JANUARY ’ S READ I NG I N ENGL I SH
GRADE 4
Reading Focus: Fourth-graders enjoy noticing details in the books they read, and this month they find the opportunity to see how the details add up. This month’s reading offers them the opportunity to look for clues and anticipate what might happen next.
NATURE & ANIMALS Who Would Win? Alligators vs Pythons Written by Jerry Pallotta & illustrated by Rob Bolster
ORDINARY PEOPLE DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS Key Hunters: The Mysterious Moonstone Written by Eric Luper
Facts and photos provide a contrast between two types of fierce predators— alligators and pythons—comparing their sizes, brain structures, and abilities. Fourth-graders will love using the book’s easy-to-read science facts and their own reasoning skills to decide for themselves which creature would be the winner if they ever were to meet in battle.
Cleo and Evan enter a secret room in their school library and find a collection of books so dangerous that they are locked up tight. They discover that a friend has vanished into the pages of one of these books, and enter the pages of a mystery book to rescue her. The two are now in England in the 1890s and must help a young Sherlock Holmes find a missing diamond. Solving the mystery is the only way they can escape the book! Fourth-graders will enjoy searching for clues along with Cleo and Eric in this fast-paced book.
Nature
Science
History
GRADE 5
Reading Focus: This month fifth-graders get to enjoy books from one of the most popular series in print for their age group. They will build their reading stamina as they experience easy-to-read but interest level–appropriate best-selling historical novels where the suspense builds from chapter to chapter.
EXPLORING THE NATURAL WORLD I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900 Written by Lauren Tarshis
KIDS CAN DO ANYTHING I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Written by Lauren Tarshis
In 1900, Galveston was Texas’s richest and most important city. Just a few years before, a weather forecaster had said the idea of a hurricane striking Galveston was absurd. So when a storm started brewing on September 8, 1900, people gathered on the beach to cheer on the wild waves. But what started as entertainment soon turned into a nightmare as those waves crashed into the city. In this thrilling installment of
The ordeal of Hurricane Katrina is brought vividly to life in this fictional account of a boy, a dog, and the storm of the century. Barry’s family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry’s little sister gets terribly sick, they’re forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first Katrina doesn’t seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry’s
Lauren Tarshis’s I Survived series, fifth-graders will keep turning pages to discover what happens when a boy named Charlie battles the treacherous waters to make sure his neighbors are safe.
world is literally torn apart when he’s swept away from his family by the flood waters. Fifth-graders will be gripped by the suspense as they follow Barry’s story.
History
Adventure
Nature
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