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We have a new basal reading book, which we will be using this book in cooperation with chapter books. The skills that the students are responsible for knowing are covered in the basal. We'll use the stories and worksheets to practice those skills. We will also use those skills while reading the guided reading books. We are also implementing the Daily 5 program. In this program, students will learn how to choose a book that is "just right" for them, how to read silently, and reading with a partner. We'll also focus on how to be an active part of the whole group instruction and small group instruction, as well as working independently when the teacher is working with a different group. List of 2010-2011 Golden Sowers Broach, Elise. MASTERPIECE.Illustrated by Kelly Murphy. Henry Holt, 2008. ISBN 0805082700 [paperback: Square Fish, March2010; ISBN 0312608705]After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James,a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hart, Alison. GABRIEL’S HORSES.Peachtree, 2007. ISBN 1561453986 [paperback: Peachtree, Feb. 2010; ISBN 9781561455287]In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel contends with acruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.Hill, Kirkpatrick. DO NOT PASS GO.Margaret K. McElderry, 2007. ISBN 1416914005When Deet’s father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what heexpected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.Jonell, Lynne. EMMY AND THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING RAT.Illustrated by Jonathan Bean. Henry Holt, 2007. ISBN 080508150X [paperback: Square Fish, 2008;ISBN 0312384602]When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged bytheir evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and somenew friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.Kehret, Peg. STOLEN CHILDREN.Dutton, 2008. ISBN 0525478353 [paperback: Puffin, Feb. 2010; ISBN 0142415138]When 14-year-old Amy fills in for a wealthy family’s nanny, she and her three-year-oldcharge, Kendra, are kidnapped. Amy uses her wits to keep Kendra safe, send clues to the police,and also try to escape from the kidnappers.
Korman, Gordon. SWINDLE.Scholastic, 2008. ISBN 0439903440 [paperback: Scholastic, 2009; ISBN 0439903459]After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palomino cons him out of a valuable baseballcard, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino’s heavilyguarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father’s failinginvention, the SmartPick fruit picker.Law, Ingrid. SAVVY.Dial, 2008. ISBN 0803733062 [paperback: Puffin, March 2010; ISBN 0142414336]As Mibs Beaumont awaits her thirteenth birthday when her “savvy”—a magical powerunique to each member of her family—will be revealed, her father is injured in a terribleaccident.Lupica, Mike. LONG SHOT.Dial, 2007. ISBN 0399247173 [paperback: Puffin, March 2010; ISBN 0142415200]Pedro, an avid basketball player, decides to run for class president, challenging ateammate who is also one of the most popular boys in school.Ryan, Pam Munoz. PAINT THE WIND.Illustrated by Carson Ellis. Little, Brown, 2007. ISBN 0439873622 [paperback: Scholastic, 2009; ISBN054510176X]After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves herextremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother’s family on a remote Wyomingranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother oncerode.Sanderson, Brandon. ALCATRAZ VS. THE EVIL LIBRARIANS.Harcourt, 2007. ISBN 0439925509 [paperback: Scholastic, 2008; ISBN 0439925525]On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which isimmediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz isintroduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to savecivilization.Information provided from:Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee Titles 2010-2011Sponsored by Nebraska Library Association’s School, Children’s, and Young People’s Sectionwww.goldensower.org |
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