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Kindergarten

Core Titles (will be covered)                     

Annie and the Wild Animals             

• Author
  • Brett, Jan                           
• Fiction

• Curriculum Area

  • Animals, Responsive Classroom

• Maine Learning Results

  • ELA /Process of Reading: A1, Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials.  A3, Make and confirm predictions about what will be found in a text. A7, Ask question and give other responses after listening to presentations by the teacher or classmates.  /Literature and Culture: B1, Understand the basic plot of simple stories. B2, Draw logical conclusions about what will happen next or how things might have turned out differently in a story.  /Process of Writing and Speaking:  E2, Respond to stories orally and in writing.

• Lexile

  • 490

Blueberries for Sal             

• Author

  • McCloskey, Robert              

• Fiction

• Curriculum Area

  • Animals/Harvest Unit

• Maine Learning Results

  • Science & Tech /Ecology: B1, Identify ways that organisms depend on their environment.  B5, Describe a familiar local environment. 

  • ELA /Process of Reading: A1, Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials.  A3, Make and confirm predictions about what will be found in a text. A7, Ask question and give other responses after listening to presentations by the teacher or classmates.  /Literature and Culture: B1, Understand the basic plot of simple stories. B2, Draw logical conclusions about what will happen next or how things might have turned out differently in a story.  /Process of Writing and Speaking:  E2, Respond to stories orally and in writing.

• Lexile

  • AD890

Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom

• Author
  • Martin, Bill Jr.
• Fiction
• Curriculum Area
  • English Language Arts (Alphabet/Literacy)
• Maine Learning Results
  • ELA /Process of Reading: A1, Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials. A3, Make and confirm predictions about what will be found in a text. Literature and Culture: B2, Draw logical conclusions about what will happen next or how things might have turned out differently in a story.  /Language and Images: C2, Recognize characteristic sounds and rhythms of language, including the relationship between sounds and letters. C3, Make valid observations about the use of words and visual symbols.  /Processes of Writing and Speaking:  E2, Respond to stories orally and in writing.
• Lexile
  • 530

It's Okay to be Different 

• Author
  • Parr, Todd
•  
• Curriculum Area
  • English Language Arts
• Maine Learning Results
  • ELA /Process of Reading: A1, Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials.    A2, Demonstrate an understanding that reading is a way to gain information about the world.   Literature and Culture: B4, Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.   /Language and Images:  C3, Make valid observations about the use of words and visual symbols. 
  • M & CL/Person to Person Communication: A1, Ask and answer simple questions about self and family by using learned phrases and recalled vocabulary.  A2, Express needs, likes, and dislikes relating to the immediate environment.
  • Science & Tech/Continuity and Change: D4, Describe ways in which individuals of the same species are alike and different.
  • V/P Arts/Creative Expression:  A1, Investigate the characteristics and purposes of each of the arts to communicate ideas, feelings, and meaning.  A2, Experiment with art forms.  A6, Perform and/or listem to a number of pieces on a given theme and create a variation.   
• Lexile
  • N/A

Mitten, The                                                 

• Author
  • Brett, Jan                        
• Fiction

• Curriculum Area

  • Sequencing

• Maine Learning Results

  • Math /Algebra Concepts:  H2, Use language and symbols to express numerical and other relationships. 

  • ELA /Process of Reading: A1, Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials. /Literature and Culture:  B1, Understand the basic plot of simple stories.  B2, Draw logical conclusions about what will happen next or how things might have turned out differently in a story. /Processes of Writing and Speaking:  E2, Respond to stories orally and in writing.

• Lexile

  • 800

The Very Hungry Caterpillar                        

• Author
  • Carle, Eric                       
• Fiction

• Curriculum Area

  • Metamorphosis

• Maine Learning Results

  • ELA /Process of Reading: A1, Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials. /Literature and Culture: B2, Draw logical conclusions about what will happen next or how things might have turned out differently in a story. /Processes of Writing and Speaking: E2, Respond to stories orally and in writing.

  • Science & Tech /Classifying Life Forms: A3, Explain , draw, or otherwise demonstrate the life cycle of an organism.  /Continuity and Change: D3, Draw or describe ways in which an organism can change over its lifetime, sometimes in predictable ways (e.g., butterfly, frog). 

• Lexile

  • 460

   

Welcoming Babies                       

• Author
  • Knight, Margy Burns
• Fiction

• Curriculum Area

  • Diversity

• Maine Learning Results

  • ELA /Process of Reading: A1, Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials.   A2, Demonstrate an understanding that reading is a way to gain information about the world.  A7, Ask questions and give other responses after listening to presentations by the teacher or classmates. 

  •  SS /Civics & Gov /International Relations: D1, Recognize that there are other nations with different traditions and practices. 

  • SS /Historical Knowledge, Concepts, and Patterns:  B2, Demonstrate an understanding of cultural origins of customs and beliefs in several places around the world.  

• Lexile

  • 860