GRADE 5 CCSS READING LIST (DRAFT)
4.15.2012
Unit 1 : Playing with Words CCCM (Common Core Curriculum Map)
Unit 1 : Meeting Challenges RSS (Reading Street Series) Stories – Frindle, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Thunder Rose, Satchel Paige,
& Shutting Out the Sky
Poems
Stories
"Casey at the
Bat" (Ernest
Lawrence
Thayer) (E)
1
Baseball Saved Us
(Ken Mochizuki)
“Little Red Riding
Hood and the
Wolf” (Roald
Dahl) (E)
Frindle (Andrew
Clements) (nm)
Island of the Blue
Dolphins (Scott O’Dell)
(recommend in Unit 3)
Hatchet (Gary
Paulson) (nm)
Peak (Roland Smilth)
(nm)
Non-Fiction (Biographies)
Who Was Jackie
Robinson? (Gail Herman,
Nancy Harrison and John
O'Brien)
Who Was Louis
Armstrong? (Yona Zeblis
McDonough, John O'Brien
and Nancy Harrison)
We Are The Ship: The
Story of Negro League
Baseball (Kadir Nelson)
(E)
1
1
Art
Music
Media/Film
Jack Norworth,
Take Me Out to
the Ballgame
(1908)
Bud Abbott and Lou
Costello, “Who’s on
First?” (c. 1936)
Island of the Blue
Dolphins [VHS] (1964)
Unit 2 : Renaissance Thinking (Common Core Curriculum Map)
Unit 3 : Inventors and Artist RSS (Reading Street Series) Stories – Wings for the King, Leonardo’s Horse, The Dinosaurs of
Waterhouse Hawkins, Mahalia Jackson, & Special Effects in Film and Television
Poems
Stories
Non-Fiction
(Biographies)
Art
Music
Riddles from
Chapter 5,
"Riddles in the
Dark," The
Hobbit (J.R.R.
Tolkien)
The Phantom
Tollbooth (Norton
Juster and Jules
Feiffer) (Read Aloud)
(recommend in Unit 1)
Leonardo da Vinci: A
Nonfiction Companion
to Monday with a Mad
Genius (Magic Tree
House Research Guide)
(Mary Pope Osborne,
Natalie Pope Boyce,
and Sal Murdocca)
Leonardo da
Vinci, Mona
Lisa (c. 15031506)
Canadian Brass,
“English
Renaissance
Music”
Leonardo: Beautiful
Dreamer (Robert
Byrd)
Midnight Magic (Avi)
Starry Messenger:
Galileo Galilei (Peter
Sis)
The Children's
Shakespeare (Edith
Nesbit and Rolf Klep)
What’s the Big IdeaBenjamin Franklin
(Jean Fritz) (nm)
The King’s Singers,
Madrigals
Traditional,
possibly Henry VIII
of England,
“Greensleeves”
(1580)
So You Want to be an
Inventor? (Judith St.
George and David
Small)
Toys! Amazing Stories
Behind Some Great
Inventions (Don L.
Wulffson and Laurie
Keller) (E)
Women Inventors
(series) (Jean F.
Blashfield)
2
Media/Film
Unit 3 : Clues to Culture CCCM (Common Core Curriculum Map)
Unit 2 : Doing the Right Thing RSS (Reading Street Series) Stories – Inside Out, Passage to Freedom, the Ch’i-lin Purse, Jane
Goodall’s 10 Ways to Help Save Wildlife, & Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Poems
Stories
Non-Fiction
Art
Music
Media/Film
(Biographies)
“Dream
Catchers”
(Ojibway,
Traditional)
“You are Part of
Me” (Cherokee,
Lloyd Carl Owle)
War with Grandpa
(Robert Kimmel Smith)
(nm)
The Bully (Paul
Langan) (nm)
If You Lived with the
Cherokees (If
You…Series) (Peter and
Connie Roop and Kevin
Smith)
Dreamcatcher (Audrey
Osofsky and Ed
Young) (for writing
workshop & read
aloud)
If You Lived with the
Sioux Indians (If
You…Series) (Ann
McGovern and Jean
Syverud Drew)
Sign of the Beaver
(Elizabeth George
Speare)
If You Were a Pioneer
on the Prairie (If
You…Series) (Anne
Kamma and James
Watling)
Walk Two Moons
(Sharon Creech)
Little House on the
Prairie (Laura Ingalls
Wilder and Garth
Williams) (EA)
3
Wooden Hopi
Kachina doll
(1925)
Hopi Girl with
Jar (no date)
Thomas Vennum,
Ojibway Music
from Minnesota: A
Century of Song
for Voice and
Drum
I Will Fight No More
(video of the speech of
Chief Joseph)
The Sign of the Beaver
(1997)
Keith Carradine (Actor)
Unit 4 : America Conflict CCCM (Common Core Curriculum Map)
Unit 4 : Adapting RSS (Reading Street Series) Stories – Weslandia, Stretching Ourselves, Exploding Ants, The Stormi Giovanni Club,
& The Gymnast
Poems
Stories
Non-Fiction
Art
Music
Media/Film
(Biographies)
“I Hear America
Singing” (Walt
Whitman) (EA)
Sweet Clara and the
Freedom Quilt
(Deborah Hopkins)
(for the Introductory
Activity) (Picture
Book)
Manic Magee (Jerry
Spinelli) (nm)
The Summer of the
Swans (Betsy Byars)
(nm)
"Underground
Railroad": The New
Book of
Knowledge (Scholastic)
(Henrietta Buckmaster)
(E)
If You Lived When
There was Slavery in
America (If You…
Series) (Anne Kamma
and Pamela Johnson)
Esperanza Rising (Pam
Munoz Ryan) (nm)
Across Five Aprils
(Irene Hunt)
Bull Run (Paul
Fleishman)
4
Alexander
Gardner,
“President
Abraham
Lincoln in the
tent of General
George B.
McClellan after
the Battle of
Antietam”
(October 3,
1862)
Julia Ward Howe,
“The Battle Hymn
of the Republic”
(1861)
Patrick S. Gilmore,
“When Johnny
Comes Marching
Home” (1863)
Civil War photographs
Unit 5 : Exploration, Real, & Imagined CCCM (Common Core Curriculum Map)
Unit 5 : Adventures RSS (Reading Street Series) Stories – The Three-Century Woman, The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic,
Talk with an Astronaut, Journey to the Center of the Earth, & Ghost Towns of the American West
Poems
Stories
Non-Fiction
Art
Music
Media/Film
(Biographies)
“The Mouse’s Tale”
(Lewis Carroll)
“The Spider and
the Fly” (Mary
Howitt)
“Words Free as
Confetti” by Pat
Mora (E)
Alice in Wonderland
(Campfire Graphic Novel)
(Lewis Carroll, adapted
by Louis Helfand and
Rajesh Nagulakonda)
1
Bud, Not Buddy
(Christopher Paul Curtis)
(E) (recommend in Unit
6)
The End of the
Beginning: Being the
Adventures of a Small
Snail (and an Even
Smaller Ant) (Avi and
Tricia Tusa)
Holes (Louis Sachar)
(nm)
The Watson’s go to
Birmingham (Christopher
Paul Curtis) (nm)
Titanic (SeriesUnsinkable, Collison
Course, SOS) (Gordon
Korman)
Who Is Neil Armstrong?
(Roberta Edwards, Nancy
Harrison, and Stephen
Marchesi)
Who Was Daniel Boone?
(Sydelle Kramer)
Who Was Ferdinand
Magellan? (S.A. Kramer,
Nancy Harrison, and
Elizabeth Wolf)
Kids During the Age of
Exploration (Kids
Throughout History)
(Cynthia MacGregor)
My Librarian is a Camel:
How Books are Brought to
Children Around the
World (Margriet Ruurs)
(E)
Women Explorers of North
and South America Series
(Margo McLoon-Basta)
5
Sir John Tenniel,
Alice’s
Adventures in
Wonderland
(Illustrations)
Danny Elfman,
Soundtrack to Alice
in Wonderland
(2010) (Walt Disney
Records)
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in
Wonderland (Broadway
Theater Archive) (1983)
Holes (Full Screen Edition)
Starring Shia LaBeouf,
Sigourney Weaver, Jon
Voight, et al. (2003)
Unit 6 : Coming of Age CCCM (Common Core Curriculum Map)
Unit 6 : The Unexpected RSS (Reading Street Series) Stories – At the Beach, The Mystery of Saint Matthew Island, King Midas and the
Golden Touch, The Hindenburg, & Sweet Music in Harlem
Poems
Stories
Non-Fiction
Art
Music
Media/Film
(Biographies)
“Dreams” (Nikki
Giovanni) (EA)
“Freedom”
(William
Stafford)
“I’m Nobody!
Who are you?”
(Emily
Dickinson) (EA)
Bud, Not Buddy
(Christopher Paul
Curtis) (E)
M.C. Higgins, the
Great (Virginia
Hamilton) (E)
Out of the Dust (Karen
Hesse)
The Kid's Guide to
Money: Earning It,
Saving It, Spending It,
Growing It, Sharing It
(Scholastic Reference)
(Steve Otfinsoki) (E)
Edward
Hopper, House
by the
Railroad
(1929)
Hugo Gellert,
The Working
Day, no. 37
(ca. 1933)
Children of the Great
Depression (Russell
Freedman) (EA) (Read
Aloud)
Bernard
Joseph
Steffen, Dusty
Plowing (ca.
1939)
Then Again, Maybe I
Won’t (Judy Blume)
Tuck Everlasting
(Natalie Babbitt) (E)
Where the Mountain
Meets the Moon
(Grace Lin) (E)
Bridge to Terabithia
(Katherine Paterson)
(nm)
Old Yeller (Fred
Gipson)(nm)
6
Artie Shaw and His
New Music,
“Whistle While You
Work” (no date)
Jack Yellen and
Milton Ager,
“Happy Days Are
Here Again”
(1929)
Bridge To Terabithia (Full
Screen Edition) (2007)
Josh Hutcherson (Actor),
AnnaSophia Robb
(Actor) | Rated: PG | For
mat: DVD (nm)
Tuck Everlasting [DVD]
by Jay Russell in Movies
(nm)
Robert Stevenson, dir.,
Old Yeller (1957)
Victor Fleming, dir., The
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Unit Book Title
Grade Level Equivalent
Interest Level
Lexile
1
1
1
4.1
4.8
5.4
3
4
4
550 AD
830
1000
6.3
5.4
4.5
6
7
4
1020
780
670
3
3-6
780
6.2
3-5
900
5.4
3-5
1000
5.9
5.7
5.9
?
3
6
K-2
?
1120
660
830
?
2.1
K-2
330
3.3
3-5
740
4.8
3-5
840
5.9
6-8
920
#1 – 7.6,
#2 7.7,
#3 5.4,
#4 5.9
All books 6-8
#1 890,
#2 840,
#3 900,
#4 930
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Baseball Saved Us (Ken Mochizuki)
Frindle (Andrew Clements) (nm)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O’Dell)
(recommend in Unit 3)
Hatchet (Gary Paulson) (nm)
Peak (Roland Smilth) (nm)
Who Was Jackie Robinson? (Gail Herman, Nancy
Harrison and John O'Brien)
Who Was Louis Armstrong? (Yona Zeblis McDonough,
John O'Brien and Nancy Harrison)
We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League
Baseball (Kadir Nelson) (E)
1
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster and Jules
Feiffer) (Read Aloud) (recommend in Unit 1)
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer (Robert Byrd)
Midnight Magic (Avi)
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei (Peter Sis)
The Children's Shakespeare (Edith Nesbit and Rolf
Klep)
What’s the Big Idea- Benjamin Franklin (Jean Fritz)
(nm)
Leonardo da Vinci: A Nonfiction Companion to
Monday with a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House
Research Guide) (Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope
Boyce, and Sal Murdocca)
So You Want to be an Inventor? (Judith St. George
and David Small)
Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great
Inventions (Don L. Wulffson and Laurie Keller) (E)
Women Inventors (series) (Jean F. Blashfield)
7
Unit Book Title
Grade Level Equivalent
Interest Level
Lexile
3
3
3
War with Grandpa (Robert Kimmel Smith) (nm)
The Bully (Paul Langan) (nm)
Dreamcatcher (Audrey Osofsky and Ed Young) (for
writing workshop & read aloud)
Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth George Speare)
Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder and
Garth Williams) (EA)
If You Lived with the Cherokees (If You…Series)
(Peter and Connie Roop and Kevin Smith)
If You Lived with the Sioux Indians (If You…Series)
(Ann McGovern and Jean Syverud Drew)
If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie (If You…Series)
(Anne Kamma and James Watling)
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Deborah
Hopkins) (for the Introductory Activity) (Picture
Book)
Manaic Magee (Jerry Spinelli) (nm)
The Summer of the Swans (Betsy Byars) (nm)
Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan) (nm)
Across Five Aprils (Irene Hunt)
Bull Run (Paul Fleishman)
"Underground Railroad": The New Book of
Knowledge (Scholastic) (Henrietta Buckmaster) (E)
If You Lived When There was Slavery in America (If
You… Series) (Anne Kamma and Pamela Johnson)
4.5
5.2
4.1
3-5
9-12
K-2
640
700
1160
5.7
4.9
4.3
4-7
4-7
3-5
770
770
760
3.8
3-4
800
3.9
3-4
690
3.8
3-5
750
4.5
3-5
680
5.4
5.2
5.5
5.5
6.4
?
4-8
4-6
6-8
9-12
6-8
?
820
830
750
1000
810
?
4.8
3-5
800
Alice in Wonderland (Campfire Graphic Novel) (Lewis
Carroll, adapted by Louis Helfand and Rajesh
Nagulakonda)
1
Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis) (E)
(recommend in Unit 6)
5.9
3-5
860
5.7
5-7
950
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
5
5
8
Unit Book Title
Grade Level Equivalent
Interest Level
Lexile
5
3.3
3-5
670
5.2
5.5
6-8
6-8
600
1000
5.7, 4.7, 5.4
4-7, 3-5, 3-5
820, 770, 820
?
4-6
810
3.8
3.9
3-5
3-5
620
710
5.9
3-5
880
6.8
3-5
980
5.2
6-8
590
5.7
6.2
5.1
4.2
5.9
5.4
6.1
5.4
6.9
5-7
5-7
6-8
6-8
4-6
3-5
4-7
6-8
6-8
950
620
?
590
720
820
810
910
1170
5.9
6-8
970
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a
Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant) (Avi and Tricia
Tusa)
Holes (Louis Sachar) (nm)
The Watson’s go to Birmingham (Christopher Paul
Curtis) (nm)
Titanic (Series- Unsinkable, Collison Course, SOS)
(Gordon Korman)
Who Is Neil Armstrong? (Roberta Edwards, Nancy
Harrison, and Stephen Marchesi)
Who Was Daniel Boone? (Sydelle Kramer)
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? (S.A. Kramer, Nancy
Harrison, and Elizabeth Wolf)
Kids During the Age of Exploration (Kids Throughout
History) (Cynthia MacGregor)
My Librarian is a Camel: How Books are Brought to
Children Around the World (Margriet Ruurs) (E)
Women Explorers of North and South America Series
(Margo McLoon-Basta)
Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis) (E)
M.C. Higgins, the Great (Virginia Hamilton) (E)
Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse)
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (Judy Blume)
Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt) (E)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Grace Lin) (E)
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson) (nm)
Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)(nm)
Children of the Great Depression (Russell Freedman)
(EA) (Read Aloud)
The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It,
Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It (Scholastic
Reference) (Steve Otfinsoki) (E)
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