Themes by Topic
Alabama 7 Compare story elements and the experiences and feelings of literary characters to students' lives.
7.1 Describing how events, settings, and characterization encountered in written text influence the thinking of the reader
- Author Study: Lois Ehlert
- Author Study: Eve Bunting
- Author Study: Jerry Spinelli
- Author Study: Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Folktales: Tall Tales
- Literature: "A Taste of Blackberries" by Doris Buchanan Smith
- Literature: "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
- Literature: "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Literature: "By the Shores of Silver Lake" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Literature: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
- Literature: "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Dear America Book: West to a Land of Plenty" by Jim Murphy
- Literature: "Dear America: Christmas After All" by Kathryn Lasky
- Literature: "Dovey Coe" by Frances O'Roark Dowell
- Literature: "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Literature: "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
- Literature: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Flip-Flop Girl" by Katherine Paterson
- Literature: "Freckle Juice" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
- Literature: "Frog and Toad are Friends" by Arnold Lobel
- Literature: "Grandfather's Journey" by Allen Say
- Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Literature: "Henry and Ribsy" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Hitler's Daughter" by Jackie French
- Literature: "Holes" by Louis Sachar
- Literature: "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Love That Dog" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Mr. Tucket" by Gary Paulsen
- Literature: "Night of the Twisters" by Ivy Ruckman
- Literature: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "Pictures of Hollis Woods" by Patricia Giff
- Literature: "Poppy" by Avi
- Literature: "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Ramona the Brave" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
- Literature: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" by Patricia Maclachlan
- Literature: "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" by Louis Sachar
- Literature: "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
- Literature: "Superfudge" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
- Literature: "The Enormous Egg" by Oliver Butterworth
- Literature: "The Face on the Milk Carton" by Caroline Cooney
- Literature: "The Family Under the Bridge" by Natalie Savage Carlson
- Literature: "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "The Great Kapok Tree" by Lynne Cherry
- Literature: "The Great Turkey Walk" by Kathleen Karr
- Literature: "The Hundred Dresses" by Eleanor Estes
- Literature: "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "The Pinballs" by Betsy Byars
- Literature: "The Report Card" by Andrew Clements
- Literature: "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo
- Literature: "The War with Grandpa" by Robert Kimmel Smith
- Literature: "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
- Literature: "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
- Literature: "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
- Literature: "Under the Blood Red Sun" by Graham Salisbury
- Literature: Book Activities
- Literature: Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Literature: Story Elements
- Writing: Character Traits
