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CIMC: Integrated Literature Units

   
 
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Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
 
The Mitten by Jan Brett
 
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
 
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
 
Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
 
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
 
My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
 
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
 
Icky Bug Counting Book by Jerry Pallotta
 
Lon Po Po by Ed Young
 
Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole
 
One Grain of Rice by Demi
 
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
 
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Majorie Priceman
 
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
 
Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg
 
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
 
The integrated units presented here are the results of a course, Children's Literature Across the Curriculum, taught during the Summer Teacher Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. They were written by the students in the course. The format of the units is patterned after the Jackdaws Series by Teachers Ideas Press. Units are no more than two pages and are only suggestions of how a particular title might be used across the curriculum. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the documents.
A B C D E F G H IJK L M NO P QR S TUV W XYZ
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Authors
 
Titles
A
Adler, David A. (A Picture Book of Martin Luther King)
Adler, David A. (Redwoods are the Tallest Trees)
Aliki (My Feet)
Ambrose, Stephen E. (Undaunted Courage)
Archambault, John (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom)
[Top]
 
A
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst)
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon (Paula Danziger)
Anansi the Spider (Gerald McDermott)
Annie and the Old One (Miska Miles)
Antarctica (Helen Cowcher)
Antonio's Rain Forest (Anna Lewington)
Appalachia: The Voices of Bird Sings (Cynthia Rylant)
Arthur's Thanksgiving (Marc Brown)
[Top]

B
Ballard, Robert (Exploring the Titanic)
Barnes, Peter W. (House Mouse, Senate Mouse)
Barrett, Judith (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)
Bedard, Michael (Emily)
Bishop, Nic (Secrets of Animal Flight)
Boas, Jacob (We Are Witnesses)
Brenner, Barbara (If You Were There in 1776)
Brett, Jan (The Hat)
Brett, Jan (The Mitten)
Brisson, Pat (Kate Heads West)
Brown, Jeff (Flat Stanley)
Brown, Marc Tolan (Arthur's Thanksgiving)
[Top]
 
B
The Babe and I (Terry Widener)
Baby (Patricia MacLachlan)
The Big Storm (Bruce Hiscock)
Blast Off to Earth! A Look at Geography (Loreen Leedy)
Book of Rhythms (Langston Hughes)
Boundless Grace (Mary Hoffman)
Bread, Bread, Bread (Ken Heyman, Ann Morris)
Bugs (Nancy Winslow Parker)
Butter Battle Book (Dr. Seuss)
[Top]

C
Cannon, Janell (Stellaluna)
Carle, Eric (Grouchy Ladybug)
Carle, Eric (Very Hungry Caterpillar, 2 units)
Cherry, Lynne (The Great Kapok Tree, 4 units)
Coerr, Eleanor (Sadako)
Cole, Joanna (Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake)
Cole, Joanna (Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs)
Cole, Joanna(Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane)
Cole, Joanna (Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System)
Cole, Joanna (Magic School Bus Plants Seeds)
Cole, Michael (Challenger: America's Space Tragedy)
Cooney, Barbara (Miss Rumphius)
Cowcher, Helen (Antarctica)
Creech, Sharon (Walk Two Moons)
[Top]
 
C
Challenger: America's Space Tragedy (Michael Cole)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (John Archambault and Bill Martin, 2 units)
Chicken Soup with Rice (Maurice Sendak)
Chicken Sunday (Patricia Polacca)
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones (Ruth Heller, 2 units)
Children Just Like Me: Celebrations! (Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley)
Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (Susan Wojcieckowski)
Chuck Close Up Close (Jan Greenberg)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Judith Barrett)
Coming To America (Betty Maestro, 2 units)
Corduroy (Don Freeman)
Courage of Sarah Noble (Alice Dalgliesh)
[Top]

D
Dahl, Roald (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Dalgliesh, Alice (The Courage of Sarah Noble)
Danziger, Paula (Amber Brown is Not a Crayon)
Delaney, A. (Gunnywolf)
Demi (One Grain of Rice, 2 units)
de Paola, Tomie (The Popcorn Book, 3 units)
Doris, Michael (The Window)
Duffy, Betsy (Gadget War)
[Top]
 
D
Dancing with Indians (Angela Shelf Medearis)
Dateline Troy (Paul Fleischman)
Duke Ellington (Andrea Davis Pinkney)
[Top]

E
Elhert, Lois (Growing Vegetable Soup)
Ehlert, Lois (Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf)
[Top]
 
E
Emily (Michael Bedard)
Exploring the Titanic (Robert Ballard)
[Top]

F
Faulkner, Keith (Snake's Mistake)
Few, Roger (Macmillan's Guide to Endangered Specieis)
Fisher, Leonard Everett (The Great Wall of China)
Fleischman, Paul (Dateline Troy)
Fleming, Denise (In the Small Small Pond)
Frasier, Debra (On the Day You Were Born)
Freedman, Russell (Lincoln)
Freeman, Don (Corduroy)
[Top]
 
F
Faithful Friend (D. Robert San Soucei)
Flat Stanley (Jeff Brown)
Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper (Loreen Leedy)
[Top]

G
Gardiner, John Reynolds (Stone Fox)
Gates, Frieda (Owl Eyes)
George, Jean Craighead (My Side of the Mountain)
Gibbons, Gail (Reasons for the Seasons)
Giff, Patricia Reilly (Lily's Crossing)
Greenberg, Jan (Chuck Close Up Close)
Gilson, Jamie (You Cheat!)
Gutelle, Andrew (How Far Can a Butterfly Fly?)
[Top]
 
G
Gadget War (Betsy Duffy)
Gingerbread Man (Karen Lee Schmidt)
Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)
Great Kapok Tree (Lynn Cherry, 4 units)
Great Wall of China (Leonard Everett Fisher)
Green Truck Garden Giveaway (Jacqueline Briggs Martin)
Grouchy Ladybug (Eric Carle)
Growing Vegetable Soup (Lois Elhert)
Gunnywolf (A. Delaney)
[Top]

H
Hallinan, P. K. (A Rainbow of Friends)
Hamilton, Virginia (Her Stories)
Harold, Jerdine Nolen (Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm)
Havill, Juanita (Sato and the Elephants)
Hayles, Karen (Whale is Stuck)
Heller, Ruth (Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, 2 units)
Henkes, Kevin (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse)
Henry, Marguerite (Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West)
Hest, Amy (When Jessie Came Across the Sea)
Heyman, Ken (Bread, Bread, Bread)
Himmelman, Leslie (Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nights)
Hiscock, Bruce (Big Storm)
Hoffman, Mary (Boundless Grace)
Hopkinson, Deborah (Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt)
Houston, Gloria (My Great-Aunt Arizona)
Hughes, Langston (Book of Rhythms)
Hutchins, Pat (The Wind Blew)
[Top]
 
H
Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nights (Leslie Himmelman)
Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm (Jerdine Nolen Harold)
The Hat (Jan Brett)
Hatchet (Gary Paulsen, 2 units)
Her Stories (Virginia Hamilton)
House Mouse, Senate Mouse (Peter W. Barnes)
House That Jack Built
How Dogs Really Work (Alan Snow)
How Far Can a Butterfly Fly? (Andrew Gutelle)
How to Make and Apple Pie and See the World (Majorie Priceman)
Hurricane (David Wiesner)
[Top]

I-J-K
Intrater, Roberta Grobel (Two Eyes, A Nose, and a Mouth)
Keats, Erza Jack (Over in the Meadow)
Keats, Erza Jack (A Snowy Day)
Kellogg, Steven (If You Made a Million)
Kellogg, Steven (Island of the Skog)
Kellogg, Steven (Johnny Appleseed, 2 units)
Kindersley, Barnabas and Anabel (Children Just Like Me: Celebrations!)
Kirk, David (Miss Spider's New Car)
Kittinger, Jo S. (A Look at Rocks)
Kovalski, Maryann (Wheels on the Bus, 2 units)
Jackman, Joan (Very Young Gymnast)
[Top]
 
I-J-K
Icky Bug Counting Book (Jerry Pallotta)
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War (Kay Moore)
If You Made a Million (David Schwartz, Steven Kellogg)
If You Were There in 1776 (Barbara Brenner)
In The Small Small Pond (Denise Fleming)
Ira Sleeps Over (Bernard Waber)
Island of the Skog (Steven Kellogg)
Johnny Appleseed (Steven Kellogg, 2 units)
Kate Heads West (Pat Brisson)
King Bidgood's in the Bath (Audrey Wood)
[Top]

L
Leedy, Loreen (Blast Off to Earth!)
Leedy, Loreen (Furry News)
Levine, Ellen (The Tree That Would Not Die)
Lewington, Anna (Antonio's Rainforest)
[Top]
 
L
Life and Times of the Apple (Charles Miccuci)
Lily and Miss Liberty (Carla Stevens)
Lily's Crossing (Patricia Reily Giff)
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (Kevin Henkes)
Lincoln: A Photobiography (Russell Freedman)
Log Hotel (Anne Schreiber)
Lon Po Po (Ed Young)
Look at Rocks (Jo S. Kittinger)
Lyddie (Katherine Paterson)
[Top]

M
Maestro, Betty (Coming to America, 2 units)
MacLachlan, Patricia (Baby)
MacLachlan, Patricia (Sarah Plain and Tall)
Mahy, Margaret (Seven Chinese Brothers)
Martin, Bill (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, 2 units)
Martin, Jacqueline (Green Truck Garden Giveaway)
McDermott, Gerald (Anasi the Spider)
Medearis, Angela Shelf (Dancing with Indians)
Miccuci, Charles (Life and Times of the Apple)
Miles, Miska (Annie and the Old One)
Moore, Kay (If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War)
Morris, Ann (Bread, Bread, Bread)
Mullin, Chris (The Young Basketball Player)
[Top]
 
M
Macmillan's Guide to Endanagered Species (Roger Few)
Magic School Bus Gets Backed in a Cake (Joanna Cole)
Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs (Joanna Cole)
Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane (Joanna Cole)
Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System (Joanna Cole)
Magic School Bus Plants Seeds (Joanna Cole)
Minty (Jerry Pinkney)
Miss Rumphius (Barbara Cooney)
Miss Spider's New Car (David Kirk)
The Mitten (Jan Brett)
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West (Marguerite Henry)
My Feet (Aliki)
My Great-Aunt Arizona (Gloria Houston)
My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
[Top]

N-O
Naylor, Phyllis Naylor (Shiloh)
Onyefulu, Ifcoma (OGBO: Sharing Life in an African Village)
[Top]
 
N-O
Officer Buckle and Gloria (Peggy Rathmann)
OGBO: Sharing Life in an African Village (Ifcoma Onyefulu)
On The Day You Were Born (Debra Frasier)
One Grain of Rice (Demi, 2 units)
Outside Dog (Charlotte Pomerantz)
Over in the Meadow (Erza Jack Keats, Olive A. Wadsworth)
Owl Eyes (Frieda Gates)
[Top]

P
Palatini, Margie (Piggie Pie)
Pallotta, Jerry (The Icky Bug Counting Book)
Parker, Nancy Winslow (Bugs)
Paterson, Katherine (Lyddie)
Paulsen, Gary (Hatchet, 2 units)
Pfister, Marcus (Rainbow Fish)
Pinkney, Andrea Davis (Duke Ellington)
Pinkney, Jerry (Minty)
Polacca, Patricia (Chicken Sunday)
Polacca, Patricia (Thunder Cake)
Pomerantz, Charlotte (The Outside Dog)
Priceman, Majorie (How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World)
[Top]
 
P
Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (David A. Adler)
Piggie Pie (Margie Palatini)
Polar Express (Chris Van Allsburg, 2 units)
Polar, The Titanic Bear (Daisy Corning Stone Spedden)
Popcorn Book (Tomie dePaola, 3 units)
[Top]

Q-R
Rathmann, Peggy (Officer Buckle and Gloria)
Rawls, Wilson (Where the Red Fern Grows)
Reynolds, Jan (Sahara: Vanishing Cultures)
Ross, Stewart (Shakespeare and Macbeth: The Story Behind the Play
Ryder, Joanne (Where Butterflies Grow)
Rylant, Cynthia (Appalachia)
Rylant, Cynthia (Whales)
[Top]
 
Q-R
Quick as a Cricket (Audrey and Don Wood)
Rainbow Fish (Marcus Pfister)
Rainbow of Friends (P. K. Hallinan)
Reasons for the Seasons (Gail Gibbons)
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf  (Lois Elhert)
Redwoods are the Tallest Trees in the World (David A. Adler)
[Top]

S
San Soucei, D. Robert (Faithful Friend)
Schreiber, Anne (Log Hotel)
Schroeder, Alan (Minty)
Schmidt, Karen Lee (Gingerbread Man)
Schwartz, David M. (If You Made a Million)
Sendak, Maurice (Chicken Soup with Rice)
Seuss, Dr. (Butter Battle)
Sheldon, Dyan (Whale's Song)
Silverstein, Shel (The Giving Tree)
Snow, Alan (How Dogs Realy Work)
Speare, Elizabeth George (Sign of the Beaver)
Spedden, Daisy Corning Stone (Polar, The Titanic Bear)
Stevens, Carla (Lily and Miss Liberty)
[Top]
 
S
Sadako (Eleanor Coerr, Ed Young, 2 units)
Sahara, Vanishing Cultures (Jan Reynolds)
Samuel Easton's Day (Kate Waters)
Sarah Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)
Sato and the Elephants (Juanita Havill)
Secrets of Animal Flight (Nic Bishop)
Seven Chinese Brothers (Margaret Mahy)
Shakespeare and MacBeth (Stewart Ross)
Shiloh (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor)
Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth George Speare)
Snake's Mistake (Keith Faulkner)
Snowy Day (Erza Jack Keats)
Stellaluna (Janell Cannon)
Stone Fox (John Reynolds Gardiner)
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Deborah Hopkinson)
[Top]

T-U-V
Taylor, Barbara (Water at Work)
Van Allsburg, Chris (Polar Express, 2 units)
Van Allsburg, Chris (Two Bad ants)
Viorst, Judith (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day)
[Top]
 
T-U-V
Thundercake (Patricia Polacco)
The Tree That Would Not Die (Ellen Levine)
Two Bad Ants (Chris Van Allsburg)
Two Eyes, A Nose, and a Mouth (Roberta Grobel Intrater)
Undaunted Courage (Stephen E. Ambrose)
Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle, 2 units)
[Top]

W
Waber, Bernard (Ira Sleeps Over)
Wadsworth, Olive A. (Over in the Meadow)
Waters, Kate (Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy)
Widener, Terry (The Babe and I)
Williams, Karen Lynn (When Africa Was Home)
White, E. B. (Charlotte's Web)
Wiesner, David (Hurricane)
Williams, Karen Lynn (When Africa was Home)
Wojcieckowski, Susan (The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey)
Wood, Audrey (King Bidgood's in the Bath)
Wood, Audrey and Don (Quick as a Cricket)
[Top]
 
W
Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)
Water at Work (Barbara Taylor)
We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust (Jacob Boas)
Whale is Stuck (Karen Hyles)
Whales (Cynthia Rylant)
Whale's Song (Dyan Sheldon)
Wheels on the Bus (Maryann Kovalski, 2 units)
When Africa Was Home (Karen Lynn Williams)
When Jessie Came Across the Sea (Amy Hest)
Where Butterflies Grow (Joanne Ryder)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
The Wind Blew (Pat Hutchins)
The Window (Michael Doris)
[Top]

X-Y-Z
Young, Ed (Lon Po Po)
Young, Ed (Sadako)
[Top]
 
X-Y-Z
You Cheat! (Jamie Gilson)
The Young Basketball Player (Chris Mullin)
The Young Gymnast: A Young Enthusiast's Guide to Gymnastics (Joan Jackman)
[Top]
 
 
   


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