As most of you know I have been following this book closely with the hopes that I am lining up my curriculum as closely as possibly with other teachers in other Common Core States. We are a bit behind at my school in starting the units so we are just now starting Unit 3--Building Bridges. So, all of the books below are a part of this unit. They are already linked to Amazon, so if you want one, just click!
Stories
Henry and Mudge: The First Book by Cynthia Rylant
The Fire Cat by Esther Holden Averill
Read Alouds
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden and Garth Williams
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and Garth Williams
Zen shorts by Jon Muth
Pop's Bridge by Eve Bunting and C.F. Payne
Mackinac Bridge: The Story of the Five-Mile Poem by Gloria Whelan and Gijsbert van Frankenhuy
One Green Apple by Even Bunting and Ted Lewin
Snow in Jerusalem by Deborah da Costa, Ying-Hwa Hu, and Cornelius Van Wright
The Day of Ahmed's Secret by Florence P. Heide, Judith H. Gililand and Ted Lewin
My Father's Shop by Satomi Ichikawa
Silent Music by James Rumford
The Little Painter of Sabana Grande by Patricia Maloney Mrkun and Robert Casilla
