Level: 780 Lexile Level: 930 The Last Book in the Universe Nation The Young Landlords Rodman Philbrick Terry Pratchett Walter Dean Myers 8 Science Fiction Adventure Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 740 Lexile Level: 790 Lexile Level: 820
Workshop Literature Circle Recommendations: Course III The Tequila Worm We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Yes We Can! A Biography Viola Canales Pact Led to Success Drs. S. Davis, of Barack Obama 1 Realistic Fiction G. Jenkins, and R. Hunt with S. Draper Garen Thomas Lexile Level: 830 Autobiography Lexile Level: 860 Biography Lexile Level: N/A The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Hunger Games Eva Nancy Farmer Suzanne Collins Peter Dickinson 2 Science Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction Lexile Level: 660 Lexile Level: 810 Lexile Level: 1010 Shackleton’s Stowaway Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Hatchet Victoria McKernan Suzanne Fisher Staples Gary Paulsen 3 Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Adventure Lexile Level: 740 Lexile Level: 970 Lexile Level: 1020 Nothing But the Truth: A Belle Teal The Wednesday Wars Documentary Novel Ann M. Martin Gary D. Schmidt 4 Avi Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 870 Lexile Level: 990 Bronx Masquerade Down a Dark Hall Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Nikki Grimes Lois Duncan Jordan Sonnenblick 5 Realistic Fiction Suspense Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 670 Lexile Level: 750 Lexile Level: 940 Laika The Last Universe Ender’s Game Nick Abadzis William Sleator Orson Scott Card 6 Graphic Novel Science Fiction Science Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 690 Lexile Level: 780 Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: Surise Over Fallujah In the Time of the Butterflies My Father Bleeds History Walter Dean Myers Julia Alvarez 7 Art Spiegelman Graphic Novel/Memoir Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction Lexile Level: N/A Lexile Level: 780 Lexile Level: 910 The Book Thief The Giver Stuck in Neutral Markus Zusak Lois Lowry Terry Trueman 8 Historical Fiction Science Fiction Realistic Fiction Lexile Level: 730 Lexile Level: 760 Lexile Level: 820 ® for more information, visit www.scholastic.com/expert21 or contact your regional Scholastic representative.
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