2.+Literature

(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars

= Literary Texts =

Stories

 * Are You My Mother? (Philip D. Eastman) (E)
 * Mouse Tales (Arnold Lobel) (EA)
 * Uncle Elephant (Arnold Lobel) (EA)
 * Mouse Soup (Arnold Lobel) (EA)

Poetry

 * ===="Fish" (Mary Ann Hoberman)====

Stories (Read Aloud)

 * ====//Finn Family Moomintroll// (Tove Jansson) (E)====

Poetry (Read Aloud)

 * ===="The Fox's Foray" in //The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book// (Anonymous) (E)====
 * ===="The Owl and the Pussycat" in //The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear// (Edward Lear) (E)====
 * ===="I Know All the Sounds that the Animals Make" in //Something Big Has Been Here// (Jack Prelutsky)====
 * ===="The Pasture" in //The Poetry of Robert Frost// (Robert Frost)====
 * ===="The Purple Cow" in //The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess// (Gelett Burgess)====

= Informational Texts = =Informational Text=
 * ====//Starfish// (Let's-Read-and-Find…Science) (Edith Thacher Hurd and Robin Brickman) (E)====
 * ====//A Nest Full of Eggs// (Let's-Read-and-Find…Science) (Priscilla Belz Jenkins and Lizzy Rockwell) (E)====
 * ====//What’s It Like to Be a Fish?// (Let’s-Read-and-Find…Science) (Wendy Pfeffer and Holly Keller) (E)====
 * ====//What Lives in a Shell?// (Let's-Read-and-Find…Science) (Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld and Helen K. Davie) (E)====
 * ====//Where Do Chicks Come From?// (Let's-Read-and-Find…Science) (Amy E. Sklansky and Pam Paparone) (E)====
 * ====//Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints// (Let’s-Read-and-Find…Science) (Millicent E. Selsam and Marlene Hill Donnelly) (E)====
 * ====//Where Are the Night Animals?// (Let’s-Read-and-Find…Science) (Mary Ann Fraser) (E)====

Informational Text (Read Aloud)

 * ====//Earthworms// (Claire Llewellyn and Barrie Watts) (E)====
 * ====//What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?// (Steve Jenkins and Robin Page) (E)====
 * ====//Biggest, Strongest, Fastest// (Steve Jenkins) (EA)====
 * ====//What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?// (Steve Jenkins) (EA)====
 * ====//Never Smile at a Monkey:// //And 17 Other Important Things to Remember// (Steve Jenkins) (EA)====
 * ====//Amazing Whales!// (Sarah L. Thomson) (E)====
 * ====//How Animals Work// (DK Publishing)====
 * ====//Creature ABC// (Andrew Zuckerman)====

= Art, Music, and Media =

Art

 * ====Albrecht Dürer, ﻿//[|Two Squirrels, One Eating a Hazelnut]//﻿ (no date)====
 * ====Marc Chagall, //[|I and the Village]// (1945)====
 * ====Paul Klee, //[|Cat and Bird]// (1928)====
 * ====Henri Rousseau, //[|The Flamingoes]// (1907)====
 * ====Susan Rothenberg, //[|Untitled (Horse)]// (1976)====
 * ====Henri Matisse, //[|The Snail]// (1953)====