Exemplars of  Reading Text Complexity and Quality
 
From the  Common Core Standards for English Language Arts with Literacy in History/Social  Studies and Science
 
Stories
Alcott, Louisa May.  Little  Women
Twain, Mark.  The  Adventures of Tom Sawyer
L’Engle, Madeleine.  A Wrinkle  in Time
Cooper, Susan.  The Dark  Is Rising
Yep, Laurence.   Dragon Wings.
Taylor, Mildred D.  Roll of  Thunder, Hear My Cry
Hamilton, Virginia. “The People Could  Fly.”
Paterson, Katherine.  The Tale  of the Mandarin Ducks
Cisneros, Sandra.  “Eleven.”
Sutcliff, Rosemary.  Black  Ships Before Troy: The Story of the  Iliad.
Drama
Fletcher, Louise.  Sorry, Wrong  Number
Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett.  The Diary  of Anne Frank: A Play
Poetry
Longfellow, Henry  Wadsworth. “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
Whitman, Walt.  “O  Captain! My Captain!”
Carroll, Lewis.  “Jabberwocky.”
Navajo tradition.  “Twelfth Song of Thunder.”
Dickinson,  Emily.  “The Railway Train.”
Yeats, William  Butler.  “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”.
Frost, Robert.  “The Road  Not Taken.”
Sandburg, Carl.  “Chicago.”
Hughes, Langston.  “I,  Too, Sing America.”
Neruda, Pablo.  “The Book  of Questions.”
Soto, Gary. “Oranges”
Giovanni, Nikki.  “A  Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.”
Informational Texts: English Language  Arts
Adams, John. “Letter on Thomas  Jefferson.” 
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of  Frederick Douglass
                             an American Slave, Written by Himself
Churchill, Winston.  “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat:
                                   Address to Parliament on May 13th,  1940.”
Petry, Ann.  Harriet  Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Steinbeck, John.  Travels  with Charley: In Search of America
 
Informational Texts: English Language  Arts
 
Adams, John. “Letter on  Thomas Jefferson.”
 
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick  Douglass
 
                            an American Slave,  Written by Himself
 
Churchill,  Winston. “Blood, Toil, Tears and  Sweat:
 
                            Address to Parliament  on May 13th,  1940.”
 
Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground  Railroad
 
Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley: In Search  of America
 
Informational Texts: History/Social  Studies                                                           
 
United  States.  Preamble and First  Amendment
 
                    to the United States Constitution. (1787,  1791)
 
Lord,  Walter. A Night to Remember
 
Isaacson,  Phillip. A Short Walk through the Pyramids
 
                           and through the World of Art
 
Murphy,  Jim. The Great Fire
 
Greenberg, Jan, and  Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh:
 
                                                  Portrait of an Artist
 
Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You  and Me:
 
                                     The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
 
Monk, Linda  R. Words We Live By:
 
                                     Your Annotated Guide to the  Constitution
 
Freedman,  Russell. Freedom Walkers:
 
                          The Story of the Montgomery Bus  Boycott
 
Informational Texts: Science,  Mathematics, and Technical Subjects
 
Macaulay,  David. Cathedral: The Story of Its  Construction.
 
Mackay,  Donald. The Building of Manhattan
 
Enzensberger, Hans  Magnus. The Number Devil:
 
                                        A Mathematical Adventure
 
Peterson, Ivars and  Nancy Henderson. Math Trek:
 
                                        Adventures in the Math Zone
 
Katz,  John. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out  of Idaho.
 
Petroski,  Henry. “The Evolution of the Grocery  Bag.”
 
                       “Geology.” U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science
 
“Space Probe.” Astronomy &  Space:From the Big Bang  to the Big Crunch
 
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