Collection includes Teaching Support Resources and 6-packs of each of the following titles:
A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park GRL U [fiction]
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “"Peanut"” Johnson, Michelle Y. Green GRL T [nonfiction]
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle GRL W [fiction]
Anne Frank: Life in Hiding, Johanna Hurtiwz GRL W [nonfiction]
Baseball in April and Other Stories, Gary Soto GRL U [fiction]
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson GRL T [fiction]
China, Joanne Mattern GRL S [nonfiction]
Do Tornadoes Really Twist? Questions and Answers About Tornadoes and Hurricanes, Melvin & Gilda Berger GRL S [nonfiction]
Dogsong, Gary Paulsen GRL V [fiction]
Dragonwings, Laurence Yep GRL W [fiction]
Earthquakes, Seymour Simon GRL T [nonfiction]
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan GRL V [fiction]
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna, Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton GRL W [nonfiction]
Fair Weather, Richard Peck GRL T [fiction]
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Sterling GRL T [nonfiction]
Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad, James Haskins GRL V [nonfiction]
Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist’s Microscope, Stephen Kramer GRL U [nonfiction]
How I Came to Be a Writer, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor GRL W [nonfiction]
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust, Livia Bitton-Jackson GRL V [nonfiction]
Leonardo da Vinci, Diane Stanley GRL S [nonfiction]
Letters from Rifka, Karen Hesse GRL S [fiction]
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China, Ed Young GRL S [fiction]
Love That Dog, Sharon Creech GRL T [fiction]
Lyddie, Katherine Paterson GRL V [fiction]
My Life with the Chimpanzees, Jane Goodall GRL W [nonfiction]
Olive’s Ocean, Kevin Henkes GRL V [fiction]
On the Way Home: The Dairy of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder GRL S [nonfiction]
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille, Russell Freedman GRL S [nonfiction]
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor GRL W [fiction]
Rosa Parks: My Story, Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins GRL U [nonfiction]
Shades of Gray, Carolyn Reeder GRL W [fiction]
Sharks, Seymour Simon GRL T [nonfiction]
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?, Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack GRL V [nonfiction]
Stealing Home, Barry Denenberg GRL V [nonfiction]
The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich GRL T [fiction]
The Black Stallion, Walter Farley GRL T [fiction]
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Paula Danziger GRL U [fiction]
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden GRL S [fiction]
The Double Life of Pocahontas, Jean Fritz GRL U [nonfiction]
The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson GRL S [fiction]
The House of Dies Drear, Virginia Hamilton GRL V [fiction]
The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling GRL U [fiction]
The Lost Garden, Laurence Yep GRL W [nonfiction]
The Pinballs, Betsy Byars GRL S [fiction]
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, James Cross Giblin GRL V [nonfiction]
The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets, Jean Craighead George GRL U [nonfiction]
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, Christopher Paul Curtis GRL U [fiction]
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare GRL W [fiction]
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens, Patricia Lauber GRL U [nonfiction]
Woodsong, Gary Paulsen GRL T [nonfiction]
*Due to availability of titles, substitutions may be made.
Each Grade Level collection features:
- 6-packs of 50 - 80 individual titles prepackaged in hanging bags (300 - 480 books per collection)
- 50% fiction and 50% informational titles
- Title-specific Lesson Plan Cards
- text-specific instruction and activities
- focus on critical standards
- writing minilessons
- everything teachers need at their fingertips!
- A variety of text types, genres, and themes
- Guided Reading Teacher Resource
- assessment support including running records and behavioral observation guidelines for each guided reading level
- history and principles of guided reading
- management ideas and record-keeping reproducibles
- support for using the Lesson Plan Cards
- English Language Learner support
- Storage bins with leveling labels
- Leveling labels for each book in the collection
- Downloadable book detail labels customizable for your specific needs
- Downloadable title listing to help match students with the "just right" book
All titles leveled according to the guidelines recommended by Fountas & Pinnell.
These Grade Level collections include titles one Guided Reading Level below and above the grade level according to the Fountas & Pinnell Text Level Gradient. This is to address the needs of both struggling and advanced readers.
*Please note these collections overlap Guided Reading Levels between collections. Purchase of sequential grade level collections will include duplicate titles.
A 50/50 mix of fiction and informational titles with a range of text types and genres—historical fiction, myths and folktales, realistic fiction, poetry, biographies, and narrative nonfiction.
Award-winning and celebrated authors—Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, and more.
New and classic literature—traditional titles to contemporary literature destined to become classics.
All titles leveled according to the guidelines recommended by Fountas & Pinnell.
Classroom Ready with Teaching Support
- Pre-packaged 6-packs in hanging bags
- Lesson Plan Cards for every title
- text-specific instruction and activities
- focus on critical standards
- writing minilessons
- everything teachers need at their fingertips!
- Guided Reading Teacher Resource
- assessment support including running records and behavioral observation guidelines for each guided reading level
- history and principles of guided reading
- management ideas and record-keeping reproducibles
- support for using the Lesson Plan Cards
- English Language Learner support
- Storage bins with leveling labels
- Bookroom support
- leveling labels for each book in the collection
- downloadable book detail labels, customizable for your specific needs
- downloadable title listing to help match students with the "just right" book