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