Tiffany Pan Annotated Resource List Penn Alexander Grade 1 Resource Aston, D., & Long, S. (2006).

An egg is quiet. Bennett, E. (2007). Chick Life Cycle. New York, USA: Scholastics. Type Nonfiction Book Rationale This book presents facts in a poetic, fiction structure. This is an effective way of informing students of facts about eggs in a memorable manner. This book has real-life photographs of chicks. This is a book that is more accessible to all of the students in my class if they were to read this independently during reading workshop. This book contains a lot of scientific facts about multiple oviparous animal eggs. Limits/Additional Comments Ill probably read this book in the middle of the unit.

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Cusick, D. & Sullivan, J. (2011). "Animal Eggs. North Carolina: Earlylight Books.

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I would not use this as a readaloud since the books usually used are 2-3 grade levels above the first grade reading level. This is shorter, more digestible book. This is a pretty hard book to read (the text is pretty small and the background is black, making it challenging visually). Students might not be able to see the words at all when I read it to them on the carpet. This is a pretty long book with lots of information might have to break it up into two readings instead of just putting it into one morning read-aloud.

Nonfiction Book Ehrlich, F. (2007). You Cant Lay an Egg If Youre an Elephant. New Jersey: Apple Books. Poem Eggs http://www.cante ach.ca/elementar y/songspoems73.h tml Fisher, A. Peck, Peck, Peck. http://www.hubbar dscupboard.org/it_ started_as_an_egg. html Friend, C. (2007). The Perfect Nest. New York:

This book introduces the vocabulary of oviparous, viviparous, and monotreme. It showcases which animals belong in which category. I plan on reading this in the first three days of my unit. Students can review the different kinds of animals that lay eggs by reading the verbs in the poem. This will also get the students to make inferences about which animals the poet is referring to (i.e. some that slither, and some that run.). This poem raises the question as to how a chick knows how to peck its way out.

Some students may have trouble identifying what kind of animals the poet is referring to (ELL students, students who do not have as much vocabulary as others).

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This book is humorous and presents three oviparous animals interacting with each other (theyre also all of

The different languages spoken in the book by the characters since they do not hear different

Pan Scholastic Inc. different ethnicities so they all speak different languages). This will be a light-hearted book that will help balance out a more fact-heavy first week as most of the books Ill be reading will be nonfiction.

Galdone, P. (1968). Henny Penny. New York: Clarion Books. Ganeri, A. (2006). From egg to chicken. Chicago, Ill.: Heinemann Library

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Geisel, T. S. (1992). Horton hatches the egg. New York: Random House. Gibbons, G. (2003). Chicks & chickens. New York: Holiday House. Heller, R. (1981). Chickens aren't the only ones: world of nature. New York, USA: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. Henry, L.K. What Is an Egg?

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This book addresses the cruel reality of deception. The students will be pushed to infer what happened to the duck, chicken and other mammals in the book. This book presents detailed photographs of the life cycle of chickens. Since the students will be getting chick eggs from the farm the week after I teach, they would benefit from having background knowledge about how the life cycle works. This book addresses the importance of perseverance as Horton the elephant ends up roosting a birds egg through tumultuous events. This book will help students think about the time and effort animals put into hatching their eggs. This book shows the difference between a chick, a hen and a rooster by labeling the chickens anatomy.

languages that much in the classroom might distract students. I will have to make sure I translate these phrases and ring the students back into the story before they get too carried away in repeating the words after me. This might be gruesome for some to digest as the animals all get eaten by the fox in the end.

The book does not address the animal forming inside the egg. The ridiculousness of the plot may cause certain students to lose interest (those who love nonfiction more).

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This book introduces other oviparous animals and will help students learn about other eggs besides chicken eggs.

If students decide to choose an animal from the book, I have to be prepared to have enough resources for them to look through to do their nonfiction report on their oviparous animal. Currently I have the most books on chickens and penguins.

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This poem will describe in basic terms what the purpose of an egg is. This poem will help students transition from thinking about the exterior characteristics of an egg to the interior.

Pan Legg, G. (1998). From egg to chicken. New York: F. Watts. Leoni, L. (1994). An Extraordinary Egg. New York: Dragonfly Books. Peters, S., Im a Little Chicken. http://www.calicoc ookie.com/eggsuni t.html Platypus Nonfiction Book This book shows the actual stages of a chick developing inside an egg (the pictures are hand drawn so this might be more digestible for a 1st grader as opposed to an actual embryo). This is a humorous story about a misplaced egg that will encourage my students to be imaginative and give them ideas for their egg design at the end of the unit. This poem can be sung to the tune of Im a Little Teapot and it can help the students identify themselves as a chick (its written in first person perspective). This poem will further enhance the facts they will be learning about the platypus specifically during the second week of my unit. This book will help prepare students to do the egg walk as it is a questionanswer book where they will get to guess which animal the egg belongs to by looking at the picture.

Students might need to be reminded that even though the pictures are hand drawn, that doesnt mean the book is fiction or that the facts are less real.

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Posada, M. (2007). Guess What is Growing Inside This Egg? Minneapolis: Millbrook Press. Robertson, M.P. (2000). The Egg. New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books. Silverstein, S. (1996) Eggs Rated from Falling Up. New York: Harper Collins. Sklansky, A. E. (2005). Where do chicks come from? New York: Harper Collins

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Might give away some of the eggs I am including in the egg walk check to see if there is overlap and make changes accordingly.

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This is a fantastical story about a boy having a dragon pet. This will fit well into the second week of the unit since most of the read alouds will be fiction. This will also be a good example of a narrative. My students take home 2 poems each week to practice reading fluency. This poem is the only

This book will appeal to the boys especially since the protagonist is a boy around their age. The book involves a dragon character as well.

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This book addresses the fundamental question of the origins of chickens. It also answers the rhetorical question of did the egg or the chicken come first? This will be a good introduction book to use during the second week of

If the students already know a lot about chickens, this might be not as engaging as it could be (I have a zoologist in my classroom he is a factmachine when it comes to

Pan my take-over, as it is milder in terms of visuals. This is older, southern literature that will help wrap up the unit with a mystical storyline. This book will help prepare students for the following unit on multicultural fairytales after the chicks come in.

Souci, R.D. (1989). The Talking Eggs. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.

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animals and anything on national geographic). Students may need more background context for the story since they do not usually read many multicultural texts during morning read alouds. Prepare to give a backdrop in the beginning and throughout the story.