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UBD Reading Lessons   Fairy Tales/Fables/and Folk Tale Reading

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Week 1 

Identify characteristics of the genre fairy tales.

Days 1-3

*  Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper – Perrault (with pictures by Marcia Brown)– 398.2 PER

*   Cenicienta:  un cuento de hadas – Perrault – 398.2 PER

Days 4-5

*   Cendrillon:  A Caribbean Cinderella- San Souci – 398.2 SAN

                                                                                                                                Week 2 

Construct a synthesis of the story using somebody/wants/but/so.

Day 6

*   Cendrillon:  A Caribbean Cinderella – San Souci – 398.2 SAN

Study attributes of fairy tales.

Day 7

*   Cendrillon:  A Caribben Cinderella – San Souci – 398.2 SAN

Days 8-10

*   The Turkey Girl:  A Zunni Cinderella Story (2 copies) – Pollock – 398.2 POL

                                                                                                                                Week 3

Understand characteristics of folktales.

Compare/contrast fairy tales and folktales.

Day 11

*   Anansi and the Magic Stick – Kimmel – 398.24 KIM

Characteristics of folktales

Inference studies – cause and effect

Days 12 -14

*   Anansi and the Magic Stick-  Kimmel – 398.24 KIM

*   Anansi and the Talking Melon – Kimmel – 398.24 KIM

Summarize folktales.

Day 15

*   Anansi and the Talking Melon – Kimmel – 398.24 KIM

                                                                                                                                Week 4

Characteristics of folk tales/Diagram character traits.

Day 16

*   Anansi Goes Fishing – Kimmel – 398.24 KIM

Anansi Finds a Fool - Aardema

Sequence Charts

Day 17

*   Anansi Goes Fishing – Kimmel – 398.24 KIM

Anansi Finds a Fool – Aardema

Represent text information in different ways such as in a literary chart.

Day 18

*   Anansi Goes Fishing – Kimmel – 398.24 KIM

Anansi Finds a Fool – Aardema

Categorize general genres of fiction, realistic fiction, and non-fiction.

Day 19

*   Aesop’s Fables – video recording – 398.2 AES

*   Tina la Tortuga y Carlos el conejo = Tina the Turtle and Carlos the Rabbit –

 Bishop – 398.2 BIS

*   Rabbit and Turtle Go to School – Floyd – 398.2 FLO

*   Fables (Tortoise and the Hare) – Lobel - FIC LOB

*   Fábulas – Lobel – FIC LOB

*   Aesop’s Fables – Lynch – 398.24 LYN

*   The Tortoise and the Hare – Miles – 398.2 MIL

*   The Hare and the Tortoise: and other Fables – Mills – 398.24 MIL

Aesop’s Fables – Pinkney

*   The Tortoise and the Hare – Stevens – 398.2 STE

*   The Hare and the Tortoise:  a fable from Aesop – Ward – 398/24 WAR

*   The Aesop for Children – Winter – 398.2 AES

 *   A Sip of Aesop – Yolen – 811 YOL

Inferential Reading

Day 20

Aesop’s Fables – Pickney

*   Fables (Tortoise and the Hare) – Lobel – FIC LOB

*   Fábulas – Lobel – FIC LOB

                                                                                                                                Week 5

Characteristics of  fables/ inferential reading

Days 21-22

*   Walt Disney’s The Grasshopper and the Ants – Brown – 398.2 BRO

*   Fables (The Grasshopper and the Ants) -  Lobel – FIC LOB

*   Fábulas – Lobel – FIC LOB

Aesop’s Fables – Pinkney

 “Gist” of a familiar fable

Days 23-25

*   Walt Disney’s The Grasshopper and the Ants – Brown – 398.24 BRO

Aesop’s Fables – Pickney

*   Fables (The Grasshopper and the Ants) – Lobel – FIC LOB

 *   Fábulas – Lobel – FIC LOB

                                                    Back to Language Arts   UBD Language Arts - Writing

See Reading Resources:  Fairy Tales – Cinderella

Lessons 1-5

Writing a Fairy Tale

*   Cinder-Elly – Minters – 398.21 MIN- see Cinderella section in the 300s

Cinder Edna – Jackson

Lessons 6-10

* Cinder-Elly- Minters- 398.21 MIN - see Cinderella section in the 300s

Cinder Edna- Jackson

Lessons 11-15

Writing a Folk Tale

Anansi series - see below

*   Anansi Does the Impossible!:  An Ashanti Tale – Aardema – 398.209 AAR

*   Anansi and the Magic Stick – Kimmel – 398.24 KIM – PS-Gr 3

*   Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock – Kimmel – 398.2 KIM

*   Anansi and the Talking Melon – Kimmel – 398.23 KIM 

*   Anansi Goes Fishing – Kimmel – 398.24 Kim

*   Anansi and the Spider:  A Tale from the Ashanti(2 copies) – McDermott – 398.2 MCD

*   Brother Anansi and the Cattle Ranch=El hermano Anansi y el rancho de Ganado – Rohmer – 398.2 ROH

Lessons 16-20

Fairy Tales

* Squids Will Be Squids- Scieszka- see combinations of fairy tales section (300s)

The Race- Repchuk

Lessons 21-25

* Fables- Lobel- see fables section

* Fabulas- Lobel- see fables section

                                                    Back to Language Arts General Language Arts

*  Painted Words, Spoken Memories - Aliki - E ALI

                               Back to Top               Social Studies

IV. Past and Present

* The Little House  - Burton- E BUR and audiocassette/book KIT

* La casita- Burton- E BUR

* A One-Room School- Kalman- 370.19 KAL

* The House on Maple Street- Pryor- E PRY

* On the Road: Road Travel Past and Present- Shuter- 625.7 SHU

* Flying High: Air Travel Past and Present- Shuter- 387.7 SHU

* Film and Television- 791.43 WOR- Wordsworth

V. Looking at our Earth

*  The Whole World In Your Hands: Looking at Maps- Berger- 912 BER

*  Looking at Maps and Globes- Bredeson- 912 BRE

*  Mapas y globos terraqueos- Bredeson- 912 BRE

*  The Little House- Burton- E BUR

*  The Little House- Burton- audiocassette/book KIT

*  La casita- Burton - E BUR

*  Hacer mapas: Donde es la fiesta? Burstein- 526 BUR

* The Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry- E CHE

* Puzzle Maps USA- Clouse - 912.73 CLO (paperback)

*  Maps and Globes- Crewe -912 CRE

*  This Land is Your Land - Gutherie- 782.421 GUT

*  As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps- Hartman- E HAR

*  Mapping Penny's World- Leedy- E LEE (paperback)

*  Compasses- Richardson- 912 RIC

*  Map and Globe Skills - SVE/Clearvue videorecording - VHS

Maps:  Getting from Here to There- Weiss

A New Coat for Anna- Ziefert

Social Studies Biographies

                                Back to Bio. Chart              Amelia Earhart

*  A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart – Adler – B EAR

*  Amelia Earhart- Brown- B EAR

*  Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World – Chin-Lee – 920 CHI

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride – Ryan – B EAR

*  Amelia Earhart – Schaefer – B EAR

*  Great Americans: Amelia Earhart- Schlessinger DVD

Amelia Earhart – Trumbauer

*  Amelia Earhart – Wood – B EAR

                                Back to Bio. Chart              Robert Fulton

*A Headful of Notions – Bowen – B FUL

*Robert Fulton: From Submarine to Steamboat – Kroll – B FUL

*Robert Fulton – Schaefer – B FUL

                                  Back to Bio. Chart               Henrietta King

Henrietta King – Alter              

A Queen Named King – Fox

                                  Back to Bio. Chart          Thurgood Marshall

*  A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall – Adler – B MAR

Thurgood Marshall – Feldman

Thurgood Marshall – Frost

Thurgood Marshall: a photo-illustrated biography – Gibson

Thurgood Marshall: the first African-American Supreme Court

Justice- Greene – (K-3)

Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court – Kent – B MAR

Thurgood Marshall – McLeese – (low-level bio)

                                Back to Bio. Chart       Florence Nightingale

*A Picture Book of Florence Nightingale – Adler – B NIG  

*Florence Nightingale, War Nurse – Colver – B NIG

*Learning about Compassion from the life of Florence Nightingale – Mosher – B NIG

*Florence Nightingale - Nest video recording- VHS                        

                                Back to Bio. Chart                 Paul Revere

*A Picture Book of Paul Revere – Adler – B REV

*  And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? – video recording- VHS

*  And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? – Fritz – 973.2 FRI

*  Paul Revere – Sullivan – B REV

                                Back to Bio. Chart              Sojourner Truth

*A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth – Adler – B TRU

*  Sojourner Truth - Frost -  B  TRU

*  Sojourner Truth - Macht - B  TRU

*  Sojourner Truth:  A Voice for Freedom -McKissack- B  TRU

*  Walking the Road to Freedom:  A Story About Sojourner Truth - Ferris-  B  TRU

                               Back to Bio. Chart          Betsy Ross

*  Betsy Ross – Wallner – Ross B     

*  Betsy Ross: a patriot of Philadelphia – St. George – B ROSS  (GR 3-6)

                                Back to Top                        Science

                                Back to Science V. Forces: Machines and Magnets

* Airplanes and Flying Machines- Gallimard Jeunesse- 629.13 AIR

*  Cool Tools- Auch- 621.8 AUC

*  Race Car- Bingham- 796.7 BIN

*  Robot- Bridgman- 629.8 BIR - Eyewitness book- located in REF section

*  My First Batteries and Magnets Book- Challoner- 537 CHA

*  The Industrial Revolution- Collins- 330.973 COL

*  Camiones Gruas- Tow Trucks- DeGezelle-629.225 DEG

*  Helicopteros militares- Doeden- 623.74 DOE

*  Aircraft Carriers- Doeden- 623.825 DOE

* Monster Trucks- Doeden- 796.7 DOE

*  What Are Wheels and Axles?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What Are Wedges?  Frost- 621.9 FRO

*  What Are Screws?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What Are Pulleys?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What Are Levers?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What Are Inclined Planes?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

* What Magnets Can Do- Fowler- 538 FOW (K-2)

*  Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires- Glover- 537 GLO

*  High Mobility Vehicles:  The Humvees- Healy- 623.7 HEA

*  Machines We Use- Hewitt- 621.8 HEW

*  Simple Machines- Hodge- 621.807 HOD

*  Kids Discover - Simple Machines- magazine- teacher periodical section

*  Camiones de bomberos = Fire Trucks- Lindeen- 628.9 LIN

*  Eli Whitney, Great Inventor- Latham- B WHI

*  The Way Things Work- Macaulay- 600 MAC

*  Science Experiments with Simple Machines- Nankivell-Aston- 621.8 NAN

*  Machines- Oxlade- 621.8 OXL

*  In the Supermarket- Pluckrose- 381 PLU

*  Bill Nye the Science Guy:  Magnetism-(Gr.3-5)- videorecording - VHS

*  Magnetism- Riley- 538 RIL (Gr. 4-5)

* Imanes- Royston- 538 ROY (Gr. 4-5)

* Magnets- Royston- 538 ROY (Gr. 4-5)

*  Motorcycles- Savage- 796.7 SAV

*  All About Magnets- Schlessinger videorecording- VHS (K-3)

*  All About Simple Machines- Schlessinger videorecording- VHS (K-3)

*  How Does That Work?  Simple Machines- SVE/Churchill videorecording- VHS

*  How Does That Work?  Electricity and Magnetism- SVE/Churchill videorecording- VHS

* Wedges to the Rescue- Thales - 621.8 THA

                                         Back to Science VI. Birds

*  Why Do Geese Fly South in the Winter?  A Book About Migration - Allen -591.56 ALL

*  Ostriches and Other Flightless Birds- Arnold- 598.5 ARN (Gr. 3-5)

* Moonbear's Pet- Asch- E ASC (Gr. K-2)

*  The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle- Banks- E BAN

*  The Paper Crane- Bang- E BAN

*  Bateman's Backyard Birds- Bateman- 598 BAT

*  Plenty of Penguins- Black- 598.47 BLA (K-1)

*  Beautiful Blackbird- Bryan- 398.2 BRY

* Eyewitness: Bird- Burnie- 598 BUR-(Gr. 5)  located in REF

*  Stellaluna- Cannon- E CAN

*  Stelaluna (Spanish)- Cannon- E CAN

COL*  Flute's Journey:  The Life of a Wood Thrush- Cherry- 598.9 CHE

Amy's Award* (Compáralos) Aves - Crawford- 598 CRA (K-2)

* How Many Birds? Curry- 513.2 CUR (math)

*  Birds A to Z- DeGezelle- 598 DEG

*  Bill and Pete to the Rescue- DePaola- E DEP

* What's the Magic Word?  DiPucchio- E DIP

* Tropical Birds- DK Vision videorecording- VHS

* Birds of Prey- DK Vision videorecording- VHS

* Animal Builders- DK videorecording - VHS

* The Mockingbird- Doughty- REF 598.8 DOU

*  Are You My Mother?  Eastman- E EAS

* ¿Eres tu mi mama?  Eastman- E EAS

*  The Best Nest- Eastman- E EAS

*  Plumas para almorzar- Ehlert- E EHL

*  Feathers for Lunch- Ehlert- E EHL

* Birds (Pets)- Evans- 636.6 EVA

*  Birds of Prey- DK Vision video recording- VHS

* Tropical Birds- DK Vision- video recording- VHS

*  When Agnes Caws- Fleming- E FLE

*  These Birds Can't Fly- Fowler- 598.5 FOW (K-2)

*  Bird Nests- Frost- 598 FRO - animal book section/little books

* Snowy Owls- Frost- 598.9 FRO- animal book section/little books

*  Puffins- Frost- 598.3 FRO- animal book section/little books

*  Parrots- animal book section/little books

*  How Do Birds Find Their Way?  Gans -598.252 GAN

*  How Many Blue Birds Flew Away?  A Counting Book With a Difference- (3 copies) Giganti- E GIG

* Los pájaros- Gillis- 636.6 GIL

*  The Eagle and the Wren: A Fable- Goodall- 398.24 GOO

*  Birds- Green- 598 GRE

*  Hummingbirds- Grier- 598.7 GRI

*  Becoming Your Bird's Best Friend- Gutman- 636.6 GUT

*  When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing:  The Adventures...- Hamilton- 398.24 HAM

COL*  Chickens Aren't the Only Ones- Ruth Heller videorecording - VHS

COL* Las gallinas no son las únicas- Heller- 591.4 HEL

*  Farm Birds- Haggerty- 636.5 HAG

 * Chickens Aren't The Only Ones- Heller- videorecording (VHS)

*  Your Backyard- Hewitt- 577.5 HEW

*  Birds of Paradise- Hoare- 598.8 HOA

*  Gulls-Ivy- 598.3 IVY

* Pajaros-James- 598 JAM

*  A Nest Full of Eggs- Jenkins- 598.8 JEN

*  Bird Talk: Overheard- Jonas- E JON

*  Penguins-Kalman- 598.4 KAL (Gr. 4-5)

* What Is a Bird?  Kalman- 598 KAL (Gr. 4-5)

* How Birds Fly- Kalman- 573.7 KAL (Gr. 4-5)

*  Birds That Don't Fly- Kalman- 598.5 KAL

*  A Mother for Choco- Kasza- E KAS

*  Owls- Kelsey- 598.9 KEL

*  Kids Discover- Vol. 16, Issue 11- Birds- periodical

* Toucans- Kite- 598.7 KIT

*  Hornbills- Kite- 598.7 KIT

*  Hawks- Kops- 598.9 KOP(Gr.4-5)

*  Falcons- 598.9 KOP (Gr. 4-5)

* Birds - Krulik- 598 KRU

*  Tacky the Penguin (paperback)- Lester-E LES

*  El Pinguino Taky- Lester- E LES

*  Inch by Inch- Lionni- E LIO

* The Harvest Birds= Los pajaros de la cosecha- Lopes de Mariscal- 398.2 LOP

*  Follow the Trail: A Young Person's Guide to the Great Outdoors- Loy- 796.54 LOY

*  City Birds- MacLeod- 598 MAC (Gr. K-1)

*  Puffins- MacLeod- 598.3 MAC

*  Birds- Malyan- 598 MAL

*  Lottie's New Friend- Mathers- E MAT

Amy's Award*  Birds- McEvoy- 598 MCE

*  The Mountain That Loved a Bird- McLerran- E MCL

*  Currucucu (Spanish)- Mitchell- E MIT

*  Word Bird's New Friend- Moncure- E MON

*  Has visto estas aves?  Oppenheim- BB E OPP- Big Book Area

* The Hummingbird: World's Smallest Bird = El colibrí: El pájaro más pequeño del mundo- Paige- 598.7 PAI- located in Spa. animal book section

*  Pigeons- Patent- 598.6 PAT

*  El Pinguino Pedro- Pfister- E PFI

*  Pet Parrots- Puccio- 636.6 PUC

*  Owls and Other Birds of Prey- Reid- 598.9 REI

* Bonjour, Lonnie- Ringgold- E RIN

*  Loons- Ross- 598.4 ROS

* The Bird House- Rylant- E RYL

* Pelicans- Savage- 598.4 SAV

*  Birds- Stewart- 598 STE

* Hawks- Switzer- 598.9 SWI

*  Penguins- Switzer- 598.4 SWI

* Ostrich- Switzer- 598.5 SWI

* Parrots- Switzer- 598.7 SWI

*  Will You Be My Friend? A Bunny and Bird Story- Tafuri- E TAF

* Whose Chick Are You? Tafuri- E TAF

Amy's Award*  Birds and Their Nests- Tagliaferro- 598 TAG

* Aves- Theodorou- 598 THE (K-3)

*  Grouse- Theberge- Grouse- 598 THE

*  Bizarre Birds- Wecshler - 598 WEC (Gr. 5)

*  Hey, Al- Yorinks- E YOR

*  Zoobooks- Hummingbirds - periodical

                                            Back to Science VII. Natural Resources

*  Scarcity- Adil- 338.5 ADI

Amy's Award* Conservation and Natural Resources- Ball- 333.72 CON

*  The Magic School Bus Hops Home:  A Book About Habitats- Scholastic videorecording (VHS)

*  The Lorax- Seuss- E SEU and videorecording (VHS)

*  El Lorax- Seuss- E SEU

*  Our Endangered Planet: Population Growth- Winckler- 304.6 WIN

* Our Endangered Planet: Antarctica- Winckler- 919.8 WIN

Natural Resources- Rocks

*  AIMS - April 2005- Gr. 4-5 "sedimentary rock"- periodical

*  AIMS- Fall 2006- Gr. 4-5 "metamorphic rock"- periodical

*  The Intermediate Mailbox- Feb./Mar. 2006 - "erosion"- periodical

 Sand

* Beach is to Fun - Brisson- E BRI

*  D.W. All Wet- Brown- E BRO

*  The Seashore- Cohat- 591.52 COH

*  The Boy on the Beach- Daly- E DAL

*  Louie's Goose- Ehrlich- E EHR

*  Living Near the Sea - Fowler- 551.46 FOW

*  Out of the Ocean- Frasier- E FRA

*  Gaspard at the Seashore- Gutman- E GUT

* Como iremos a la playa?  Luciana- E LUC

*  Lottie's New Beach Towel- Mathers- E MAT

*  Sand - Miller - 553.6 MIL

*  Hoppy and Joe- Paraskevas- E PAR

*  El duende del mar- Perera- E PER

*  Hello, Ocean!  P. M.Ryan- E RYA

* Poppleton and Friends- Rylant- E RYL

*  Beach Party- Ziefert- E ZIE

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