The  Globetrotter Teacher Guide  ~ The ARMS Reading Books

                    Theme Reading    Year Two    

Purpose

• Times when you wish to have all your students read around a particular theme.
• Gaps between literature units.

Many stories will fit in more than one theme area.  These are merely suggestions:

Theme

Miracles & Milestones

On Eagle's Wings

Of Morning Stars

Who is My Brother?

Change

• Charlie's Wild Idea (p. 224)
• More Precious than Gold (p. 100)
• When the Clock Struck 13  (p. 372)
• The Contract (p. 79)

• The Toothpaste Millionaire (p. 142)
• Sail, Calypso! (p. 48)

• The Order of the Golden Spur (p. 154)
• In the Valley of the Kings (p. 174)
• The Word Shall Not Be Lost (p. 233)

• Gentleman of Rio en Medio (p. 29)
• Testimony of the Trees (p. 70)
• Of Mozart and a Good Mechanic (p. 279)
• Remember, It's a Game (p. 405)

• Creature in the Bush (p. 364)
• A Tale of Two Ships (p. 284)

• A Better Mousetrap (p. 118)
• The West Wind Blew Danger (p. 368)
• The Empty (pg. 12)

• All for a Hat (p. 344)
• Horace Pippin's War (p. 142)
• I Finished (p. 375)
• Patch (p. 20)

• Three Set Out (p. 104)
• Making Do (p. 361-74)
• The Unseen Fire (p. 311)
• The Long Way Up (p. 453-460)
• The Accident (p. 426)

• A Time for Courage (p.12)
• The Fuji Stick (p. 380)
• Volunteers for Death (p. 201)
• My Two Weeks Under the Sea (p. 260)

• The Golden Eagle (p. 304)
• The First Winter (p. 332)

• Patty Wilson's Magnificent Marathon (p. 12)
• The Artist's Touch (p. 134)
• Teacher (Helen Keller p. 260)

• Miracle of the Talking Leaves (p. 172)
• Ordeal on Mt. Hood (p. 375)
• Ring of Fire (p. 242)
• Deep Water (p. 462)

• Mystery of Oak Island (p. 276)
• A Couple of Old Boards (p. 88)
• The Seeing Stick (p. 400)
• A Blind Man Leads the Way (p. 188)

• Highways of the Air (p. 208)
• Bicycles & Flying Machines (p. 218)
• A Bird with No Feathers (p. 82)
• Not by Miracles (p. 234)

• Ben Franklin, Inventor (p. 270)
• Down in Death Valley (p. 58)
• A Pinch Hitter on the Podium (p. 168)
• ...of Explorations in Other Worlds (p. 188-200)

• Lydia Darragh (p. 345)
• Homer's Mountain (p. 160)
• Night Train to Wisconsin (p. 358)
• You Handle the Chemistry (p. 414)

• The Phantom Pony (p. 418-481) Book length story

• Child of the Silent Night (p. 34)
• The Last Day (p. 385)

• Mustang (p. 76)
• I Didn't Want to Forget (p. 249)

• Mom Held Hostage (49)
• The Captive Outfielder (p. 480)
• The Apprentice (p. 439)

• Gunga and the Tiger (p. 146)
• More Prescious Than Gold (p. 100)

• A Rabbit and a Hare (Missions in Burma p. 158)
• White Wings beneath the Waves (p. 201)

• The Ministry of Healing (p. 322)
• Mission of the Morning Star (p. 30)

• Babies, Beans... (Helping Natives in Labrador p. 203)
• Whose Day is Tuesday? (p. 275)

• The Carving on the Tree (p. 334)
• Not over 10 Inches High (p. 170)
• Sacajawea (p. 214)

• Caddie & Indian John (p. 348)
• Saving the 559 (p. 407)
• Snow Treasure (WW II p. 418-511)

• Conductor on the Underground Railroad (p. 296)
• Crossing Westward (p. 206)
• Amelia Earhart (p. 286)

• Salt-Water Tea (Johnny Tremain) (p. 330-342)
• Karen Pryor and the Creative Porpoise (p. 83)
• The New Canadians (229)
• Yellow Leaf (p. 492)

• A Vision & A Decision (p. 27)
• Willie & the Washtub (p. 36)
• Charlie's Wild Idea (p. 225)

• Henry White, Drummer Boy (p. 64)

• The Captain who Changed His Course (Joseph Bates, pg. 332)
• The Silver Three Cent Piece (p. 277)

• No Time for Logic ( James White p. 475)
• Make Bright the Memories (p. 184)

Families

• Alarm in the Night (p. 64)
• The Milestone Group (p. 48)
• Pepper and all the Legs (p. 136)

• Clank! Clank! (p.100)
• The Great Sandwich Eating Contest  (p. 130)

• My Furthest-Back Person (p. 398)
• Owls in the Family (p. 418-457)

• Spelling Bee (15)
• Fathers' Day (p. 21)
• Whistles & Shaving Brushes (p. 43)
• The Day the Sun Came Out (250)
• The Night the Bed Fell (p. 299)
• I Like Skunks (p. 134)

Choices & Commitment

• Ramon Makes a Trade (p. 348)
• The Day they Stayed Alone (p. 118)

• Your Next President is... (p. 108)
• The Message (p. 168)
• The Race with Two Winners (p. 248)

• Henry Aaron:  Home- Run King (p. 367)
• Song without Music (p. 42)
• Alcaldesa (p. 314)

• The Long Way Around (p. 57)
• The Blue Vase (p. 267)
• The View from Burnt Mt. (p. 215)
• My Applalachia (p. 34)