K-5 Book Lists

Realistic Fiction

Fantasy Fiction

Historic Fiction

Literary Nonfiction

• personal journals

• diaries

• memoirs

• letters

• essays

Science Fiction

Traditional Literature:

• • fairy tales

  • fables

  • folktales

  • legends

  • myths

Poems

Drama

Characters

• • Main Characters (Kinder-2nd grade)

    • • Character Actions (K-2)

  • Major & Minor Characters (Begins in 3rd)

  • Internal & External Traits (Begins in 2nd)

  • Relationships 

  • Interactions

    • • reveals a characters thoughts, feelings, traits, motivations, and actions

  • Changes that characters can experience in literary text

    • • emotional

      • physical

      • socially

      • relationships

  • How the changes relate to the text:

    • • happens multiple times throughout the text

      • vital to the PLOT of the story

      • gives clues to the author's purpose and message (theme)

Parts of Plot

• • Main events (Kinder-2nd grade)

  • Sequence of Events (Begins in 3rd)

  • Ways that Problem is referred to:

    • • K & 1st - problem

      • 2nd & up - conflict

  • Climax (4th & up)

  • Rising Action (4th & up)

  • Falling Action (4th & up)

  • Resolution

Setting Influences the Plot in various ways

• • by location

  • time of day, month, year

  • physical environment

  • historically

  • culturally