2nd grade Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) reading list
Books referenced by Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) at the 2nd grade level. Source: pyrcapsla.wixsite.com.
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About the 2nd grade Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) reading list
Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) is the Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) framework. ReadingList tracks 29 titles referenced by Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) at the 2nd gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 720L–720L. The framework is published at pyrcapsla.wixsite.com.
At the 2nd grade level — the K-2grade band — students are emerging and early readers, with the curriculum focused on decoding, fluency, and read-aloud comprehension. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around BR (Beginning Reader) to roughly 500L. Measured against that 420–820L range, of the 1 title here with a Lexile score 1 is grade-level, 0 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 2nd grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) expects.
How to use this list: treat the Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 2nd gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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29 books
A Bad Case of StripesDavid Shannon
A Friend for Lakota: The Incredible True Story of a Wolf Who Braved BullyingJim Dutcher
Butt or Face?Kari Lavelle
BuzRichard Egielski
Can I Be Your Dog?Troy Cummings
ChesterMélanie Watt
Creepy Carrots!Aaron Reynolds
DandyAme Dyckman
Dragons Love TacosAdam Rubin
Except Antarctica!Todd Sturgell
Good DogMaya Gottfried
Humpty-Dumpty Egg-SplodesO'Malley, Kevin
Martha SpeaksSusan Meddaugh
Mr. Fox's Game of "No!"David LaRochelle
Narwhal: Unicorn of the SeaBen Clanton
No David!David Shannon
No More Water in the TubTedd Arnold
Officer Buckle and GloriaPeggy Rathmann
Scaredy SquirrelMelanie Watt
Shark vs. TrainChris Barton
Skippyjon JonesJudith Byron Schachner
Substitute Teacher PlansJohnson, Doug
The Adventures of Captain UnderpantsDav Pilkey · 720L
The Great Fuzz FrenzyJanet Stevens
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- The Monkey Goes Bananas · C. P. Bloom
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig · Eugenios Trivizas
- The Yawns Are Coming · Christopher Eliopoulos
- We Don’t Eat Our Classmates! · Ryan T. Higgins
- Widget · Lyn Rossiter McFarland