Grade ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “The First Day of School” from CRICKET NEVER DOES: A COLLECTION OF HAIKU AND TANKA by Myra Cohn Livingston Copyright © 1997 by Myra Cohn Livingston Used by permission of Margaret K McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division THE ART LESSON by Tomie dePaola Copyright © 1989 by Tomie dePaola Used by permission of G P Putnam’s Sons “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Karen-Amanda Toulon Copyright © 1989 by Silver, Burdett & Ginn Inc Used by permission of Silver, Burdett & Ginn Inc Excerpt from MAX by Rachel Isadora Copyright © 1976 by Rachel Isadora Used by permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers NO DRAGONS FOR TEA: FIRE SAFETY FOR KIDS (AND DRAGONS) by Jean Pendziwol Copyright © 1999 by Jean Pendziwol Used by permission of Kids Can Press Ltd “The Storytelling Stone” a Seneca tale retold by Joseph Bruchac, from KEEPERS OF THE EARTH: NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN Copyright © 1988, 1989 by Michael J Caduto and Joseph Bruchac Used by permission of Fulcrum, Inc I WISH I WERE A BUTTERFLY by James Howe Copyright © 1987 by James Howe Used by permission of Gulliver Books, Harcourt Brace & Company POLICE PATROL by Katherine K Winkleman Copyright © 1996 by Katherine K Winkleman Used by permission of Walker and Company THE AMERICAN WEI by Marion Hess Pomeranc Copyright © 1998 by Marion Hess Pomeranc Used by permission of Albert Whitman & Company BURIED IN THE BACKYARD by Gail Herman Copyright © 2003 by The Kane Press Used by permission of The Kane Press THE STORY OF JOHNNY APPLESEED by Aliki Copyright © 1963 by Aliki Brandenberg Used by permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc BOY, CAN HE DANCE! by Eileen Spinelli Copyright © 1993 by Eileen Spinelli Used by permission of Aladdin Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division Excerpt from A THOUSAND PAILS OF WATER by Ronald Roy Copyright © 1978 by Ronald Roy Used by permission of Random House, Inc BARNYARD LULLABY by Frank Asch Copyright © 1998 by Frank Asch Used by permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division Excerpt from A SPECIAL TRADE by Sally Wittman Copyright © 1978 by Sally Christensen Wittman Used by permission of Harper & Row Publishers, Inc Continued on page 230 B Published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Two Penn Plaza, New York, New York 10121 Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, network storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning, except for the Copying Masters and Plays, which may be reproduced in print form for non-profit educational use with Macmillan/McGraw-Hill TREASURES Printed in the United States of America 10 WDQ 14 13 12 11 10 CONTENTS Introduction Literature Selections The First Day of School and The Art Lesson A haiku by Myra Cohn Livingston and a memoir by Tomie de Paola The Lion and the Mouse 14 A fable by Aesop retold by Margaret H Lippert No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons) 17 A poem by Jean Pendziwol I Wish I Were a Butterfly 22 A fable by James Howe The American Wei 28 A story by Marion Hess Pomeranc The Story of Johnny Appleseed 34 A legend by Aliki A Thousand Pails of Water 38 A story by Ronald Roy A Special Trade 42 A story by Sally Wittman The Ugly Duckling 46 A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen retold by Karen-Amanda Toulon Max 51 A story by Rachel Isadora The Storytelling Stone 54 A folktale retold by Joseph Bruchac Police Patrol 58 Nonfiction/Expository by Katherine K Winkleman Grade Buried in the Backyard 63 A story by Gail Herman Boy, Can He Dance! 68 A story by Eileen Spinelli Barnyard Lullaby 73 A story by Frank Asch The Great Kapok Tree 78 A fable by Lynne Cherry Nail Soup 83 A folktale by Debi Gliori This Is Our Earth 88 A poem by Laura Lee Benson Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 91 A fantasy by Judi Barrett Slowly Does It 97 A fable by Robin Ravilious The Desert Is Theirs 102 A poem by Byrd Baylor Albert’s Play 108 A poem by Leslie Tryon Lewis and Clark: a Prairie Dog for the President 112 Nonfiction/Expository by Shirley Raye Redmond Kate and the Beanstalk 117 A fairy tale retold by Mary Pope Osborne A Dress for the Moon 124 A story by Indira Krishnan When Elephant Goes to a Party 128 A story by Sonia Levitin If You Were a Writer 133 A story by Joan Lowery Nixon The Bremen Town Musicians 140 A folktale retold by Anne Rockwell So You Want to Be an Inventor? 145 Nonfiction/Expository by Judith St George Grandma’s Records 153 A story by Eric Velasquez Table of Contents Plays Room for More The Secret Song I’ll Be the Dragon! A Whale of a Story The Search for the Magic Lake Mother Goose to the Rescue 158 165 166 179 192 207 Think-Aloud Copying Masters Ask Questions Make Connections Visualize Draw Inferences Use Text Structure Determine Importance in Text Summarize Monitor Comprehension 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 Index by Genre 228 Grade INTERACTIVE ANTHOLOGY with PLAYS Developing Listening Comprehension Read Alouds help to build children’s listening comprehension This anthology offers selections from a variety of genres, including biography, fiction, folktales, nonfiction, and poetry, to share with children Instruction is provided with each selection to develop specific comprehension strategies Children are asked to set a purpose for listening, as well as to determine the author’s purpose for writing Using the instruction provided, each Read Aloud becomes an enjoyable, purposeful learning experience What Makes a Read Aloud Interactive? With each selection, Teacher Think Alouds are provided to help you model the use of comprehension strategies during reading Using Think Alouds allows children to listen and to observe how a good reader uses strategies to get meaning from text After reading, children are given the opportunity to apply the comprehension strategy Children are asked to “think aloud” as they apply the strategy By listening to a student Think Aloud you can determine if the child is applying the comprehension strategy appropriately and with understanding Think-Aloud Copying Masters included in the Read-Aloud Anthology provide sentence starters to help children “think aloud” about a strategy BTUFS T5hIis JTX wB aT sN mP oT sUtMZ ly aBbCoPuVtU . 5IJOL"MPVE$PQZJOH PQZJOH.BTUFS 5IJOL"MPVE$ *XPOEFS BVXb^aaVc$B X