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Here are some book worksheets that have been made by previous Corps Members. Included is a brief description of the book along with any reading level given (taken from Amazon.com). As with all books you select, you should personally review the book to make sure it's an appropriate level before using it with your student. Do you have worksheets that you've made? Send them to Janet so it can be shared with everyone!
Click on the Word icon to the left of the book description to download the worksheet.
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A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams
Reading level: Ages 4-8. A Chair for My Mother was a Caldecott Honor book. Author/ illustrator Vera B. Williams tells of a young girl who, along with her waitress mother, saves coins in a jar. They want to buy a big, new, comfortable chair for their apartment, after losing all their furniture in a fire. A story of love and caring, accented with full-color illustrations with a pleasant, almost primitive quality. |
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A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
Reading level: Ages 4-8. Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party but he wants it to be a surprise. Generations of children have read, re-read, and loved Ezra Jack Keats's award-winning, classic stories about Peter and his neighborhood friends. Keats (1916-1983) was the beloved author and/or illustrator of over eighty-five books for children.
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Arthur Accused by Marc Brown
Reading level: grade 2-3. A beginning chapter book that's based on the series created by Marc Brown. Arthur's friend Buster recounts an episode in which Arthur is falsely accused of stealing a bag of quarters from a school fund drive. Buster solves the case just in time for Arthur to attend the third-grade picnic from which he had been banned. The black-and-white illustrations are not as engaging as children have come to expect from the colorful picture books. However, the chapter-book format will appeal to slightly older fans of the appealing aardvark and his friends. |
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Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera B. Williams
Reading level: K-2. Bedemmi loves to draw pictures with colored markers and write stories that always start "with the word THIS." Exquisitely decorated and deceptively simple, the book alternates between the narrator's spare descriptions and evocative watercolors, and Bedemmi's own captivating tales and vivid, imaginative drawings. The book's title refers to Bedemmi's stories, all of which involve folks "eating cherries and spitting out the pits, eating cherries and spitting out the pits." What about all those pits? Bedemmi has an "important plan." She will plant them in her yard so they will grow "until there is a whole forest of cherry trees right on our block." Williams's latest work is another glowing tale of the transformational power of a child's creativity and love. |
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Hallie's Horrible Handwriting by Valerie Tripp
Reading level: 1-2. In the lively Hopscotch Hill School series, the kids in the classroom have fun as they learn important lessons from their fabulous teacher. Hallie loves reading, but she has a hard time learning to write. She feels so terrible that she tears up her work. Then her teacher and her kind friends support her and help her develop her skills. It may take a while, but she'll get there. The classroom is idyllic, but the problems and their solutions are real; and lengthy appended notes to adults provide excellent advice and suggest activities to nurture children's reading skills and boost self-confidence. |
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Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook by Barbara Park
Reading Level: 2-3. Junie's kindergarten classmates convince her that an invisible monster lives under her bed. Her parents and grandmother are unable to convince her otherwise until Junie hits upon the idea of putting her unflattering school picture under the bed to frighten the monster. In Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, the little girl discovers that "finders keepers losers weepers" is not an appealing philosophy when she loses the special gloves her grandfather gave her and the child who finds them doesn't take them to the lost and found. The black-and-white, full- and half-page illustrations reflect Junie's cockeyed view of the world and will help attract beginning chapter-book readers. |
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Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Ericsson
Reading Level: Ages 9-12. Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably delightful girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. Pippi's high-spirited, good-natured hijinks cause as much trouble as fun, but a more generous child you won't find anywhere. Astrid Lindgren has created a unique and lovable character, inspiring generations of children to want to be Pippi. More than anything, Pippi makes reading a pleasure; no child will welcome the end of the book, and many will return to Pippi Longstocking again and again. Simply put, Pippi is irresistible. |
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Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Reading Level: ages 4-8. Peter would like to whistle. He would like it very much, but try as he might he just cannot figure out how to do it. Though Peter sees other kids whistling for their dogs, when Peter whistles for his dauchund Willie he finds he hasn't the skill. We observe Peter as he goes about his day, trying to whistle between spinning, hiding in boxes, coloring with chalk, pretending to be his father, and walking the cracks in the sidewalk. At long last, after many failed attempts, Peter successfully whistles for Willie. Delighted, he shows his parents and after being sent to the grocery store he whistles all the way there and all the way back. |
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