Themes by Topic
Missouri R.1.I Identify and explain relevant connections between
R.1.I.c text to world (text ideas and the world by demonstrating an awareness that literature reflects a culture and historic time frame)
- Literature Themes: Around the World
- Literature: "A Taste of Blackberries" by Doris Buchanan Smith
- Literature: "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
- Literature: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
- 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: "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
- Literature: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Flip-Flop Girl" by Katherine Paterson
- Literature: "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
- Literature: "Frog and Toad are Friends" by Arnold Lobel
- Literature: "Gooney Bird Greene" by Lois Lowry
- 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: "How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell
- Literature: "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Koala Lou" by Mem Fox
- Literature: "Loser" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Math Curse" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
- Literature: "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Misty of Chincoteague" by Marguerite Henry
- Literature: "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard and Florence Atwater
- Literature: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse
- Literature: "Pictures of Hollis Woods" by Patricia Giff
- Literature: "Poppy" by Avi
- Literature: "Ramona the Brave" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" by Patricia Maclachlan
- Literature: "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" by Louis Sachar
- Literature: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
- Literature: "The Enormous Egg" by Oliver Butterworth
- Literature: "The Great Kapok Tree" by Lynne Cherry
- Literature: "The Great Turkey Walk" by Kathleen Karr
- Literature: "The House Without a Christmas Tree" by Gail Rock
- Literature: "The Iceman" by Don Lessem
- Literature: "The Report Card" by Andrew Clements
- Literature: "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka
- Literature: "The War with Grandpa" by Robert Kimmel Smith
- Literature: "Trouble River" by Betsy Byars
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
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