Language Arts

Student Outcomes for Reading & Writing

Reserved Novels by Grade Level

Student Outcomes by Grade Level

Kindergarten1st Grade2nd Grade3rd Grade4th Grade5th Grade6th Grade

7th Grade8th Grade9th Grade10th Grade11th Grade12th Grade

Reserved Novels by Grade Level

KINDERGARTEN

• Brown Bear Brown Bear - Bill Martin Jr.
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - Bill Martin Jr & John Archambault
• Corduroy - Freeman
• From Caterpillar to Butterfly - Heiligman
• Hibernation - Hall
• The Mitten - Jan Brett
• The Napping House - Wood
• The Very Hungry Catepillar - Eric Carle
• What Do You Do With a Tail Like That? - Jenkins & Paige
• Your Five Senses - Katz

1ST GRADE

• Crysanthemum - Henkes
• Little Red Hen - Barton
• Maps and Journeys - Petty/Wood
• The Snowy Day - Ezra J. Keats
• Weather Words and What They Mean - Gibbons
• What's Alive - Zoehfeld

2ND GRADE

• A Book About Your Skeleton - Gross
• The Chalk Box Kid - Clyde Robert Bulla
• Freckle Juice - Judy Blume
• Happy Birthday Martin Luther King - Marzollo/Pinkney
• Ibis a True Whale Story - Himmelman
• Legend of the Bluebonnet - Tommie dePaola
• Miss Nelson is Missing - Harry G. Allard
• The Popcorn Book - dePaola
• Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann
• What Happens to A Hamburger? - Showers/Miller

3RD GRADE

• Finding the Titantic - Ballard
• Helen Keller - Davidson
• John Henry - Lester
• Sacajawea - Translator and Guide - Hamilton
• Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
• Tornado - Betsy Byers

4TH GRADE

• Because of Winn Dixie - Kate Dicamillo
• Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverley Cleary
• Lou Gherig: The Luckiest Man - Adler
• Secret Knowledge of Grownups - Wisniewski
• Space Probes to the Planet - Robinson
• Train to Somewhere - Bunting

5TH GRADE

• Esperanza Rising - Pam Munoz Ryan
• Fury of a Hurricane - Lauber
• Hatchet - Gary Paulson
• Jr. Iditarod Race - Wood
• Looking for a Home from Orphan Train Rider - Warren
• Paul Revere's Ride

6TH GRADE

• The All-American Slurp - Lensey Namioka
• Arachne - Olivie E. Coolidge
• The Dog of Pompeii - Louis Untermeyer
• The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Anderson
• Eulogy for Gandhi - Jawaharlal Nehru
• Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last - Geoffrey C. Ward
• The King of Mazy May - Jack London
• Letter to Scottie - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Lion and the Bulls - Aesop
• The Loch Ness Monster - George Laycock
• Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
• The Shutout - Patricia McKissack
• Sound of Summer Running - Ray Bradbury

7TH GRADE

• All Summer in a Day - Ray Bradbury
• Black Bears Return - The Oakland Press
• The Chase - Annie Dillard
• The Fox and the Crow - Aesop
• Life and Times of Sue - Field Museum
• The Monster's Are Due on Maple Street - Rod Sterling
• Nolan Ryan, Texas Treasure - William W. Lace
• The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
• The Phantom of the Opera - Arthur Kopit
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Rudyard Kipling
• Seventh Grade - Gary Soto
• The Watsons Go To Birmingham - Christopher Paul Curtis
• Zoo - Edward Hoch

8TH GRADE

• Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
• A Retrieved Reformation - O. Henry
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The American Dream - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner
• Dream Deferred - Langston Hughes
• Ellis Island - Joseph Bruchac
• I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
• The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
• Something from the Sixties - Garrison Keillor
• The Spell of the Yukon - Robert Service
• The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
• That Was Then, This is Now - S.E. Hinton
• This We Know - Chief Seattle
• Up the Slide - Jack London
• Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall - Diane Ackerman

9TH GRADE

• Glory and Hope - Nelson Mandela
• Go Deep to the Sewer - Bill Cosby
• The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisernos
• The New Frontier - John F. Kennedy
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• The Odyssey - Homer
• Romeo and Juliet - W. Shakespeare
• Texas Football Close-Up - Phil Barber, Ray Didinger

10TH GRADE

• Brave New World - A. Huxley
• Contents of the DMP - J. Finney
• The Dog That Bit People - James Thurber
• Hearts and Hands - O. Henry
• The History of the Guitar - Thomas Hill
• Julius Caesar - W. Shakespeare
• Keep Memory Alive - Elie Wiesel
• To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Masque of the Red Death - E.A. Poe
• The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs
• The Open Window - Saki
• Star Wars: A Trip to a Far Funny Place - Vincent Canby
• Star Wars: Breakthrough Film - Roger Ebert
• Style - Maya Angelou

11TH GRADE

• Civil Disobedience - Henry Thoreau
• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
• Of Plymouth Plantation - William Bradford
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Self-Reliance - Ralph Emerson

12TH GRADE

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Anonymous
• Beowulf - Anonymous
• The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
• Discourse on Origin of Inequality - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Macbeth - W. Shakespeare
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Mediation 17 - John Donne