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Purchase bundles of the purchased texts through the Text Portal;
Purchase the Grade 3 Unit Reader for each student to access the additional texts for the unit, and
Download and print the Cajun Folktales Student Materials for each student.

Text Title	Excerpt	Author/Source	Use In Unit	Access Type
Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou		Sharon Arms Doucet	Read Aloud (Anchor Text)	Text Portal
Dear Peter Rabbit		Alma Flor Ada	Read Aloud	Text Portal
Tops and Bottoms		Janet Stevens	Student copy	Text Portal
Writer's Toolbox: Learn How to Write Letters, Fairy Tales, Scary Stories, Journals, Poems, and Reports		Nancy Loewen	Read Aloud	Text Portal
The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit	Introduction, "Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, and the Peanut Patch", "The Great Race", "Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, and the Tar Baby"	Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris	Student copy	Text Portal
"The Trickster Tricked"		Retold by S.E. Schlosser	Student copy	Grade 3 Unit Reader
The Tale of Peter Rabbit		Beatrix Potter	Student copy	Cajun Folktales Student Materials
"The Cajun Experience"	Video	Jacob Gavin for The History Channel	Read Aloud	Digital access
Louisiana History textbook			Student copy	Use current resources

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Lesson 1: Reading Logs

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