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Kids' Wings now offers immediate downloads for our units for Award-Winning Literature! All downloads are now sharable IN YOUR SCHOOL when you provide your school's name! You will love our exciting activities that cross the curriculum and are keyed into crucial objectives! Most are also keyed into the Multiple Intelligences. Answer keys are included for all units. In this alphabetical list, you can find the title you need on the left. To learn more about the book and unit, click the title to go to the webpage created especially for each book. Then, you can either click on the button on the right or on the download button if you've gone to the webpage. After entering your data, you will receive an immediate email with the download code. Paste the code in your address URL on your browser and it will begin downloading. Then the fun will start! Your students will learn problem solving, vocabulary, group dynamics, writing skills, and so much more while finding JOY in learning! To insure quick delivery, we recommend you do NOT use your school email unless you are sure our download codes won't get snagged in spam filters. It may be best to use your home email address to insure instant delivery! For tax-exempt in Texas, fax us your tax exempt certicate at 512-376-2545. Questions?
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Literature Units for the Primary Grades
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UNIT PAGES
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22 Readers' Theater Science Scripts
to Introduce and Extend Award-Winning
Animal Picture Books! Including
Diary of a Worm, The Beeman
A Very Hairy Bear, Ostrich,
Hippotamus Grows Up, Little Lost Bat, Slugs in Love, An Egg is Quiet, Seahorse and 12 More!

Doreen Cronin
Laurie Krebs
Alice Shertle
Steve Jenkins
Sandra Markle
Robert Bruel
Lisa Wheeler
Chris Butterworth and others!
1-3
22 pages
$12.95

A 30-page Trio of Presidential Election Picture Bks:
Duck for President
If I Ran for President
So You Want to Be President (Caldecott)

Doreen Cronin
Catherine Stier
Judith St. George
1-6
30 pages
$12.95

Patriotism Units for three picture books: Empire State Building- Lady Liberty and The Impossible Patriotism Project!
Elizabeth Mann
Doreen Rappaport, and
Linda Skeers
1-5
33 pages
$12.95
Stand Tall, Abraham Lincoln--Picture book biography of the childhood of Abraham Lincoln
Judith St. George
1-8
17 pages
$ 9.95
Alvin Ho -- A second grader with many fears brings tons of laughs!
Lenore Look
3-7
31 pages
$12.95
Bad Kitty --the BEST and FUNNIEST alphabet book ever
Nic Bruel
1-3
11 pages
$5.95
Ballad of Valentine --PLUS Slugs in Love!
Alison Jackson
1-4
32 pages
$ 9.95

BAT BOOKS: Paired Literature Unit About Bats: Stellaluna and Little Lost Bat

Janell Cannon
Sandra Markle
1-5
25 pages
$12.95
Bean Thirteen--What a great MATH story!
Matthew McElligott
1-3
17 pages
$ 7.95

BEAR BOOKS: Four Units for Award-Winning Bear Books: Ice Bear, Very Hairy Bear, A Story for Bear, and Bear Snores On
Nicola Davies, Alice Schertle, Dennis Haseley, and Karma Wilson
1-3
35+ pages
$12.95
Bebé Goes Shopping Cute Spanish-English Picture Book! Together with two other Spanish-English Picture Book units!
Susan Middleton Elya
1-3
38 pages
$12.95

Because of Winn-Dixie PLUS
How to Talk to Your Dog

Kate DiCamillo and Jean Craighead George
2-7
34 pages
$12.95
Bedtime at the Swamp and Frankie Stein --The funniest scary story yet PLUS A silly Frankenstein Spin-off! Awesome!
Kristyn Crow
Lola Schaefer
1-3
33 pages
$12.95
The Blue Ghost --An Easy Ghost Story
Marion Dane Bauer
2-4
16 pages
$11.95
Bob and Otto--A worm and a caterpillar have a sweet, lasting friendship doing what nature planned for them to do.
Robert and Nick Bruel
1-3
15 pages
$9.95
The Boy Who Lost His Belly Button ...includes 3 other units for Jeanne Willis books.
Jeanne Willis
Collection
1-3
4 Units,
40 pages
$10.95

BULLYING BOOKS: Units for 4 Bullying Books
Hooway for Wodney Wat;
Clara Caterpillar;
The Recess Queen;
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Helen Lester,
Pamela Duncan Edwards,
Alexis O'Neill,
Patty Lovell
1-3
4 Units,
45 pages
$14.95
Caterpillars & Friends:
Bob and Otto A worm and a caterpillar team up!
Clara Caterpillar Clara and her friends change into butterflies, but her courage saves the day.
Tadpole's Promise Tadpole falls in love with caterpillar with surprising results!

Robert and Nick Bruel
Pamela Duncan Edwards,
Jeanne Willis
1-3
3 Units,
42 pages
$14.95
Clementine's Letter --Hysterical and touching!
Sara Pennypacker
3-5
31 pages
$12.95
Cork and Fuzz--Friendship comes is all forms.
Dori Chaconas
1-3
12 pages
 $ 5.95

DIARY OF... Doreen Cronin's
Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, and Diary of a Fly

Doreen Cronin
1-4
32 pages
$12.95
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins PLUS Encyclopedia Prehistorica AND Mammoths on the Move --awesome prehistoric narrative poem!
Barbara Kerley, Robert Sabuda, and Lisa Wheeler
1-6
20 pages
$9.95
The Doll People --What happens when dolls come to life?
Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin
2-4
16 pages
$9.95
Down Girl and Sit--Winner of 2008 Texas Bluebonnet Award--hysterical story told by a DOG! SONG included!
Lucy Nolan
2-7
22 pages
$11.95
Dr. Seuss: The Boy on Fairfield Street, childhood of Theodore Geisel in a picture book. PLUS units for two other biographies: Leonardo's Horse and The Chocolate Pilot
Alice Mead,
Jean Fritz,
and
Margot Theis Raven
2-8
25 pages
$11.95
Duck and Goose Plus An Egg is Quiet An award-winning fiction and nonfiction duo!

Tad Hills
Dianna Aston
 1-3
30 pages
 $12.95
Empire State Building--One of THREE patriotic literature units including Lady Liberty and The Impossible Patriotism Project!

Elizabeth Mann,
Doreen Rappaport, and
Linda Skeers
1-7
33 pages
$12.95
Epossumondas--A really funny "noodlehead" story
Colleen Salley
1-3
9 pages
$ 5.95
Falling for Rapunzel--A fractured fairy tale love story and Horace the Horrible, Good Knight stories with awesome units
Leah Wilcox
1-3
32 pages
$ 10.95
Fiesta Fiasco Rollicking Spanish-English Picture Book! Together with two other Spanish-English Picture Book units!
Ann Whitford Paul
1-3
38 pages
$12.95

Finding Our Way: In the Wilderness, On the Sea, and In Space
Follow the Trail
Sea Clocks, The Story of Longitude
Comets, Stars, The Moon, and Mars

Louise Gordon
Jessica Loy
Douglas Florian
3-6
28 pages
$12.95
Frankie Stein --A funny Frankenstein Spin-off!
Lola Schaefer
1-3
14 pages
$ 8.95
A Girl, A Boy, and Three Robbers --terrific story, beautifully written imagry
Gail Gauthier
2-3
25 pages
$ 11.95
The Great Pig Search will give your classroom a jump start of laughter no matter what grade you teach! Your kids will love our hysterical readers' theater! Eileen Christelow
1-3
10 pages
$ 5.95

Help Me, Mr. Mutt!
Mr. Mutt is the Ann Landers of the dog world. In his advice column, he tells dogs how to their problems, including dealing with spoiled cats.
Janet Stevens
and Susan Stevens Crummel
2-7
15 pages
$7.95
Horace the Horrible--The story of a knight who learns compassion plus Falling for Rapunzel, a fractured fairy tale love story! Two Good Knight stories with awesome units!
Jackie French Koller
1-3
32 pages
$ 10.95
Hunter's Best Friend at School--peer pressure
Laura Malone Elliott
K-2
12 pages
$ 7.95
Impossible Patriotism Project--One of THREE patriotic literature units including Lady Liberty and Empire State Building (Picture Books)
Linda Skeers,
Elizabeth Mann,
Doreen Rappaport,
1-5
33 pages
$12.95
I See a Kookaburra and Starry Safari--Units for a nonfiction ecosystems book plus a funny fictional animal story that your kids will love!
Steve Jenkins
and
Linda Ashman
1-3
31 pages
$ 11.95
I, Vivaldi --the beautifully illustrated story and life of classical musician Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Janice Shefelman
3-8
17 pages
$10.95
I Wanna Iguana--Persuasive writing! 3 units included: Jungle Drums, and A Rain Forest ABC!
by Karen Kaufman Orloff
1-4
40 pages
$10.95
I Was a Third Grade Science Project--We think this is the funniest science-related novel ever written!
Mary Jane Auch
2-4
20 pages
$10.95
Jungle Drums----3 units including: A Rain Forest ABC, and I Wanna Iguana
Graeham Base
1-4
40 pages
$10.95
Just Grace--fun in realistic fiction
Charise Mericle Harper
2-4
21 pages
$ 9.95

Lady Liberty--One of THREE patriotic literature units including The Impossible Patriotism Project and Empire State Building
Doreen Rappaport,
Elizabeth Mann, and
Linda Skeers
1-7
3 Units,
33 pages
$12.95
Leonardo's Horse --The work of Leonardo DaVinci in a picture book. PLUS units for two other biographies: Dr. Seuss and The Chocolate Pilot
Jean Fritz
Plus
Alice Mead,
Margot Theis Raven
2-8
25 pages
$11.95
Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach --A Cuban folktale with gorgeous illustrations and some good advice!
Carmen Agra Deedy
2-8
22 pages
$11.95
Maybelle in the Soup --A funny, first-person story about the life of Maybelle, the cockroach. An easy chapter book that appeals to all ages
Katie Speck
1-4
25 pages
$11.95
Mercedes and The Chocolate Pilot--A World War II pilot flies missions of mercy, PLUS units for two other picture book biographies: Dr. Seuss and Leonardo's Horse
Margot Theis Raven,
Alice Mead,
Jean Fritz
2-8
25 pages
$11.95
Misery Moo --A pessimistic cow with an optimist lamb friend. Attitudes are contagious. ...includes 3 other units for Jeanne Willis books.
Jeanne Willis
Collection
1-3
4 Units,
40 pages
$10.95
Nic Bishop Frogs--a science picture book showcasing the world's most astounding frogs PLUS the awesome Nic Bishop Spiders.
Nic Bishop
2-7
2 Units,
33 pages
$ 12.95
Nic Bishop Spiders--a fabulous picture book showcasing the world's most incredible spiders PLUS the astounding Nic Bishop Frogs.
Nic Bishop
2-7
2 Units,
33 pages
$ 12.95
Oh, No! Gotta Go! Funny Spanish-English Picture Book! Together with two other Spanish-English Picture Book units!
Susan Middleton Elya
1-3
38 pages
$12.95
One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab--fun MATH activities!
April Pulley Sayre/Jeff Sayre
K-2
10 pages
$ 7.95
One Potato, Two Potato--fun doubling math within a folk tale! Winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award for 2009!
Cynthia DeFelice
1-5
13 pages
$ 9.95
Pale Male, Citizen Hawk of New York City--Beautiful nonfiction story of the red-tailed hawk in New York City
Janet Schulman
1-8
18 pages
$ 8.95
The Perfect Nest--what a funny/sweet barnyard story with awesome VOICE!
Catherine Friend
K-3
11 pages
$ 7.95
Rain Forest ABC --3 units including: Jungle Drums, and I Wanna Iguana
Amanda Doering
1-4
40 pages
$10.95
Roxie and the Hooligans--A tall tale that clobbers the bullies!
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
2-6
18 pages
$ 9.95
Shhh ...includes 3 other units for Jeanne Willis books.
Jeanne Willis
Collection
1-3
40 pages
$10.95
Slugs in Love PLUS Ballad of Valentine VALENTINE FUN! Susan Pearson
1-4
32 pages
$ 9.95

The SOS File --Terrific short stories become models for first person writing!
Betsy Byars
2-5
18 pages
$11.95
Stand Tall, Abraham Lincoln--Picture book biography of the childhood of Abraham Lincoln
Judith St. George
1-8
17 pages
$ 9.95
Starry Safari and I See Kookaburra --Units for PAIRED BOOKS: a fictional safari book PLUS a nonfiction ecosystems book that your kids will love! (Picture Books)


Linda Ashman
and
Steve Jenkins
1-3
31 pages
$ 11.95

Substitute Groundhog (A funny new twist on Groundhog Day!)
Pat Miller
1-3
20 pages
$10.95

Surprises According to Humphrey (Humhprey the Hamster tells his story of life in school!) Song included!
Betty G. Birney
2-5
31 pages
$12.95
Tadpole's Promise Hysterical love story between a tadpole and a caterpillar. (Unit includes activities for 3 more Jeanne Willis books.)
Jeanne Willis
Collection
K-3
4 Units,
40 pages
$10.95
The Thing About Georgie--the touching life of a 4th grader who is a dwarf
Lisa Graff
3-7
19 pages
$11.95
Toys Go Out--a perfectly awesome story for helping students understand voice and characterization!
Emily Jenkins
2-7
24 pages
$11.95
The Trouble With Cauliflower-- Mortimer is superstitious! How can his friend help? Funny with great illustrations! You'll love this unit!
Jane Sutton
& Jim Harris,
illustrator
1-3
22 pages
$ 9.95
Until the Christ Child Came--A complimentary Christmas Unit! Order now! You will need to enter your credit card to receive the unit, but it will NOT be charged!
Dandi Daley Mackall
1-4
10 pages
 FREE!

Valentine's Day Units --Two Great Units: The Ballad of Valentine and Slugs in Love

Alison Jackson
Susan Pearson
1-4
32 pages
$9.95

Waynetta and the Cornstalk -- Jack and the beanstalk, cowgirl style
Helen Ketteman
2-4
25 pages
$11.95
The White Elephant--tale set in ancient Thailand that explains the source of the "white elephant" metaphor. Easy chapter book with illustrations.
Sid Fleischman
2-5
23 pages
$10.95
Wingwalker --a family has to move and join the circus during the Great Depression when the mother and father lose their jobs.
Rosemary Wells
2-4
13 pages
$7.95

The Wolf Who Cried Boy-- An hysterical parody on the Boy Who Cried Wolf folktale
Bob Hartman
2-4
13 pages
$9.95
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Thank you for such a great time during the conference. You have done a fabulous job with these books. I appreciate you willingness to stand up and say that you do not recommend a book. We need more people to do the same! I plan on coming to your next conference next year.

Thank you,

Julie Bennett
3rd grade teacher
Miss May Vernon Elem.

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Suzy,

I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your workshops at Region 17 in Lubbock. I attended Thursday's workshop (Flying Higher) and was so impressed that I signed up for Friday's workshop (Gifts and Givers). I wish I had known about you and your materials when I was in the classroom.

I am now an elementary librarian and will be adding your website to our school homepage under "teacher resources". You do have the BEST website. I spent hours enjoying your website after Thursday's workshop. Every time my husband passed through I was looking at something new and telling him want wonderful thing I had just found. I was like a kid in a candy shop with unlimited funds to spend.

Thank you for your time, dedication, and hard work you put into creating the abundant materials and maintaining the most fantastic website I have ever seen. You are amazing!!!

Thank you again for coming to the Lubbock area, and I hope you will be back in the near future. May you and Charlie have a safe uneventful trip as you travel doing your workshops.

Sincerely,
Valerie Addington
Frendship ISD

P.S.
Remember to take the RV antenna down AND put the reminder sign on the steering wheel.

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I love your upbeat moral instruction! I always know I can count on it to be good! Karen Harrell
Springbranch ISD

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I am, indeed, enjoying the unit of THE GOLLYWHOPPER GAMES my school just purchased as are my students enjoying listening to it and doing some of the activities. You make my job easier and a joy.

Thank you,
Victoria LeBlanc!
Groves ISD
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Words can not express how much my students enjoy your lessons. They hit all learning styles. I would definitely do your lessons during my appraisal. I teach 3rd grade bilingual students and have used the Stepstone Stories picture books faithfully, but I have 5 students who work in Transformers. They love it. Let me explain why I use both Stepstone Stories and Transformers in my class. I have five students reading above picture book level, but they also have to do the Transformers. They just finished up doing the mock trial for Marvelous Mattie. It was great! Three fourths of my students did not have the slightest clue about a courtroom. I call the students who do Transformers the Furious Five. Well the Furious Five picked several students to help them in the mock trial and the students who did not have a part were the jury.

My students memorized the Bob and Otto Readers Theater. One more key fact is that I have 24 students this year. So to include them all I divide them up by parts. For example the left side was Bob and the right side was Otto. Then the next day they would switch. They didn't like to switch because they realized they were more fluent on the one they had already practiced the day before! What started with a simple book led to a series of engaging activities: a wormatorium and we raising butterfly in our class as well. It was great!!

The books about friendship have contributed to a great classroom environment. My students all get along and work hard together. They call themselves TEAM 308 (our room number). The loved the Duck and Goose, they favorite part was then they acted it out. They love soccer!

Since they are bilingual, Fiesta Fiasco was an instant winner. They did not know that TORTA was cake. Great social studies extension.

The possibilities are endless! I can not tell you how much they love reading because of your lessons. We do your lessons while others teachers do worksheets about testing. Due to their love of reading, we read chapter books together during DEAR time. It never fails when we read a chapter book they remember what they read in one of your lessons, and all I can do is smile inside knowing that learning is going on.

One last note: Chalkboards Songs are their favorite. Again they have memorized them, and during math when we read our math story problems, they tell me to read it chipmunk style, Texas style, opera style. They are so funny/cute.

Linda Vasquez, Royal Elementary School, Brookshire, TX
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I attended your workshop in Abilene and spoke about how my TAKS scores had improved since using the Bluebonnet books as my curriculum. I just received word from my superintendent about the Gold Performance Acknowledgements. Rotan Elementary School received three GPAs: 1) percentage of students receiving Commended on Reading, 2) percentage of students receiving Commended on Math, and 3) percentage of students receiving Commended on Writing. I teach 4th and 5th reading and 4th writing. One more proof that your curriculum pays off! Thanks!
Lisa Cade
Rotan, Texas
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I love using Suzy Red’s curriculum units in my classroom. I am a literacy teacher that remediates third, fourth, and fifth graders. Her units allow me to use current literature without having to create my own units while I wait on a publisher. My students really love reading on their grade level and having the units brings fun into the classroom!
Kimberly Lowe
Aledo ISD, Texas
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I started The Invention of Hugo Cabret yesterday with my 6th graders. It went fantastic! They were truly engaged in the pre-reading activities provided in the unit. A lot of great discussion was held. The only problem I had was having to end the discussions to get to the next activity. As a teacher of the gifted, I really appreciate the open-ended and higher level questions, and so do the students! I usually have to modify the units I find or purchase, or just start from scratch. It is so nice to be able to use your units that are top quality and ready to go.
Thanks again,
Nick Allen
Delhi Middle School, OH
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Today I attended a workshop titled ELA Texas Adolescent Literacy Academy. It presented research-based ways to help all students read better. I am happy to say that the information that was taught was a lot of the stuff you've been doing for years. One of the lessons was to use an anticipation guide in which the students agreed or disagreed with opinions from the text. Does this sound familar? I couldn't stay quiet about this so I told others about you and all of your great ideas you do with the bluebonnet books. They even liked your guide better than the one offered. :) Hopefully you will get some more teachers as excited to teach your material as I am. I guess you could say that today, I was a walking commercial for you.
Have a great weeekend!!
Shelly Paschal
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Thank you so much Suzy! I love what you do...you are a blessing to many teachers and students. Through your lessons, my students have learned to LOVE to read and write. They are EXCITED to come to class and read! Using your lessons, for the past two years, my students have accomplished 100% success on the TAKS Writing and Reading. THANK YOU!!!
Sincerely,
Kimberly Wright
4th grade teacher
Cielo Vista Elementary
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Wow! I am impressed. I stumbled upon your website yesterday and ordered Transformers with my fingers-crossed, not fully knowing what to expect. Your well-designed units are perfect for the work I do with my 5th graders. Thank you!
Sunny wishes,
Karen Ollerenshaw
5th Grade Teacher
Redmond, Washington