Five in a Row Unit Study Resources

Five in a Row  is a literature-based unit study curriculum. Many families use it for all but the Grammar / Reading and Math, and others use it in conjunction with other resources. For more information on Five in a Row, look here. Each link below leads to a page for the FIAR book with information about the author and illustrator, story summaries, and links to lesson plans and websites that are great go-alongs for each story.

Volume I

The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese

Lentil by Robert McCloskey

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno

The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills

Who Owns the Sun? by Stacy Chbosky

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin

Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk

Papa Piccolo by Carol Talley

Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews

The Clown of God by Tomie DePaola

Storm in the Night by Mary Stoltz

Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton

Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (with illustrations by Susan Jeffers)

Volume 2

The Giraffe That Walked to Paris by Nancy Milton

Three Names by Patricia MacLachlan

Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert

Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco

Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

They Were Strong and Good by Alice and Robert Lawson

Babar, To Duet or Not to Duet based on characters by DeBrunhoff

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Down, Down the Mountain by Ellis Credle

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

The Tale of Peter Rabbit written and ill. by Beatrix Potter

Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car by John Burningham

All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Swift

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

Gramma's Walk by Anna Grossnickle Hines

Volume 3

The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco

Andy and the Circus by Ellis Credle

The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ill. by Ted Rand

Henry the Castaway by Mark Taylor

The Finest Horse in Town by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Truman's Aunt Farm by Jama Kim Rattigan

The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl

Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty

Daniel's Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla

Warm As Wool by Scott Russell Sanders

The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer

Climbing Kansas Mountains by George Shannon

Amber on the Mountain by Tony Johnston

Little Nino's Pizzeria by Karen Barbour

Volume 4

Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran

The Raft by Jim LaMarche

Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

The Gullywasher by Joyce Rossi

Arabella by Wendy Orr

Higgins Bend Song and Dance by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Cowboy Charlie by Jeanette Winter

Grass Sandals by Dawnine Spivak

Albert by Donna Jo Napoli

The Hickory Chair by Lisa Rose Fraustino

Hanna's Cold Winter by Trish Marx

The Hatmaker's Sign Retold by Candace Fleming

The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold

Angelo by David Macaulay