O by Jane Cutler /Grade(s): 4-5 / Summary: First-person narrative of a girl’s life during wartime in a devastated city. Teaching Points: text-to-text connections with Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall see also creating sensory images cross-curricular links to social studies Level O The Basket Moon by Mary Lyn Ray / Grade(s): 3-5/ Summary: The story of a young boy whose father makes baskets in a rural community and travels to town to sell them. Teaching Points: text-to-self connections (teasing, feelings of inferiority), text-to-world connections (Pearl Harbor, immigration issues) Level O
It carries the reader through a time when baseball unified the group and offered an opportunity for personal growth. Level Oīaseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki / Grade(s): 4-5 / Summary: Narrative story of a boy’s family’s move to and time in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Teaching Points: text-to-world connections (environmental issues) see also creating sensory images. Teaching Points: text-to-world connections see also making inferences Level KĪdvice to a Frog by Alice Schertle / Grade(s): 3-5 / Summary: Fourteen poems about animals, many with environmental overtones. After making a mistake and seeing his grandfather’s reaction, the boy learns a lesson.
TEXT-TO-TEXT, TEXT-TO-SELF, TEXT-TO-WORLD.Ī Day’s Work by Eve Bunting / Grade(s): 3-5 / Summary: A boy and his grandfather work as day laborers.
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