LBD+Lib-Media+Connections

Kindergarten

= = =**Grade 1**=
 * **Theme** || **Shared Reading Genre** || **Connection Ideas** ||
 * < 1. Good Students || Animal Fantasy || * Fiction animal stories: Realistic (like Henry and Mudge) vs. Fantasy (like Barenstain Bears) Turtle's Penguin Day by Gorbachev ||
 * < 2. Schools Long and Today || Expository || * Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson (school in Afghanistan - compare and contrast to own school) ||
 * < 3. Thinking like a scientist || Realistic Fiction ||  ||
 * < 4. How does Heat Cause Change || Journal/ ObservationLog ||  ||
 * < 5. My Neighborhood News || Humorous Fiction ||  ||
 * < 6. Community Workers || Interview ||  ||
 * < 7. Weather for Every Season || Fairy Tale || * And then it Rained by Dragonwagon ||
 * < 8. Dressing for the weather || Expository ||  ||
 * < 9. Nature's Resources || Realistic Fiction ||  ||
 * < 10. From Mountain to Ocean || personal Narrative ||  ||
 * < 11. Animals Grow and Change || Letter ||  ||
 * < 12. Look at my garden Grow || Procedural ||  ||
 * < 13. Rights and Responsibilities || Play ||  ||
 * < 14. Good Citizens || Biography ||  ||
 * < 15. Home Sweet Habitat || Animal Fantasy ||  ||
 * < 16. All Kinds of Animals || Question and Answer ||  ||

= = =**Grade 2**= > Equity connection - Family of color helping to build an american icon
 * **Theme** || **Shared Reading**
 * Genre** || **Connection Ideas** ||
 * 1. Stories from our past || Realistic Fiction || * Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day by Viorst (humorous because so many examples - have kids discuss examples of things that //could// really happen to a kid in real life) ||
 * 2. My Family || Personal Narrative || * Sky Dancers by Kirk - similar to Modeled Read "Pop's Bridge" - historical fiction


 * My Abuelita by Johnston (a child's grandmother gets ready to go to work as a storyteller - readers do not know her job until the very end - have students make predictions) ||
 * 3. The Moon in Motion || Mystery || * Moonshot : the flight of Apollo 11 by Floca (An illustrated account of the flight of Apollo 11 in 1969, the first manned mission to land on the moon - discuss illustrated nonfiction) ||
 * 4. Circling the Sun || Expository ||  ||
 * 5. Where People Live || Historical Fiction ||  ||
 * 6. Many States, One Country || Personal Narrative || * Hallelujah Flight by Bilder (Historical Fiction) the story of James Banning's __//transcontinental//__ flight - the first by an African American pilot - endpapers have a map of their flight path. ||
 * 7. How Do Machines Work || Humorous Fiction ||  ||
 * 8. What is a Magnet || Procediural Text ||  ||
 * 9. Cast Your Vote || Play ||  ||
 * 10. Work that Matters || Expository ||  ||
 * 11. On the Farm || Fantasy ||  ||
 * 12. To Market, to Market || Expository ||  ||
 * 13. Your Money || Folktale ||  ||
 * 14. Going to Work || Biography ||  ||
 * 15. The Wonderful Changes of Water || Realistic Fiction ||  ||
 * 16. Every Drop Counts || Expository ||  ||