Grades
3 - 5
STEM/STEAM Guided Reading Level Q-R Book List
Meet the needs of Level Q-R readers with this information-packed mix of STEAM-focused fiction and nonfiction.
Reading informational texts and other STEAM-inspired literature has huge benefits for students that are both immediate and critical for future success. All centered around STEAM subjects, these titles have been carefully selected to cultivate curiosity across STEAM disciplines through an on-level, Guided Reading-centered approach. Level Q-R texts contain longer chapters, a broader range of topics, and more sophisticated vocabulary that will appropriately challenge more advanced readers. Packed with information on everything from famous artists to inspiring inventors, use these titles to build a classroom library students will want to visit again and again.
Assisted by his knight, Sir Cumference, and using ideas offered by his wife and son, King Arthur finds the perfect shape for his table.
When Radius gives Sir Cumference something to relieve stomach pain, his poor father turns into a dragon! Radius must solve a riddle about a circle to change Sir Cumference back to a human by the next morning.
St. George and Small, the Caldecott Medal-winning team who created So You Want to Be President?, are back with another spirited and witty look at history, this time focusing on the inventors and inventions who have given us lightbulbs, automobiles, and all the other things that keep the world humming.
This humorous and informative book contains photos and facts about some of the oddest and most peculiar things on the planet.
Simple, easy-to-read text and appealing drawings document the life cycle of the amazing saguaro cactus tree and the creatures it helps to support.
Paperback Book
Rachel Carson (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists)
Grades 4 - 6
Readers will meet Rachel Carson, a woman who led the way for environmental protection.
This book describes the early lives and notable achievements of five black scientists: Susan McKinney Steward, George Washington Carver, Ernest Everett Just, Percy Lavon Julian, and Shirley Ann Jackson.
Anyone can make a robot, and this book is here to prove it! Meet some makers and their awesome bots, and inspire kids to get started with directions for a dozen amazing projects.
