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TAD Reading Suggestions
Reading Suggestions from the Texas Alternative Document
Donna Garner is a Texas teacher who was the lead writer for the
Texas Alternative Document. In the paper below, she excerpts the
sections of the TAD that provide reading recommendations.
You may also wish to see the excellent
reading list that Mrs. Gardner provides in her classes.
There are some just wonderful books on her list that do not
always appear on other lists. Plus, Mrs. Garner's list
has a very healthy separate list of non-fiction books, a category
that is often woefully sparse on lists of reading suggestions.
Alternatives to Harry Potter:
Reading Suggestions from the
Texas Alternative Document
excerpted by
Donna Garner, Lead Writer of TAD
November 21, 2001
For those of you who are looking for alternatives to Harry Potter, here is a
secular reading list (Pre-School through Grade 10) which the writers of the
Texas Alternative Document (TAD) have recommended. If you would like to
view the TAD in its entirety (Pre-K through Grade 12), please
click here.
TEXAS ALTERNATIVE DOCUMENT
ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS / READING
RECOMMENDED READING
PRE-K THROUGH GRADE 10
PRE-SCHOOL
Listen to various types of children's literature: nursery rhymes,
fables, fairy tales, poems, classical literature, rhyming stories, and
factual stories about notable people, science, history (e.g., Mother Goose
rhymes, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Chicken Little," "How Many Spots
Does a Leopard Have?" "King Midas and the Golden Touch," "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs," Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, "The Little
Engine That Could").
KINDERGARTEN
Listen to notable literary selections which are rich in vocabulary
(e.g., Mother Goose rhymes, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Rain," "Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star," "Cinderella," "The Little Red Hen," "A Tug of War,"
"The Ugly Duckling," The Velveteen Rabbit, Winnie-the-Pooh, One Morning in
Maine).
Listen to stories being read aloud (e.g., "Mother Goose" poems,
"Dr.Seuss" books, Aesop's fables, James Thurber's Fables, Oscar Wilde's
Fairy Tales, "Casey Jones," "Johnny Appleseed," American and folk legends).
FIRST GRADE
Listen to stories being read aloud (e.g., "Mother Goose" poems,
"Dr.Seuss" books, Aesop's fables, James Thurber's Fables, Oscar Wilde's
Fairy Tales, "Casey Jones," "Johnny Appleseed," American and folk legends).
Listen daily to selections (e.g., fables, fairy tales, poems, classical
literature, and factual stories about notable people, science, and history)
that are challenging (at or slightly above the student's level of oral
language comprehension).
SECOND GRADE
Listen to selections (e.g., nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, poems,
classical literature, rhyming stories, factual stories about notable people,
science, and history) which are rich in vocabulary.
Present brief, comprehensive narrative summaries of notable literary
selections which are rich in vocabulary (e.g., "Harriet Tubman," "Hurt No
Living Thing," "Seashell," "Smart," "Caterpillars," "A Christmas Carol,"
"The Emperor's New Clothes," "How the Camel Got His Hump," "Beauty and the
Beast," "The Blind Men and the Elephant" "The Spider and the Fly," "Who Has
Seen the Wind?" Charlotte's Web, "El Pájaro Cu," The Courage of Sarah Noble,
The Fourth of July Story, The Little House in the Big Woods). Present brief,
comprehensive narrative summaries of notable literary selections which are
rich in vocabulary (e.g., "Harriet Tubman," "Hurt No Living Thing,"
"Seashell," "Smart," "Caterpillars," "A Christmas Carol," "The Emperor's New
Clothes," "How the Camel Got His Hump," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Blind
Men and the Elephant" "The Spider and the Fly," "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
Charlotte's Web, "El Pájaro Cu," The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Fourth of
July Story, The Little House in the Big Woods).
THIRD GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive narrative summaries of notable literary
selections which are rich in vocabulary (e.g., "Harriet Tubman," "Hurt No
Living Thing," "Seashell," "Smart," "Caterpillars," "A Christmas Carol,"
"The Emperor's New Clothes," "How the Camel Got His Hump," "Beauty and the
Beast," "The Blind Men and the Elephant" "The Spider and the Fly," "Who Has
Seen the Wind?" Charlotte's Web, "El Pájaro Cu," The Courage of Sarah Noble,
The Fourth of July Story, The Little House in the Big Woods).
FOURTH GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive, narrative summaries of notable literary
selections which are rich in vocabulary (e.g., Gulliver's Travels, Legend of
Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood, Treasure Island,
"The Sword in the Stone" from The Once and Future King, On the Banks of Plum
Creek, "Concord Hymn," Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mary
Poppins, Caddie Woodlawn, Blue Willow, My Side of the Mountain, Carry On,
Mr. Bowditch; speeches by Patrick Henry and Sojourner Truth; poetry by Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Carl Sandburg, Ogden Nash, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
FIFTH GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive, narrative summaries of notable literary
selections (e.g., poetry: Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lord
Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost, Ralph Waldo Emerson;
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little House on the Prairie, Little Women, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Black
Beauty, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Prince and the Pauper, Swiss Family
Robinson, Sounder, Landing of the Pilgrims, The Wheel on the School, The
Good Master, Call It Courage, tales from Sherlock Holmes).
SIXTH GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive, narrative summaries of notable literary
selections (e.g., poetry: William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, James Weldon
Johnson, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Little Men,
Little Women, National Velvet, "The Devil and Daniel Webster," Adam of the
Road, The Door in the Wall, Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, Across
Five Aprils, The Call of the Wild, The Bronze Bow, The Yearling, Little Town
on the Prairie, and Amos Fortune, Free Man).
SEVENTH GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive, narrative summaries of notable literary
selections (e.g, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Heritage," "Annabel Lee,"
"Auld Lang Syne," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Fire and Ice," "The
Necklace," "Gift of the Magi," The Call of the Wild, The Prince and the
Pauper, Jane Eyre, ABC Murders, Johnny Tremain, The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Man Without a Country, The Old Man
and the Sea, The Jungle Book, Big Red, My Friend Flicka, The Time Machine,
Born Free, Helen Keller: The Story of My Life, Around the World in 80 Days).
EIGHTH GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive, narrative summary of notable literary
selections (e.g., "Sonnet 18," "My Heart Leaps Up," "Ozymandias," "Mending
Wall," "Chicago," "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," "Dr.
Heidgegger's Experiment," "I Have a Dream," Animal Farm, The Good Earth, As
You Like It, Robinson Crusoe, Captains Courageous, The Hobbit, 20,000
Leagues under the Sea, Living Free, Kon-Tiki).
NINTH GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive, narrative summaries of notable literary
selections (e.g., "The Lady or the Tiger?" "The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty," "My Heart Leaps Up," "Wind Song," "Sweet Afton," "Flower in the
Crannied Wall," "Roughing It," "The Day the Dam Broke," Romeo and Juliet,
The Odyssey, Great Expectations, Watership Down, Wuthering Heights, And Then
There Were None, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," The Last of the Mohicans,
The Three Musketeers).
TENTH GRADE
Present brief, comprehensive, narrative summaries of notable literary
selections (e.g., "The Monkey's Paw," "The Red-Headed League," "Chee's
Daughter," "April Showers," "Mammon and the Archer," "I Like To See It Lap
the Miles," "Two Sentences for Gabriela Mistral," "A Child's Christmas in
Wales," "Grant and Lee at Appomattox," "The Boar Hunt," "To Julia de
Burgos," "Six Haiku," "Sunset," Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Bergerac, Idylls of
the King, Rebecca, David Copperfield, The Count of Monte Cristo, Silas
Marner, The Return of the Native, Gone with the Wind, Death Be Not Proud,
Profiles in Courage, The Battle of Midway).
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