SHORT STORIES
RECOGNIZING PLOT
| Rudyard Kipling | Rikki-tikki-tavi |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Day's Wait |
| Mike Miller | Kid at the Stick |
| Betsy Byars | Look Back at the Sea |
DEFINING CHARACTER
| Sherwood Anderson | Stolen Day |
| Ambrose Flack | The Strangers That Came to Town |
| Laura Benét | Barnum's First Circus |
| Quentin Reynolds | A Secret for Two |
| Charles L. Sanders | "My Journey Is Still Long" |
EXPLORING SETTING
| Mona Gardner | The Dinner Party |
| Jack Finney | The Third Level |
| Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle |
| James Ramsey Ullman | A Boy and a Man |
| William Saroyan | The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter |
UNDERSTANDING THEME
| Ivan Turgenev | The Sparrow |
| Edward D. Hoch | Zoo |
| Jesse Stuart | The Clearing |
| B. J. Chute | Home on the Range |
| Ray Bradbury | The Sound of Summer Running |
PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
| Francisco Jiménez | The Circuit |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | Home |
| Honoré Willsie Morrow | Child Pioneer |
| Jane and Paul Annixter | The Runner |
| O. Henry | After Twenty Years |
POETRY
POETIC SOUND
| Vachel Lindsay | The Flower-Fed Buffaloes |
| Louise Bogan | Train Tune |
| Carmen Tafolla | Voyage |
| Dinka Traditional | The Magnificent Bull |
| Amy Lowell | Sea Shell |
| Eleanor Farjeon | Cat! |
| James Whitcomb Riley | When the Frost is on the Punkin |
| Christopher Morley | Smells |
POETIC LANGUAGE
| William Blake | Laughing Song |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Children's Hour |
| William Wordsworth | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud |
| Carl Sandburg | Fog |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | from The Cloud |
| Robert Francis | Seagulls |
| Walt Whitman | Miracles |
| Walter de la Mare | The Listeners |
POETIC FORM
| Woody Guthrie | This Land Is Your Land |
| Robert Frost | The Pasture |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Vagabond |
| John Ciard | The River Is a Piece of Sky |
| E. E. Cummings | in Just– |
| Basho | Bamboo Grove |
| Shiki | The New and the Old |
| Richard Wright | A Balmy Spring Wind |
| John Updike | Pendulum |
| Edward Lear | The Bearded Man |
| Anonymous | A Mouse in Her Room |
| Anonymous | There was an Old Man of Peru |
POETIC THEME
| Robert Frost | The Road Not Taken |
| Old English Ballad | Robin Hood and Little John |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Paul Revere's Ride |
| Vachel Lindsay | Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | The Courage That My Mother Had |
| Emily Dickinson | I'm Nobody! Who Are You? |
| Shel Silverstein | Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out |
PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
| John Masefield | Roadways |
| Rachel Field | Something Told the Wild Geese |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Wind |
| Theodore Roethke | The Sloth |
NONFICTION
HUMAN INTEREST
| James Herriot | Cat on the Go |
| James Thurber | The Night the Bed Fell |
BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
| Ernesto Galarza | Barrio Boy |
| Van Wyck Brooks | Helen Keller |
| Jerry Izenberg | Roberto Clemente: A Bittersweet Memoir |
HISTORICAL ESSAYS
| Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas | Florence Nightingale |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Morning – "The Bird Perched for Flight" |
ADVENTURE ESSAYS
| Marjorie K. Rawlings | Rattlesnake Hunt |
| Harry Earl Rieseberg | Beneath the Crags of Malpelo Island |
DRAMA
| Thelma Feld | Penicillin & Company |
| Arthur Miller | Grandpa and the Statue |
THE NOVEL
| Hugh Lofting | The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle |
| Part I | |
| Part II | |
| Part III | |
| Part IV | |
| Part V | |
| Part VI | |
| Glossary |