Writing and Thinking

Integrate literature and writing instruction with Writing and Thinking Literature Connections! Five beautifully-illustrated children’s books at each grade level represent the genres taught. Writing, vocabulary, and comprehension activities for each book are included.

Grade 1

• A Taste of the Mexican Market
• The Crayon Counting Book
• Gifts
• We Are a Rainbow
• I’d Rather Have an Iguana
• Alice and Greta

Grade 2

• To Be a Kid
• Tomorrow Is Mom’s Birthday
• Different Just Like Me
• No One Told the Aardvark
• Animals Black and White

Grade 3

• Bananas!
• Wood-Hoopoe Willie
• Will We Miss Them?
• Extraordinary Girls
• Alice in Pastaland

Grade 4

• A Carp for Kimiko
• In My Own Backyard
• Going Lobstering
• One Less Fish
• Turn of the Century

Grade 5

• Sweet Magnolia
• Stagecoach: The Ride of a Century
• Build a Wells Fargo® Stagecoach
• The Making of a Knight
• The Flag We Love

Grade 6

• The Ugly Vegetables
• Sir Cumference and the
First Round Table
• Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
• Washington, DC: A Scrapbook
• Can We Be Friends?