Suggested Trade Books for the SSR Block

" Connecting a child and a book is like dropping a pebble into the water. You never know where the ripples will end up." ------------Ronald Jobe, 1998 Arbuthnot Award Winner

Trade Books Suggested by Scott Foresman by Theme:

(Suggested trade books can be used for teacher read alouds or placed in student book baskets.)

*Grade:*	*Myself and Others*	*The World Around Us*	*Learning and Working*	*Traditions*	*Journeys in Time and Space*	*Creativity*
1	-This is the Bear -The Shape of Things	-Hattie and the Fox -Mighty Spiders	-One of Three -When You Look Up at the Moon	-The Goat Who Couldn't Sneeze -Johnny Appleseed	-This Is the Way We Go to School -A Mother for Choco	-The Art Lesson -Detective Dinosaur
2	-How Many Teeth? -Saturday at the New You	-What's Alive? -The Life and Times of the Apple	-Three Cheers for Tacky -A Picture Book of Helen Keller	-Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia -Borreguita and the Coyote	-Time Train -Abuela	-Roxaboxen -Dora's Book
3	-Too Many Tamales -Stepfamilies	-Spring -Wild Babies	-First Flight -Be Good to Eddie Lee	-Chinye: A West African Folktale -Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American Girl	-Miss Rumphius -Ten Mile Day: And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad	-The Bat Boy and His Violin -The Littles Give a Party
4	-City Within a City: How Kids Live in N.Y.'s Chinatown -Old People, Frogs, and Albert	-The Silver Balloon -Surprising Swimmers (World of Discovery)	-Daily Life in a Covered Wagon -The Big Bike Race	-Alicia's Treasure -From Miss Ida's Porch	-The Cabin Faced West -I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project	-Sadako -Rachel carson: Pioneer of Ecology
5	-Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie -Talk About a Family	-Eye of the Storm: Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley -My Side of the Mountain	-Mary McLeod Bethune: Voice of Black Hope -School Spirit	-A Boy Called Slow -Jackie Joyner Kersey: Superwoman	-Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? -Journey to Topaz	-The Lizard and the Sun -Inventors

Email suggestions for any favorites that you may have that would support the themes above.