The unit recommends Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse for your read-aloud.
- See explanation on page 142 of the If-Then unit for information about using this text as a read-aloud and page 143 for other books that can be paired with Out of the Dust as part of a demonstration text set.
You will also find suggestions for mentor texts and student book club choices in the documents below. Many of these texts have been purchased for your buildings:
| historical_fiction_grade_5_mentor_(1).docx |
| grade5_histfiction_booklist_final_(1).docx |
