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Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead GeorgeThe Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours by Jane GoodallOut of the Dust by Karen HesseThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Bone Detectives by Donna M. JacksonThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe View from Saturday by E. L. KonigsburgBeyond The Divide by Kathryn LaskyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Giver by Lois LowrySitting Bull and His World by Albert MarrinHoops by Walter Dean MyersMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellWoodsong by Gary PaulsenHoles by Louis SacharLord of the Deep by Graham SalisburyRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. TaylorThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainDicey's Song by Cynthia VoigtSo Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima WatkinsMiracle's Boys by Jacqueline WoodsonDinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Middle School Level

Poems"Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes

Short Stories"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros"A Rice Sandwich" by Sandra Cisnero"The Monkey's Paw" by WW Jacobs"The Tree" by Sarah Orne Jewett"Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan

Books - Fiction and NonfictionWatership Down by Richard AdamsShipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer ArmstrongSir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc AronsonAshes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AviA Gathering of Days by Joan W. BlosThe Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark by Rhoda Blumberg The Examination by Malcolm BosseOver Sea, Under Stone by Susan CooperWalk Two Moons by Sharon CreechA Girl Named Disaster by Nancy FarmerFlour Babies by Anne FineIda B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom FradinThe Diary of Anne Frank by Anne FrankHomesick: My Own Story by Jean FritzEleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell FreedmanLincoln: A Photobiography by Russell FreedmanThe Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

"Reading and writing are interdependent processes that are

essential to each other and mutually beneficial."

- Holt & Vacca, 1984

The MY Access!® online writing instructional tool contains writing topics (prompts) based on more than 140 literary fiction and nonfiction classics (poems, plays and prose) that are typically part of the Language Arts curriculum. Teachers can use MY Access! to conduct student writing assignments based on the literature that the class is studying. Assignments range from an analysis of a story's title, plot or characters to comparing and contrasting works by various poets/authors.

In addition, all prompts within MY Access! are aligned to the following widely-used textbook series:

Glencoe Literature, The Readers Choice (Grade 10)Harcourt Trophies (Grade 5)Holt Elements of Literature series (Grades 6-12)McDougal Littell, Bridges to Literature series (Grades 6-8)Open Court series (Elementary)Prentice Hall Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes series (Grades 6-12)Scholastic Read 180, rBook - Stage B (Middle School) Scott Foresman Reading (Elementary)

Prompts are added to MY Access! at regular intervals and alignments are conducted on an ongoing basis in order to accurately reflect the current Language Arts curriculum in today's schools. A complete listing of the literary works on which MY Access! prompts are based follows.

The Writing and Reading Connection

The Writing and Reading ConnectionIncorporating MY Access!® into the Language Arts Curriculum

MY Access!®

Web-Delivered Writing Instructional Tool