Grade 4 OCR Reading Library

Unit 1: Risks and Consequences

  • Mrs. Frisby and the Crow
  • Toto
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall
  • Escape
  • Hippo's Hope
  • Mae Jemison: Space Scientist
  • Two Tickets to Freedom
  • Freedom
  • Daedalus and Icarus

Unit 2: Dollars and Sense

  • Starting a Business
  • Henry Wells and William G. Fargo
  • Lemonade Stand
  • Elias Sifuentes, Restaurateur
  • Business is Looking Up
  • Salt
  • The Milkmaid and Her Pail

Unit 3:

From

Mystery

To

Medicine

  • Medicine: Past and Present
  • The Microscope
  • Sewed Up His Heart
  • Surgeons Must Be Careful
  • The Germ
  • The Bridge Dances
  • Emily's Hands-On Science Experiment
  • The New Doctor
  • The Story of Susan La Flesche Picotte
  • Shadow of a Bull

Unit 4: Survival

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins
  • Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson
  • McBroom and the Big Wind
  • The Grasshopper
  • The Big Wave
  • Solitude
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Music and Slavery
  • Many Thousand Gone
  • Walk Together Children

Unit 5: Communication

  • Message by the Mile
  • Whalesong
  • We'll Be Right Back After These Messages
  • Breaking into Print: Before and After: The Invention of the Printing Press
  • Koko's Kitten
  • Louise Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
  • Connections
  • My Two Drawings

Unit 6:

A Changing America

  • Early America
  • The Voyage of the Mayflower
  • Pocahontas
  • Martha Helps the Rebel
  • Prophecy in Flame
  • Going West
  • The California Gold Rush
  • The Golden Spike