This could be used in any K-5 classroom to introduce diversity and the themes of being happy with what you have and who you are. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of grades 2-3 text complexity.Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details.Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text.Standards for Reading: Grade 3 (According to the ATOS Book and Lexile levels)

The reason that the story of Corduroy can be used in multiple grade levels, is because it has a universal theme that is a similar portrayal of the students’ lives.Ĭontent Area: Reading/ English Language ArtsĮnglish Language Arts & Literacy Standards K-5 While most of the sentences are simple and use conventional language that young students would understand, there are several more compound sentences, for example Freeman (1976) writes, “The store was always filled with shoppers buying all sorts of things, but no one ever seemed to want a small bear in green overalls” (p.2). The language features of Corduroy are familiar and easy to understand. It would be fairly easy for a reader to know what was happening in the story without having to read the text.

The structure of the text is easy to predict, and the use of graphics and illustrations, directly supports and assists in interpreting the text. Corduroy realizes that this is his new home and what it is feels like to be loved.ĪTOS Book Level: 3.5 AR Points: 0.5 Flesh-Kincaid Reading Ease 75.2 Lexile Level: 600LĪccording to the Qualitative Measures Rubric adopted by the Common Core State Standards, this book is “Slightly Complex”. The next day, the same girl that saw him before, buys him using all the money she saved in her piggy bank. Unfortunately, he is unable to and becomes discouraged. Corduroy decides to sneak out and try to find a button to sew on his overalls. One day, a girl sees Corduroy and wants to take him home however she discovers that he is missing a button to his overalls and does thinks this is why the girl does not choose him.

He does not think it is going to happen any time soon. Puffin Books: New York, NY.Ĭorduroy, a stuffed bear, is anxiously waiting on the shelf in a toy store to be bought.

Corduroy books by don freeman