Prioritizing Classroom Libraries The Education Sector Strategic Plan and our own Prairie South Strategic Reading Goal outlines reading and comprehension as priority areas. One of the goals set in our local outcome is in regards to improving libraries within our classrooms. The goal outlines conducting a classroom library inventory along with the development of a plan to improve classroom libraries. The inventory is to be completed by June 30, 2015 with a plan for improvement beginning in the fall of 2015. For more details on the outcome and hoshin you can check out the Prairie South Level 2 A3 plans on connect. “Classroom libraries are one important aspect in providing a literacy-rich environment. They offer opportunities to engage with texts that reflect their interests by including a range of topics and genres; and to read more by having easy and equitable access to texts located not only on a bookshelf but displayed throughout the classroom.” SK Reads p. 15. Please refer to the Saskatchewan Reads document for further information and ideas regarding classroom libraries https://saskatchewanreads.wordpress.com/

Attached you will find a spreadsheet that outlines each of the grades 1-8 with their curricular themes and some suggested books as well as some helpful websites. The purpose of this is for teachers and administrators to take inventory of their classroom libraries and where needed, create a plan to enrich those classroom spaces. This list is not meant to be exhaustive nor to replace what you currently may have but to provide some suggestions and to get collaborative planning going regarding classroom libraries. Once the ‘inventory’ is completed, the administrator may need to set out a plan for purchasing books and classroom library furniture that takes more than one budget year and may want to consult with their superintendent of operations when making this plan. Setting aside dollars each year to support classroom libraries is strongly encouraged. One other place we really encourage you to get classroom library recommendations is from your students! They are very much in the know about what their age group is into for reading and can offer good ideas. Other pieces to consider: • •

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The purpose of a classroom library is to provide students the opportunity to select books independently. Bookstores are masterful at displaying books in order to market them to customers. Next time you are in a bookstore observe the way that you browse so that when you set up your own classroom library you have this context in mind. Books should be accessible and inviting.

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If all books are organized by level students may get the impression that level is what matters most. Place books face out so that students can see the cover and preview them easily Books in baskets/ plastic tubs with the cover facing out can also assist in tidiness and the ability to move book sets around easily, it also allows for groupings of book series or similar themes or topics (ex: quick read books, nonfiction books, animal characters that have human experiences, mystery adventure). Some experts suggest that there should be 5-8 titles available per student, others suggest 125 titles for 25 students and still others suggest each classroom library should have 300 titles for an average class size (between 20 and 30) Magazines should be considered as well as other types of text. Consider National Geographic Kids, Zoobooks, Footsteps, Boys’ Life. Genres to consider – animal fantasy, non fiction, magazines, fairy tales, folk tales, fiction, autobiography, realistic fiction, poetry, science fiction, classics, racially diverse books. General Websites and Resources to support classroom libraries

Curtis, D., & Carter, M. (2003). Designs for living and learning: Transforming early childhood environments. Saskatchewan Reads (2105) https://saskatchewanreads.wordpress.com/

www.kidsbooks.ca good Canadian material, some books have the Fountas and Pinnell level referenced, graphic novels listed, can search by age

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/46301.Middle_Grade_Novels_of_2015 - this website has lists and lists of good books with a short blurb about each book

References

Saskatchewan Reads (2015). A companion document to the Saskatchewan English Language Arts Curriculum grades 1, 2, 3. Sasktchewanreads.wordpress.com

Szymusiak, K., Sibberson, F., & Koch, L., (2008). Beyond leveled books: Supporting early and transitional readers in grades K-5. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers.

Wooten, D. A., & Cullinan, B. E., (2015). Children’s literature in the reading program: Engaging young readers in the 21st century (4th ed). Newark, DE: International Literacy Association.

GRADE 1 THEMES: Caring for Plants and Animals Cultural Diversity Family Structures Five External Senses Healthy Behaviours/Relationships Numbers Patterns Personal Well Being Phases of the Moon Physical Needs Planets Rights and Responsibilities Saskatchewan/Canada Seasons Shapes Stars Traditions/Celebrations

GRADE 1 BOOKS: TITLE

Children Just Like Me Several Books What do Wheels do all day? I want to be an Astronaut Several Books Several Books Several Books Several Books Several Books One Green Apple Several Books Two Homes The Colors of Us Several Books Little Blue and Little Yellow Several Books One, Some, Many

AUTHOR

Anabel Kindersley and Barnabas Kindersley Anthony Brown April Jones Prince Byron Barton Cynthia Rylant Dave Pilkey David Shannon David Wiesner Eric Carle Eve Bunting Ezra Jack Keats Kady MacDonald Denton Karen Katz Kevin Henkes Leo Lionni Margaret Wise Brown Marthe Jocelyn Grade 1

GENRE

Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction

Non-fiction

Several Books Beneath the Sun Several Books Spiders Several Books Several Books Look Inside Space Several Books Looking After Myself Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes: Patterns Available in Nature Actual Size Is it Larger? Is it Smaller? A Chair for my Mother Several Books

Maurice Sendak Melissa Stewart Mem Fox Nic Bishop Pat Hutchins Patricia Polacco Rob Lloyd Jones Robert McCloskey Sarah Levete Stephanie Ross Sisson Stephen Swinburne Steve Jenkins Tana Hoban Vera Williams William Steig

Non-fiction Non-fiction

Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction

WEBSITES: http://www.nativereflections.com/products.php?page=Children's_Books  www.youarespecial.com www.languagelizard.com www.milet.com

Grade 1

FNM EAL EAL EAL

GRADE 2 THEMES: Conflict Resolution Decision Making Environmental Issues and Their Impact on Living Things Familiar Animals Healthy Habits Human Rights Local Communities Local History Maps/Globes Numbers Patterns and Relations Resources Shape and Space Solids/Liquids/Gases Statistics and Probability Treaty Relationships Well Being

GRADE 2 BOOKS: TITLE

Children Just Like Me Several Books What do Wheels do all day? I want to be an Astronaut Several Books Several Books Several Books Several Books Several Books One Green Apple Several Books Two Homes The Colors of Us Several Books Little Blue and Little Yellow

AUTHOR

Anabel Kindersley and Barnabas Kindersley Anthony Brown April Jones Prince Byron Barton Cynthia Rylant Dave Pilkey David Shannon David Wiesner Eric Carle Eve Bunting Ezra Jack Keats Kady MacDonald Denton Karen Katz Kevin Henkes Leo Lionni Grade 2

GENRE

Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction

Several Books One, Some, Many Several Books Beneath the Sun Several Books Spiders Several Books Several Books Look Inside Space Several Books Looking After Myself Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes: Patterns Available in Nature Actual Size Is it Larger? Is it Smaller? A Chair for my Mother Several Books

Margaret Wise Brown Marthe Jocelyn Maurice Sendak Melissa Stewart Mem Fox Nic Bishop Pat Hutchins Patricia Polacco Rob Lloyd Jones Robert McCloskey Sarah Levete Stephanie Ross Sisson Stephen Swinburne Steve Jenkins Tana Hoban Vera Williams William Steig

WEBSITES:

http://www.nativereflections.com/products.php?page=Children's_Books  www.youarespecial.com www.languagelizard.com www.milet.com

Grade 2

Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction

Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction

FNM EAL EAL EAL

GRADE 3 THEMES: Community Cultural Traditions Diversity Harmful Substances Healthy Foods and Physical Activity Identity Interdependence Local Government Magnetism and Static Electricity Plants Rights/Conflict Resolution Safety at Home Social Responsibility Soils Violence

GRADE 3 BOOKS: TITLE

El Deafo Mwakwa The Elders are Watching A Bad Case of Stripes Stuart Little Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Diary of a Wimpy Kid Super Amoeba (Squish #1) Stone Fox Bink and Gollie The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane The One and Only Ivan The Rag Coat Bad Beginnings Big Nate Magic Tree House Migrant

AUTHOR

Cece Bell Dale Auger David Bouchard David Shannon E.B. White Eileen Spinelli Jeff Kinney Jennifer L. Holm John Reynolds Gardiner Kate DiCamillo Kate DiCamillo Katherine Applegate Lauren Mills Lemony Snicket Lincoln Peirce Mary Osborne Pope Maxine Trottier Grade 3

GENRE EAL FNM

Sara Plain and Tall Thank you, Mr. Falker Name Jar

Patricia MacLachlan Patricia Polacco Yangsook Choi

Grade 3

GRADE 4 THEMES: Agriculture and Resources Community Cultural Diversity Habitats Healthy Foods and Physical Activity Identity Light Personal Safety Relationships Rocks and Minerals Settlers/FNIM/Treaties Social Responsibility Sound Stress Management Systems of Government in Saskatchewan Traditional Healing

GRADE 4 BOOKS: TITLE

Frindle Mouse and the Motorcycle Invention of Hugo Cabret Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Enemy Pie Bunnicula Brown Girl Dreaming The Fourteenth Goldfish Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Because of Winn Dixie Little House in the Big Woods Number the Stars Sideways Stories from Wayside School Wrinkle in Time My Light

AUTHOR

Andrew Clements Beverly Cleary Brian Selznick Chris Grabenstein Derek Munson James Howe Jaqueline Woodson Jennifer L. Holm Judy Blume Kate DiCamillo Laura Ingalls Wilder Lois Lowry Louis Sachar Madeleine L’Engle Molly Bang Grade 4

GENRE

Shiloh Wonder Lightning Thief The BFG Orca Chief Dancing in My Bones

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor R.J. Palacio Rick Riordan Roald Dahl Roy Henry Vickers Wilfred Burton

Grade 4

FNM FNM

GRADE 5 THEMES: Canadian Government Community Forces and Simple Machines Heritage Holistic Well-being Human Body Systems Identity Infectious Disease Multiculturalism Pop Culture Properties and Changes of Materials Social Responsibility Weather

GRADE 5 BOOKS: TITLE

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story Fox on the Ice Seabird The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia #5) It Can’t Be True! Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Henry’s Freedom Box Cree Tales of a Korean Grandmother: 32 Traditional Tales from Korea This Land Is My Land The Wolves of Willhoughby Chase The Hobbit The Master Puppeteer Goodbye Buffalo Boy Daughter of the Mountains Bluffton: My Summers With Buster Keaton The House of Sixty Fathers Mummy Lairs

AUTHOR

Barbara Cohen Beverley Naidoo Brian Deines Clancy Holling CS Lewis DK Publishing Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Ellen Levine Erinn Banting Frances Carpenter George Littlechild Joan Aiken JRR Tolkien Katherine Paterson Larry Loyie Louise Rankin Matt Phelan Meindert DeJong Michael Burgan

Grade 5

GENRE FNM

Non-fiction

Non-fiction, FNM FNM

FNM

National Geographic Kids Everything Pets National Geographic Kids Myths Busted! The Land I Lost – Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam Muskrat Will Be Swimming Black Elks Vision: A Lakota Story Shadow Spinner All the Small Poems

National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Children’s Books Quang Nhuong Huynh Robert Hynes S.D.Nelson Susan Fletcher Valerie Worth

Grade 5

Non-fiction Non-fiction FNM FNM

GRADE 6 THEMES: Advertising Influences Atlantic Ocean Neighbors Body Image Diversity of Living Things Efficacy Electricity Environmental Sustainability Flight Health Promotion Healthy Relationships Infectious Diseases Personal Identity Personal Standards Positive Self Image Social Responsibility Solar System Stress and Decisions Making GENRE

GRADE 6 BOOKS: TITLE

Mind Benders: Brain Boggling Tricks, Puzzles and Illusions The Second Mrs. Gioconda I, Juan de Pareja The Westing Game Master Cornhill The Golden Goblet Flight Forensic Science The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer #1) The Face Off Phony The Lost Boy A Deadly Distance Favorite Poems Old and New Otto of the Silver Hand God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah

AUTHOR

DK Publishing EL Konigsburg Elizabeth Borton de Trevi Ellen Raskin Eloise Jarvis McGraw Eloise Jarvis McGraw Eyewitness Books Eyewitness Books Gary Blackwood Gordan Korman Greg Ruth Heather Down Helen Ferris Howard Pyle Joanne Williamson Grade 6

GENRE

Non-fiction

Non-fiction Non-fiction CDN Graphic Novel CDN, FNM

A Single Shard Flame Over Tara Guardians of the Lost This Side of the Sky Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence #4) National Geographic Kids Almanac 2014 National Geographic Kids Everything Money The Trojan War Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff The Eagle of the Ninth Half Human Monsters and Other Friends

Linda Sue Park Madeleine Polland Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Marie-Francine Herbert Mary Ray National Geographic Kids Books National Geographic Kids Books Olivia E Coolidge Robert Paul Weston Rosemary Sutcliff Ruth Owen

Grade 6

CDN CDN Non-fiction Non-fiction

Non-fiction

GRADE 7 THEMES: Blood-borne Pathogens Dynamic Relationships Earth's Crust Ecosystems Globalization Harmony in Relationships Heat and Temperature Indigenous Artistry Interactions and Interdependence of Nations Managing Peer Pressure Mixtures and Solutions Morals Nutritional Knowledge and Healthy Lifestyles Personal Qualities and GENRE Abilities Positive and Negative Self-Images Power AND Authority

GRADE 7 BOOKS: TITLE

Watership Down Little Women The Martian Way and Other Stories Something Wicked This Way Comes The Elf Queen of Shannara Murder on the Orient Express The Dark is Rising Jurassic Park 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga Pawn of Prophecy Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl Cheaper By the Dozen The Fault in Our Stars Summer Of My German Soldier House of Dies Drear

AUTHOR

Adams, R Alcott, L. Asimov, I. Bradbury, R. Brooks, T. Christie, A. Cooper, S. Crichton, M. David A. Robertson Eddings, D. Frank, A. Gilbreth, F. Green, J. Greene, B. Hamilton, V. Grade 7

GENRE

FNM Non-fiction

Endless Steppe All Creatures Great and Small Stargirl White Fang A Night to Remember The Way Things Work Dragonsong Short Stories The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass Light in the Forest The Lightening Thief The Outsiders The Road Back Frankenstein A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind Treasure Island

Hautzig, E. Herriot, J. Jerry Spinelli London, J. Lord, W. Macaulay, D. McCaffrey, A. Poe, EA Pullman, P. Pullman, P. Pullman, P. Richter, C. Rick Riordan S E Hinton Serof, J. Shelley, M. Smith, B. Staples, S Stevenson, R

WEBSITES:

http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/ http://www.ammsa.com/content/banner-gallery-2015 http://www.allyoucanread.com/canada-newspapers/ https://newsela.com/

Grade 7

Non-fiction Non-fiction

Non-fiction Non-fiction

GRADE 8 THEMES:

GRADE 1

Adventure and Adventurers An Eye on Our National and Technological Environment Becoming Myself Burning Questions Is It Fair? - In Search of Justice Timeless Narratives of the First Nations and Greek Peoples

GRADE 8 BOOKS: TITLE

Chick: Lister Solitaire Everybody Knows Your Name I Am Princess X Lost in Paris The Last Time We Say Goodbye Longing for Normal Silence Down from the Mountain Taming the Beast: The Untold Story of Team Tyson Cuckoo Soung Crush Woods Runner The Legend of Bass Reeves Time Hackers How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer Family Ties

AUTHOR

Alex Van Tol Alice Oseman Andrea Seigel and Brent Bradshaw Cherie Priest Cindy Callaghan Cynthia Hand Darcy Pattison Deborah Lytton Elizabeth Fixmer Eric Wilson and Rory Holloway Frances Hardinge Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Grade 8

GENRE

GRADE 1

A Little Bit of Spectacular Boarding School Girls The Art of Secrets Temple Boys Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck The Lost City The Boundless The Boundless Starclimber Half Brother Airborn Every Last Promise This One Summer Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems Eyes Wide Open: Going behind the Environmental Headlines Sisters

Gin Phillips Helen Eve James Klise Jamie Buxton Jeff Kinney Jeff Kinney Jon Voelkel and Pamela Voelkel Kenneth Oppel Kenneth Oppel Kenneth Oppel Kenneth Oppel Kenneth Oppel Kristin Hallbrook Mariko Tamaki Paul B. Janeczko Paul Fleischman Raina Telgemeier

This Side of Home

Renee Watson

The Last Leaves Falling Apple and Rain We Are All Made of Molecules Positively Beautiful Robotics

Sarah Benwell Sarah Crossan Susin Nielsen Wendy Mills Wil Mara

Grade 8

Non-fiction

Non-fiction Non-fiction