A Sneak Peek into Our Literature Themes for Second Grade
Friendship
Frog and Toad Series/ Lobel
My First American Friend/Jin
Teammates/ Golenbock
Oceans
Oceans/ Kids Discover Magazine
Swimmy/ Lionni
Big All/ Clements
At Home in the Coral Reef/ Muzik
Sharks/ Gibbons
Shark Lady/ McGovern
Dinosaurs
Patrick’s Dinosaurs
Bones, Bones, Bones/ Barton
Dinosaurs/ Gibbons
Digging Up Dinosaurs/ Aliki
In the Dinosaur Paw/ Giff
Native Americans
Arrow to the Sun/ McDermont
Annie and the Old One/ Miles
The Legend of Bluebonnet/ dePaola
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush/ dePaola
The Mud Pony/ Martin
Knots on a Counting Rope/ Martin
Native American Magazine/ Kids Discover
Immigration
Immigration Magazine/ Kids Discover
A Long Way to a New Land/ Sandin
Liiy and Miss Liberty/Stevens
Snow
Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm/ Stevens
The Snowy Day/ Keats
Chocolate
The Chocolate Touch/ Catling
Chocolate Fever/ Smith
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/ Dahl
Chocolatina/ Kraft
Solar System
Stanley in Space/ Brown
Magic School Bus in Outer Space/ Cole
Planets/ Gibbons
Pioneers
Little House in the Big Woods/ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House Picture Books
Pioneers Magazine/ Kids Discover
Rainforest
The Great Kapok Tree /Lynne Cherry
Where the Forest Meets the Sea//Jeannie Baker
At Home in the Rainforest/ Dianne Willow
The Forest in the Clouds/Sneed Collard
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People Ears/ Verna Aardema
Miss Rumphius/ Barbara Cooney
The Wartville Wizard/ Don Madden
Rainforest Magazine/ Kids Discover
Biographies/Famous Americans
The Wright Brothers/ George Sullivan
Lewis and Clark/ George Sullivan
Harriet Tubman/ George Sullivan
Abraham Lincoln/ George Sullivan
Thomas Edison/ George Sullivan
Helen Keller/ Margaret Davidson
Benjamin Franklin/ Peter and Connie Roop
George Washington/ Margaret Davidson
Airplanes
The Wright Brothers/ Kids Discover
Amelia Earhart/ Time
Amelia Earhart/ John Parlin
Amelia Earhart/Francine Sabin
Will and Orv/ Walter Schulz
The Wright Brothers Learn to Fly/Jennifer Julius
The Wight Brothers/ Story Series from the South Bend Tribune
Fairytales
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters/ Myers
Sleeping Ugly/ Yolder
Mei Ping and the Silver Shoes/ Wade
Bats
Stellaluna/ Cannon
