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LITERATURE BASED
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LITERATURE BASED
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The second grade teachers at Dallas Christian School developed a reading program using children's literature . We chose books that we thought would be of value to our students and would co-ordinate with our science and social studies units. We got ideas from several sources, (See links below).
The books we taught were Chalk Box Kid, Flat Stanley, Boxcar Children, Stone Fox, Lily and Miss Liberty, Helen Keller, The Tree That Would Not Die, and Little House in the Big Woods. The other lessons have been contributed by other teachers.
We purchased paperback books and had our moms to help us cover them with clear contact paper to make them more durable.
Word study pages using a phonics approach were made for each lesson. Comprehension pages are included for most of the books. The lessons are free and available for your use. You can print them off and use them in any way that you see fit, but we ask that they not be published for profit.
You can find a synopsis of each book at Amazon.com .
You will find resources such as DVDs, books, games,and puzzles etc. to accompany some of the units.
We have added a page of children's classics which can be read online. You will find a synopsis for most of the books
plus suggestions for teaching the lessons.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
AND TEACHING THE LESSONS
McCall-Crabbs Standard Test Lessons in Reading (Five Volumes in One)
By William McCall / Back Home Industries
Each non-consumable book has 78 three-minute reading selections on a variety of interesting topics followed by multiple choice questions to test student comprehension. Each selection is normed for grade level ability. Students can chart their personal progress. Every lesson has test items easy enough for the poorest readers as well as ones difficult enough to challenge the best of readers. This allows the teacher to use the book with a range of ability levels from beginners to post-college.General reading ability is developed because the selections vary in content, style, and vocabulary. Questions for each lesson evaluate ability to find the main idea, gather facts, make inferences, and other kinds of meaning such as being able to determine sequence.
Manual and Answer Keys available sold separately stock #145258.
Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read, Kindergarten Edition
By Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics' Learn to Read Program teaches kids the skills needed to become confident readers, giving them a foundation to build on through their education years and beyond. Utilizing workbooks, activities, fun stories, flash cards and reward stickers, children will gain not only an understanding of reading skills, but an appreciation for the joy that reading can bring. This kindergarten edition teaches letter sounds and short vowels. Ages 4-6.This kit includes:
1 interactive CD-ROM with 28 fun learning games (PC and MAC compatible) 3 audio CDs to guide your child through the program 5 sets of flash cards to teach letter names, letter sounds, and sight words, and for Word Play games 1 workbook that includes fun activities and 17 great stories 24 original books 2 colorful progress posters with reward stickers Parent's Guide
Using Children's Literature, Grades 1-4
By Vowery Dodd Carlile / Educational Impressions
"Using Children's Literature: A Whole Language Approach to Teaching Thinking Skills" uses ten popular children's books, including two Caldecott Medal winners, to develop important higher-level critical and creative thinking skills. Each unit contains a teacher help page with introductory questions and suggestions, a series of questions and activities based upon Bloom's Taxonomy, a fluency/flexibility activity, several extended-thinking shape cards, and a writing and/or sketching activity. Literature studied in this book includes: "There's a Nightmare in My Closet," "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," "Just Me and My Dad," "Mousekin's Golden House," "A Giraffe and a Half," "The Sweet Touch," "Owl Moon," "Hey, Al," "Patrick's Dinosaurs," and "The Gigantic Balloon." All of these books should be available from your local library. Seventy-nine activities are included. There is no answer key as most of these activities are creative and encourage individual free respones. For grades 1-4. Softcover, 102 reproducible pages.
Reading Comprehension in Varied Subject Matter Book 2, Grade 4
By Jane Ervin / Educators Publishing Service
Used successfully by classroom teachers, tutors, ESL teachers, and parents, these workbooks have just been revised and updated, with the addition of new reading selections, new vocabulary, and a new writing exercise. Each workbook has thirty-one selections in different subject areas. Within each workbook there are themes that relate the selections to one another, show different aspects of a topic, and give students a broad knowledge of the topic. Selections follow a consistent format: About the Passage introduces the selection to the the reader; Reason for Reading explains the reading skill emphasized; The Selection; Thinking it Over lists two to three broad questions to be answered in writing; Studying the Passage asks questions about the main idea, facts, and sequence, and asks students to draw conclusions, make assumptions, and interpret. Using the Words encourages students to use new vocabulary words in a paragraph, and Writing About It has students answer questions about the contents of the selection and offer their interpretation or opinion.
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Armored Penguin Puzzlemaker, make puzzles using the vocabulary words.
Elizabeth Upham-McWebb, "Aunt Bett" as she likes to be called, drew the Safety Posters back in 1934. She is now 97 years old and still lives on her own in Monroe, Michigan. She has two roomers who help her out with some of the chores and cooking. She still paints Little Brown Bear on mugs for children who ask. Her friend Valerie Johnson contacted us and told us about "Aunt Bett". October 7, 2002 Aunt Bett is honored with a statue of her Little Brown Bear Update: Aunt Bett died in 2004 at the age of 99. |
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