The Form 1b+ books are for students who are 6 years old and up. There is one book scheduled per week.

The Form 1b book titles for Cycle 1 are:
- The Clown of God by Tomie dePaola
- Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
- Storm in the Night by Pat Cummings
- Little Bear’s Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik
- Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
- Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
- How to Make Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills
- The Creation Story for Children by Helen and Dave Haidle
- Papa Piccolo by Carol Talley
- Lentil by Robert McCloskey
- The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice Provensen and Martin Provense
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- On Noah’s Ark by Jan Brett
- Let’s Go Home by Cynthia Rylant
- Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha
- Tony’s Bread by Tomie de Paola
- A Pair of Red Clogs by Matsuno Masako
- Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
- Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
- Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
- Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
- The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
- Who Owns the Sun? by Stacy Chbosky
- Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende & Harry Devlin
Optional:
Some of the Form 1b books in Cycle 1 line up with Five in a Row Volume I by Jane Claire Lambert. These book titles are blue on the schedule. Feel free to use this guide if you like, though it is not a requirement.
You can download the pdf schedule at the STAR Store.
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