America

This book is perfect to introduce our activity where we will conduct our own election in the classroom. I choose SpongeBob as well because many of my students really enjoy this show. I feel as though the students will stay in tuned with this book and gain knowledge of the voting process.

Reading Level/ Stage: Transitional J-P Bibliography: Pass, E. (2008). Vote spongebob. New York, New York: Simon Spotlight/ Nickelodeon.

Washington D.C. is where a lot of our important buildings are located. In order for my students to become familiar with such building and monuments, Clifford does a very well job at making the trip to Washington understandable and fun for the class. Plus, I feel as though my students will love the puppet that goes along with the text. After we read the book, the puppet and book will be available in the class library for the students to read on their own.

Reading Level/Stage: Early E-IBibliography:Bridwell, N. (2005). Clifford goes to washington. New, York, New York: Scholastic.

To continue our classroom elections, this book seems very interesting for the class. It is a very child friendly book that explains the voting process in a way students can understand. This will be another great book for the two days we are conducting our voting.

Reading Level/ Stage:Bibliography: Cronin, D. (2004). Duck for president. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster.

This book highlights the diversity of people that make up America. This idea is very important for young students because they are constantly making new friends. Some struggle with the idea that not everyone in their class looks like them. This book does a good job at showing the diversity of people come together to form our nation.

Reading Level/ Stage: Emergent 1-4Bibliography: Smith Jr., C. (2003). I am america. New York, New York: Scholastic.

For our unit, we will be discussing the president and all his roles and responsibilities. One activity we will focus on is what if they students got to be president. What would they do? This book will get the wheels spinning.

Reading Level/ Stage: Emergent 1-4Bibliography: Krosoczka, J. (2004). Max for president. New York, New York: RandomHouse.

This text also will help when the students are coming up with ideas of what they would do if they were president. We will discuss everything the president does and also have the students think of some things they would change if they were president.

Reading Level/ Stage: Early 6-16

A many focus in this unit is the Pledge of Allegiance. This book does and excellent job at breaking the whole pledge down part by part to make learning it easier. It also goes into detail about the history of the pledge.

Reading Level/ Stage: Emergent 1-4Bibliography: Einhorn, K. (2000). The pledge of allegiance. New York, New York: Scholastic.