A Field Guide to the Classroom Library G

by Calkins, Lucy McCormick

• ISBN13: 9780325005010
• ISBN10: 032500501X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-03
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Noted teacher/author Lucy Calkins and a team from The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Community have created the most comprehensive and accessible leveled lists and guides for nearly 1,200 childrens trade books.

Author Biography

LUCY CALKINS is founding director of the Teachers College Writing Project, a coalition of teachers, teacher-administrators, professors and writers, which provides professional sustenance and hope--roots and wings--to literacy educators across the country. Her celebrated Heinemann publications include: Lessons From a Child (1983),Living Between the Lines (with Shelley Harwayne, 1990), and The Art of Teaching Writing (1986,1994). Ms. Calkins has also developed The Writing Workshop videotape (produced by Shelley Harwayne and Alex Mitchell) and has written The Writing Workshop (with Shelley Harwayne, 1987) to accompany the videotape. Lucy Calkins is an active participant in Heinemann's Professional Development Services through Heinemann Workshops.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: What Is This Field Guide?	xv
About the Books	xvii
Choosing the Library for Your Class	xviii
The Contents of Each Library	xix
The Levels Within the Libraries	xx
Building the Libraries	xxi
Reading Instruction and the Classroom Library: An Introduction to Workshop Structures	xxiii
Library G Contents Description	xxix
Library G Book List	xxxi
Benchmark Books for Each Text Level	xlix
Descriptions of Text Levels One Through Seven	li
More Information to Help You Choose the Library That is Best for Your Readers	lxi
About the Guides	lxv
Teaching One Text Intensely in Order to Learn About Many Texts	lxv
Suggesting Classroom Library Arrangements	lxvi
Aiding in Conferring	lxvi
Providing a Resource for Curriculum Planning	lxvi
Reminding Us, or Teaching Us, About Particular Book Basics	lxvii
Showcasing Literary Intricacies in Order to Suggest a Reader's Thinking	lxvii
Providing a Community of Readers and Teachers	lxviii
A List of the Guides
A Time of Angels	1	(2)
Karen Hesse
A Wrinkle in Time	3	(2)
Madeleine L'Engle
Adaline Falling Star	5	(3)
Mary Pope Osborne
Afternoon of the Elves	8	(2)
Janet Taylor Lisle
Alice-by-Accident	10	(3)
Lynne Reid Banks
Anastasia Again!	13	(3)
Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnik	16	(3)
Lois Lowry
Animal Monsters: The Truth About Scary Creatures	19	(2)
Laurence P. Pringle
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret	21	(3)
Judy Blume
Autumn Street	24	(3)
Lois Lowry
Baby	27	(4)
Patricia MacLachlan
Baseball in April and Other Stories	31	(3)
Gary Soto
Baseball Saved Us	34	(3)
Ken Mochizuki
Ben and Me	37	(3)
Robert Lawson
Birthday Surprises, various	40	(3)
Johanna Hurwitz
Bluish	43	(2)
Virginia Hamilton
California Diaries #7: Dawn: Diary Two	45	(3)
Ann M. Martin
Call It Courage	48	(3)
Armstrong Perry
Chocolate-Covered Ants	51	(2)
Stephen Manes
Chuck Close Up Close	53	(2)
Jan Greenberg
Sandra Jordan
Clockwork: or All Wound Up	55	(3)
Philip Pullman
Conestoga Wagons	58	(2)
Richard Ammon
Cracker Jackson	60	(3)
Betsy Byars
Crash	63	(3)
Jerry Spinelli
Crazy Weekend	66	(2)
Gary Soto
Deenie	68	(3)
Judy Blume
Dicey's Song	71	(4)
Cynthia Voigt
Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar	75	(2)
Nic Bishop
Dive	77	(3)
Adele Griffin
Eagle Song	80	(3)
Joseph Bruchac
Ella Enchanted	83	(3)
Gail Carson Levine
Ereth's Birthday	86	(3)
Avi
Esio Trot	89	(2)
Roald Dahl
Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts about How Animals Adapt	91	(2)
Joanne Settel
Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindberg	93	(2)
Robert Burleigh
Flip-Flop Girl	95	(2)
Katherine Paterson
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	97	(3)
E.L. Konigsburg
Gathering Blue	100	(2)
Lois Lowry
Girl Reporter Snags Crush	102	(3)
Linda Ellerbee
Gorilla Walk	105	(3)
Ted Lewin
Betsy Lewin
Granny the Pag	108	(2)
Nina Bowder
Graven Images	110	(3)
Paul Fleischman
Greenwitch	113	(3)
Susan Cooper
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	116	(3)
J.K. Rowling
Heaven	119	(3)
Angela Johnson
Hiroshima	122	(3)
Laurence Yep
Holes	125	(4)
Louis Sachar
Homeless Bird	129	(3)
Gloria Whelan
House on Mango Street	132	(3)
Sandra Cisneros
Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms	135	(3)
Patricia Lauber
I Can't Believe I Have to Do This	138	(2)
Jan Alford
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This	140	(3)
Jacqueline Woodson
I Have Heard of a Land	143	(2)
Joyce Carol Thomas
Immigrant Kids	145	(2)
Russell Freedman
Indian in the Cupboard	147	(2)
Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins	149	(4)
Scott O'Dell
It's Not the End of the World	153	(2)
Judy Blume
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball	155	(2)
Jim O'Conner
Jaguar	157	(2)
Roland Smith
Jericho	159	(3)
Janet Hickman
Julie of the Wolves	162	(3)
Jean Craighead George
Just Us Women	165	(3)
Jeannette Caines
Kissing Doorknobs	168	(2)
Terry Spencer Hesser
Lena	170	(2)
Jacqueline Woodson
Letters from Rifka	172	(2)
Karen Hesse
Little Women	174	(3)
Louisa M. Alcott
Lives of the Athletes: Thrills, Spills (and what the neighbors thought)	177	(2)
Kathleen Krull
Maniac Magee	179	(3)
Jerry Spinelli
Mary Poppins	182	(2)
P.L. Travers
Miracle's Boys	184	(3)
Jacqueline Woodson
Mirandy and Brother Wind	187	(2)
Patricia C. McKissack
Missing May	189	(2)
Cynthia Rylant
Monarchs	191	(2)
Kathryn Lasky
Monkey Island	193	(2)
Paula Fox
Monster	195	(2)
Walter Dean Myers
Moonflute	197	(2)
Audre Wood
Mrs. Katz and Tush	199	(2)
Patricia Polacco
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale	201	(3)
John Steptoe
My Louisiana Sky	204	(2)
Kimberly Willis Holt
My Side of the Mountain	206	(3)
Jean Craighead George
Nightjohn	209	(3)
Gary Paulsen
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great	212	(3)
Judy Blume
Over Sea, Under Stone	215	(3)
Susan Cooper
Redwall	218	(3)
Brian Jacques
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	221	(2)
Mildred Taylor
Salsa Stories	223	(3)
Lulu Delacre
Sang Spell	226	(2)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Scorpions	228	(3)
Walter Dean Myers
Seedfolks	231	(2)
Paul Fleischman
Sisters in Strength: American Women Who Made a Difference	233	(2)
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Snowflake Bentley	235	(2)
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Soldier's Heart	237	(3)
Gary Paulsen
Some of the Kinder Planets	240	(2)
Tim Wynne-Jones
Sort of Forever	242	(2)
Sally Warner
Speak	244	(2)
Laurie Halse Anderson
Spirit of Endurance: The True Story of the Shackleton Expedition to the Antarctic	246	(3)
Jennifer Armstrong
Stargirl	249	(2)
Jerry Spinelli
Stealing Home---The Story of Jackie Robinson	251	(3)
Barry Denenberg
Tangerine	254	(3)
Edward Bloor
Thank You, Mr. Falker	257	(3)
Patricia Polacco
The Austere Academy (Book the Fifth)	260	(2)
Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning	262	(3)
Lemony Snicket
The Big Box	265	(3)
Toni Morrison
Slade Morrison
The Big Wave	268	(3)
Pearl S. Buck
The Birthday Room	271	(2)
Kevin Henkes
The Boggart	273	(3)
Susan Cooper
The Butterfly	276	(2)
Patricia Polacco
The Cookcamp	278	(3)
Gary Paulsen
The Coyote Bead	281	(3)
Gerald Hausman
The Dark Is Rising	284	(4)
Susan Cooper
The Devil's Arithmetic	288	(3)
Jane Yolen
The Fortune-Tellers	291	(2)
Lloyd Alexander
The Gift-Giver	293	(3)
Joyce Hansen
The Golden Compass	296	(3)
Philip Pullman
The Great Fire	299	(3)
Jim Murphy
The Hobbit	302	(3)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The King's Equal	305	(3)
Katherine Paterson
The Library Card	308	(2)
Jerry Spinelli
The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.	310	(2)
Ira Peck
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	312	(3)
C.S. Lewis
The Miserable Mill (Book the Fourth)	315	(2)
Lemony Snicket
The Moorchild	317	(2)
Eloise McGraw
The Music of Dolphins	319	(4)
Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth	323	(3)
Norton Juster
The President's Cabinet: And How It Grew	326	(2)
Nancy Winslow Parker
The Reptile Room (Book the Second)	328	(2)
Lemony Snicket
The Secret Garden	330	(2)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Skin I'm In	332	(2)
Sharon G. Flake
The Trolls	334	(3)
Polly Horvath
The Twits	337	(2)
Roald Dahl
The View from Saturday	339	(2)
E.L. Konigsburg
The Wanderer	341	(2)
Sharon Creech
The Watsons Go to Birmingham---1963	343	(3)
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Winter Room	346	(3)
Gary Paulsen
The Wise Woman and Her Secret	349	(3)
Eve Merriam
The Witch of Blackbird Pond	352	(2)
Elizabeth George Speare
The Witches	354	(3)
Roald Dahl
Toning the Sweep	357	(2)
Angela Johnson
Tuck Everlasting	359	(4)
Natalie Babbitt
Vanishing	363	(3)
Bruce Brooks
What You Know First	366	(3)
Patricia MacLachlan
When I Was Puerto Rican	369	(3)
Esmeralda Santiago
Yolanda's Genius	372	(3)
Carol Fenner
Index	375