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Immigrants: Coming to America (2000) by Angie Meyer

Dreamplace (2000) by Angie Meyer

New Hope (2002) by Trisha Frary-Haynes

A Place Called Freedom (2000) by Angie Meyer

A Place Called Freedom (2002) by Trisha Frary-Haynes

Vocabulary List OCR 2002 All Units by Mindi Collins

The First Americans by Rebecca Drake

New Hope by Rebecca Drake

A Place Called Freedom by Rebecca Drake

A Place Called Freedom Match-Up by Angie Meyer

The Story of the Statue of Liberty by Rebecca Drake

The Butterfly Seeds by Rebecca Drake

A Piece of Home by Rebecca Drake

Jalapeño Bagels by Rebecca Drake

Jalapeño Bagels by Paula Yonke

Dreamplace by Angie Meyer

Vocab Word Cards by Michael de la Torre
These are blank flash cards with each of the vocabulary words from 2000 edition (many stories are the same in 2002 and 2005). Students create their own illustration for each word. Sometimes if the word is too difficult for them to illustrate on their own, I tell them to find the word in the story and copy the picture from that page to help them remember. This really helped my students do quite well on the vocabulary section of the unit tests. -Michael de la Torre

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