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K Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum
K Chrysanthemum We’re Different, We’re the Same
K Chrysanthemum A Porcupine Named Fluffy
K Chrysanthemum The Name Jar
K Chrysanthemum “Me I Am!”
K Chrysanthemum Andy (That’s My Name)
2 Famous Americans ”Susan B. Anthony: An Advocate for Pages 33-37 of the Read-
Women’s Rights” Aloud Anthology
2 Famous Americans “Eleanor Roosevelt: A Voice for Human Pages 47-51 of the Read-
Rights” Aloud Anthology
2 Famous Americans “Mary McLeod Bethune: A Dedicated Pages 61-64 of the Read-
Teacher” Aloud Anthology
“Rosa Parks: The Mother of the Civil Rights Pages 96-99 of the Read-
2 Famous Americans Movement” Aloud Anthology
“Martin Luther King Jr.: Defender of the Pages 110-114 of the Read-
2 Famous Americans
Dream” Aloud Anthology
3 The Stories Julian Tells The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Video
Lessmore
The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close
3 Louisiana Purchase
the Deal?
The (What
Louisiana Would You
Purchase: FromDo?)
3 Louisiana Purchase Introduction, Chapter 6:
Independence to Lewis and Clark
3 Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale “Buffalo” and Chapter 7:
3 Louisiana Purchase Mike Fink “Kidnapped”
3 Louisiana Purchase Thunder Rose
3 Louisiana Purchase Swamp Angel
3 Louisiana Purchase How We Crossed the West: The Adventures
of Lewis and Clark
3 Louisiana Purchase “The Happy Wanderer”
3 Louisiana Purchase "The Happy Wanderer" Audio
3 Treasure Island Treasure Island (Classic Starts Series)
3 Treasure Island Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Pirates Chapter 6: Pirate Treasure
3 Treasure Island Finding the Titanic
3 Treasure Island The Mona Lisa Caper
"Leffingwell Elementary
9 Laughter Funny in Farsi School"
9 Laughter “Charles”
Updated 7/6/2017
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Kevin Henkes Text Portal
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Yangsook Choi Text Portal
Jack Prelutsky Text Portal
Tomie dePaola Text Portal
Ducksters through
Technological Solutions, Inc. Digital access
(TSI)
The Royal
Domain Household
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Frank Asch Text Portal
Margaret Wise Brown Text Portal
Allan Fowler Text Portal
Allison Lassieur Text Portal
Gail Gibbons Text Portal
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Gail Gibbons Text Portal
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Linda Tagliaferro Text Portal
Jane Hileman Text Portal
Eric A. Kimmel Text Portal
Doreen Cronin Text Portal
Allan Fowler Text Portal
Tony
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Peggy Parish Text Portal
Peggy Parish Text Portal
Peggy Parish Text Portal
Robin Pulver Text Portal
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Josephine Nobisso Text Portal
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JoAnn Early Macken Text Portal
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Nate LeBoutillier Text Portal
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Erin Heath Text Portal
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Doreen Cronin Text Portal
Catherine Stier Text Portal
Catherine Stier Text Portal
Kay Winters Text Portal
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Robin Nelson Text Portal
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Marcia Brown Text Portal
Jewell Reinhart Cobum Text Portal
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Rafe Martin and David Shannon Text Portal
John Steptoe Text Portal
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Babette Cole Purchase
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CBS Story Break Digital access
CBS Story Break Digital access
CBS Story3 Break
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Susan Meddaugh Text Portal
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Uri Shulevitz Text Portal
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Sharon Arms Doucet Text Portal
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Don Daily and Joel Chandler Text Portal
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Retold by S.E. Schlosser Unit Reader
Beatrix Potter Student Materials
Jacob Gavin for The History
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Ann Cameron Text Portal
Patricia Polacco Text Portal
Margriet Ruurs Text Portal
Barbara Lehman Text Portal
William Joyce Text Portal
Ann Cameron Text Portal
Julio Noboa
Michael Polanco
Kaufman (The New Unit Reader
Book of Knowledge, Grolier Unit Reader
Online)
Robert Frost Student Materials
Henry William Elson Student Materials
(transcribed by Kathy Leigh)
The Library of Congress Student Materials
Discovery Education Digital access
Discovery Education Digital access
Marc Aronson of Young
The Adventures Text Portal
Indiana Jones, Volume One - The Text Portal
Research Laboratories
Early Years (DVD) of Unit Reader
Archaeology
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Archaeology
Archaeological Institute of Student Materials
America
Robert Louis Stevenson Student Materials
Oregon State University Digital access
Oregon State University Digital access
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Sally M. Walker Text Portal
Elisa Carbone Text Portal
Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Unit Reader
Benét George Percy (National
Master
Humanities Center) Unit Reader
Michael Drayton Student Materials
William Makepeace Thackeray Student Materials
Smithsonian’s National Museum
of Natural History Digital access
Smithsonian Education Digital access
Smithsonian Digital access
Smithsonian Education Digital access
Charles Dickens Text Portal
Brian Desmond Hurst (Director) Text Portal
ScienceDaily Unit Reader
Elizabeth Landau from Unit Reader
CNNHealth.com
Mitch Albom Unit Reader
Walter Dean Myers Unit Reader
O. Henry Student Materials
Alex Hudson from BBC News Digital access
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Lit2Go Digital access
BBC Digital access
The New York Times Digital access
Lois Lowry Text Portal
Gary Ross Text Portal
James Dashner Text Portal
Suzanne Collins Text Portal
Neal Shusterman Text Portal
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Scott Westerfeld Text Portal
M.T. Anderson Text Portal
Lois Lowry Unit Reader
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Unit Reader
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Constitution of the United
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William Blake Student Materials
John Lennon Digital access
John Lennon Digital access
William Zinsser (The American Unit Reader
Scholar)
Gary Soto Text Portal
Walter Dean Myers Text Portal
Francisco Jimenez Text Portal
Gary Paulsen Text Portal
Bethany Hamilton and Rick
Bundschuh Text Portal
Zlata Filipovic Text Portal
Roald Dahl Text Portal
Gary Soto Text Portal
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Gary Soto Unit Reader
Langston Hughes Unit Reader
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Doug Mason Digital access
Elizabeth Keckley Student Materials
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K Chrysanthemum “My Teacher Calls Me Sweetie Cakes” Kenn Nesbitt Digital access
K Mama Panya Mama Panya’s Pancakes Mary and Rich Chamberlain Text Portal
K Mama Panya Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A Verna Aardema Text Portal
West African Tale
K Mama Panya Honey…Honey…Lion Jan Brett Text Portal
K Mama Panya Here is the African Savanna Madeleine Dunphy Text Portal
K Mama Panya The Greedy Python Richard Buckley Text Portal
K Mama Panya The Selfish Crocodile Faustin Charles Text Portal
K Mama Panya The Lion and the Mouse Jerry Pinkney Text Portal
K Maple Hill Farm The Year at Maple Hill Farm Alice and Martin Provensen Text Portal
K Maple Hill Farm What Do Critters Do in the Winter? Julie Lundgren Text Portal
K Maple Hill Farm Animals in Winter Henrietta Bancroft Text Portal
National Geographic Young
K Maple Hill Farm “Change is in the Air” Pages 11-15 Unit Reader
Explorer, March 2012
K Seed to Plant From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons Text Portal
K Seed to Plant The Tiny Seed Eric Carle Text Portal
K Seed to Plant One Bean Anne Rockwell Text Portal
K Seed to Plant How a Seed Grows Helene Jordan Text Portal
K Seed to Plant The Gigantic Sweet Potato Dianne
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K Seed to Plant “Plant Parts” Pages 24-26 of the Read- Grade K, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
Aloud Anthology Domain 4 of Core Knowledge,
K Seed to Plant “Polly the Honeybee’s Flower Tour” Pages 59-61 of the Read- Strand
Grade K, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
Aloud Anthology
Pages 103-106 of the Read- Domain
Strand
4 of Core Knowledge,
K Seed to Plant “Plants and People” Aloud Anthology Grade K, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
K Weather Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Strand
Judi Barrett Text Portal
K Weather Weather Words Gail Gibbons Text Portal
K Weather The Wind Blew Pat Hutchins Text Portal
K Weather The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Text Portal
K Weather Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Text Portal
K Weather Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Text Portal
K Weather Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Text Portal
National Geographic Young
K Weather “The Weather Outside” Pages 18-23 Explorer, September 2011 Unit Reader
K Weather Complete Poems for Children “The Wind” James Reeves Unit Reader
K Weather “April Rain Song” Langston Hughes Unit Reader
K A is for America A is for America Devin Scillian Text Portal
K A is for America America Is… Louise Borden Text Portal
K A is for America America the Beautiful Wendell Minor and Katharine Text Portal
Lee Bates
K A is for America “America the Beautiful” Audio Choralmusic.com Digital access
K A is for America U.S. Symbols Video BrainPOP
Domain 12Jr.of Core Knowledge, Digital access
“The Home of the President: Washington, Pages 14-17 of the Read-
K A is for America D.C.” Aloud Anthology Kindergarten, Listening
Domain 12 of Core and
Knowledge, Download for educational use
Pages 48-51 of the Read- Learning Strand
K A is for America “George Washington” Kindergarten, Listening and
Domain 12 of Core Knowledge, Download for educational use
Aloud 58-61
Pages Anthology
of the Read- Learning Strand
K A is for America “Thomas Jefferson” Kindergarten, Listening and
Domain 12 of Core Knowledge, Download for educational use
Aloud 75-78
Pages Anthology
of the Read- Learning Strand
K A is for America “Abraham Lincoln” Kindergarten, Listening and Download for educational use
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1 Frogs Frogs Gail Gibbons Text Portal
1 Frogs Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Text Portal
1 Frogs Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Text Portal
1 Frogs The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Text Portal
1 Frogs Tuesday David Wiesner Text Portal
1 Frogs A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog Mercer Mayer Text Portal
1 Frogs Frog on His Own Mercer Mayer Text Portal
1 Frogs “Frog Facts: Frogs vs. Toads” KidZone Unit Reader
1 Frogs Something Froggy Wired@School (The Franklin Unit Reader
Institute)
1 Frogs "Interjections!" Video Schoolhouse Rock!Knowledge,
Domain 6 of Core Digital access
1 Frogs “The Life Cycle of a Frog” Pages 93-96 of the Read- Grade 2, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
Aloud Anthology
1 Rumpelstiltskin Seven Blind Mice Strand
Ed Young Text Portal
1 Rumpelstiltskin “The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales and Video Melissa Russell Digital access
Stories”
Biography of a queen, king, prince, or
Ducksters through
1 Rumpelstiltskin princess (e.g., Princess Diana, Queen Website Technological Solutions, Inc. Digital access
Victoria, Cleopatra VII, or Queen Elizabeth (TSI)
I)
"About Her Majesty The
1 Rumpelstiltskin "Her Majesty the Queen" Webpage Queen" and "Interests" The Royal
Domain Household
9 of Core Knowledge, Digital access
Pages 29-32 of the Read-
1 Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin Grade 1,9Listening
Domain and Learning
of Core Knowledge, Download for educational use
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Pages Anthology
of the Read- Strand
1 Rumpelstiltskin Sleeping Beauty Grade 1,9Listening
Domain and Learning
of Core Knowledge, Download for educational use
Aloud Anthology
Pages 58-60, 70-73 of the Strand
1 Rumpelstiltskin The Frog-Prince Grade 1, Listening and Learning
Domain 9 of Core Knowledge, Download for educational use
Read-Aloud
Pages 44-47 Anthology
of the Read- Strand
1 Rumpelstiltskin Rapunzel Grade 1, Listening and Learning
Domain 9 of Core Knowledge, Download for educational use
Aloud Anthology
Pages 90-93, 103-106 of Strand 1, Listening and Learning
1 Rumpelstiltskin Hansel and Gretel Grade
Domain 9 of Core Knowledge, Download for educational use
the Read-Aloud
Pages Anthology
115-117, 127-129 of
1 Rumpelstiltskin Jack and the Beanstalk Strand 1, Listening and Learning
Grade Download for educational use
the Read-Aloud Anthology
1 Mooncake Mooncake Strand
Frank Asch Text Portal
1 Mooncake Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Text Portal
1 Mooncake When You Look Up at the Moon Allan Fowler Text Portal
1 Mooncake The Moon “Visiting the Moon” Allison Lassieur Text Portal
1 Mooncake The Moon Book Pages 1-4, 7, and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Text Portal
1 Mooncake Kitten’s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes Text Portal
1 Mooncake Moondance Frank Asch Text Portal
1 Mooncake Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Text Portal
1 Mooncake “Moon Pictures” Flickr Download for educational use
1 Spiders Spiders Gail Gibbons Text Portal
Read-Aloud African-American Stories: 40
1 Spiders Selections “Anansi Saves Antelope” Susan Kantor Text Portal
1 Spiders Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Text Portal
1 Spiders Spiders and Their Webs Linda Tagliaferro Text Portal
1 Spiders Spiders are Hunters Jane Hileman Text Portal
1 Spiders Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A. Kimmel Text Portal
1 Spiders Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Text Portal
1 Spiders Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Text Portal
1 Spiders The Spider and the Fly Tony DiTerlizzi Text Portal
Pages 109-112 of the Read- Domain 1 of Core Knowledge,
1 Spiders All Stories are Anansi’s Aloud Anthology Grade 1, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
1 Amelia Bedelia Amelia Bedelia Strand
Peggy Parish Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Thank You, Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia In English, Of Course Josephine Nobisso Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Community Helpers from A to Z Bobbie Kalman Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Veterinarians JoAnn Early Macken Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Nurses JoAnn Early Macken Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Dentists Jacqueline Laks Gorman Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia A Day in the Life of a Doctor Heather Adamson Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia A Day in the Life of a Garbage Collector Nate LeBoutillier Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Brian Cleary Text Portal
Adjective?
A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What is a
1 Amelia Bedelia Brian Cleary Text Portal
Noun?
To Root, to Toot, Parachute: What is a
1 Amelia Bedelia Brian Cleary Text Portal
Verb?
1 Amelia Bedelia Doctors in our Community Erin Heath Text Portal
1 Amelia Bedelia “AP Spanish Cooking Video” Video Digital access
1 Amelia Bedelia "MRI Video for Children" Video Carnegie Mellon University Digital access
1 Duck for President Duck for President Doreen Cronin Text Portal
1 Duck for President If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Text Portal
1 Duck for President If I Were President Catherine Stier Text Portal
1 Duck for President My Teacher for President Kay Winters Text Portal
1 Duck for President We Live Here Too! Kids Talk About Good Nancy Loewen Text Portal
Citizenship
1 Duck for President If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Text Portal
1 Duck for President Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Text Portal
Celebrating President’s Day: What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha
1 Duck for President President? Callella-Jones Text Portal
1 Duck for President So You Want to be President? Judith St. George Text Portal
1 Duck for President “Elections: Let’s Do the Election Slide!” Website Congress for Kids Digital access
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2 Cinderella Cinderella Marcia Brown Text Portal
2 Cinderella Domitila Jewell Reinhart Cobum Text Portal
2 Cinderella Yeh-Shen Ai-Ling Louie Text Portal
2 Cinderella The Rough-Face Girl Rafe Martin and David Shannon Text Portal
2 Cinderella Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe Text Portal
2 Cinderella Cendrillon Robert San Souci Text Portal
2 Cinderella Prince Cinders Babette Cole Purchase
2 Cinderella Cinder Edna Ellen Jackson Purchase
2 Cinderella Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella Tony Johnson Purchase
2 Cinderella Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China Part 1 Video CBS Story Break Digital access
2 Cinderella Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China Part 2 Video CBS Story Break Digital access
2 Cinderella Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China Part 3 Video CBS Story3 Break
Domain of Core Knowledge, Digital access
2 Cinderella “The Girl with the Red Slippers” Pages 28-32 of the Read- Grade 1, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
Aloud Anthology
2 The Best Place The Best Place Strand
Susan Meddaugh Text Portal
2 The Best Place Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Text Portal
2 The Best Place The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Text Portal
2 The Best Place If You Lived Here: Houses of the World Giles Laroche Text Portal
2 The Best Place A Chair for My Mother Vera B. Williams Text Portal
2 The Best Place My House is Singing “One Giant Hug” Betsy Rosenthal Unit Reader
2 The Best Place My House is Singing “My House is Night Song” Betsy Rosenthal Unit Reader
2 The Best Place Kids Around the World Brazil "KidsPost" from The Unit Reader
Washington PostThe
"KidsPost" from
2 The Best Place Kids Around the World Nepal Unit Reader
Washington PostThe
"KidsPost" from
2 The Best Place Kids Around the World The Netherlands Unit Reader
Washington PostThe
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2 The Best Place Kids Around the World Kenya
“The Cyclone,” “The Unit Reader
Washingtonfrom
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2 The Best Place Kids Around the World Council
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Munchkins,”“How the Washingtonfrom
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2 The Best Place Kids Around the World Egypt Washington Post Unit Reader
Balloon Was Launched,”
2 The Best Place “Our New Old House” “Glinda the Good Witch ReadWorks Unit Reader
2 The Best Place The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Grant’s Dorothy’s Wish” L. Frank Baum Download for educational use
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2 Thirsty Planet One Well: The Story of Water on Earth Woods Text Portal
“get back to Kansas” in
2 Thirsty Planet The Raft paragraph 8 and then Jim LaMarche Text Portal
Franklyn Branley and James
2 Thirsty Planet Down Comes the Rain paragraph 22 until the Text Portal
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Graham Hale
2 Thirsty Planet end), and “Home Again” Walter Wick Text Portal
Wonder
2 Thirsty Planet A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Text Portal
2 Thirsty Planet Water Dance Thomas Locker Text Portal
Beth Geiger from National
2 Thirsty Planet "Thirsty Planet" Pages 18-23 of the Geographic Explorer, Pathfinder Unit Reader
Projectable Edition
2 Thirsty Planet “River Song” from We All Live Downstream Lyrics Edition, October
Banana Slug 2010
String Band Unit Reader
2 Thirsty Planet “River Song” from We All Live Downstream Audio Banana Slug
Domain 6 of String Band
Core Knowledge, Digital access
Pages 115-118 of the Read-
2 Thirsty Planet “The Water Cycle” Aloud Anthology Grade 2, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
2 Ox-Cart Man Ox-Cart Man Strand
Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney Text Portal
2 Ox-Cart Man Charlotte’s Web Excerpt E.B. White Text Portal
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody
2 Ox-Cart Man County Fair (My First Little House) Text Portal
Wheeler
2 Ox-Cart Man The Paper Crane Molly Bang Text Portal
2 Ox-Cart Man The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Text Portal
2 Ox-Cart Man The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Text Portal
2 Ox-Cart Man The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Text Portal
Who’s Buying? Who’s Selling?:
2 Ox-Cart Man Understanding Consumers and Producers Pages 85-88 of the Read- Domain 5 of Core Knowledge, Text Portal
Jennifer S. Larson
2 Ox-Cart Man “The Seasons of Farming” Aloud 95-97
Anthology Kindergarten,
Domain 5 of CoreListening and
Knowledge, Download for educational use
2 Ox-Cart Man “From Farm to Market” Pages of the Read- Learning Strand
Kindergarten, Listening and Download for educational use
Aloud Anthology
2 Famous Americans Lives: Poems About Famous Americans Learning
Lee BennettStrand
Hopkins Text Portal
50 American Heroes Every Kid Should
2 Famous Americans Meet! Dennis Denenberg Text Portal
2 Famous Americans Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muñoz Ryan Text Portal
2 Famous Americans Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Text Portal
2 Famous Americans When Marian Sang Pam Muñoz Ryan Text Portal
2 Famous Americans George Washington Carver: Teacher, Lori Mortensen Text Portal
Scientist, and Inventor
2 Famous Americans A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Text Portal
2 Famous Americans The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Text Portal
2 Famous Americans A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Text Portal
2 Famous Americans Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Text Portal
2 Famous Americans Teammates Peter Golenbock Text Portal
2 Famous Americans Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Frances Ruffin Text Portal
Washington
2 Famous Americans What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Jean Fritz Text Portal
2 Famous Americans Helen Keller: Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Text Portal
2 Famous Americans Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Kathryn Lasky Text Portal
Breedlove Walker
“Marian Anderson Sings at Lincoln
2 Famous Americans Memorial” Video UCLA Film and Television Digital access
”Susan B. Anthony: An Advocate for Pages 33-37 of the Read- Domain 12 of Core Knowledge,
2 Famous Americans Grade 2, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
Women’s Rights” Aloud Anthology Strand
“Eleanor Roosevelt: A Voice for Human Pages 47-51 of the Read- Domain 12 of Core Knowledge,
2 Famous Americans Rights” Aloud Anthology Grade 2, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
Strand
“Mary McLeod Bethune: A Dedicated Pages 61-64 of the Read- Domain 12 of Core Knowledge,
2 Famous Americans Teacher” Aloud Anthology Grade 2, Listening and Learning Download for educational use
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2 Famous Americans “Martin Luther King Jr.: Defender of the Pages 110-114 of the Read- Domain 12 of Core Knowledge,
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3 Cajun Folktales Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales From Sharon Arms Doucet Text Portal
the Louisiana Bayou
3 Cajun Folktales Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Text Portal
3 Cajun Folktales Tops andToolbox:
Writer’s BottomsLearn How to Write Introduction, “Brer Fox, Janet Stevens Text Portal
3 Cajun Folktales Letters, Fairy Tales, Scary Stories, Journals, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, and Nancy Loewen Text Portal
Poems, andTales
Reports the Peanut Patch,” “The Don Daily and Joel Chandler
3 Cajun Folktales The Classic of Brer Rabbit Great Race,” “Brer Fox, Harris Text Portal
3 Cajun Folktales "The Trickster Tricked" Brer Rabbit, and the Tar Retold by S.E. Schlosser Unit Reader
3 Cajun Folktales The Tale of Peter Rabbit Baby” Beatrix Potter Student Materials
3 Cajun Folktales "The Cajun Experience" Video Jacob Gavin for The History Digital access
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3 Cajun Folktales Louisiana History textbook Use current resources
3 The Stories Julian Tells The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron Text Portal
3 The Stories Julian Tells The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Text Portal
My Librarian is a Camel: How Books are
3 The Stories Julian Tells Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Text Portal
3 The Stories Julian Tells The Red Book Barbara Lehman Text Portal
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris “I Learn Firefighting” (“I
3 The Stories Julian Tells Lessmore Wish for Smokey the William Joyce Text Portal
3 The Stories Julian Tells More Stories Julian Tells Bear,” “Superboy and Me,” Ann Cameron Text Portal
and “Huey Makes the
3 The Stories Julian Tells “A Page is a Door” Leap”) Remy Charlip Unit Reader
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris
3 The Stories Julian Tells Lessmore Video William Joyce Digital access
The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close
3 Louisiana Purchase the Elaine Landau Text Portal
The Deal? (What
Louisiana Would You
Purchase: FromDo?)
3 Louisiana Purchase Introduction, Chapter 6: Michael Burgan Text Portal
Independence to Lewis and Clark
3 Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale “Buffalo” and Chapter 7: Laurie Myers Text Portal
3 Louisiana Purchase Mike Fink “Kidnapped” Steven Kellogg Text Portal
3 Louisiana Purchase Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Text Portal
3 Louisiana Purchase Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Text Portal
3 Louisiana Purchase How We Crossed the West: The Adventures Rosalyn Schanzer Text Portal
of Lewis and Clark
3 Louisiana Purchase “The Happy Wanderer” Frank Weir Unit Reader
3 Louisiana Purchase "The Happy Wanderer" Audio Digital access
3 Treasure Island Treasure Island (Classic Starts Series) Robert Louis Stevenson Text Portal
Will Osborne and Mary Pope
3 Treasure Island Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Pirates Chapter 6: Pirate Treasure Osborne Text Portal
3 Treasure Island Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Text Portal
3 Treasure Island The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Text Portal
3 Treasure Island "Kids Were Onboard the Titanic, Too" Marylou Tousignant Unit Reader
4 Hurricanes Oral history from Hurricane Katrina Debra Dennis from the Digital access
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
4 Hurricanes Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Guide GOHSEP Download for educational use
4 American Revolution If You Lived at the Time of the American Kay Moore Text Portal
Revolution
4 American Revolution Katie’s Trunk Ann Turner Text Portal
4 American Revolution Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Text Portal
4 American Revolution Those Rebels, John and Tom Barbara Kerley Text Portal
George vs. George: The American
4 American Revolution Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Text Portal
4 American Revolution And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Jean Fritz Text Portal
4 American Revolution “Paul Revere's Ride” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Student Materials
4 American Revolution “Military Perspectives” PBS.org Digital access
4 The Lightning Thief The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan Text Portal
4 The Lightning Thief Favorite Greek Myths “The Face in the Pool” and Mary Pope Osborne Text Portal
“The Weaving
Chapters Contest”
3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, Grace Lin
4 The Lightning Thief Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Minotaur Text Portal
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The and 11 chase scene that
4 The Lightning Thief Lightning Thief corresponds with Chapter Chris Columbus Text Portal
4 The Lightning Thief Hercules 4
Specific clips Ron Clements and John Musker Text Portal
4 The Lightning Thief D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths “Heracles” and “The Wild Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire Text Portal
and Vulgar Centaurs”
4 The Whipping Boy The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman Text Portal
4 The Whipping Boy The Horrible, Miserable, Middle Ages Kathy Allen Text Portal
4 The Whipping Boy A Medieval Feast Aliki Text Portal
4 The Whipping Boy The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval Jane Bingham Text Portal
World
4 The Whipping Boy Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Knights Will Osborne and Mary Pope Text Portal
and Castles Osborne
4 The Whipping Boy "The Middle Ages" LDOE Student Materials
4 The Whipping Boy Usborne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usborne Publishing Digital access
4 The Whipping Boy The Amazing Middle Ages History for Kids Digital access
4 The Whipping Boy Interactives: Middle Ages Annenberg Learner Digital access
4 The Whipping Boy Middle Ages for Kids: Index MrDonn.org
Ducksters through Digital access
4 The Whipping Boy History: Middle Ages Timeline for Kids Technological Solutions, Inc. Digital access
4 Pushing Up the Sky Pushing Up the Sky: Seven Native (TSI)
American Plays for Children “Davy Crockett” and “Sally Joseph Bruchac Text Portal
4 Pushing Up the Sky American Tall Tales Ann Thunder Ann Mary Pope Osborne Text Portal
4 Pushing Up the Sky Merlin and the Dragons Whirlwind” Jane Yolen Text Portal
4 Pushing Up the Sky Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories "Zlateh the Goat" Isaac Bashevis Singer Text Portal
The People Could Fly: American Black "Wolf and Birds and the
4 Pushing Up the Sky Folktales Fish-Horse" Virginia Hamilton Unit Reader
4 Pushing Up the Sky “What is Storytelling” Excerpt National Storytelling Network Unit Reader
4 Pushing Up the Sky “Vanishing Pages 10-17 of the National Geographic Explorer,
“StorytellingCultures”
Provides a Means of Projectable Edition Pathfinder Edition, May 2011
Unit Reader
4 Pushing Up the Sky Transmitting Culture, History,” The Daily Diana Cunningham Unit Reader
4 Pushing Up the Sky Tar
OokaHeel
the Wise: Tales of Old Japan “Ooka and the Case of the I.G. Edmonds Unit Reader
“Using Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal Stolen Smell” Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
4 Pushing Up the Sky and Introduction
Listening Skills: Student Materials
“An to Part I” of
the Role Haven Teachers Institute)
4 Pushing Up the Sky Storytelling in Native American Tribes” Mary Rajotte Student Materials
4 Pushing Up the Sky Just So Stories “The Elephant’s Child” Rudyard Kipling Student Materials
4 Pushing Up the Sky Just So Stories “How the Camel Got His Rudyard Kipling Student Materials
Hump”
Grade Unit Title Text Title Excerpt/Section/Format
5 The Making of a Scientist Cricket Magazine, October 1995 (Vol. 23, "The Making of a Scientist"
#2)
The 13 Planets: The Latest View of the
5 The Making of a Scientist Solar System
5 The Making of a Scientist The Templeton Twins Have An Idea: Book 1 Video, "The Mystery of the
5 The Making of a Scientist Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space Milky Way," minutes 22:23
5 The Making of a Scientist Giants of Science: Isaac Newton –Chapter
29:01 8
“Galileo Galilei: Biography, Inventions &
5 The Making of a Scientist Other Facts” Science: How Science Really “Modern Science: What’s
Understanding
5 The Making of a Scientist
Works changing?”
5 The Making of a Scientist "Giant Telescopes of Tomorrow"
5 The Making of a Scientist “Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun
Revolves Around Earth, Survey Finds”
“New Theory: Galileo discovered
5 The Making of a Scientist
Neptune”
5 The Making of a Scientist "Scientific Thinking"
5 The Making of a Scientist “Is Pluto a Planet?” Video
5 The Making of a Scientist “Galileo: Sun-Centered System” Video
5 The Birchbark House The Birchbark House
“Who Were the First
5 The Birchbark House Ice Age (DVD) Specific clips (pages 53-54)
Americans?”
5 The Birchbark House The First Americans: Prehistory-1600 (A Chapters 3, 4, 9 and 15-16
History of US, Book 1) “Controlled Burning”
5 The Birchbark House Pedro’s Journal (pages 91-92), “A Changing
5 The Birchbark House Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 Landscape (page 97), “A
5 The Birchbark House Excerpt from “A Letter to the Treasurer of Garden Without
Spain” Gardeners“ (pages 104-
5 The Birchbark House "The Columbian Exchange" 108), “High Risk” (pages
5 The Birchbark House “Columbus” 70-71), and “How Many
“Images of Christopher Columbus and His Died?” (page 76)
5 The Birchbark House Voyages”
The Lion, the Witch, and
5 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch, and “The Grand Illusion: A Century of Special
5
the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch, and Effects"
5 “How Special Effects Artists Work”
the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch, and
5 “Adventures of Isabel”
the
The Wardrobe
Lion, the Witch, and “The Robin Who Showed
5 The Secret Garden
the
The Wardrobe
Lion, the Witch, and the Way” I: Down the
“Chapter
5 the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
5 The Wardrobe
Lion, the Witch, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Rabbit-Hole”
“Chapter XII: Alice’s
the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch, and Evidence”
5 the Wardrobe "Adventures of Isabel" Video/Audio
The Lion, the Witch, and
5 the Wardrobe “A Brief History of Movie Special Effects”
The Lion, the Witch, and “Alice in Wonderland – Visual Effects
5 the Wardrobe Highlights” Video
5 Wonderstruck Wonderstruck
5 Wonderstruck The Handmade Alphabet
5 Wonderstruck Maniac Magee Excerpts
5 Wonderstruck Frindle
5 Wonderstruck The Phantom Tollbooth Chapter 7
Excerpts from the Collection of Essays "The History of Deaf
5 Wonderstruck Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck Culture and Sign Language"
5 Wonderstruck The Story of My Life "Part I, Chapter IV"
5 Shutting Out the Sky Shutting Out the Sky
5 Shutting Out the Sky The Arrival Excerpts "Kim," "Ana,"
5 Shutting Out the Sky Coming to America: The Story of "Wendell," "Gonzales,"
Immigration "Leona," "Sam,"
“Excerpts from Of"Virgil,"
Thee We
5 Shutting Out the Sky Seedfolks
“Both Community and Garden Grow in "Sae Young,
Sing: Immigrants" "Curtis,"
and
5 Shutting Out the Sky "Nora," "Amir,"
American andDale
History,”
Seedfolks”
Coming to America: A New Life in a New Steiner,
5 Shutting Out the Sky "Florence"“The Statue of
Land of Liberty Reopens After Sandy
“Statue Liberty,” and “I Thought I
5 Shutting Out the Sky Damage” Heard My Mother,” Rose
5 Shutting Out the Sky “The New Colossus”
5 Shutting Out the Sky “What ‘Lady Liberty’ and Ellis Island Mean Romano
Video
Today”
Author/Source Access
Richard Feynman Unit Reader
David A. Aguilar Text Portal
Ellis Weiner Text Portal
NOVA from PBS.org Text Portal
Kathleen Krull Unit Reader
Nola Taylor Redd (SPACE.com) Unit Reader
University of California Museum
Unit Reader
of Paleontology
Peter Tyson from NOVA Unit Reader
Liz Fields from ABC News Unit Reader
Robert Roy Britt (SPACE.com) Unit Reader
Louisiana Department of
Education Student Materials
Smithsonian Magazine Digital access
PBS Digital access
Louise Erdrich Text Portal
Michael J. Wilson (Writer) Text Portal
Joy Hakim Text Portal
Pam Conrad Text Portal
Charles C. Mann Unit Reader
Christopher Columbus Unit Reader
Student Materials
Joaquin Miller Student Materials
The Library of Congress Download for educational use
C.S. Lewis Text Portal
NOVA Online (PBS.org) Unit Reader
Dave Roos Unit Reader
Odgen Nash Unit Reader
Frances Hodgson Burnett Student Materials
Lewis Carroll Student Materials
Lewis Carroll Student Materials
Odgen Nash Digital access
TIME Digital access
YouTube Digital access
Brian Selzinck Text Portal
Laura Rankin Text Portal
Jerry Spinelli Text Portal
Andrew Clements Text Portal
Norton Juster Unit Reader
Carol Padden and Tom
Humphries Unit Reader
Helen Keller Student Materials
Deborah Hopkinson Text Portal
Shaun Tan Text Portal
Betsy Maestro Text Portal
Paul Fleischman Text Portal
All Things Considered from NPR Unit Reader
Edited by Katharine Emsden Unit Reader
Tina Susman from the Los Unit Reader
Angeles Times
Emma Lazarus Student Materials
National Geographic Digital access
Grade Unit Title Text Title Excerpt/Section/Format
6 Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address (2005)
6 Steve Jobs “Overcoming Obstacles: How Your Biggest
Failure Can Lead to Your Success”
6 Steve Jobs The Collected Poetry of Langston Hughes “Mother to Son”
6 Steve Jobs “To Failure”
6 Steve Jobs “Mindset for Achievement”
“The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the
6 Steve Jobs Importance of Imagination” Paragraphs 18-22
6 Steve Jobs “The Story of David and Goliath”
6 Steve Jobs “Casey at the Bat”
6 Steve Jobs “Letters of Wilbur Wright”
6 Steve Jobs “Courage of Famous Failures” Video
6 Hatchet Hatchet "In Which the Autumn
6 Hatchet My Side of the Mountain Provides Food and
Loneliness"
6 Hatchet My Side of the Mountain "In Which We All Learn
about Halloween"
6 Hatchet “Your Story: Are You a Survivor?”
6 Hatchet “The 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of
All Time”
6 Hatchet “What Would Peter Do?”
Julio Noboa
Michael Polanco
Kaufman (The New Unit Reader
Book of Knowledge, Grolier Unit Reader
Online)
Robert Frost Student Materials
Henry William Elson
(transcribed by Kathy Leigh) Student Materials
The Library of Congress Student Materials
Discovery Education Digital access
Discovery Education Digital access
Marc Aronson of Young
The Adventures Text Portal
Indiana Jones, Volume One - The Text Portal
Research Laboratories
Early Years (DVD) of Unit Reader
Archaeology
Research Laboratories of
Education
ArchaeologyDepartment of the Unit Reader
Archaeological Institute of Student Materials
America
Robert Louis Stevenson Student Materials
Oregon State University Digital access
Oregon State University Digital access
Grade Unit Title Text Title Excerpt/Section/Format Author/Source Access
7 Written in Bone Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown Sally M. Walker Text Portal
and Colonial Maryland Chapters 9-13, 18, 20, first
7 Written in Bone Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 section of 21, 23 to 27, and Elisa Carbone Text Portal
“Jamestown: 1607, The First Months: Afterword Rosemary and Stephen Vincent
7 Written in Bone A Book of Americans
Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse "Indian" Benét Unit Reader
June-July 1607 and August Master George Percy (National
7 Written in Bone on the Plantation of the Southern Colony to September 1607 Humanities Center) Unit Reader
7 Written in Bone in Virginia by the English, 1606,
“Ode to the Virginian Voyage” Michael Drayton Student Materials
Gentleman”
7 Written in Bone “Pocahontas” William Makepeace Thackeray Student Materials
7 Written in Bone “Finding Remains” Video Smithsonian’s National Museum Digital access
of Natural History
7 Written in Bone “30,000 Skeletons” Video Smithsonian Education Digital access
7 Written in Bone Written in Bone Online Exhibit Website Smithsonian Digital access
7 Written in Bone “Written in Bone: Stories of Life and Death Video Smithsonian Education Digital access
in Colonial Chesapeake”
7 Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Text Portal
7 Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol (2012 DVD) Video Brian Desmond Hurst (Director) Text Portal
7 Christmas Carol “Do Experiences or Material Goods Make ScienceDaily Unit Reader
Us Happier?”
“Study: Experiences Make Us Happier Elizabeth Landau from
7 Christmas Carol Unit Reader
Than Possessions” “The Eighth Tuesday: We CNNHealth.com
7 Christmas Carol Tuesdays with Morrie Talk About Money” Mitch Albom Unit Reader
7 Christmas Carol “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” Walter Dean Myers Unit Reader
7 Christmas Carol “The Gift of the Magi” O. Henry Student Materials
7 Christmas Carol “Charles Dickens: Six Things He Gave the Alex Hudson from BBC News Digital access
Modern World”
7 Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol (Video) Video Digital access
7 Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol (Audio) Audio Lit2Go Digital access
7 Christmas Carol “History of Christmas” BBC Digital access
Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol
7 Christmas Carol with Dickens’s revisions The New York Times Digital access
7 The Giver The Giver Lois Lowry Text Portal
7 The Giver The Hunger Games (DVD) Clip of “The Reaping” Gary Ross Text Portal
7 The Giver Maze Runner James Dashner Text Portal
7 The Giver The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Text Portal
7 The Giver Unwind Neal Shusterman Text Portal
7 The Giver Divergent Veronica Roth Text Portal
7 The Giver Uglies Scott Westerfeld Text Portal
7 The Giver Feed M.T. Anderson Text Portal
7 The Giver “Newbery Acceptance Speech, June 1994” Lois Lowry Unit Reader
7 The Giver “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Unit Reader
Chapters 1 and 2 “The
7 The Giver The Hunger Games Reaping” Suzanne Collins Unit Reader
Constitution of the United
7 The Giver “Preamble” States Student Materials
7 The Giver “The Human Abstract” William Blake Student Materials
7 The Giver "Imagine" (Lyrics) John Lennon Digital access
7 The Giver “Imagine” Video John Lennon Digital access
7 Memoir “How to Write a Memoir” William Zinsser (The American Unit Reader
Scholar)
7 Memoir A Summer Life Gary Soto Text Portal
7 Memoir Bad Boy: A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Text Portal
7 Memoir The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Text Portal
7 Memoir Guts Gary Paulsen Text Portal
Bethany Hamilton and Rick
7 Memoir Soul Surfer Bundschuh Text Portal
7 Memoir Zlata’s Diary Zlata Filipovic Text Portal
7 Memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood Roald Dahl Text Portal
7 Memoir Baseball in April and Other Stories “Seventh Grade” Gary Soto Text Portal
7 Memoir The Elements of Style (Illustrated) “Chapter V: An Approach William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. Unit Reader
to Style” White
7 Memoir Woman Hollering Creek “Eleven” Sandra Cisneros Unit Reader
7 Memoir A Fire in My Hands “Oranges” Gary Soto Unit Reader
7 Memoir “Thank You M’am” Langston Hughes Unit Reader
7 Memoir “Advice for Writers” Preface, Chapter Three, Rick Riordan (RickRiordan.com) Unit Reader
7 Memoir “Short Memoirs: Six Little Words Can be excerpts from Chapters Doug Mason Digital access
Revealing”
Behind the Scenes, Or Thirty Years a Slave Five-Seven, Chapters Nine- Elizabeth Keckley
7 Behind the Scenes Student Materials
and Four Years in the White House Twelve, and excerpts from
“A Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker Chapter Fifteen and the
7 Behind the Scenes and Mary Todd Lincoln,” Appendix Jeanne Kolker Unit Reader
7 Behind the Scenes “The Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen Marian Smith Holmes Unit Reader
and William Craft” (SmithsonianMag.com)
7 Behind the Scenes “Notable Visitors: Frederick Douglass” Mr. Lincoln’s White House Unit Reader
7 Behind the Scenes The People Could Fly: American Black "The People Could Fly" Virginia Hamilton Unit Reader
Folktales William L. Andrews from
7 Behind the Scenes "The Value of Literacy to the Enslaved" Unit Reader
EDSITEment!
7 Behind the Scenes “O Captain! My Captain!” Walt Whitman Student Materials
7 Behind the Scenes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Student Materials
an American Slave
7 Behind the Scenes “Mary Todd Lincoln – Influence Peddler” Video Biography.com Digital access
7 Behind the Scenes “Mary Todd Lincoln – Mini Biography” Video Biography.com Digital access
7 Behind the Scenes “Mary Todd Lincoln – The White House” Video Biography.com Digital access
Grade Unit Title Text Title Excerpt/Section/Format Author/Source Access
8 Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild "How Smart are Dogs?" Jack London Text Portal
8 Call of the Wild How Smart Are Animals? and "How Smart are PBS Text Portal
Dolphins?"
"Animal Minds" Virginia Morell from National
8 Call of the Wild Paragraphs 1-4, 21-37, and Geographic, March 2008 Unit Reader
"Minds of Their Own: Animals are Smarter 48-54
Than You Think"
8 Call of the Wild “To Build a Fire” Jack London Student Materials
8 Call of the Wild “The Other Animals” Excerpts
Pages 152-155, 162, and Jack London Student Materials
8 Call of the Wild The Ways of Nature 169-170 of "Do Animals John Burroughs (October 1905) Student Materials
8 Call of the Wild "To Build a Fire" Think
Audio and Reflect?" Librivox Digital Access
8 Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild Audio Librivox Digital access
8 The Tell-Tale Heart “The Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe Student Materials
8 The Tell-Tale Heart Nothing But the Truth Avi Text Portal
“The Allegory of the Cave”
8 The Tell-Tale Heart The Republic Plato Unit Reader
from Book VII
8 The Tell-Tale Heart The Things They Carried “Good Form” Tim O’Brien Unit Reader
8 The Tell-Tale Heart “A Million Little Pieces Revisited: Can the Daniel Honan from Big Think Unit Reader
Truth Ever Set James Frey Free?”
8 The Tell-Tale Heart “Zoo” Edward Hoch Unit Reader
8 Flowers for Algernon “Flowers for Algernon” (short story) Daniel Keyes Unit Reader
8 Flowers for Algernon “What’s in an Inkblot? Some Say, Not Erica Goode Unit Reader
Much”
“Does IQ Test Really Measure
8 Flowers for Algernon Denise Mann Unit Reader
Intelligence?”
“IQ Tests are ‘Meaningless and Too
8 Flowers for Algernon Section I: “How Fire Was Nicholas McDermott Unit Reader
Simplistic’ Claim Researchers” Given to Men” and Section
8 Flowers for Algernon Old Greek Stories: The Story of Prometheus II: “How Diseases and James Baldwin Student Materials
8 Flowers for Algernon Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus Excerpt
Cares Came Among Men” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
from Chapter 4 Student Materials
8 Flowers for Algernon Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus Excerpt from Chapter 13 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Student Materials
8 Flowers for Algernon Charly "Open, Relentless Search" Ralph Nelson Digital access
(Video)
"I’d Like to Be Smarter"
8 Flowers for Algernon Charly Ralph Nelson Digital access
(Video)
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of
8 Sugar Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Marc Aronson and Marina Text Portal
“Sugar Cane” (Includes Budhos
8 Sugar Science
I is a Long-Memoried Woman Grace Nichols Unit Reader
audio) Heather Whipps from
8 Sugar “How Sugar Changed the World” LiveScience Unit Reader
8 Sugar Present “Sugar Cane” Alfred Corn Unit Reader
8 Sugar “Sugar” Anup ShahState Museum and
Louisiana Unit Reader
8 Sugar Cane Cutting Scene KnowLA, Louisiana Endowment Unit Reader
This Week
for the in Louisiana
Humanities
8 Sugar “State of Sugar” Video Digital access
Agriculture
8 Sugar “Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer” Video America’s Heartland Digital access
8 Conservation “Conservation as a National Duty” Theodore Roosevelt Student Materials
(Informational/Speech)
8 Conservation “Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation” National Park Service Unit Reader
8 Conservation "The Conservationist' Theodore Roosevelt Association Unit Reader
8 Conservation The Life and Letters of John Muir "The Calypso Borealis" Edited by William Frederic Badè Unit Reader
8 Conservation “Autumntime” A. Lentini Unit Reader
8 Conservation “Requiem for a Nest” Wanda Coleman Unit Reader
8 Conservation “Birdfoot’s Grampa” Joseph Bruchac Unit Reader
8 Conservation “American Flamingo” Greg Pape Unit Reader
8 Conservation “Bookstand: Audubon’s Birds and Words” Thomas Uskali from Louisiana Unit Reader
Cultural Vistas
8 Conservation “John James Audubon and the Natural Louisiana Cultural Vistas Unit Reader
World”
8 Conservation The Mountain Trail and Its Message “A Parable of Sauntering” Albert W. Palmer Student Materials
8 Conservation Roosevelt, Friend of the Birds "Part 1" (Video) Roosevelt Memorial Association Digital access
Library
Roosevelt Memorial Association
8 Conservation Roosevelt, Friend of the Birds "Part 2" (Video) Library Digital access
Grade Unit Title Text Title Excerpt/Section/Format
9 Odyssey The Odyssey
9 Odyssey Selected Poems 1965-1975 “Siren Song”
9 Odyssey “An Ancient Gesture”
9 Odyssey “A Worn Path”
9 Odyssey “Ithaka”
9 Odyssey The Time and the Place: And Other Stories “Half a Day”
9 Odyssey “The Truth About Being a Hero”
9 Odyssey “Back from War, but Not Really Home”
9 Odyssey Ulysess and the Sirens
9 Odyssey “An Ancient Gesture” Audio
9 Hope, Despair and Memory “Hope, Despair and Memory”
9 Hope, Despair and Memory “The Lottery”
9 Hope, Despair and Memory “I Have a Dream” Transcript and audio/video
9 Hope, Despair and Memory Antigone Lines 1-121, 179-247, and
424-601
9 Hope, Despair and Memory Declaration of Independence
9 Hope, Despair and Memory "The Lottery" Video
9 Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet
9 Romeo and Juliet Romeo + Juliet (DVD) Clips (including Act III,
Scene(including
Clips iii) Act III,
9 Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet (DVD)
“Teenage Brains are Malleable and Scene iii)
9 Romeo and Juliet
Vulnerable, Researchers
“Understanding Say” Teenage
the Mysterious
9 Romeo and Juliet Brain”
9 Romeo and Juliet “A Poison Tree”
9 Romeo and Juliet “The Raven”
9 Romeo and Juliet “The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction”
9 Romeo and Juliet Where's Romeo? (c. 1912) (Act III, Scene
The
iii) Reconciliation of the Montagues and
9 Romeo and Juliet Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo
9 Romeo and Juliet “Understanding
and Juliet, 1853-55the Mysterious Teenage Audio
Brain”
9 Romeo and Juliet “Beautiful Brains" Photo gallery
9 Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451
9 Fahrenheit 451 “Burning a Book”
9 Fahrenheit 451 “The Joy of Reading and Writing:
Superman and Me”
9 Fahrenheit 451 “The Great Imagination Heist”
9 Fahrenheit 451 “I Am Very Real”
9 Fahrenheit 451 “Reading Books is Fundamental”
9 Fahrenheit 451 “Barter”
9 Fahrenheit 451 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, “Chapter VII”
an American Slave
9 Fahrenheit 451 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451
9 Fahrenheit 451 “The Country That Stopped Reading” from
“The Science
The New YorkofTimes
Storytelling: Why Telling
9 Fahrenheit 451 Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate
9 Fahrenheit 451 “Video Games and the Future of
Our Brains”
Storytelling”
9 Laughter “How Laughter Works”
"Leffingwell Elementary
9 Laughter Funny in Farsi School"
9 Laughter “Charles”