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Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Purple System Grade 5
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Fig Pudding
by Ralph Fletcher and Arthur HowardTake it from Cliff, being the oldest of six kids is not easy under the best of circumstances. Who can be Mr. Reliable all the time? How do you deal with a brother who enjoys sitting under the kitchen table for punishment? Or explain to your sister that she can't divorce herself from the family just because they eat meat? Or figure out what your baby brother wants for Christmas when he asks for a yidda yadda? Told in the first person, each lively, humorous episode from Cliff's fifth-grade year focuses on one of the kids. Together they create a strong, satisfying story of a large, closely knit family.
Flying Solo
by Ralph FletcherWhen the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed. But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everything begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged her into silence the day Tommy died? Inventive and uniquely constructed, "Flying Solo" follows Mr. Fab's students hour by hour as they tackle the challenges of an unusual school day.
Fighting Fake Money
by Kate ForsterFAKING IT. In Australia, criminal masterminds were making their own fake cash. People were becoming suspicious. How could they be sure that any money was genuine? Something had to be done. Find out how Australians outsmarted the criminals and changed money forever.
Lost in the Woods
by Kate ForsterText Elements
Genre: Procedural
Text Structures
Main: Temporal Sequence
Embedded: Cause/Effect, Problem/ Solution, Narrative, Question/ Answer
Text Features: table of contents, headings, photos, diagrams, captions, labels, sidebars, quiz, glossary
Elijah McCoy
by Kate FosterAgainst the Odds. How can one person make over fifty inventions in a single lifetime? He's got to be the best--the real McCoy! Meet Elijah McCoy, mechanical engineer and inventor extraordinaire. Find out how the son of escaped slaves used his unusual talents to overcome discrimination and become an important inventor of his time.
The Gift of Aloha
by Kate FosterHawaii At once, the word paints a picture in the mind's eye. And the people in that picture are almost certainly wearing colorful flower garlands.
Student Test Prep Booklet
by Fountas and Pinnell LiteracyRead the stem and all four options. Find and underline important words in the stem and think what the item is about. Cross out options that are not correct and think carefully about the other options. Restate closed stems to check possible answers. Select one option and check your choice by looking again at the text passage or passages. Bubble in the correct option.
Student Test Prep Booklet
by Fountas and PinnellLeveled Literacy Intervention PURPLE System Student Test Preparation Booklet: LEVEL W LESSONS 201-204
The Day the Mountain Burst
by Louise HermanThe Day the Mountain Burst by Louise Herman illustrated by Giorgio Bacchin
The Haenyo
by Amanda Hong and Jacob SpenceThe Haenyo: Women Divers of Jeju Island by Amanda Hong and Jacob Spence
Prehistoric Crime Scene
by Will HurdThe Mystery of the Iceman: Prehistoric Crime Scene by Will Hurd
The Shackleton Expedition
by Laura JohnsonThe advertisement that Ernest Shackleton wrote to attract workers to his expedition to Antarctica began with the words, "Men wanted for hazardous journey". Neither he nor any of those responded had any idea that their trip to the bottom of the world would become one of the greatest survival stories in history.
Charging Foul
by Patrick JonesCharging Foul by Patrick Jones, illustrated by London Ladd.
FOUL! Calvin loves basketball. But with the new fees the school is charging, it looks like he won't get to play.
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Delectable Insects
by Zoë KashnerEating Insects. We eat mammals, like cows and pigs. We eat fish. We even eat birds, like chickens and turkeys. Why, then, is it so hard to imagine eating insects? While insects are not a typical part of the European or American diet, they are a regular--and delicious-- part of the human diet in other parts of the world. Find out what's so great about eating insects and why it might be something you'll want to try.
Queens of the Board
by Zoë KashnerChess doesn't require physical strength or skill. It's a game of strategy and hard work. So why has a woman never won the title of World Chess Champion? Find out how women chess players around the world are working to change history, one game at a time.
Under the Spell of Hypnosis
by Rena KorbText Elements
Genre: Hybrid
Text Structures
Main: Categorical
Embedded: Description, Temporal Sequence, Cause/Effect
Text Features: table of contents, headings, sidebars, graphic text, fact/fiction chart, bulleted list
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
by Stephen KrenskyAli Baba and the Forty Thieves: A Folktale from Iran retold by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by Lin Wang
The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds
by Stephen KrenskyThe Case of the Disappearing Diamonds by Stephen Krensky illustrated by Chuck Pyle
So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star?
by Brian KrummSo You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star? by Bryan Krumm