Connecticut Dream Team Created English Language Arts Content Literacy Close Reading Plans

Grade	Title
K-1	Frogs!
K-1	Acorn to Oak Tree
1	Fireflies
1	Peter's Chair
2	Owl Moon
2	The Raft
2	How a Seed Grows
2	A Bad Kangaroo
2	One Tiny Turtle
2	Who Would Win? Whale vs. Giant Squid
2	The Empty Pot
2-3	Autumn
3	Ruby's Shoes
3	Super Smog in China
3	Owl Moon
3-4	Stuart Little
4	Stray
4	A Sudden Slice of Summer
4	When Marian Sang
4	The Cloud: A Folktale
5	On the Deporting of her friend, Marta, from Hungary
5	Paul Revere's Ride
5	Tuck Everlasting
5	Eleven
5	Hatchet
5	Queen of the Falls
5	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
5	Richard Wright and the Library Card
5	Spaghetti
5	George vs. George

Grade	Title
6	On Indian Removal
6	The Ideal Physician
6	Thank You, Ma'am
6	Not-So-Loony Toons
6	Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West
6	The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic
6-8	Earth's Composition
7	A Jury of Her Peers
8	The Lottery
8	Do Cell Phones Belong in the Classroom?
8	Farewell to Manzanar
8	Identical Twins' Genes Are Not Identical

Grade	Title
9-10	The Bet
9-10	Lord of the Flies
9-10	The Stone Boy
9-10	Cold House, Hot House, Green House
9-10	The Scarlet Ibis
9-10	Searching for Summer
9-10	Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
9-10	Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction to a New Home
9-10	The Man in the Water
11-12	3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
11-12	Self-Reliance

Connecticut State Department of Education