Note: MetaMetrics® made changes to the Lexile® levels in June 2017 in order to provide more accurate measures for early readers. These changes affected 32% of all previously assigned Lexile® levels, including some texts for elementary and middle grade readers. The Lexile® levels listed on EL Education materials were added before this shift and do not reflect updated Lexile® levels.
Module 1
Texts and Resources to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text or Resource | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| Summer of the Mariposas | One per student |
ISBN: 9781620140109 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Curse of the ChupaCabra | Literary | |
| La Llorona: The Crying Woman | Literary | |
| The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America (A TOON Graphic) | Literary | 570 |
| Maya Gods and Monsters: Supernatural Stories from the Underworld and Beyond | Literary | |
| The Latin American Story Finder: A Guide to 470 Tales from Mexico, Central America and South America, Listing Subjects and Sources | Literary | |
| Latin American Folktales | Literary | |
| Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits | Literary | |
| Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble | Literary | |
| A Pocket Dictionary of Aztec and Mayan Gods and Goddesses | Informational | |
| Chickens | Literary | |
| “The Box” | Literary | |
| Aztec, Inca, and Maya | Informational | |
| Paola Santiago and the River of Tears | Literary | |
| La Llorona/The Weeping Woman: An Hispanic Legend Told in Spanish and English | Literary | |
| Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky | Literary | |
| Whiskers, Tails, and Wings | Literary | 930 |
| Mexican-American Folklore | Literary | |
| The Emerald Lizard | Literary | 730 |
| Momentos Mágicos/Magic Moments | Literary | |
| Tales Our Abuelitas Told | Literary | 850 |
Module 2
Texts and Resources to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text or Resource | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| The Omnivore's Dilemma (Young Readers Edition) | one per student |
ISBN: 9781101993835 |
| Nourish: Short Films (DVD) | one per classroom |
ISBN: 850075002290 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Genetically Modified Crops and Food (The Biotechnology Revolution) | Informational | |
| Your Food Is Fooling You: How Your Brain Is Hijacked by Sugar, Fat, and Salt | Informational | 830 |
| What the World Eats | Informational | |
| The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming | Informational | |
| Food: The New Gold | Informational | |
| Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science | Informational | |
| The Story of Seeds: From Mendel’s Garden to Your Plate, and How There’s More of Less to Eat around the World | Informational | 1 110 |
| Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food | Informational | 1 110 |
| Eat This!: How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (And How To Fight Back) | Informational | |
| Relish: My Life in the Kitchen | Informational | |
| The Story of Food: An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat | Informational |
Module 3
Texts and Resources to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text or Resource | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| Maus I | one per student |
ISBN: 9780394747231 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler | Informational | 640 |
| The Librarian of Auschwitz | Literary | |
| We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust | Informational | 970 |
| Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz | Informational | 890 |
| Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust | Informational | 970 |
| Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow | Informational | 1 050 |
| Prisoner B-3087 | Literary | 760 |
| What the Night Sings | Literary | 720 |
| Hana’s Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery | Informational | 730 |
| In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer | Informational | |
| The Book Thief | Literary | 730 |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Literary | 1 020 |
| Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story | Literary | 610 |
| Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began | Literary | |
| I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 | Poetry | |
| The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis | Informational | 780 |
| Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art | Informational | |
| Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust | Informational | |
| Night | Informational | |
| Schindler, Wallenberg, Miep Gies: The Holocaust Heroes | Informational | |
| Eva’s Story | Literary | |
| The War within These Walls | Literary | |
| Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust | Informational | 1 030 |
| The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler’s List | Informational | 1 000 |
| The Boy Who Dared | Literary | 760 |
Module 4
Texts and Resources to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text or Resource | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| Farewell to Manzanar (DVD) | one per classroom |
ISBN: 0000000230021 |
| Farewell to Manzanar | one per student |
ISBN: 9781328742117 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Citizen 13660 | Literary | 920 |
| They Called Us Enemy | Literary | |
| Paper Wishes | Literary | 550 |
| Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference | Informational | 1 040 |
| Sylvia & Aki | Literary | 760 |
| Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience during World War II | Informational | 1 050 |
| Internment | Literary | |
| The War Outside | Literary | 710 |
| A Place Where Sunflowers Grow | Literary | 730 |
| Baseball Saved Us | Literary | 550 |
| We Are Not Free | Literary | |
| Thin Wood Walls | Literary | 620 |
| Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family’s Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp | Literary | 880 |
| Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp during World War II | Informational | 1 030 |
| Journey to Topaz | Literary | 970 |
| Children of Manzanar | Informational | |
| Fred Korematsu Speaks Up | Informational | |
| Gaijin: American Prisoner of War | Literary | |
| Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II | Informational | 1 240 |
| Within These Lines | Literary | |
| Four-Four-Two | Literary | 820 |
| Weedflower | Literary | 750 |