G IS FOR GOLDEN

How about—Alcatraz, Bear Flag, Chinatown, Death Valley, explorers, forty-niners, Golden State, Hollywood, Ishi, John Steinbeck, kelp, Levis, missions, natural history (La Brea Tar Pits), ocean (gray whales), poppy, valley quail, redwood, Sacramento, television (inventor Philo T. Farnsworth), United Nations (chartered in San Francisco), vineyards (Cesar Chavez), Watts Towers, Xanadu (Hearst Castle), Yosemite, and Zorro? In a two-tiered approach meant to reach all students from pre-K through fourth grade, a rhyme for each letter of the alphabet captures the attention of younger readers while older students may read the expository text on the same page.

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