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ELA Teacher Recommended/Popular Reading Resources List

by Courtney McDonald 5 years, 11 months ago

ELA teachers please add any of your recommended/popular reading resources to the discussion below! These lists will be added to our K-12 "Your Curriculum at a Glance" documents that will be share within our school division! Thanks in advnace for your help in expanding our reading lists.*It would be helpful if you indicated the type of resource as well as author when adding to the list (Example: Grade 11 - To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee (Novel)). Thanks again! 

Jennifer Loken 5 years, 11 months ago

These are all novels I've used for ELA 6-9

  • Touching Spirit Bear
  • The Hobbit
  • They Cage the Animals at Night
  • The Outsiders
  • The Hunger Games
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Borrowers
  • Wonder
  • Auggie and Me
  • My Side of the Mountain
  • Hatchet
  • Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Cowboys Don't Cry
  • Cowboys Don't Quit
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • Holes

I also alternate Romeo and Juliet and A Mid-Summer Night's Dream in ELA 9

Abigail Mahoney 5 years, 11 months ago

In Grade One, we use a lot of picture books!  Here are a list of authors that I like to use:

  • Robert Munsch
  • Jan Brett
  • Mo Willems
  • Howard Binkow
  • Dr. Seuss
  • Eric Carle
  • Laura Numeroff
  • Joanna Cole
  • Stan Berenstain
  • Arnold Lobel
  • Peggy Parish
  • H.A. Rey
  • Shel Silverstein (poetry)