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Curriculum Content by EpisodeSeasons 1–9

BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9

Angelina’s Island/ Chinese New Year

#910

The Lions and friends celebrate their heritage, and an unusual visitor to the library introduces them to Chinese New Year.

Angelina’s Island

Features the book Angelina’s Island, by Jeanette Winter

Story

Key word: home

Target sound: h

New vocabulary: building, carnival, celebrate, city, costumes, dream, hiding, home, island, Jamaica, party, sun; Jamaican food (ackee, breadfruit, callaloo, chocho, green bananas, guavas, johnnycake, mangos, papaya, salt fish, star apples, sugarcane); senses (feel, look, sound)

Lin, Grace. Bringing in the New Year

Miller, Elizabeth I. Just Like Home/Como en mi tierra

Waters, Kate. Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan’s Chinese New Year

Winter, Jeanette. Angelina’s Island

Wong, Janet S. This Next New Year

Zephaniah, Benjamin. J Is for Jamaica

Chinese New Year

Features an original video

Nonfiction

Featured vocabulary: celebration, centipede, Chinatown, Chinese food, cymbals, dancing, dumplings, drum, gift, lion, New Year, parade

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Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.


Are You a Snail?/ Wonderful Worms

#804

The Information Hen helps some confused creatures determine whether they are snails or slugs, and a missing pet worm leads to an all-out search in the library.

Are You a Snail?

Features the book Are You a Snail?, by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries

Nonfiction

Featured vocabulary: afraid, damp, dangerous, eat, egg, eyes, foxes, grow, hardens, hatch, hide, horns, hungry, poisonous, safe, slide, slimy, slowly, slug, small, snail, stalks, thrushes

Allen, Judy and Tudor Humphries. Are You a Snail?

Cronin, Doreen. Diary of a Worm

Glaser, Linda. Wonderful Worms

Llewellyn, Claire. Slugs and Snails

Pfeffer, Wendy. Wiggling Worms at Work

Ryder, Joanne. The Snail’s SpellWonderful Worms

Features the book Wonderful Worms, by Linda Glaser

Nonfiction

Key word: worms

Target sound: w

New vocabulary: burrows, cool, dark, damp, dig, earthworms, fat, garden, roots, soil, squeeze, tunnel, wiggly, wiggling, worm

Art Party #401

Can Lionel and Leona make sense of a mysterious painting?

Features three original stories

Story

Key word: party

Word family: -ar (-ark, -arm, -art)

Target sound: r-controlled a

High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, the

New vocabulary: aardvark, depart, gypsy, lute, marshmallow, starfish

Cocca-Leffler, Maryann. Edgar Degas: Paintings that Dance

Hurd, Thacher. Art Dog

Lionni, Leo. Matthew’s Dream

Mayhew, James. Katie and the Mona Lisa

Micklethwait, Lucy. I Spy: An Alphabet in Art

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Be Bop #130

When cool, jazzy shoes come out of a book and dance all over the library, everybody gets in the groove.

Features the book Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, by Chris Raschka

Story

Key word: bop

Word family: -op (-ot, -ock)

Target sound: short o

High-frequency sight words: mom, pop, stop

New vocabulary: be bop, doo-wop, saxophone, xylophone

Isadora, Rachel. Ben’s Trumpet

London, Jonathan. Hip Cat

Pinkney, Andrea. Duke Ellington

Raschka, Chris. Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Schroeder, Alan. Satchmo’s Blues

Bear Snores On/ Night in the Country

#703

Cleo manages to sleep through a noisy party, and Lionel and Leona learn about the sounds night creatures make.

Bear Snores On

Features the book Bear Snores On, by Karma Wilson

Story

Featured vocabulary: asleep, awake, hibernate, slumbers, snore, tired; locative words (second, last, next to last)

New vocabulary: badger, blustery, dank, flutter, fret, gopher, hare, lair, mole, raven, scuttles, wren

Bancroft, Henrietta. Animals in Winter

Crews, Daniel. Night at the Fair

Hartland, Jesse. Night Shift

Morales, Yuyi. Little Night

Rylant, Cynthia. Night in the Country

Wilson, Karma. Bear Snores OnNight in the Country

Features the book Night in the Country, by Cynthia Rylant

Story

Key word: night

Target sound: n

New vocabulary: nightingale, nuzzles, patter, swoop

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Bein’ with You This Way/ How to Be

#806

The Lions and friends sing about the ways they look alike and different, and describe the many traits that make a person a person.

Bein’ with You This Way

Features a song version of the book Bein’ with You This Way, by W. Nicola-Lisa and Michael Bryant

Story/Song

Key word: you

Target sound: y

New vocabulary: descriptive words (blue, brown, curly, different, fabulous, furry, great, large, long, nice, same, shiny, short, small, straight, terrific, thick, thin); the body (arms, eyes, hair, hands, fingers, nose, skin, toes)

Brown, Lisa. How to Be

Carle, Eric. From Head to Toe

Fox, Mem. Whoever You Are

Jenkins, Steven and Robin Page. What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?

Katz, Karen. The Colors of Us

Nicola-Lisa, W. and Michael Bryant. Bein’ with You This WayHow to Be

Features the book How to Be, by Lisa Brown

Concept Book

Featured vocabulary: animals (bear, dog, monkey, person, snake, spider, turtle); traits (brave, charming, curious, creative, friendly, patient)

New vocabulary: bask, beg, build, catch, copy, creep, dance, eat, fetch, growl, hibernate, hide, move, slither, swing, wait

Bobby the Hopping Robot #208

Why is Bobby the Hopping Robot not hopping?

Features an original story

Instructions

Key word: hop

Word family: -op (-ot)


High-frequency sight words: at, now, of, the, to

New vocabulary: defective, operate, propeller, robot

Dewan, Ted. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Hoffman, Todd. Robots Everywhere

Hunter, Ryan Ann. Robots Slither

Pinkney, Brian. Cosmo and the Robot

Williams, Karen Lynn. Galimoto

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf #108

Lionel and Leona show a shepherd boy from a storybook how to cry “Wolf!” when his sheep are threatened, and then he doesn’t stop!

Features Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”

Fable

Key word: big

Word family: -ig (-iggle, -it, -ick, -in)

Target sound: short i

High-frequency sight words: bad, big, cry, in, is, it, this

New vocabulary: intelligent, jig, jiggle

Bader, Barbara. Aesop and Company

Bloom, Becky. Wolf!

Hartman, Bob. The Wolf Who Cried Boy

Kasza, Keiko. Wolf’s Chicken Stew

Prokofiev, Sergei. Peter and the Wolf (many versions)

Bug Beard #214

A woodcutter and his wife need the lions’ help with a man who has bugs, bugs, bugs in his beard.

Features a version of “Papa Bwa, Greedy Guest,” a Dominican folktale

Folktale

Key word: bug

Word family: -ug (-ud, -un, -up, -unk)

Target sound: short u

High-frequency sight words: he, his, how, in, to

New vocabulary: disinfected, infected, natural, proper

Brown, Marc. Perfect Pigs

Buehner, Caralyn. It’s a Spoon, Not a Shovel

Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Ladybug

Kimmel, Eric. Grizz!

Palatini, Margie. Moosetache

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Bugs/ Beetle Bop

#902

Can Cleo and the cubs cure Theo of his fear of caterpillars? And, get ready for the sensational singing group coming to the library: The Beetles!

Bugs

Features an original video about bugs

Nonfiction

Featured vocabulary: bugs/insects (ant, atlas moth, bee, butterfly, cat flea, caterpillar, flower mantis, fly, grasshopper, green bottle fly, leafcutter ant, mosquito, praying mantis, sphinx moth, spider)

New vocabulary: emotions (afraid, scared, terrified); numbers (one, two, three, four, five, one hundred); temporal words (first, followed by, last, over, second, third)

Barner, Bob. Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

Fleming, Denise. Beetle Bop

Murphy, Stuart J. The Best Bug Parade

Pallotta, Jerry. The Beetle Alphabet Book

Rabe, Tish. On Beyond Bugs!: All About Insects

Rockwell, Ann. Bugs Are Insects

Beetle Bop

Features the book Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming

Concept Book

Key word: beetles

Target sound: ee

New vocabulary: bugs/insects (antenna, bees, beetle, dung beetle, ladybug, lightning beetle, tiger beetle, titan beetle); descriptive words (big, black, blue, brown, chewing, dotted, glowing, green, growing, humming, round, small, spotted, square, striped, swirling); microscope, music, rock band

But, Mama, But... #219

Cleo is going away for a few days, and Leona thinks she’s too big to miss her mother.

Features the book I Miss You, Stinky Face, by Lisa McCourt

Story

Key word: but

Word family: -ut (-un, -unk, -ust)


High-frequency sight words: and, away, but, going, if, I’ll, is, the, what, you

New vocabulary: cheetah, gangplank, perfect, supersonic

Joosse, Barbara M. Mama, Do You Love Me?

McCourt, Lisa. I Miss You, Stinky Face

Numeroff, Laura. What Mommies Do Best

Waddell, Martin. Owl Babies

Wilson, Karma. Mama Always Comes Home

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The Chap with Caps #112

The Lion family helps a writer fix a story about a chap, a cap, and lots of chattering monkeys.

Features a version of “The Peddler and the Monkeys,” an Indian folktale, and “Monkeys and the Little Red Hats,” an African story

Folktale

Key word: cap

Word family: -ap (-am, -ash, -ad), -ape

Target sound: short a (long a)

High-frequency sight words: the, with

New vocabulary: cha-cha, chap, collapse, scrape, snatched, struggle, thunderclap

Ahlberg, Allan. Monkey Do!

Christelow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree

Diakité, Baba Wagué. The Hatseller and the Monkey

Rey, H. A. Curious George

Slobodkina, Esphyr. Caps for Sale

The Carrot Seed/ The Empty Pot

#502

A seed that’s planted and watered usually sprouts if you’re patient, but what happens when the flower seed you plant for the Emperor doesn’t grow?

The Carrot Seed

Features the book The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss

Story

Key word: seed

Target sound: s

High-frequency sight words: a, and, come, I’m, it, little, up

New vocabulary: bloom, blossom, flower, plant, seed, soak, soil, sprinkle, sprout, weeds

Bunting, Eve. Flower Garden

Demi. The Empty Pot

Demi. The Greatest Power

Krauss, Ruth. The Carrot Seed

Krauss, Ruth. A Hole Is to Dig

Lin, Grace. The Ugly Vegetables

The Empty Pot

Features the book The Empty Pot, by Demi

Story

Key word: seed

Target sound: d

High-frequency sight words: he, the

New vocabulary: courage, emperor, palace, seated/unseated, successor, throne

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Charlie’s Dinosaur/ Here Come the Aliens

#709

Dinosaurs roamed the earth long ago, but could one be in the library? And could strange creatures from outer space be lurking there, too?

Charlie’s Dinosaur


Story

Featured vocabulary: carnivore, herbivore, extinct, dinosaurs (Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor); descriptive words (colossal, enormous, extinct, huge, humongous gargantuan, gigantic, jumbo, massive, monumental, tremendous, stupendous, whopping); locative words (behind, first, last, second)

New vocabulary: clustered, discovered, facts, frill, scientists, sculpture

Aliki. Digging Up Dinosaurs

Anderson, Derek. Romeo and Lou Blast Off

McNaughton, Colin. Here Come the Aliens

Most, Bernard. Four and Twenty Dinosaurs

Whybrow, Ian. Harry and the Dinosaurs Go to School

Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

Here Come the Aliens

Features the book Here Come the Aliens!, by Colin McNaughton

Science fiction

Key word: queen

Target sound: qu

High-frequency sight words: are, coming, some, the, they, this

New vocabulary: admiral, alien, approach, beware, bizarre, bleak, conquer, crew, fleet, galaxy, manners, retreat, science fiction, zillion

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Cheesybreadville/ Stolen Smells

#608

A disaster in the kitchen creates a tasty new treat, and a boy finds himself in trouble for smelling tasty smells without paying for them.

Cheesybreadville

Features the poem “Cheesybreadville,” by Sonia Manzano

Poem

Key word: corn

Target sound: r-controlled o

High-frequency sight words: he, her, him, his, look, see, she, they

New vocabulary: airborne, anonymous, aware, belching, cornmeal, din, doused, fame, hollered, horrible, orphan, popular, renowned, stumbled, tempting, title, trio, wailed

Aylesworth, Jim. The Burger and the Hot Dog

Barrett, Judi. Pickles to Pittsburgh

Manzano, Sonia. “Cheesybreadville,” in Thanks and Giving All Year Long, by Marlo Thomas and Friends

Park, Linda Sue. Bee-bim Bop!

Rosenthal, Amy. Little Pea

Stolen Smells


Story

Key word: boy

Target sound: oy/oi

High-frequency sight words: and, her, the, was

New vocabulary: annoyed, arrested, drifted, genie, greedily, rejoice, rupees, soiled

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The Chess Mess #224

It’s Alice Day! It’s Alice Day! Callooh! Callay! Hooray!

Features the book Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

Story

Key word: chess

Word family: -ess (-est, -et, -egg, -etch)

Target sound: short e

High-frequency sight words: all, day, it, up, we’re

New vocabulary: bishop, checkmate, chessboard, logic, pawn, rematch, rook, zesty

Carroll, Lewis. Alice Through the Looking Glass (illus. Helen Oxenbury)

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass (many versions)

Castor, Harriet. Starting Chess

Harper, Piers. Checkmate at Chess City

Wong, Janet. Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club

Click, Clack, Moo/ The Little Red Hen

#506

Farm animals have a lot to teach Lionel and Leona about the power of writing and the value of helping.

Click, Clack, Moo

Features the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin

Story

Key word: cows

Target sound: c

High-frequency sight words: and, any, big, dear, do, her, I, it

New vocabulary: cape, demand, emergency, exchange, furious, neutral, on strike, sincerely, type, ultimatum

Ada, Alma Flor. With Love, Little Red Hen

Barton, Byron. Little Red Hen

Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Cronin, Doreen. Giggle, Giggle, Quack

Hort, Lenny. The Seals on the Bus

Sturges, Philemon. The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)

The Little Red Hen

Features a version of “The Little Red Hen”

Folktale

Key word: hen

Target sound: h

High-frequency sight words: little, myself, no, not, said, the, then, there’s, who, will, without

New vocabulary: calf, cattle, gasped, grind/ground, piglet, wheat

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Clickety-clack, Clickety-clack!

#206

Theo borrows a cow’s typewriter and doesn’t want to give it back.

Features the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin

Story

Key word: click

Word family: -ick (-ing, -ix)


High-frequency sight words: dear, nothing

New vocabulary: cape, demand, emergency, exchange, furious, neutral, on strike, pixie, sincerely, type, typewriter, ultimatum

Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Cronin, Doreen. Giggle, Giggle, Quack

Duffield, Katy. Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows

Harrison, David. When Cows Come Home

Small, David. George Washington’s Cows

Cliff Hanger, the Pheasant, and the Phone/ Terrific

#903

The Cliff Hanger fan club enjoys a long-lost adventure story, and Leona finds out why “terrific” doesn’t always mean terrific.

Cliff Hanger, the Pheasant, and the Phone


Story

Key word: phone

Target sound: ph

New vocabulary: homophones, pheasant, phenomenal, phone, phonebook, phonograph, photo, photograph

Agee, John. Terrific

Donaldson, Julia. The Snail and the Whale

Henkes, Kevin. A Good Day

MacDonald, Alan. Wilfred to the Rescue

Rawson, Katherine. If You Were a Parrot

Steig, William. Amos & BorisTerrific

Features the book Terrific, by Jon Agee

Story

Key word: terrific

Target sound: t

New vocabulary: boat, island, opposite, parrot, pomegranate, rescued, sail, sarcasm, sarcastic, ship, storm, stranded, surprised; synonyms (fabulous, fantastic, good, marvelous, splendid, swell, terrific)

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The Coyote and the Rabbit/ The Gingerbread Man

#609

A hungry coyote gets tricked by a clever rabbit who claims she can beat him in a race, and a gingerbread man who thinks he can outrun everybody gets tricked by a fox.

The Coyote and the Rabbit

Features an original retelling of “The Coyote and the Rabbit”

Folktale

Key word: circles

Target sound: c (soft)

High-frequency sight words: he, she, the

New vocabulary: cannon, celery, clever, coyote, fragrance, morsel, relative, trapeze

Compestine, Ying Chang. The Runaway Rice Cake

Johnston, Tony. The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote

Kimmel, Eric. The Gingerbread Man

McDermott, Gerald. Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest

Taylor, Harriet Peck. Coyote Places the StarsThe Gingerbread Man

Features a version of “The Gingerbread Man”

Folktale

Key word: gingerbread

Target sound: g (soft)

High-frequency sight words: and, as, can, can’t, he, I, I’m, in, me, said, the, they, you

New vocabulary: contractions, crumble, dipped, gigantic, gingerbread, gymnast, gypsy, lunge, plunge

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Dance in Smarty Pants #405

Lionel tries to teach his parents how to dance in Smarty Pants, the latest dance craze sweeping the library!


Story

Key word: pants

Word family: -ant (-an, -ance, -ack, -at)

Target sound: short a

High-frequency sight words: in, no, the, they

New vocabulary: fantastic, flapjacks, flashback, paddle, slant, tackled, titanic, video

Allen, Debbie. Dancing in the Wings

Havill, Juanita. Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring

Lee, Jeanne. Silent Lotus

McKissack, Patricia. Mirandy and Brother Wind

Winthrop, Elizabeth. Dumpy La Rue

Dear Mr. Blueberry/ I Wanna Iguana

#705

Can writing notes help solve the mystery of a whale in a swimming pool, get an iguana as a family pet, and deliver Lionel’s helicopter?

Dear Mr. Blueberry

Features the book Dear Mr. Blueberry, by Simon James

Letters

Key word: whale

Target sound: wh

New vocabulary: blow holes, details, information, mammal, migratory, protecting, spurt, whirl, whisk, whistle, whoosh

Ada, Alma Flor. Dear Peter Rabbit

James, Simon. Dear Mr. Blueberry

Keats, Ezra Jack. A Letter to Amy

Orioff, Karen Kaufman. I Wanna Iguana

Pak, Soyung. Dear Juno

Taback, Simms. I Miss You Every DayI Wanna Iguana

Features the book I Wanna Iguana, by Karen Kaufman Orloff

Written notes

Featured vocabulary: notes, writing, wrote; pets (cats, dogs, iguana); locative words (closest, next to)

New vocabulary: compassionate, financial, helicopter, mature, reptile, responsible, tarantulas, trial basis, trophies

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Dreaming Shakespeare #220

Can Anthony Asbury help a chicken looking for a book about plumbing become a star in a Shakespeare play?

Features a version of the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare

Play

Key word: dream

Word family: -eam (-eat, -eak)

Target sound: ea as long e

High-frequency sight words: easy, please, welcome

New vocabulary: chariot, mallard, plumbing, sneak, visions

Aliki. William Shakespeare and the Globe

Davidson, Rebecca. All the World’s a Stage

Hoffman, Mary. Amazing Grace

Millman, Isaac. Moses Sees a Play

Shakespeare, William. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (illus. James Mayhew)

Earl’s Too Cool/ When I Was Five

#509

Making new friends and keeping old friends is too cool.

Earl’s Too Cool

Features the book Earl’s Too Cool for Me, by Leah Komaiko

Story

Key word: too

Target sound: t

High-frequency sight words: and, are, for, friend, he, her, me

New vocabulary: boars, cool (various meanings), regular

Appelt, Kathi. Bubba and Beau, Best Friends (illus. Arthur Howard)

Howard, Arthur. When I Was Five

Komaiko, Leah. Annie Bananie

Komaiko, Leah. Earl’s Too Cool for Me

Raschka, Chris. Yo! Yes?

Robbins, Jacqui. The New Girl…and MeWhen I Was Five

Features the book When I Was Five, by Arthur Howard

Story

Key word: five

Target sound: f

High-frequency sight words: I, my, this, was, when

New vocabulary: astronaut, beneath, favorite, fidgeting, flee, more, on top of

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Elephants Can Paint Too!/ Jamaica Louise James

#808

If elephants can really paint, can’t Leona’s stuffed animal Lovey paint too? A young girl’s paintings brighten up a subway station, inspiring Leona to decorate the library with her paintings.

Elephants Can Paint Too!

Features the book Elephants Can Paint Too!, by Katya Arnold

Photo Essay

Featured vocabulary: bathe, drink, elephant, grass, leaves, nose, spray, trunk, water

New vocabulary: bright, brush, color, dab, drag, line, paint, painting, paper, picture, spots, strokes, touch, wiggly lines, yellow

Arnold, Katya. Elephants Can Paint Too!

dePaola, Tomie. The Art Lesson

Hest, Amy. Jamaica Louise James

Johnson, Angela. Lily Brown’s Paintings

Rodríguez, Rachel. Through Georgia’s Eyes

Say, Allen. Emma’s RugJamaica Louise James

Features the book Jamaica Louise James, by Amy Hest

Story

Key word: draw

Target sound: aw

High-frequency sight words: I, me, my, they, we

New vocabulary: awfully, blot, dab, layer, mayor, pad, plaque, saw (various meanings), smear, smidge, squiggle, steep, subway, surprise, token, worry

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Farmer Ken’s Puzzle #104

Lionel won’t let Leona play a computer game for ages “seven and up” because she’s “four and down.”

Features a musical brainteaser

Song & CD-ROM

Key word: hen

Word family: -en (-et, -ed, -est)

Target sound: short e (long e)

High-frequency sight words: is, it, up, what, when, you

New vocabulary: clue, enchanting, miracle, vibrant

Havill, Juanita. Jamaica Tag-Along

Henkes, Kevin. Sheila Rae the Brave

Marshall, James & Edward. Fox and His Friends

Polacco, Patricia. My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother

Steptoe, John. Stevie

The Emperor’s New Clothes/ The Hungry Coat

#908

Lionel and Leona discover an emperor running around the library in his underwear, and Click the Mouse helps him find the perfect outfit for a Coat Party.

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Features a retelling of the folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

Folktale

Key word: suit

Target sound: long u

New vocabulary: beautiful, blue, chanted, embarrassed, emperor, flute, fool, fortune, fruit, glue, kingdom, lute, parade, plume, pretended, tailor, trickster, true, tuba, ukulele, unusual

Agee, John. Nothing

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Emperor’s New Clothes (illus. Virginia Lee Burton)

Demi. The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Tale Set in China

Demi. The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey

Mills, Lauren A. The Rag Coat

Parton, Dolly. Coat of Many ColorsThe Hungry Coat

Features a retelling of the Turkish folktale “The Hungry Coat”

Folktale

Key word: villa

Target sound: v

New vocabulary: buttoned, coat, festivities, invitation, meat, pockets, sad, sleeves, stained, tattered, vacuum cleaner, vanish, vegetables, veterinarian, viceroy, village, violet, violin

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Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks #213

Can Lionel and Lenny still be best friends if they don’t like the same things anymore?

Features the book When I Was Five, by Arthur Howard

Story

Key word: six

Word family: -ix (-ick, -it, -ing)


High-frequency sight words: best, is, it, my, this, was, when

New vocabulary: astronaut, favorite, hammock, pixie

Bloom, Suzanne. A Splendid Friend, Indeed

Henkes, Kevin. Chester’s Way

Howard, Arthur. When I Was Five

Katz, Bobbi. Could We Be Friends?

Polacco, Patricia. Mrs. Katz and Tush

The Fox and the Crow #128

Walter and Clay Pigeon want The Fox and the Crow banned from the library because they think the book makes birds look like birdbrains.

Features Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow”

Fable

Key word: drop

Word family: -op (-ox, -ot, -oppy)


High-frequency sight words: a, and, end, in, is, it, of, that, the, to, very, you (“Ten Small Words” song)

New vocabulary: crow, flatter, humongous

Aesop’s Fables (illus. Jerry Pinkney)

McKissack, Patricia. Flossie and the Fox

Sogabe, Aki. Aesop’s Fox

Spirin, Gennady. Martha

Villaseñor, Victor. Little Crow to the Rescue

Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy? #109

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he? Well, was he?

Features the popular rhyme “Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear”

Rhyme

Key word: fuzzy

Word family: -uzz (-ug, -un, -up, -uck)


High-frequency sight words: a, he, no, was, wasn’t

New vocabulary: fuzzy, mutton, unbutton

Carle, Eric. Eric Carle’s Animals, Animals

Guarino, Deborah. Is Your Mama a Llama?

Lyon, George Ella. A Day at Damp Camp

Prelutsky, Jack. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

Rosen, Michael. Poems for the Very Young

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Giants and Cubs #129

Leona thinks scary giants are coming into the library to clobber lion cubs.

Features an original newspaper sports column

Newspaper article

Key word: cub

Word family: -ub (-ug, -uzz, -up, -uck)

Target sound: short u (long u)

High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, is, it, of, that, the, to, up, you

New vocabulary: chum, clobber, despise, grubby

Burleigh, Robert. Home Run

Golenbock, Peter. Teammates

McCully, Emily. Grandmas at Bat

Parish, Peggy. Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia

Welch, Willy. Playing Right Field

The Goat in the Coat #610

Lionel is upset when his copy of a new and extremely rare Cliff Hanger book vanishes from the library, but his friend Gus surprises him with a one-of-a-kind gift. (This episode introduces a new character, Sierra, a mountain lion who tells some of the story in Spanish.)

Features an original series book

Series book

Key word: coat

Target sound: oa as long o

High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, the

New vocabulary: autograph, croak, enchanted, groan, moat, plastic, protective, rare, soak, terrible, toast, valuable, vest

Adler, David A. Young Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery

Bruss, Deborah. Book! Book! Book!

Conover, Chris. The Lion’s Share

Guy, Ginger Foglesong. Fiesta!

Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Good Books, Good Times!

Sierra, Judy. Wild About Books

The Golden Meaty Awards #505

Lionel is master of ceremonies of this first annual music awards show, featuring favorite tunes from Between the Lions and very tasty awards.

Features songs from the series in an awards-show format

Awards show

Word family: -op, -ing

Target sound: r, w

High-frequency sight words: said

New vocabulary: accompanied, category, competition, delectable, delicious, kazoo, performance, savory, scrumptious, succulent, tasty, yummy

Aliki. Ah, Music

Boynton, Sandra. Rhinoceros Tap

Igus, Toyomi. I See the Rhythm

Katz, Alan. Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs

Moss, Lloyd. Music Is

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Good Night, Knight #223

Orlando Furioso, the brave knight, will save the fair Angelica and lift the curse of Fallerina if he can be put back together again!

Features a version of a play adapted from Orlando Furioso, by Ariosto

Play

Key word: knight

Word family: -ight (-ide, -ime)

Target sound: long i

High-frequency sight words: are, as, for, he, his, I, on, they, was, with (“Ten Little Words” song)

New vocabulary: audience, curse, delightful, lair, nightingale, sorceress

Gibbons, Gail. Knights in Shining Armor

Mayhew, James. The Knight Who Took All Day

O’Brien, Patrick. The Making of a Knight

Peet, Bill. Cowardly Clyde

Thomas, Shelly Moore. Good Night, Good Knight

The Good Seed #203

Hee, hee, hee! Click the Mouse has a computer virus! Hee, hee, hee!

Features the book The Empty Pot, by Demi

Folktale

Key word: seed

Word family: -eed (-ee, -eep, -eet, -eel)

Target sound: ee as long e

High-frequency sight words: be, free, he, his

New vocabulary: antivirus software, courage, deleted, e-mail, emperor, librarian, moral, palace, parakeet, responsibility, successor, throne, virus, weep

Bond, Ruskin. The Cherry Tree

Carle, Eric. The Tiny Seed

Demi. The Empty Pot

Havill, Juanita. Jamaica’s Find

Ye, Ting-xing. Weighing the Elephant

Grow, Mane, Grow! #402

Lionel is still a growing cub, but he’ll do anything to grow a grown-up mane like his dad’s!

Features an infomercial

Advertisement

Key word: mane

Word family: -ane (-ake, -ale, -ase, -ay)

Target sound: ay (long a)

High-frequency sight words: go, is, it, make, the, to, your

New vocabulary: ashamed, assistant, disgrace, guaranteed, scientific, system

Barber, Barbara. Saturday at the New You

Cisneros, Sandra. Hairs/Pelitos

Freeman, Don. Dandelion

Robinson, Claire. Lions

Tarpley, Natasha. I Love My Hair!

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Hay Day #301

Can Lionel, Leona, and Gus help a girl named Fay turn hay into gold in just one day?

Features the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin

Fairy tale

Key word: hay

Word family: -ay (-ade, -ame, -ake)

Target sound: ay (long a)

High-frequency sight words: away, day, don’t, I, if, name, no, say, way, you

New vocabulary: bales, bracelet, dungeon, rhino, spun, troll

Aylesworth, Jim. My Son John

Hamilton, Virginia. The Girl Who Spun Gold

Henkes, Kevin. Chrysanthemum

Martin, Mary Jane. From Anne to Zach

Zelinsky, Paul O. Rumpelstiltskin

Help! #308

The search for a lost book helps Theo and Cleo teach the cubs about responsibility.

Features a version of “The Little Red Hen”

Folktale

Key word: help

Word family: -ell, -elp (-en, -ent, -ess, -est, -et)


High-frequency sight words: all, and, any, at, do, give, help, I, it, not, said, the, then, very

New vocabulary: herring, impressive, mill, selfish, smelt, swell, testy, wrench, yelp, zesty

Ada, Alma Flor. With Love, Little Red Hen

Barton, Byron. Little Red Hen

Burningham, John. Mr. Gumpy’s Outing

Falwell, Cathryn. Feast for 10


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Here Come the Aliens/Abiyoyo

#606

Strange creatures lurk in outer space, but even stranger creatures dwell right here on earth.

Here Come the Aliens

Features the book Here Come the Aliens!, by Colin McNaughton

Science fiction

Key word: queen

Target sound: qu

High-frequency sight words: are, coming, some, the, they, this

New vocabulary: admiral, alien, approach, beware, bizarre, bleak, conquer, crew, fleet, galaxy, manners, retreat, science fiction, zillion

Deacon, Alexis. Beegu

Elliott, David. Hazel Nutt, Alien Hunter

Keats, Ezra Jack. Regards to the Man on the Moon

Leuck, Laura. My Monster Mama Loves Me So

McNaughton, Colin. Here Come the Aliens!

Seeger, Pete. AbiyoyoAbiyoyo

Features the book Abiyoyo, by Pete Seeger

Folktale

Key word: zoop

Target sound: z

High-frequency sight words: boy, father, look, say, the

New vocabulary: blimp, blizzard, cozy, familiar, magician, ostracized, quiz, slobbery, staggered, ukulele, vanished, wand, zipper

The Hopping Hen #106

Everyone in the library goes crazy after Lionel puts up signs about new rules.


Signs

Key word: hen

Word family: -en (-et, -ell, -ed)


High-frequency sight words: no, what, when, where, who, why, yes

New vocabulary: allowed, hen, permitted, saxophone

Brown, Marc. Arthur’s Reading Race

Crews, Donald. Night at the Fair

Hill, Mary. Signs on the Road

Hoban, Tana. I Read Signs

Milch, Zoran. City Signs

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How to Be a Good Dog/ Not Afraid of Dogs

#704

A cat tries to teach a dog to behave, and a boy learns that dogs aren’t so scary after all.

How to Be a Good Dog

Features the book How to Be a Good Dog, by Gail Page

Story

Key word: good

Word family: -ood, -ook

Target sound: oo (as in good)

New vocabulary: commands, difficult, fabulous, fantastic, fetch, handy, heel, marvelous, practice, strict, splendid, swell, terrific

Allen, Jonathan. “I’m Not Scared!”

Ehlert, Lois. Wag a Tail

Page, Gail. How to Be a Good Dog

Page, Gail. Bobo and the New Neighbor

Pitzer, Susanna. Not Afraid of Dogs

Sturges, Philemon. Waggers

Not Afraid of Dogs

Features the book Not Afraid of Dogs, by Susanna Pitzer

Story

Featured vocabulary: afraid, brave, braver, bravest, petrified, scared, scary, terrified; locative words (above, below, far, near, inside, outside)

New vocabulary: crinkled, elevator, snuggled, thunderstorm

Huff and Puff #306

Whatever happened to the three little pigs? Leona and Lionel want to know…so they write their own sequels to the story!

Features a version of “The Three Little Pigs”

Folktale

Key word: puff

Word family: -uff (-ug, -uck, -ump)


High-frequency sight words: come, I’ll, in, me, my, no, of, said, the, you, your

New vocabulary: allergies, comma, period, quotation marks, sequel

Ada, Alma Flor. Dear Peter Rabbit

Galdone, Paul. The Three Little Pigs

Scieszka, John. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Trivizas, Eugene. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Wiesner, David. The Three Pigs

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Hug, Hug, Hug! #118

Leona helps a sculptor who falls in love with his statue.

Features the Greek myth “Pygmalion”

Myth

Key word: hug

Word family: -ug (-uck, -un, -ut, -ub)


High-frequency sight words: a, in, other, words

New vocabulary: ancient, sculptor, statue

Briggs, Raymond. The Snowman

Clements, Andrew. Workshop

Freeman, Don. Corduroy

James, Betsy. The Mud Family

Williams, Margery. The Velveteen Rabbit

Humph! Humph! Humph! #202

Lionel’s friend Gus gets humphy when Leona asks him to read to her.

Features the story “How the Camel Got His Hump” from Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling

Folktale

Key word: hump

Word family: -ump (-uck, -unk, -ut)


High-frequency sight words: all, and, he, new, says, the, with, won’t

New vocabulary: ashamed, designated, grumpy, idle, interrupt, practice

Barber, Barbara. Allie’s Basketball Dream

Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories (illus. Barry Moser)

Mora, Pat. Tomás and the Library Lady

Paul, Ann Whitford. All by Herself

Polacco, Patricia. Thank You, Mr. Falker

Icarus’s Wings #204

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Barnaby B. Busterfield III!

Features the Greek myth “Daedalus and Icarus”

Myth

Key word: wing

Word family: -ing (-ip, -ick, -it)


High-frequency sight words: a, be, start, thing, with

New vocabulary: imprisoned, labyrinth, plummet, propeller, thrilling, UFO

Blake, Robert. Fledgling

Brown, Marc. Wings on Things

Myers, Christopher. Wings

Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride

Woodruff, Elvira. The Wing Shop

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I Don’t Want a Birthday Party/ Knuffle Bunny

#810

Leona can’t understand why Roodles the Clown doesn’t want a birthday party, and Theo, Lionel, and Leona don’t want to wash their favorite things.

I Don’t Want a Birthday Party

Features the original story I Don’t Want a Birthday Party

Original Story

Key word: rooster

Target sound: r

New vocabulary: birthday party, clown, crying, happy, opposite, ran, rattled, realized, relatives, room, rooster, round, running, surprised

Cumpiano, Ina. Quinito, Day and Night/Quinito, día y noche

Klise, Kate. Why Do You Cry? Not a Sob Story

Smalls, Irene. Jonathan and His Mommy

Starr, Meg. Alicia’s Happy Day/El día más feliz de Alicia

Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny

Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity

Knuffle Bunny

Features the book Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems

Story

Key word: bunny

Target sound: -y (ending)

High-frequency sight words: and, she, the, up

New vocabulary: barrel, comfortable, dawn, dusk, removable, wring

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I’ll Fix Anthony/ Jamaica Louise James

#604

A big brother and a jack-in- the-box could both use some fixing, and a budding artist draws up a plan for fixing up a dreary subway station.

I’ll Fix Anthony

Features the book I’ll Fix Anthony, by Judith Viorst

Story

Key word: fix

Target sound: x

High-frequency sight words: and, he, him, if, I’ll, I’m, me, my, say, we’ll, when, will, won’t

New vocabulary: checkers, clobber, contest, fix (various meanings), ox, sax, xylophone

Cameron, Ann. The Stories Julian Tells


Reynolds, Peter. Ish

Say, Allen. Emma’s Rug

Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Viorst, Judith. I’ll Fix Anthony

Jamaica Louise James

Features the book Jamaica Louise James, by Amy Hest

Story

Key word: draw

Target sound: aw

High-frequency sight words: I, me, my, they, we

New vocabulary: awfully, blot, dab, layer, mayor, pad, plaque, saw (various meanings), smear, smidge, squiggle, steep, subway, surprise, token, worry

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It’s Red! It’s Green!/ Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

#510

In these folktales, a red hat is really green (or is it red?), and an old overcoat is also a button.

It’s Red! It’s Green!

Features a version of “A Quarrel Between Friends,” an African folktale

Folktale

Key word: red

Target sound: r

High-frequency sight words: friend, is, the, too

New vocabulary: attractive, companion, disagreement, enormous, gigantic, opinion, rubies, wisdom

Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

Peeke, Merle. Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers

Serfozo, Mary. Who Said Red?

Taback, Simms. Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Taback, Simms. This is the House that Jack BuiltJoseph Had a Little Overcoat

Features the book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback

Story

Key word: jacket

Target sound: j

High-frequency sight words: a, and, got, had, he, it, little, made, of, out, so

New vocabulary: exactly, fasten, handkerchief, jabber, juggle, necktie, nephew, overcoat, scarf, sneakers, suspenders, worn

A King and His Hawk #125

Leona thinks a book Lionel reads to her is too sad, so she tries to make sure nobody else can read it.

Features a legend about Genghis Khan

Folktale

Key word: king

Word family: -ing (-ip, -ick, -ig, -it)


High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, is, it, of, that, the, to, you (“Ten Small Words” song)

New vocabulary: hidden, rage, tragic

Baylor, Byrd. Hawk, I’m Your Brother

Burrowes, Adjoa. Grandma’s Purple Flowers

Milord, Susan. Tales Alive!

Thomas, Jane Resh. Saying Goodbye to Grandma

Viorst, Judith. The Tenth Good Thing About Barney

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King Midas/ The Dirty Smelly King

#607

King Midas gets what he wished for, then wishes he didn’t, and King Chuck the Mucky Muck wishes he weren’t so smelly.

King Midas

Features the myth “King Midas”

Myth

Key word: king

Word family: -ick

Target sound: k

High-frequency sight words: he, him, his

New vocabulary: dangling, forsake, greedy, kabob, kale, kazoo, keen, kidney, kite, kooky, kumquat, perky

Craft, Charlotte. King Midas and the Golden Touch

Demi. King Midas: The Golden Touch

Smalls, Irene. I Can’t Take a Bath

Wells, Rosemary. Max and Ruby’s Midas

Wood, Audrey. King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub

The Dirty Smelly King

Features a version of “The Dirty Smelly King”

Folktale

Key word: back

Word family: -ick

Target sound: ck

High-frequency sight words: and, at, in, look, out, see

New vocabulary: majesty, muck, peck, popular, preferably, prime minister

The Last Cliff Hanger #210

Lionel is very unhappy because author Livingston Dangerously has written The Last Cliff Hanger.


Story

Key word: last

Word family: -ast (-at, -an, -ant)


High-frequency sight words: a, and, by, can’t, of, the

New vocabulary: paddle, stapler, tackle

Aliki. How a Book Is Made

Christelow, Ellen. What Do Authors Do?

Marshall, Pam. From Idea to Book

Medearis, Angela Shelf. Lucy’s Quiet Book

Nixon, Joan Lowery. If You Were a Writer

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Like a Windy Day/ Winter Is the Warmest Season

#909

In this animated special, the Lion family and Click the Mouse try not to let the wind spoil their picnic, and Lionel tries to convince Leona that winter is really warm.

Like a Windy Day

Features the book Like a Windy Day, by Frank Asch & Devin Asch

Story

Key word: windy

Target sound: -y ending

New vocabulary: flowery; seasons (autumn, fall, spring, summer, winter); weather-related (chilly, cloudy, cold, drippy, drizzly, foggy, hot, mizzly, nippy, rainy, showery, slippery, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, windy)

Asch, Frank and Devin Asch. Like a Windy Day

Cobb, Vicki. I Face the Wind

Glaser, Linda. It’s Winter

Hall Ets, Marie. Gilberto and the Wind

Lin, Grace and Ranida T. McKneally. Our Seasons

Stringer, Lauren. Winter Is the Warmest SeasonWinter Is the Warmest Season

Features the book Winter Is the Warmest Season, by Lauren Stringer

Story

Featured vocabulary: seasonal sports (badminton, basketball, sledding, soccer, swimming); summer-related (heat wave, hot, steamy, warm); winter-related (blankets, cold, cool, cozy, hat, hot chocolate, scarf, snow, snowing, snowman)

New vocabulary: imagine

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Lionel’s Antlers #110

Just like the girl in the book Imogene’s Antlers, Lionel wakes up with antlers on his head.

Features the book Imogene’s Antlers, by David Small

Story

Key word: antlers

Word family: -an (-ant, -am, -amp)


High-frequency sight words: an, man, off

New vocabulary: antlers, enchanting, peacock, scram

Geisel, Theodor. If I Ran the Zoo

Jeffers, Susan. My Pony

Kimmel, Eric. The Rooster’s Antlers

Small, David. Imogene’s Antlers

Van Laan, Nancy. Moose Tales

Lionel’s Great Escape Trick #114

Lionel ties himself up with ropes and tries to escape without magic words.

Features the real-life story of Houdini

Web site

Key word: trick

Word family: -ick (-it, -ish, -ig)


High-frequency sight words: do, the, words

New vocabulary: applause, escape, famous, flicker, magician, sunken

Brown, Marc. Arthur’s April Fool

Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon

Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are

Van Allsburg, Chris. Jumanji

Wyler, Rose & Gerald Ames. Magic Secrets

Little Big Mouse #103

Click’s feelings are hurt when Lionel and Leona start a fan club for a heroic storybook mouse.

Features Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse”

Fable

Key word: little

Word family: -it (-ip, -ick, -in)


High-frequency sight words: big, brown, can, it, little

New vocabulary: appetite, approaching, intelligent, unzipped

Alborough, Jez. Watch Out! Big Bro’s Coming

Faustin, Charles. The Selfish Crocodile

Lobel, Arnold. Mouse Soup

Steptoe, John. The Story of Jumping Mouse

Waber, Bernard. The Mouse That Snored

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The Lost Rock #102

A rock rolls out of his book and then can’t remember which book he belongs in.


Dictionary

Key word: rock

Word family: -ock (-op, -ot, -om)

Target sound: short o (double o)

High-frequency sight words: am, and, mom, not, stop, the

New vocabulary: dictionary, kazoo

Baylor, Byrd. Everybody Needs a Rock

Brown, Marcia. Stone Soup

Christian, Peggy. If You Find a Rock

Kimmel, Eric. Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock

Shields, Carol Diggory. Martian Rock

The Lucky Duck #123

Lionel tries to help a very cute duck from a very cute book stop being so cute.


Story

Key word: duck

Word family: -uck (-ucky, -ug, -ud)


High-frequency sight words: a, oh, what

New vocabulary: delighted, leather, rude, scanning

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Ugly Duckling (illus. Jerry Pinkney)

McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings

Raffi. Five Little Ducks

Root, Phyllis. One Duck Stuck

Tafuri, Nancy. Have You Seen My Duckling?

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Making Bread/ Cheesybreadville

#710

After Theo’s fails at making bread, a video and a book come to the rescue. Another bread-baking disaster creates a tasty new treat.

Making Bread

Features an original video

Video

Featured vocabulary: foods (bread, butter, cookies, flour, honey, oil, salt, yeast); cooking (bake, bakes, baking, batter, cooked, cooking, oven, knead, raw, rise); descriptive words (burnt, crunchy, long, round, soft, warm, yummy); quantity words (a lot, one, some)

New vocabulary: baguette, fresh, expanded, surprisingly, tastes, tasty, tastier, tastiest

Dooley, Norah. Everybody Bakes Bread

Levenson, George. Bread Comes to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat

Manzano, Sonia. “Cheesybreadville,” in Thanks and Giving All Year Long, by Marlo Thomas and Friends

Mora, Pat. The Bakery Lady

Morris, Ann. Bread, Bread, Bread

Pinkney, Jerry. The Little Red Hen

Smalls, Irene. My Pop Pop and Me

Cheesybreadville

Features the poem “Cheesybreadville,” by Sonia Manzano

Poem

Key word: corn

Target sound: r-controlled o

High-frequency sight words: he, her, him, his, look, see, she, they

New vocabulary: airborne, anonymous, aware, belching, cornmeal, din, doused, fame, hollered, horrible, orphan, popular, renowned, stumbled, tempting, title, trio, wailed

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Mole and the Baby Bird/ Owen and Mzee

#802

Lionel and Leona find out why some animals aren’t meant to be pets, and how some animals develop surprising friendships.

Mole and the Baby Bird

Features the book Mole and the Baby Bird, by Marjorie Newman

Story

Key word: fly

Target sound: fl

New vocabulary: feelings and emotions (care, cried, feel, dejected, happy, miserable, sad); animal-related (baby bird, cage, die, feed, food, fluttered, fly, flying, grew, help, mole, nest, pet, wild, wind, wings)

Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu. Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship

Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu. Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship

Newman, Marjorie. Mole and the Baby Bird

Torres, Leyla. The Subway Sparrow

Winter, Jeanette. Mama: A True Story

Yee, Wong Herbert. Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole

Owen and Mzee

Features the book Owen & Mzee, told by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu with photographs by Peter Greste

Nonfiction Story

Featured vocabulary: crocodile, hippo, tortoise, turtle

New vocabulary: environment and weather (beach, home, nature park, reef, river, storm, water, wave); friendship (best friend, friends)

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Moon Rope/ Welcome to the Moon

#707

Can you climb up to the moon on a rope? Is there really a fox on the moon? Leona is on a mission to find out.

Moon Rope

Features the book Moon Rope by Lois Ehlert

Folktale

Key word: rope

Target sound: long o (as in o_e)

Word family: -ope (-ose, -ole, -oke)

New vocabulary: appear, braided, creatures, crescent, fuss, glancing, hitch, mole, telescope, tunnel, twirled, unnoticed, upset

Asch, Frank. Moongame

Beifuss, John. Armadillo Ray

Ehlert, Lois. Moon Rope

Gibbons, Gail. The Moon Book

Landry, Leo. Space Boy

Mcnulty, Faith. If You Decide to Go to the Moon

Welcome to the Moon

Features a web site with a video about the moon, presented as a girl’s diary

Web site, video, diary

Featured vocabulary: the moon and outer space (craters, crescent moon, dark moon, earth, full moon, half moon, meteor, planet, revolving, spaceship, spacesuits, solar system, telescope); locative words (across, beneath, closest, nearest, next to)

New vocabulary: diary, enormous, giant, humongous

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Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash/ Knuffle Bunny

#601

The cubs find some unusual items on Mrs. McNosh’s clothesline, but they’re reluctant to turn over their favorite things for a good washing.

Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash

Features the book Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash, by Sarah Weeks

Rhyming story

Key word: her

Word family: -er, -ir

Target sound: r-controlled e, r-controlled i

High-frequency sight words: and, she, the, up

New vocabulary: barrel, comfortable, dawn, dusk, removable, wring

Clark, Emma Chichester. Where Are You, Blue Kangaroo?

Falconer, Ian. Olivia…and the Missing Toy

Noble, Trinka Hakes. The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash

Weeks, Sarah. Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash

Weeks, Sarah. Oh My Gosh, Mrs. McNosh

Willems, Mo. Knuffle BunnyKnuffle Bunny

Features the book Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems

Story

Key word: bunny

Target sound: -y ending

High-frequency sight words: and, daddy, her, look, she, the

New vocabulary: apron, bawled, cautionary, errand, fussy, gown, laundromat, laundry, realized, replied, scurry, shirt, stockings, underwear

35




Night Shift/ Under Construction

#901

The Lion family helps out a monkey who sells ice cream in the middle of the night, and tries to figure out how to get rid of the enormous tree branch that fell into the library.

Night Shift

Features the book Night Shift, by Jesse Hartland

Nonfiction

Featured vocabulary: job-related (artist, bridge painter, chef, director, disc jockey, fisherman, freight captain, groom, pilot, plumber, radio DJ, road worker, scoop, security guard, sing, sketch, snip, street sweeper, truck driver, waitress)

New vocabulary: time-related (awake, bed, closed, day, end, late, quiet, start, time)

Banks, Kate. The Night Worker

Caterpillar. C is for Construction: Big Trucks and Diggers from A to Z

Hartland, Jessie. Night Shift

Olson, K.C. Construction Countdown

Sobel, June. B is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC

Zimmerman, Andrea. Digger ManUnder Construction

Features an original song

Nonfiction/Song

Featured vocabulary: construction vehicles (backhoe, bulldozer, cement mixer, concrete mixer, crane, dump truck, forklift, pickup truck, steam shovel, steamroller, vehicles)

36




No One Told the Aardvark/ Sea Horse

#807

Leona pretends to be different animals, and tries the sea horse’s trick of camouflage in the library.

No One Told the Aardvark

Features the book No One Told the Aardvark, by Deborah Eaton and Susan Halter

Concept Book

Featured vocabulary: aardvark, animal, boa constrictor, chimpanzee, crab, elephant, fish, horse, kangaroo, plover, raccoon, snails, snake, termites, whale

New vocabulary: chew, crawl, hurry, swallow, pouches, slow, tongue, zoo

Barrett, Judi. Never Take a Shark to the Dentist: And Other Things Not to Do

Butterworth, Chris. Sea Horse

Carle, Eric. Mister Seahorse

Eaton, Deborah and Susan Halter. No One Told the Aardvark

George, Twig C. Seahorses

Hickman, Pamela. Animal Senses: How Animals See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Feel

Sea Horse

Features the book Sea Horse, by Chris Butterworth

Nonfiction Story

Key word: fish

Target sound: f

New vocabulary: babies, camouflage, coral, coral branch, current, eggs, fish, fins, mate, ocean, pouch, reef, sea, seabed, sea horse, slowly, swims, tail, waves

Oh, Yes, It Can! #212

Can yams, gloves, and hammers talk? Oh, yes, they can!

Features a version of “Talk,” an African folktale

Folktale

Key word: can

Word family: -an (-at, -ant, -am, -ack)


High-frequency sight words: can, can’t, has, I, in, it, that, they, yes, you

New vocabulary: Ashanti, commanded, fabric, gasped, yam, yammering

Bruchac, Joseph. Racoon’s Last Race

Kimmel, Eric. Anansi and the Talking Melon

Meddaugh, Susan. Martha Speaks

San Souci, Robert D. The Talking Eggs

Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World

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The Old Man #124

Writer Babs Caplan visits the library to write the world’s scariest story.


Story in progress

Key word: man

Word family: -an (-am, -and, -ack)


High-frequency sight words: a, an, and, in, is, it, man, of, old, that, the, this, to, was, you (“Ten Small Words” song)

New vocabulary: enchanting, planet, scram

Brown, Ruth. A Dark, Dark Tale

Martin, Bill, Jr. A Beasty Story

Pulver, Robin. Author Day for Room 3T

Schwartz, Alvin. In a Dark, Dark Room

Yep, Laurence. The Man Who Tricked a Ghost

Out in Outer Space #307

Grandpa Lion visits the library and tells the true story of a friend who traveled out in outer space.

Features an original biography of astronaut Ellen Ochoa

Biography

Key word: out

Word family: -out (-ound, -outh, -ow)

Target sound: ou (spelled ow or ou)

High-frequency sight words: how, in, now, our, out

New vocabulary: astronaut, biography, chowder, comma, homophone, ingredient, outstanding, period, punctuator, space shuttle

Lindbergh, Reeve. Nobody Owns the Sky

Mora, Pat. Tomás and the Library Lady


Thomas, Frances. One Day, Daddy

Wallace, Karen. Rockets and Spaceships

Pandora’s Box #113

Should Lionel and Leona open a mysterious box that has a “Do Not Open!” sign on it?

Features the Greek myth “Pandora’s Box”

Myth

Key word: box

Word family: -ox (-ot, -op, -oppy)

Target sound: short o (double o)

High-frequency sight words: do, not, open, stop

New vocabulary: curious, exclamation point, hiccups

Stevenson, James. The Mud Flat Mystery

Thompson, Kay. Eloise

Turkle, Brinton. Do Not Open

Waddell, Martin. The Pig in the Pond

Wells, Rosemary. Max and Ruby in Pandora’s Box

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Pebble Trouble #211

Leona is under a table and won’t come out.

Features the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig

Story

Key word: pebble

Word family: -eb (-en, -ent, -est, -ess)


High-frequency sight words: and, he, his, no, on, the, was, yes

New vocabulary: agitated, ceased, distressed, pebble, perturbed

Bruchac, Joseph. The First Strawberries

Leaf, Munro. The Story of Ferdinand

Silverman, Erica. Don’t Fidget a Feather!

Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Yolen, Jane & Mark Teague. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?

A Peck of Peppers #120

Lionel thinks he is the king of tongue twisters and nobody can write one that he can’t say.

Features a variety of tongue twisters

Tongue twisters

Key word: peppers

Word family: -ep (-eck, -en, -ess, -et)


High-frequency sight words: a, if, is, of, the, where

New vocabulary: gloat, impressive, peck, tenderloin, tongue twister

Artell, Mike. Giggle Fit: Zany Tongue Twisters

Buck, Nola. Creepy Crawly Critters

Geisel, Theodor. Oh Say Can You Say?

Marcus, Hal. Animal Alphabet Album

Schwartz, Alvin. Busy Buzzing Bumblebees

Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West #101

A storybook tornado blows into the library and makes a terrible mess.

Features a version of an American tall tale

Folktale

Key word: west

Word family: -est (-ess, -ell, -et)


High-frequency sight words: in, the, was

New vocabulary: fictional, imaginary, lasso, steady, steed, tall tale, tornado, twister, unwelcome

Hopkins, Jackie. The Horned Toad Prince

Isaacs, Anne. Swamp Angel

Keats, Ezra Jack. John Henry

Kellogg, Steven. Pecos Bill

McKissack, Patricia. A Million Fish... More or Less

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Pete’s a Pizza/ Pygmalion

#605

With a little imagination, a father turns his son into a pizza, and some loving hugs bring a statue to life.

Pete’s a Pizza

Features the book Pete’s a Pizza, by William Steig

Story

Key word: father

Target sound: th

High-frequency sight words: father, that, the, then

New vocabulary: capture, contractions, dough, kneading, miserable, mood, mustache, thimble, twirled, whirled

Amery, Heather. Greek Myths for Young Children

Briggs, Raymond. The Snowman

Holub, Joan. The Pizza That We Made

Steig, William. Pete’s a Pizza


Pygmalion

Features the Greek myth “Pygmalion”

Myth

Key word: hug

Target sound: g (hard)

High-frequency sight words: he, him, his

New vocabulary: ancient, goggles, masterpiece, pity, pretend, sculptor, statue

Piggyback, Piggyback #127

Leona decides to ride piggyback on her dad’s back forever and ever.

Features a version of “The King with Dirty Feet,” a folktale from India

Folktale

Key word: back

Word family: -ack (-at, -ap, -ab, -ad)


High-frequency sight words: and, at, in, out

New vocabulary: acrobat, flapjack, piggyback, racket, unpacked

Goodman, Joan Elizabeth. Bernard’s Bath

Meister, Cari. Tiny’s Bath

Steptoe, Javaka. In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall

Wood, Audrey. King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub

Ziefert, Harriet. Harry Takes a Bath

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Pigs Aplenty #302

When Theo and Cleo leave Marmy in charge of the cubs, she throws a big pig party in the library.

Features the book Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!, by David McPhail

Story

Key word: pig

Word family: -ig (-ick, -in, -ing, -ink, -ip, -it)


High-frequency sight words: do, give, we, what

New vocabulary: aplenty, apostrophe, disaster, galore, hippo, jig, snout, sprig, stagger

Child, Lauren. Clarice Bean, Guess Who’s Babysitting?

Day, Alexandra. Good Dog, Carl

McPhail, David. Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!

Miranda, Anne. Pignic

Wardlaw, Lee. Saturday Night Jamboree

Pigs in Hiding/ Stop That Pickle!

#905

The Lion family plays hide-and-seek, then joins a sandwich on the hunt for a runaway pickle in the library.

Pigs in Hiding

Features the book Pigs in Hiding, by Arlene Dubanevich

Story

Featured vocabulary: locative words (above, behind, below, beside, far, far away from, in, in front of, inside, near, next to, on top of, outside, under); quantity words (all, almost all, some); relational words (anybody, everybody, somebody, nobody)

New vocabulary: found, here, hide, hiding, pigs; snacks (donuts, peanuts, popcorn, punch, sandwiches, strawberries); surprise

Ahlberg, Allan. The Runaway Dinner

Armour, Peter. Stop That Pickle!

Dubanevich, Arlene. Pigs in Hiding

Hassett, John. Can’t Catch Me


Wong, Janet S. Hide & Seek

Stop That Pickle

Features the book Stop That Pickle!, by Peter Armour

Story

Featured concept: punctuation (contractions, exclamation point, period, question mark)

New vocabulary: food-related (almonds, apple, bake shop, brine, deli, doughnut/donut, food, grape juice, hungry, ice cream cone, jar, pickle, pretzel, raisins, sandwich); actions and movement (caught, chase, collided, fast, rolled, shouted, slowest, stop)

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Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!/ The Three Little Pigs

#501

It’s pigs galore for the Lion family! Pigs run amok in the story Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! then try to escape the wolf in a retelling of a classic folktale.

Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!

Features the book Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!, by David McPhail

Story

Key word: pigs

Word family: -op

Target sound: p

High-frequency sight words: and, her, house, I, is

New vocabulary: galore

Galdone, Paul. The Three Little Pigs

Gibbons, Gail. Pigs

Lowell, Susan. The Three Little Javelinas


McPhail, David. Those Can-Do Pigs

Roth, Carol. Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean PigsThe Three Little Pigs

Features a version of “The Three Little Pigs”

Folktale

Key word: house

Word family: -op

Target sound: h

High-frequency sight words: big, in, little, no, the, then

New vocabulary: locative words (behind, in front of, next to, on top of, under)

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Poetry Day #207

Two pigeons named Walter and Clay learn all about poetry on Poetry Day!

Features a poem from A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetry

Key word: train

Word family: -ain (-aint, -ail, -air)

Target sound: ai as long a

High-frequency sight words: and, has, is, it, on, pull, push, the

New vocabulary: entertainment, pail, poetry, poultry, rhyme, rhythm, spotlight, transport

Bryan, Ashley. Sing to the Sun

Demi. In the Eyes of a Cat: Japanese Poetry

Greenfield, Eloise. Honey, I Love

Prelutsky, Jack. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child’s Garden of Verses

The Popcorn Popper #116

Lionel and Leona persuade Click to take a magic popcorn popper out of a book and then can’t make it stop popping!

Features a folktale about magical pots

Folktale & Instructions

Key word: pop

Word family: -op (-om, -ot, -ox)


High-frequency sight words: it, mom, not, on, pop

New vocabulary: designated, instructions, poplar, popular

Barrett, Judi. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Demi. One Grain of Rice

dePaola, Tomie. The Popcorn Book

Moran, Alex. Popcorn

Riley, Linnea. Mouse Mess

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The Popcorn Popper/ Oh, Yes, It Can!

#907

Lionel and Leona can’t make a popcorn popper stop popping, then meet a yam that can talk.

The Popcorn Popper

Features a folktale about magical pots

Folktale & Instructions

Key word: popcorn

Word family: -op


New vocabulary: designated, instructions, popcorn

dePaola, Tomie. Strega Nona

Galdone, Paul. The Magic Porridge Pot

Kimmel, Eric. Anansi and the Talking Melon

MacDonald, Margaret Read. Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!: A Palestinian Folktale

Paye, Won-Ldy and Margaret H. Lippert. The Talking Vegetables


Oh, Yes, It Can!

Features a version of “Talk,” an African folktale

Folktale

Key word: can

Word family: -an (-at)


New vocabulary: abacus, alligator, alphabet, ant, apple, apricot, Ashanti, avocado, commanded, fabric, gasped, yam, yammering

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Priceless Gifts/ King Midas

#906

Is Lionel going to get his wish—to see Cliff Hanger get off the cliff? King Midas gets what he wished for, then wishes he didn’t.

Priceless Gifts

Features a retelling of the folktale “Priceless Gifts”

Folktale

Key word: sheep

Target sound: sh

New vocabulary: cat, friend, gift, grateful, king, merchant, priceless, sailed, sell, shaking, shapes, shark, sheep, shell, shimmying, shirt, shoes, shovels, shower curtains, shrimps, shrubs

Craft, Charlotte. King Midas and the Golden Touch

Demi. King Midas: The Golden Touch

Hamilton, Martha. Priceless Gifts: A Tale from Italy

Polacco, Patricia. Mrs. Katz and Tush

Wells, Rosemary. Max and Ruby’s Midas

King Midas

Features the myth “King Midas”

Myth

Key word: king

Target sound: k

New vocabulary: dangling, forsake, greedy, kabob, kale, kazoo, keen, kidney, kite, kooky, kumquat, perky

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The Problem with Chickens/ An Egg Is Quiet

#701

What to do about chickens that don’t lay eggs and eggs that just sit there quietly and don’t hatch?

The Problem with Chickens

Features the book The Problem with Chickens, by Bruce McMillan

Story

Key word: chickens

Target sound: ch

New vocabulary: chess, chilly, chuckling, exercising

Aston, Dianna. A Seed is Sleepy

Aston, Dianna. An Egg is Quiet

McMillan, Bruce. The Problem with Chickens

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. First the Egg

Sklansky, Amy. Where Do Chicks Come From?

Sykes, Julie. Dora’s Eggs

An Egg Is Quiet

Features the book An Egg Is Quiet, by Dianna Aston

Nonfiction

Featured vocabulary: descriptive words (colorful, loud, noisy, quiet); shapes (circle, oval, rectangle, round, square, triangle)

New vocabulary: albumen, camouflage, hatch, shell, tubular, yolk

Quest, Quest, Quest! #216

Faith Prince stars in an adventure about two knights and a nasty villain, written by Babs Caplan with a little help from the lions.


Story

Key word: quest

Word family: -est (-ess, -et, -en, -ed)


High-frequency sight words: best, for, of, the

New vocabulary: armor, dungeon, jester, kettle, quest, siesta, tenderloin, villain

dePaola, Tomie. The Knight and the Dragon

Gibbons, Gail. Knights in Shining Armor

Maynard, Christopher. Days of the Knights

San Souci, Robert D. Young Lancelot

Talbott, Hudson. King Arthur and the Round Table

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The Ram in the Pepper Patch #119

A rambunctious ram leaves his book, butts everyone and everything in the library, and won’t go back!

Features a version of “The Ram in the Chili Patch,” a Mexican folktale

Folktale

Key word: ram

Word family: -am (-an, -ap, -ad)


High-frequency sight words: am, in, no, on, the

New vocabulary: diagram, hamburger, scram, scramble

Christelow, Ellen. Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do

Geisel, Theodor. The Cat in the Hat

McKissack, Patricia & Fredrick. Messy Bessey’s School Desk

Sierra, Judy. Nursery Tales Around the World

Wild, Margaret. Nighty Night!

Rats #221

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can never hurt you. Or can they?


Story

Key word: rat

Word family: -at (-ag, -an, -ant)


High-frequency sight words: in, that, they, to

New vocabulary: acrobat, bard, eulogy, fabulous, flatter, insult

Choi, Yang Sook. The Name Jar

dePaola, Tomie. Oliver Button Is a Sissy

Frasier, Debra. Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

Henkes, Kevin. Julius: The Baby of the World

Lovell, Patty. Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Red Hat, Green Hat #122

Leona’s new hat stirs up trouble in the library.

Features a version of “A Quarrel Between Friends,” an African folktale

Folktale

Key word: red

Word family: -ed (-et, -en, -end), -eep

Target sound: short e (long e)

High-frequency sight words: green, is, red, said

New vocabulary: dove, fowl, hen, information, jealous, peacock, quail

Jones, Rebecca C. Matthew and Tilly

Marshall, James. George and Martha

Morris, Ann. Hats, Hats, Hats

Silverman, Erica. Don’t Fidget a Feather!

Zolotow, Charlotte. The Quarreling Book

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River Story/ Salmon in Alaska

#904

The cubs take a trip down the river, and the whole family heads to Alaska.

River Story

Features the book River Story, by Meredith Hooper

Nonfiction

Key word: river

Target sound: r

New vocabulary: descriptive words (bubbling, bouncing, bumping, dripping, melting, stronger); imagine; locative words (deeper, over, under, wider); river-related (boulders, deep, fish, moss, mud, pebbles, rowboat, stones, stream, water)

Gonzalez, Maya Christina. I Know the River Loves Me/Yo sé que el río me ama

Hooper, Meredith. River Story

Joosse, Barbara M. Mama, Do You Love Me?

Miller, Debbie S. River of Life

Kalman, Bobbie. The Life Cycle of a Salmon

McMillan, Bruce. Salmon Summer Salmon in Alaska


Nonfiction

Featured vocabulary: fish and fishing (creek, drifting, fish drying rack, hatching, incubator, ocean, pumped, raceway, river, salmon, smokehouse, stream, swim, upstream)

New vocabulary: Alaska; family (adults, cousins, grandchild, grandmother); culture, tradition

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The Roar That Makes Them Run #126

Leona and Lionel try to get their dad to roar a mighty roar.

Features information about animal life in the wild

CD-ROM

Key word: run

Word family: -un (-ug, -uck, -up, -ut)


High-frequency sight words: a, and, but, in, the, up

New vocabulary: mutton, overdue, volume

Aardema, Verna. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Arnosky, Jim. Little Lions

Freeman, Don. Dandelion

Saign, Geoffrey. The African Cats

Simon, Seymour. Big Cats

Ruby Sings the Blues/ The Camel Dances

#801

A very loud girl learns to sing, and Leona and a camel discover the joy of dancing.

Ruby Sings the Blues

Features the book Ruby Sings the Blues, by Niki Daly

Story

Key word: loud

Target sound: l

New vocabulary: concert, dance, jazz singer, hollered, loud, quiet, quieter, saxophonist, shouted, singing, volume, yelled

Andreae, Giles. Giraffes Can’t Dance

Brown, Monica. My Name is Celia/ My llamo Celia

Daly, Niki. Ruby Sings the Blues

Laguna, Sofie. Too Loud Lily

Lobel, Arnold. Fables

Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Jingle DancerThe Camel Dances

Features a fable “The Camel Dances” from the book Fables, by Arnold Lobel

Fable

Key word: dance

Target sound: d

New vocabulary: applause, arabesques, audience, ballet dancer, camel, critic, dancer, desire, grace, movement, pirouettes, practiced, recital, relevés

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The Sad Dad #201

Theo reads a story about a sad dad who gets advice from a wise woman and ends up with chickens, goats, cows, and an elk in his house.

Features a version of “It Could Always Be Worse,” a European folktale

Folktale

Key word: bad

Word family: -ad (-an, -ack, -at, -ap)


High-frequency sight words: be, could, dad, everyone, from, is, it, that, this, woman, worse

New vocabulary: admiral, advance, adventure, advice, elk, porridge

Forest, Heather. A Big Quiet House

Ginsburg, Mirra. Mushroom in the Rain

Koller, Jackie French. One Monkey Too Many

Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Always Room for One More

Zemach, Margot. It Could Always Be Worse

Sausage Nose #121

Theo, Cleo, Lionel, and Leona watch a video about a husband and wife, three wishes, a sausage, and a nose.

Features a version of “The Three Wishes,” a European folktale

Folktale

Key word: wish

Word family: -ish (-ing, -in, -it, -ip, -ick)


High-frequency sight words: in, it, no, three, you

New vocabulary: argue, expression, radish, sausage, subtitles

Addy, Sharon Hart. When Wishes Were Horses

McClintock, Barbara. Molly and the Magic Wishbone



Zemach, Margaret. The Three Wishes

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Sheep on a Ship/ Mississippi Skip and His Pirate Ship

#602

Ahoy there, mateys! There’s lots of slipping, sliding, swabbing, and colliding when sheep and pirates take to the high seas.

Sheep on a Ship

Features the book Sheep on a Ship, by Nancy Shaw

Story

Key word: ship

Target sound: sh

High-frequency sight words: a, and, off, on, the, to

New vocabulary: anchor, collide, craft, deck, drift, flap, hail, lap, mast, paddling, port, raft, sagging, slosh

Fox, Mem. Tough Boris

Shaw, Nancy. Sheep in a Jeep

Shaw, Nancy. Sheep on a Ship

Tucker, Kathy. Do Pirates Take Baths?

Wheeler, Lisa. Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion

Yolen, Jane. Ballad of the Pirate Queens

Mississippi Skip and His Pirate Ship

Features an original pirate story

Story

Key word: skip

Target sound: s blends

High-frequency sight words: and, he, his, on, the, with

New vocabulary: behold, boulder, brim, hippo, jig, scoot, search, skis, steer, stupendous, swab

Shooting Stars #105

The very sleepy Lion family tries to stay up very late at night, so they won’t miss the most spectacular meteor shower of the year.

Features an original poem

Poem

Key word: star (night)

Word family: -ar (-ark, -art), -ight

Target sound: r-controlled a

High-frequency sight words: all, and, at, in, no, of, one, the, to, up

New vocabulary: acrobat, marvelous, meteor, sparkling

Dorros, Arthur. Abuela

Hort, Lenny. How Many Stars in the Sky?

Levinson, Riki. Watch the Stars Come Out

Rylant, Cynthia. Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night

Taylor, Harriet Peck. Coyote Places the Stars

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A Shower of Stars/ Two Moons and One Lagoon

#504

The Lion family stays up late to watch a beautiful meteor shower, and then reads a story about a queen who wants to touch the moon.

A Shower of Stars

Features an original poem

Poem

Key word: stars

Word family: -ar

Target sound: st blend

High-frequency sight words: and, in, of, sees, the

New vocabulary: clouds, marvelous, meteor, moon, rain, shedding, sparkling, stars


Henkes, Kevin. Kitten’s First Full Moon

Levinson, Riki. Watch the Stars Come Out

Mayo, Margaret. Magical Tales from Many Lands

Oughton, Jerrie. How the Stars Fell into the Sky: A Navajo Legend

Thompson, Lauren. Polar Bear NightTwo Moons and One Lagoon

Features a version of “The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon,” a Caribbean folktale

Folktale

Key word: moon

Word family: -an, -en

Target sound: n

High-frequency sight words: and, in, of, sees, the

New vocabulary: lagoon, loyal, platoon, swayed

Something Fishy #117

When Lionel reads the latest Cliff Hanger book to Leona, it gives her an idea about how to make one of her biggest dreams come true.


Story

Key word: fish

Word family: -ish (-ip, -ig, ix, -ick)


High-frequency sight words: in, is, look, not

New vocabulary: disguise, squished, ticklish

Barber, Barbara E. Allie’s Basketball Dream

Gibbons, Gail. Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle

Lindbergh, Reeve. Nobody Owns the Sky

Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach

Williams, Vera B. A Chair for My Mother

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Spicy Hot Colors/ Yesterday I Had the Blues

#702

A colorful piñata holds a meaty surprise for the Lions, who also experience a dazzling array of colorful feelings.

Spicy Hot Colors

Features the book Spicy Hot Colors, by Sherry Shahan

Concept book

Key word: colors

Target sound: hard c

New vocabulary: cactus, castanets, cilantro, gourds, iguanas, piñatas, sarapes, skeletons, sombreros

Ehlert, Lois. Planting a Rainbow

Frame, Jeron Ashford. Yesterday I Had the Blues

Gonzalez, Maya Christina. My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo

Henkes, Kevin. A Good Day

Shahan, Sherry. Spicy Hot Colors

Thong, Roseanne. Red Is a Dragon: A Book of Colors

Yesterday I Had the Blues

Features the book Yesterday I Had the Blues, by Jeron Ashford Frame

Story

Featured vocabulary: colors (blue, golden, gray, green, indigo, pink, red, silver, yellow); emotions and feelings (the blues, cry, distraught, happy, laugh, miserable, sad, scared, smile)

New vocabulary: fabulous, fantastic, marvelous, splendid, swell, terrific

The Spider and the Lie #217

It’s up to Judge Click the Mouse to find out who’s telling the truth—Leona or a shady monkey named Monkey C. Monkeydew.


Mystery

Key word: spider

Word family: -ide (-ile, -ime, -ipe)

Target sound: long i

High-frequency sight words: her, said, she, was

New vocabulary: chump, genre, temporary, witness

Adler, David. Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery

Clement, Rod. Grandpa’s Teeth

Hurd, Thacher. Art Dog

Wisniewski, David. Tough Cookie

Wright, Betty Ren. Pet Detectives

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Step by Step #404

The lions find a treasure map that belonged to Barnaby B. Busterfield III, and go hunting for library treasure.

Features instructions to a treasure map

Instructions

Key word: step

Word family: -ep (-est, -ed, -et)


High-frequency sight words: by, get, hear, here, know, love, no, take, the, then, to

New vocabulary: booklet, directions, entertainment, hammock, homophones, wrench

Cooper, Helen. Tatty Ratty

Freeman, Don. Corduroy

Henkes, Kevin. Owen

Long, Melinda. How I Became a Pirate

Waber, Bernard. Ira Sleeps Over

Stone Soup/ Bee-bim Bop!

#805

Lionel and Leona discover that you can make delicious soup from a stone and enjoy a popular Korean meal called Bee-bim bop.

Stone Soup

Features an original story, based on the Swedish folktale Stone Soup

Folktale

Key word: soup

Target sound: s

New vocabulary: delicious, food, pot, salad, salmon, salsa, salt, satisfied, satsumas, sausage, savory, schnitzel, simmering, slurp, soup, soy sauce, succotash, tasty

Cooper, Helen. Pumpkin Soup

Forest, Heather. Stone Soup

Katzen, Molly and Ann Henderson. Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes

Park, Linda Sue. Bee-bim Bop!

Rattigan, Jama Kin. Dumpling Soup

Soto, Gary. Too Many TamalesBee-bim Bop!

Features the book Bee-bim Bop!, by Linda Sue Park

Story

Key word: bop

Target sound: b

New vocabulary: bubbling, chop, dinner, eggs, flip, hop, hungry, hurry, kitchen, mix, mop, rice, shop, steaming, supper

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Stop That Chicken! #225

It’s poultry in motion when Chicken Jane flies out of her book into the library.


Story

Key word: stop

Word family: -op (-ot, -ox)


High-frequency sight words: are, as, for, he, his, I, on, they, was, with (“Ten Little Words” song)

New vocabulary: colonial, illustrated, plop

Braman, Arlette N. Kids Around the World Cook!

Katzen, Molly and Ann Henderson. Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Paul Revere’s Ride (illus. Ted Rand)

Stevens, Janet & Susan Stevens Crummel. Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!

Winnick, Karen B. Sybil’s Night Ride

Stop That Pickle!/ Chicks and Salsa

#803

The Lions and a sandwich chase a runaway pickle in the library, and Cleo’s “Book and a Meal” show leads to a lively fiesta.

Stop That Pickle!

Features the book Stop that Pickle!, by Pete Armour

Story

Featured concept: punctuation (exclamation point, question mark, period, contractions)

New vocabulary: food-related (almonds, apple, bake shop, brine, deli, doughnut/donut, food, grape juice, hungry, ice cream cone, jar, pickle, pretzel, raisins, sandwich); actions and movement (caught, chase, collided, fast, rolled, shouted, slowest, stop)

Armour, Peter. Stop that Pickle!

Aylesworth, Jim. The Gingerbread Man


Kimmel, Eric A. The Runaway Tortilla

Mora, Pat. Yum! Mmmm! Qué Rico!: America’s Sproutings

Reynolds, Aaron. Chicks and Salsa

Chicks and Salsa

Features the book Chicks and Salsa, by Aaron Reynolds

Story

Key word: garden

Target sound: g (hard)

New vocabulary: food (aromas, avocados, beans, chilies, chips, cilantro, dice, garden, garlic, guacamole, lemons, ingredients, nachos, onions, salsa, scallions, peppers, limes, slice, spice, tomatoes); descriptive words (enticing, savory, Southwestern, succulent, sumptuous, spicy)

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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble/ I Miss You, Stinky Face

#507

It’s hard to be away from your family, especially when you’ve been turned into a rock, or the cheetah taking you home doesn’t want to leave the jungle.

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Features the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig

Story

Key word: picnic

Target sound: p

High-frequency sight words: an, and, he, if, too

New vocabulary: ceased, dawn, frantic, gradually, inquiring, miserable, panicked, pebble, scene, shiver, startled

Garza, Carmen Lomas. In My Family/ En Mi Familia

McCourt, Lisa. I Miss You, Stinky Face

McCourt, Lisa. I Love You, Stinky Face

Steig, William. Doctor DeSoto


I Miss You, Stinky Face

Features the book I Miss You, Stinky Face, by Lisa McCourt

Story

Key word: mama

Target sound: m

High-frequency sight words: but, if, I’ll, the, to, what, you

New vocabulary: astronaut, cheetah, cousin, enormous, gangplank, grandpa, member, moose, probably, steer, supersonic, uncle

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A Tasty Piece of Cheese/ The Lion and the Mouse

#508

A taste for cheese leads a fox to trick a crow, and lands a mouse in the paws of a hungry lion.

A Tasty Piece of Cheese

Features Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow”

Fable

Key word: cheese

Target sound: ch

High-frequency sight words: a, going, is, the, to, very, with

New vocabulary: beak, beware, continued, flatter, gorgeous, unfortunately

Aardema, Verna. Borreguita and the Coyote

Herman, Gail. Lion and the Mouse

Kleven, Elisa. The Lion and the Little Red Bird

Lynch, Tom. Fables from Aesop

Morrison, Toni & Slade. The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?)

The Lion and the Mouse

Features Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse”

Fable

Key word: little

Target sound: l

High-frequency sight words: are, as, for, he, his, I, love, on, the, they, was, with (“Ten Little Words” song)

New vocabulary: appetite, approaching, broccoli, chop, creatures, lighthouse, moral, scurried, taco

Teacher’s Pet #209

Cleo has the I-can’t-hear- or-tell-or-smell-if-someone’s-sneaking-up-on-me flu.


Newsletter & Journal

Key word: teacher

Word family: -each (-eat, -eam)


High-frequency sight words: can’t, he, me, my, on, or, please

New vocabulary: competition, journal, pride, reunion, unbeatable, undefeated

Berger, Melvin. Germs Make Me Sick!

Brown, Marc. Arthur’s Chicken Pox

Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork Quilt

Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia. Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice

Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Stays Home from Kindergarten

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There’s a Fly in My Soup #115

Everyone reads jokes to Click the Mouse to try to make her laugh.

Features an original joke book

Jokes

Key word: fly

Word family: -y

Target sound: y as long i

High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, is, it, my, of, that, the, to, what, when, where, who, why, you

New vocabulary: backstroke, chuckle, comedy, monitor

Cerf, Bennett. Riddles and More

Cole, Joanna. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Hills, Tad. Knock, Knock, Who’s There?

Keller, Charles. Awesome Jokes

Pellowski, Michael. Joke and Riddle Bonanza

Three Goats, No Waiting #403

Lionel writes and directs a play of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” but who can act scary enough to be the hungry troll?

Features the Norwegian folktale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”

Folktale & Play

Key word: goat

Word family: -oat, (-oast, -oan)


High-frequency sight words: a, his, I’m, in, little, me, the, there, they, you

New vocabulary: director, enchanted, gobble, houseboat, pretend, troll

Finch, Mary. The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Miller, Sara Swan. Goats

Polacco, Patricia. G is for Goat

Prelutsky, Jack. Monday’s Troll

Ziefert, Harriet. Pumpkin Pie

58




The Three-Legged Pot/ When Jabo Jammed

#708

Pepe can’t get a pot with three legs to walk, but Leona can make it dance. A boy named Jabo doesn’t dance or sing, but he can really jam.

The Three-Legged Pot

Features an original story, adapted from the popular Puerto Rican Juan Bobo folktales

Folktale

Key word: pot

Target sound: p

New vocabulary: perfect, platter, poke; locative and relational words (after, around, last, next to last, under)

Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. Juan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico

Hadithi, Mwenye. Lazy Lion

Montes, Marisa. Juan Bobo Goes to Work

Snyder, Dianne. The Boy of the Three-Year Nap

Uhlberg, Myron. Lemuel the Fool

Weatherford, Carole Boston. Jazz BabyWhen Jabo Jammed


Story

Key word: jam

Target sound: j

New vocabulary: jamboree, jammed, jamming, jiggle, judge

To the Ship! To the Ship! #111

Lionel and Walter Pigeon think all pirates were men, so they won’t let Leona and Clay Pigeon join their pirate game.


Story

Key word: ship

Word family: -ip (-it, -ick, -ickle, -ish)


High-frequency sight words: his, in, it, on, the, to

New vocabulary: boulder, courage, hippo, jig, squished, swabbed, treasure

Fox, Mem. Tough Boris

Gibbons, Gail. Pirates

McNaughton, Colin. Captain Abdul’s Pirate School

Tucker, Kathy. Do Pirates Take Baths?

Yolen, Jane. The Ballad of the Pirate Queens

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Too Cool #304

Lionel thinks the new kid at school, Derek Cheetah, is too cool to be on his baseball team.

Features the book Earl’s Too Cool for Me, by Leah Komaiko

Story

Key word: cool

Word family: -ool (-oop)

Target sound: double o

High-frequency sight words: as, be, for, he, me, too

New vocabulary: apostrophe, pooch, pretend, role-playing, tango

Havill, Juanita. Jamaica and Brianna


Komaiko, Leah. Earl’s Too Cool for Me

Parr, Todd. The Best Friends Book

Soto, Gary. Chato’s Kitchen

Touching the Moon #107

Leona keeps the whole family awake because she wants a queen to touch the moon.

Features a version of “The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon,” a Caribbean folktale

Folktale

Key word: moon

Word family: -oon (-ool, -ooth, -oot, -oo)


High-frequency sight words: and, it, soon, the, to, too

New vocabulary: cucumber, galaxy, lagoon, platoon, snooze, toodle-oo

Carle, Eric. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me

Ehlert, Lois. Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna


Mayo, Margaret. Magical Tales from Many Lands

Yolen, Jane. Owl Moon

Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains #215

Lionel and Leona ride a train into a book called Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain.

Features the book Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, by Verna Aardema

Folktale

Key word: rain

Word family: -ain (-ail, -aint)

Target sound: ai as long a

High-frequency sight words: all, big, is, no, on, that, the, this, with

New vocabulary: blaze, drought, illustrated, pierce, plain, sacrifice, slender

Aardema, Verna. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Germein, Katrina. Big Rain Coming

Hesse, Karen. Come On, Rain!

James, Betsy. The Mud Family

Martin, Bill, Jr. Listen to the Rain

60




Treats! #310

An advertising Dream Team—creators of one of the Lions’ favorite commercials—is hired to create an ad for the library.

Features an original story about an ad campaign for the library

Advertisement

Key word: treat

Word family: -eat (-eam, -ear)


High-frequency sight words: by, don’t, eat, have, it, love, read, to, you’ll

New vocabulary: advertising, comma, commercial, farewell, librarian, period, punctuator, quotation marks, rhinos

Best, Cari. Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me

Bruss, Deborah. Book! Book! Book!

Cummins, Julie. Inside-Outside Book of Libraries

Gibbons, Gail. Check It Out! The Book About Libraries

Stewart, Sarah. The Library

Trosclair and the Alligator/ The Coyote and the Rabbit

#809

A clever boy tricks a hungry alligator, who gives Lionel and his friend Keri a scare, and a hungry coyote gets tricked by a clever rabbit.

Trosclair and the Alligator

Features the book Trosclair and the Alligator, by Peter Huggins

Story

Featured vocabulary: alligator, beehive, bees, cousins, hive, honey, oak tree, rice, swamp, uncle,

New vocabulary: bayou, cypress trees, enormous, gumbo, Louisiana, pirogue, sweet, stung, teeth, tree, turtle eggs

Aardema, Verna. Borreguita and the Coyote

Huggins, Peter. Trosclair and the Alligator

Johnston, Tony. The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote

Hamilton, Virgina. Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl

Kadair, Deborah Ousley. There Was an Ol’ Cajun

Tingle, Tim. When Turtles Grew Feathers: A Tale from the Choctaw Nation

The Coyote and the Rabbit

Features an original retelling of “The Coyote and the Rabbit”

Folktale

Key word: circle

Target sound: c (soft)

High-frequency sight words: he, she, the

New vocabulary: cannon, celery, clever, coyote, fragrance, morsel, relative, trapeze

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Tweet! Tweet! #222

Walter and Clay Pigeon meet face-to-face with Tyrannosaurus rex!

Features a poem from Bone Poems, by Jeff Moss

Poetry & Nonfiction

Key word: tweet

Word family: -eet (-eeze, -ee, -eep)


High-frequency sight words: go, little, see, sleep, to

New vocabulary: ancestor, descendant, dinosaur names, eel, extinct, flee, meteorite, parakeet

Mitton, Tony. Dinosaurumpus!

Moss, Jeff. Bone Poems

Prelutsky, Jack. Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast

Ryder, Joanne. Tyrannosaurus Time

Shields, Carol Diggory. Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp

Two Coats, One Goat, and One Boat #309

Lionel’s copy of a very rare Cliff Hanger book is missing! Did some bunny take it?

Features the book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback

Folktale

Key word: coat

Word family: -oat (-oan, -oad, -oak, -oast)


High-frequency sight words: a, had, he, it, little, of, out, so, was

New vocabulary: autograph, chorus, enchanted, handkerchief, private, protective, scarf, suspenders, valuable

Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork Quilt

Gilman, Phoebe. Something from Nothing

Sanfield, Steve. Bit by Bit

Taback, Simms. Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Ziefert, Harriet. A New Coat for Anna

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Violet’s Music/ What Instrument Does Alvin Play?

#706

Lionel and Leona discover many wonderful instruments, and that if you keep playing music, you’ll find someone who wants to join your band.

Violet’s Music

Features the book Violet’s Music, by Angela Johnson

Story

Key word: music

Target sound: m

New vocabulary: band, guitar, guitarist, magnificent, maracas, microphone, moccasins, saxophone, tambourine, wail; locative and directional words (beneath, opposite, sideways)

Ancona, George. Mi música/My Music

Cox, Judy. My Family Plays Music

Hayes, Amy. Meet the Orchestra

Johnson, Angela. Violet’s Music

Velasquez, Eric. Grandma’s Records

Weatherford, Carol Boston. Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

What Instrument Does Alvin Play?


Story

Featured vocabulary: musical instruments (bassoon, brass, cello, cymbal, drums, flute, percussion, saxophone, string, triangle, trombone, trumpet, tuba, tympani, wind, violin, xylophone)

New vocabulary: baton, chant, concert, croon, drummer, flutists

What Parakeets Need #303

Theo and Cleo give the cubs a pet parakeet, but will Sweety Tweety talk?

Features the book The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss

Guide

Key word: parakeet

Word family: -eet (-eep)


High-frequency sight words: come, didn’t, ever, is, known, my, name, our, she, talked, that, to, up, we’ve, won’t, would, you’ll

New vocabulary: flee, parakeet, peep, responsibility, responsible, screech, sprinkled, weep, wheeze

Ajmera, Maya. A Kid’s Best Friend!

Doyle, Malachy. Sleepy Pendoodle

Krauss, Ruth. The Carrot Seed

Numeroff, Laura. Laura Numeroff’s 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster

Piers, Helen. Taking Care of Your Parakeet

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Why the Baboon’s Balloon Went Ka-Boom! #218

A little bug goes ka-choo! and a baboon’s balloon goes ka-boom!

Features the book Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!, by Rosetta Stone

Story

Key word: ka-choo

Word family: -oo (-oom, -oot, -oose)


High-frequency sight words: and, because, he, she, that, the

New vocabulary: anchor, baboon, hullabaloo, kazoo, maroon, snagged, taboo, vamoose

Barton, Byron. Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Polacco, Patricia. In Enzo’s Splendid Gardens

Shannon, David. The Rain Came Down

Stone, Rosetta. Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!

Wings/ What’s in the Box?

#503

Watch out! The cubs find out what warnings mean, and why it’s important to pay attention to them.

Wings

Features the Greek myth “Daedalus & Icarus”

Myth

Key word: wings

Target sound: w

High-frequency sight words: a, can, he

New vocabulary: ancient, backwards, brilliant, fierce, imprisoned, labyrinth, plummeted, warning, wheeze, wiggling

Amery, Heather. Greek Myths for Young Children

Myers, Christopher. Wings


Stevenson, James. The Mud Flat Mystery

Turkle, Brinton. Do Not OpenWhat’s in the Box?

Features the Greek myth “Pandora’s Box”

Myth

Key word: box

Target sound: b

High-frequency sight words: do, not, of, open, out, stop, the

New vocabulary: airplane, cure, hiccups, interesting, kite, released

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Yo! Yes?/ Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal

#603

Sometimes, making a new friend is as easy as saying yes. And Leona discovers that making her brother happy is as easy as showing him a music video with big, noisy construction vehicles.

Yo! Yes?

Features the book Yo! Yes?, by Chris Raschka

Story

Key word: yes

Target sound: y

High-frequency sight words: me, yes, you

New vocabulary: dandelion, finch, pollen, yak, yodel

Bloom, Suzanne. A Splendid Friend, Indeed

Burton, Virginia Lee. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

McMullen, Kate & Jim. I Stink!

Raschka, Chris. Ring! Yo?

Raschka, Chris. Yo! Yes?

Sobel, June. B is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC

Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal

Features an original song

Song

Key word: very

Target sound: v

High-frequency sight words: and, it’s, very, we

New vocabulary: clang, construction, metal, thump, tilted, vacuum, vehicle, vines, vulture

You Can’t Catch Me! #305

Lionel gives Leona The Gingerbread Man book for her birthday. Will it spoil her party?

Features a version of “The Gingerbread Man”

Folktale/fairy tale

Key word: catch

Word family: -atch (-at, -an, -and, -ant)


High-frequency sight words: a, and, as, can, can’t, couldn’t, he, I, I’m, in, me, said, the, they, you

New vocabulary: character, flabbergasted, gingerbread, streamers


Egielski, Richard. The Gingerbread Boy

Howland, Naomi. The Matzah Man

Kimmel, Eric. The Gingerbread Man

Takayama, Sandi. Musubi Man

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Zoop! Zoop! #205

Leona faces her fear of a scary fictional giant, with the help of her mother and a ukelele.

Features the book Abiyoyo, by Pete Seeger

Folktale/song

Key word: zoop

Word family: -oop (-oon, -oose)


High-frequency sight words: boy, father, say, the

New vocabulary: magician, ostracized, slobbery, staggered, ukelele

McKissack, Patricia. Precious and the Boo Hag

Seeger, Pete. Abiyoyo

Seeger, Pete. Abiyoyo Returns

Souhami, Jessica. No Dinner: The Story of the Old Woman and the Pumpkin

Young, Ed. Lon Po Po

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