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Developing Measurement Benchmarks

First Grade: Up and Down

October 2007

Books similar to the following can be used with the lessons in the first grade kit.

George Shrinks by William Joyce

The Fattest, Tallest, Biggest Snowman Ever by Michael Rex

Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni

Tell Me How Far It Is by Shirley Willis

How Tall, How Short, How Far Away by David A. Adler

Money, Honey, Bunny! by Marilyn Sadler

Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells

Arthur’s Pet Business by Marc Brown

26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban

Pigs Will Be Pigs by Amy Axelrod

A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

A Busy Year by Leo Lionni

Turtle in July by Marilyn Singer

The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

Swimmy by Leo Lionni

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Valeri Gorbachev

Counting on Frank by Rod Clement

Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy