Classroom Books

for Los Angeles Unified School District teachers in the elementary grades, we are currently using the reading program Treasures. With this program are leveled readers of a variety of topics and genres to enhance the program. Below is a list of those books I have found pertaining to Asia. They span all the grades, and even if your class doesn't have the physical book, remember, our district purchased the e-book so they can be accessed free by teachers or students online and even have it read to them (http://connected.mcgraw-hill.com/connected/). Because students in one grade don't necessarily read at grade level, I frequently use lower or higher level books that they can read.

• Plop! A Tale from China (1st)
• Yeh Shen: A Cinderella Tale from China (2nd)
• Rabbit Trickster Tales: From the United States and Japan (2nd)
• Yaks of the Mountains (2nd) Author: Sally Odgers
• Vivienne Tam (3rd) Author: Christina Idoux Rodriguez
• Snakes in Asia and Africa (4th) Author: Dina Anastasio
• Three Gorges Dam (4th) Author: Lisa Moran
• Marco Polo (4th) Author: Barbara Brooks Simons
• The Gobi Desert (5th) Author: Stephanie Cohen
• Arts and Crafts in Feudal Japan (6th) Author: Barbara Brooks Simon
• The Rise and Fall of the Court: Japan's Heian Period (6th) Author: Rena Korb
• Tsunami! (6th) Author: Lisa Jo Rudy

Once logged in the website, I clicked on resources, then leveled reader database to search by topic, keyword, or grade level.