Identify the trade book titles, authors, and ISBN, along with the associated Amplify unit and domain number/titles where the trade book is featured.
Amplify provides students with a variety of texts— imaginative, informative, and everything in between—including rich Student Readers, trade books, and novel studies. There are several reader titles that are included within the classroom materials. However, various units across the program require texts to be procured by your school.
Unit text usage by grade level:
- Grade 3 kits include all text titles that students will read; one per unit.
- Grades 4 and 5 will read some selections from the Anthology (aka Student Edition) and some from readers. For example, grade 4 students read the Unit 1, 3 and 6 selections out of the grade 4 Anthology, but read selections for Units 2, 4, 5, and 7 out of unit readers.
About the unit text:
- Anthology (for grade 4 and 5 only) is one book bound together (aka Student Edition).
- Trade books require only one copy per class.
- Novel units and student readers require one copy per student, plus one teacher copy.
Click here to skip to your grade level:
- G3: Trade books
Grade 5
Grade 3
| Trade book title | Author | ISBN | Type | Unit/Domain |
| Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound | Kathleen Cornell Berman | 9781624146909 | Core Instruction | U11: All That Jazz |
|
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone |
Kathryn Russell-Brown | 9781600608988 | Core Instruction | U11: All That Jazz |
| Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black and White Jazz Band in History | Lisa Cline-Ransome | 9780823423620 | Core Instruction | U11: All That Jazz |
| Tito Puente, Mambo King | Monica Brown | 9780061227837 | Core Instruction | U11: All That Jazz |
| Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music | Margarita Engle | 9780544102293 | Core Instruction | U11: All That Jazz |
| Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra | Andrea Pinkney | 9780786814206 | Core Instruction | U11: All That Jazz |
Grade 4
Trade books
| Title | Author | ISBN | Type | Unit/Domain |
| Buried Sunlight | Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm | 9780545577854 | Core Instruction | U8: Energy |
| Getting the Job Done: Oil Rig Workers | Jill Sherman | 9781725300101 | Core Instruction | U8: Energy |
| Energy Island | Allan Drummond | 1250056764 | Core Instruction | U8: Energy |
| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba | 9780545591881 | Core Instruction | U8: Energy |
Anthology book: ISBN 978-1-63602-881-1
| Title | Author | Type | Unit/Domain |
| A Good Lie | Laurel Snyder | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice |
| Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family | Condoleezza Rice | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice |
| When I was Puerto Rican | Esmeralda Santiago | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice |
| A Girl from Yamhill | Beverly Cleary | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice |
| Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio | Peg Kehret | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice |
| The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | Core Instruction | U3: Contemporary Fiction: My Calle, Tu Calle |
| Ask Aden | Harryette Mullen | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Casey at the Bat | Ernest Lawrence Thayer | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Fog | Carl Sandburg | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Harlem | Langston Hughes | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| I Hear America Singing | Walt Whitman | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Kavikanthabharana | Kshemendra | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf | Roald Dahl | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| My First Memory (of Librarians) | Nikki Giovanni | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Paul Revere’s Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| She Had Some Horses | Joy Harjo | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| The New Colossus | Emma Lazarus | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| They Were My People | Grace Nichols | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Why We Play Basketball | Sherman Alexie | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Wishes | Norman Ault | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
| Words Free as Confetti | Pat Mora | Core Instruction | U6: Poetry: Wondrous Words |
Novel unit
| Title | Author | ISBN | Type | Unit/Domain |
| Hello, Universe | Erin Entrada Kelly | 9780062414168 | Core Instruction | U9: Hello, Universe |
Grade 5
Trade books
| Title | Author | ISBN | Type | Unit/Domain |
| All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom | Angela Johnson | 9780689873768 | Core Instruction |
U9: Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to Present
|
| The Great Migration | Jacob Lawrence | 9780064434287 | Core Instruction |
U9: Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to Present
|
| Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations | Kelly Starling Lyons | 9780525516095 | Core Instruction |
U9: Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to Present
|
| Side by Side: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez | Monica Brown | 9780061227820 | Core Instruction |
U9: Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to Present
|
| Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters | Barack Obama | 9780375835278 | Core Instruction |
U9: Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to Present
|
Anthology book: ISBN 978-1-63602-882-8
| Title | Author | Type | Unit/Domain | |
| The Prince of Los Cocuyos | Richard Blanco | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: Let Me Tell You a Story | |
| Hello, My Name Is | Jennifer Lou | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: Let Me Tell You a Story | |
| Rosa Parks: My Story | Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: Let Me Tell You a Story | |
| Step By Step | Bertie Bowman | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: Let Me Tell You a Story | |
| A View of the Earth | Michael Massimino | Core Instruction | U1: Personal Narratives: Let Me Tell You a Story | |
| Adventures of Don Quixote |
Argentina Palacios |
Core Instruction | U4: Don Quixote: A Hopeful Knight's Tale | |
| To The Snake |
Denise Levertov |
Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| This Is Just to Say |
William Carlos Williams |
Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| Variations on a Theme |
Kenneth Koch |
Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer | Walt Whitman | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| The Copper Beech | Marie Howe | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| My Father and the Figtree | Naomi Shihab Nye | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| Snow Dust | Robert Frost | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| #359 (sometimes referred to by its first line “A Bird came down the Walk—”) | Emily Dickinson | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| Advice | Dan Gerber | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| Traveling | Simon Ortiz | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| One Art | Elizabeth Bishop | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| Strange Patterns | Carrie Allen McCray | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
| Isla | Virgil Suárez | Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words | |
|
Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15) |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Core Instruction | U5: Poetry: Collage of Words |
Novel unit
| Title | Author | ISBN | Type | Unit/Domain |
| The Science of Breakable Things | Tae Keller | 9781524715694 | Core Instruction | U10: Novel Study: The Science of Breakable Things |