We are pleased to introduce our new SongLake Books Doris Collection. Recognizing that many schools are struggling to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards, we have scrutinized hundreds of books from approved publishers and hand-selected only those that best align themselves with these standards.

Features of our Doris Collection for grade 4 include; repeated books by the same author/illustrator; repeated topics; less familiar fairy tales; different versions of familiar fairy tales; fairy tales from different cultures; greater variety of topics; ties to content areas: science, social studies, health; different times and cultures; more mature themes as poverty, fear, prejudice. The Doris Collection also features different genres at each level offering more flexibility in choosing titles of interest for your students.

Books in the Doris Collection span guided reading levels P–S to meet the needs of students found in a typical grade 4 classroom. The goal is to have fourth graders exit this grade at a level S instructional level.

Our Doris Collection contains 61 different titles: 1 author’s biography as well as 60 additional titles organized with 15 titles per level. This set consists of one copy of each book contained in our Matthew Collection and our Mary Collection. It is designed for classrooms, Title I/ESEA, and new federal programs such as ESSA, et al. It is also ideal for bookrooms.

Most titles included in this collection can be found in Fountas and Pinnell’s Booklist now found online. Each collection comes with two lists. One list is arranged by levels. The other list is arranged alphabetically.

As with each of our collections the Doris Collection is affordably priced below retail. This is truly a remarkable value for a well-designed collection from multiple publishers.