Form 1 Literature
Here are examples of books read throughout the 2-year cycle of Form 1.
YEAR 1 - THIS IS MY FATHER'S WORLD
Unit 1: My Listening Ears
Just the Way You Are by Max Lucado
My Five Senses by Aliki Brandenburg
Unit 2: All Nature Sings
Peter Rabbit Treasury by Beatrix Potter
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Unit 3: Music of the Spheres
Midnights on the Moon by Mary Pope Osborne
Stars by Steve Tomecek
Unit 4: I Rest Me
Winter Poems by Barbara Rogasky
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B Williams
Unit 5: Of Rocks
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
The Real Story of Stone Soup by Ying Chang Compestine
Unit 6: And Trees
Sequoia by Tony Johnson
An Elm and Three Sisters by Norma Sommerdorf
Unit 7: Of Skies
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Wings Along the Waterway by Mary Brown
Unit 8: And Seas
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
Dolphin's First Day by Kathleen Zoehfeld
YEAR 2 - REAL AND PRETEND
Unit 1: Dragons and Dinosaurs
The Magic Schoolbus at the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole
We Are the Dinosaurs by Laurie Bernkner
Unit 2: Countries and Kingdoms
Stars and Stripes: The Store of the American Flag by Sarah L. Thomson
Unit 3: Christmas and the Christ
Room for a Little One by Martin Waddell
The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
Unit 4: Citizens and Characters
Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett
A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
Unit 5: Truth and Tales
Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
The Ugly Duckling by Pinkney
Unit 6: Angels and Fairies
A Midsummer Night’s Dream retold by Bruce Coville
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams