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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nasreen’s Secret School | One per classroom |
ISBN: 9781442441217 |
| Brothers in Hope | One per classroom |
ISBN: 9781584302322 |
| God Grew Tired of Us (DVD) | One per classroom |
ISBN: 0043396198999 |
| A Long Walk to Water (Audiobook) | One per classroom |
ISBN: 9781501237553 |
| A Long Walk to Water | One per student |
ISBN: 9780547577319 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic. You can also download a PDF of this list.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Fierce and True: Plays for Teen Audiences | Literary | |
| Home of Brave | Literary | |
| A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk | Literary | |
| Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town (Young Readers Edition) | Informational | 980 |
| Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan | Informational | 900 |
| The Red Pencil | Literary | 620 |
| Now Is the Time for Running | Literary | |
| One Well: The Story of Water on Earth | Literary | 960 |
| How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child | Informational | |
| Lost Girl Found | Literary | |
| The Milk of Birds | Literary | 780 |
| The Good Braider | Literary |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Patient Zero | One per student |
ISBN: 9781773215150 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Fever 1793 | Literary | |
| Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 | Informational | 1 040 |
| The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | Literary | 660 |
| Epidemics and Pandemics: Real Tales of Deadly Diseases | Informational | 940 |
| Pandemic: How Climate, the Environment, and Superbugs Increase the Risk | Informational | |
| The Ebola Epidemic: The Fight, The Future | Informational | 1 160 |
| The Birchbark House | Literary | 970 |
| Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure | Informational | |
| Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing | Informational | 1 010 |
| A Death-Struck Year | Literary | |
| Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 | Informational | 1 020 |
| An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Informational | 1 130 |
| More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War | Informational | 1 170 |
| Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America | Informational | |
| Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary | Informational | 1 010 |
| When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS | Informational | |
| Deadly | Literary | 930 |
| Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shuffle Along (CD) | one per classroom |
ISBN: 632433320426 |
| One Last Word | one per student |
ISBN: 9781681196022 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance: African Americans Who Lived Their Dreams | Informational | |
| Langston Hughes (Poetry for Young People) | Poetry | |
| The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader | Informational | |
| The Harlem Renaissance: An African American Cultural Movement | Informational | |
| Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance | Informational | 1 270 |
| I See the Rhythm | Literary | |
| Zora!: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston | Informational | |
| Jazz | Poetry | |
| Finding Langston | Literary | 760 |
| The Great Migration: An American Story | Informational | 830 |
| Augusta Savage: Sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance | Informational |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| A Plastic Ocean (DVD) | one per classroom |
ISBN: 602573215302 |
| Trash Vortex | one per student |
ISBN: 9780756557492 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| World without Fish | Informational | 1 160 |
| The New Ocean: The Fate of Life in a Changing Sea | Informational | 1 070 |
| Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them | Informational | |
| Trash Talk: Moving Toward a Zero-Waste World | Informational | 1 050 |
| This Book Stinks!: Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash | Informational | |
| Human Footprint: Everything You Will Eat, Use, Wear, Buy, and Throw Out in Your Lifetime | Informational | 890 |
| Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Informational | 900 |
| Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion | Informational | |
| Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands | Informational | |
| The Plastic Problem | Informational | |
| Plastic Pollution | Informational | |
| Eyes Wide Open: Going behind the Environmental Headlines | Informational | |
| Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Polution | Informational | |
| The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Informational |