Core Book Themes from Literacy Place Cycle 3

Making a Difference –   Cycle 3 Year 1

*Anchor/Read Aloud:  *Yuit by Yvette Edwards or *The Hollow Tree

                            by Janet Lunn or Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

                            or *Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker

Challenging:   Freedom Crossing by M.G. Clarke

On level:       This Means War by Bev Spencer

Easy:          Welcome to the Club by Martyn Godfrey

Easy-Easy:    Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

  *Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind 

                 by Margaret Davidson

In the News – Cycle 3 year 1

*Anchor/Read Aloud – Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang

Challenging:    Zlata’s Diary by Klata Filipovic

On level:       Trapped by G. Sullivan or Animal Heroes by K.Bradford

Easy:           Sports Reports: Stories Behind the Headlines by P.Romanuk

*Easy Easy:     Ten True Animal Rescues by Jeanne Betancourt or

                   A Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David Adler

*Easy Easy Plus: Amazing Rescues by George Shea

Voyagers  – Cycle 3- year 1

*Anchor/Read Aloud: Ghostliners by Robert Ballard

Challenging:        Exploring the Titanic by Robert Ballard

On Level:           Destination Antartica by Robert Swan

Easy:                Discovery Mission by Barbara Bondar

*Easy Easy: The Titanic Lost and Found or True-LifeTreasure Hunts

                both by Judy Donnelly

It Takes a Leader  – Cycle 3- year 2

*Anchor/Read Aloud: Record Breakers: True Stories of

                           This Century’s Amazing Kids by Leslie Garrett, or

                                       I Have a Dream:The Story of Martin Luther King

                           by Margaret Davidson or

                           Lucy Maude Montgomery: A Writer’s Life

                                        by Elizabeth Macleod

Challenging:        Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson

                     by Barry Denenberg

On Level:           Martha Black: Gold Rush Pioneer by Carol Martin

Easy:                Kids in Action    by Leslie Garrett

*Easy Easy:           Helen Keller: Crusader For the Blind and Deaf

                      by Stewart and Polly Anne Graff or

                      To the Top: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountain

                       by S.A. Kramer

*Easy Easy Plus:     Hockey Stars by S.A. Kramer

* Material not included with Literacy Place