No, David is a RF book about a young boy named David who keeps getting in trouble for everything he does. David learns that there are a lot of things he is not allowed to do! David Shannon won the Caldecott Award for No, David in 1999. This book will create a great discussion about what your students are not allowed to do at home. awww.education.com has a great lesson to go along with this RA. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Creepy Carrots is a MF picture book is about Jasper Rabbits love for carrots. Until one day, the carrots retaliated and came up with a plan to get Jasper to go away! www.teachingbooks.net has great resources for lesson plans like a link to printable sheets for RT. Creepy Carrots has received a Caldecott Award in 2013. UDL 1.1- Offer ways of customizing the display of information. This could be used for the RT. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Are You My Mother? is a great MF book for new readers. This book is about a baby bird that has hatched when his mother was away getting food. The baby bird goes on an adventure to find his mother asking every animal he comes across if they are his mother. www.betterlesson.com has a great lesson plan to go with this story. Have the students read it in PR, then have them make a diagram with all the animals and objects he came across.#UCFLAE3414SP20

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a classic SF/RF book for young children. This book is about the life of a caterpillar and how they grow and transform. This book would be a great book to use for a DR because there is a lot of opportunities for children to represent the different things in the book. www.scholastic.com has different lesson plans for this book including creating a caterpillar or butterfly. #UCFLAE3414SP20

This HF biography picture book is apart of Brad Meltzer‘s ‘Ordinary People Change the World‘ series. This book explains the story of Rosa Parks in a young reader friendly format! www.youtube.com has a Read Along that could be used in the classroom and it includes words on the screen perfect for ELs. This book would be great for Storytelling and having a whole group discussion. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Crankenstein is a F book written about a boy who has a lot of things go wrong in his day and turns into Crankenstein! The boy meets another Crankenstein which could be the end or just enough to turn his day around. This book is great to help students with emotional coping skills. #UCFLAE3414SP20

First Day Jitters is a light hearted RF book written for children and their feelings for the first day of school. Sarah Jane doesn‘t want to go to school because she is very nervous to start at a new school. The ending as a great twist! www.juliedanneberg.com is the authors website that has a list of ways to use this book in the classroom. This is a great icebreaker book to use on the first day of school with your students! #UCFLAE3414SP20

The Rainbow Fish is a colorful PB written about a fish that has prettier scales than all the other fish. Rainbow fish would not share is scales with another fish and once all the other fish found out, they stopped asking him to swim with them. Rainbow fish discovers if he shares with the other fish, he will have more friends. www.teacher.org has a great lesson to go along with this book. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Macca the Alpaca is a MF book about an alpaca standing up to a llama bully. The theme of this book shows students how the way you treat people will affect how successful you will be. www.mettcosgrovebooks.com has great activities that go with each of his books. There are finger puppets that would be great for RT. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Boy + Bot is a funny story about a boy and a robot meeting. They may have differences, but they try everything they can to help each other. This SF book is great for young readers to learn more about inventing and robots. www.rif.org has awesome extension activities students can use to extend their love for robots! This book would fit best as IR for students who are more interested in science books. #UCFLAE3414SP20

This book is a TL picture book perfect to introduce traditional literature to children. This story tells the famous story of The 3 Little Pigs that has been around for centuries. It has also received the Caldecott Award in 1993. www.scholastic.com has great extension activities for this book, like ‘A Letter to A. Wolf‘ where students can write a letter to the wolf asking him questions. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Wonder is an RF novel written about a young boy born with a gene mutation that made his face look different from everyone else. August‘s parents decide to put him in school for the first time ever. This book tell a story about how August navigates through this new experience in life and how to deal with bullying. #UCFLAE3414SP20

This book is a HF novel about 3 sisters that travel to California to visit their mother during the Black Panther movement. The sister expect to have a fun-filled summer traveling, but quickly realized that was not at all what they imagined. One Crazy Summer has won many awards including the Scott O‘dell Award. This book would be great for a LC or RA. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Where the Sidewalk Ends is a series of poems, written by Shel Silverstein. This book would be a great IR for students to fall in love with poems! She‘s Silverstein recurved a Grammy in 1984 for Best Recording of Children‘s book. www.rif.org has great resources for students and teachers to use with this book, like word searches and lesson plans. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Martin Luther King Jr. is a Biography written for young children to understand who Martin Luther King Jr. With lyrical text and great illustrations, this book is great for students to get a first look as to who MLK Jr. is! This book would work great as a RA, before a lesson about MLK Jr. www.scholastic.com has great lessons to go along with this book, like creating a Venn Diagram on white and brown eggs. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Whoever You Are is a NF book for young readers. This book is about how people all over the world do a lot of the same things, but may look different. The book brings you around the world to see other cultures and generations. A great way to use this in the classroom is a RA, this way the teacher can read it to the class and then they can have a group discussion. www.rif.org has amazing resources to extend the lesson. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is a great read for young readers. This book is about a 3rd grade girl who is starting a new year at a new school, while also dealing with issues at home. She learns to navigate through third grade with many bumps along the way! An activity that would work great with this book would be making a graphic organizer about making connection in the story like Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, etc. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Click, Clack, Moo is a funny, Caldecott award winning GN about cows that get a hold of a typewriter. They write messages to the farmer and the farmer becomes frustrated with the cows. When the farmer does not return their request, the animals go on strike! An activity you could do to go along with this book is having the students write a story about an animal that can do something you wouldn‘t expect. teachingideas.co.uk #UCFLAE3414SP20

This Newbery Award winning book is a great read! Matt de la Peña wrote this GN about a boy and his grandmothers trip on the bus after church one Sunday. CJ‘s grandmother shows him how to appreciate the things around him. This story has a warm ending that can bring up a great discussion. #UCFLAE3414SP20

Blended is a RF novel about a young girl trying to figure out her new life with divorced parents. When something happens unexpectedly at school, Isabella tried to figure out what her racial identity. This book is perfect for LC, because this book can spark many great conversations about different family lives and races. sharondarper.com has some great discussion questions to help prompt the students discussions for their LCs. #UCFLAE3414SP20