Elementary and Middle School Literacy Books to Teach Comprehension Strategies(1)

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Books 4 Comprehension Strategies Updated 1/4/2007

STRATEGY 6-Trait

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I Maestro O infer wise traits, convictions of founding fathers

I Abby Caines

V Abuela Dorros STW

I Albert's Toothache Williams K-4

S Viorst O SF WC STW

I MC Alexander Who Use To Be Rich Last Sunday Viorst V K-6

I S Alice the Fairy Shannon

Q All I See Rylant RWM

S V All the Colors of the Earth Hamanaka WC K-6S All the Places to Love MacLachlan

V All the Small Poems Worth STW

S All Those Secrets of the World Yolen

SYN Alphabet Tree, The Lionni RWM

SYN Russo GR V

Q Amazing Bone, The Steig SF STW

S Amazing Grace Hoffman V RWM text to text

I S Amber on the Mountain Johnston SF V WC K-6; infer themes

V Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping Parish

I Q Amelia's Road Altman Use to compare & contrast to Fly Away Home

S Amos and Boris Steig SF V WC STW

NF An American Safari (Series) Brandenburg

I Q SYN An Angel for Solomon Singer Rylant RWM K-6; infer & quest; moral/theme

V Ancient One, The (chapter) Barron 7Keys

NF And So They Build Kitchen 7Keys

V Andrew's Loose Tooth Munsch K-3; used for making connections

M Animal, The Balian 7Keys

I S Anna Banana and Me Belgvad solving problems

SYN Annie and the Wild Animals Brett I/C

Q Anno's Journey Anno

V NF Appalachia Rylant WC

SYN Araminta's Paintbox Ackerman

I Arnie the Doughnut Keller V K-6; predict what will happen next

V Arrowhawk Schaefer GR O WC K-6; great hook and plot which evokes concern

S Art Lesson, The de Paola STW

V At the Edge of the Forest London STW

S Autumblings Florian SF WC for season of fall, WC-play on wordsM Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostics Schnur 7Keys

Q NF Avalanche Kramer 7Keys

V Baby Whale's Journey London STW

V Bad Case of Stripes, A Shannon

V Bad Day at Riverbend Van Allsburg

I Bag Full of Pups, A Gackenbush

I Baloney (Henry P.) Scieska inferencing unknown vocabulary

V Barn Dance Martin SF WC

M NF Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki

S Beach Day, A Florian

SYN Beach is to Fun Brisson WC analogies

S Bear and Mrs. Duck Winthrop

S Bear Stays Up for Christmas Wilson SF K-2, schema about Christmas

Q Bear Wants More, The Wilson

S Beatrice Doesn't Want To Numeroff GR K-2; develop love of reading; T to S connectionV Because of Winn-Dixie (chapter) DiCamillo V 7Keys

S Before I Was Born Ziefert

S Best Town in the World Baylor

I Q Big Al Clements

Q V DeCristofano nonfiction; interesting sequence and questions

S Birthday Presents Rylant STW

V Black Falcon, The Wise

I Boxes For Katje Fleming K-6; infer theme

NF Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor, A Mazer 7Keys

SYN NF Boy Called Slow, A Bruchac

I Boy Who Didn't Believe In Spring Clifton

Q Bracelet, The Uchida 7Keys

I Branta and the Golden Stone Wangerin

Q Brave Irene Steig SF WC STW quest, within story from character V Bridge Dancers, The Saller

SYN Broody Hen, The Dunrea

MC Brown Bear, Brown Bear Martin O SF WC

Q Brown Paper Teddy Bear Allison K-2

SYN Bubba and Beau Best Friends Appelt K-2; compare dog and baby

I S Bull Run (chapter) Fleischmann FIC RWM,STW

NF Buster Fleming Fiction; headings link to events

I Butter Battle Book, The Seuss 4-6

NF RWM

I Q NF Candy Can Be A Gos Odyssey Magazine 4-6; give kids pop rocks

I S Carmine; A Little More Red Sweet 2-6 vocab; Schema: 1-6, T to T Little Red Riding Hood

S V Castle Builder, The Nolan V also visualizing/mental images

SYN Cat in the Hat, The Seuss

V Catalina Magdalena Arnold GR SF K-3; fun details; fluency; rhyming

I S Cats in Krasinski Square, The Hesse WC 2-6; compare/contrast Rose Blanche & Hannah's Suitcase, World W

S V Chair for My Mother, A Williams O

NF Chameleon, Chameleon Cowley O

SYN Charles T. McBiddle Glass

I Q SYN Charlie Anderson Abercrombie RWM,STW

SYN Charlie Needs a Cloak DePaola

V Charlotte's Web (chapter) White FIC SF V WC

A More Perfect Union; The Story of Our Const

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, NoGood, Very Bad Day

Always Remember Me; How One FamilySurvived World War 2

combining understanding of concentration camps if also read with "RBlance", "Hannah's Suitcase", "Harmonica", and "Cats in KrasinskiSquare"

Big Bang! The Tongue Tickling Tale of aSpeck

Calliope: World History for Young People(magazine)

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STRATEGY 6-Trait

S Chester's Way Henkes O K-3; friendship

M Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Martin O SF WC 7Keys

Q S Chicken Sunday Polacco I/C STW

SYN Christmas Carol, A (chapter) Dickens

S Chrysanthemum Henkes I/C SF V WC STW

SYN Cinderella Skeleton San SouciSYN Cindy Ellen: A Wild West Cinderella Lowell

I Circle Unbroken Raven SF WC Vocab; tradition passed down through history & generations

M Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Cronin 7Keys

S Clocks and More Clocks Hutchins

V Close Your Eyes Marzollo RWM

V Cloud Dance Locker

NF (magazine) RWM

M Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck Peters 7Keys

V Color Me a Rhyme Yolen RWM

SYN Color of His Own, A Lionni RWM

Q Coming On Home Soon Woodson I/C 2; details bring out characters' emotions

V Condor's Egg, The London WC STW

I Corduroy Freeman

SYN Hayward

Q S Country Far Away, A Gray

S V Country Road San Souci

I Crane Girl, The Charles

S Crazy Hair Day Saltzberg GR V K-3; being embarrassed; school days (pj day, crazy hair, etc); supportive friends

I V Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky Heard 811 RWM take out title & animal so kids must infer

I Q Dandelions Bunting STW K-6

I Dateline: Troy Fleischman STW

S Dawn Shulevitz

I M MC Q Day of Ahmed's Secret, The Hyde STW can relate questions to quotes

S Days with Frog and Toad Lobel I/C STW

I Q S Day's Work, A Bunting V STW 1-6; questioning & inferring; infer moral/theme

SYN Dead Bird, The Brown

SYN Dear Mr. Henshaw (chapter) Cleary 7Keys

SYN Teague V WC

SYN Devil's Arithmetic, The Yolen

S Diary of a Wombat Whatley I/C V schema - pet

S Dinner at Aunt Connie's House Ringgold

I Dirty Cowboy, The Timberlake WC 2-6; great for prediction throughout & at end

Q Doctor DeSoto Steig SF WC STW K-3; funny

S Dog Breath Pilkey

SYN Don't Tell the Whole World Cole

NF Dorl ing Kindersley Readers (Series) DK Publishing

I Dot, The Reynolds SF Theme and Teacher's Point of View

V Dove Isabeau Yolen

I Down the Road Lewis

M Dr. Seuss' ABC Seuss 7Keys

I Q V Dragon Kite of the Autumn Moon Reddix O WC 2-6; problem/solution predictionV Dream Weaver London STW

I Dreamcatcher Osofsky

I Duckat Gordon K-2 only

M Each Peach, Pear Plum Ahlberg 7Keys

S Earrings Viorst O V WC STW

I SYN El Chino Say 4-6

I V Elbert's Bad Word Wood

M Elijah's Angel Rosen

Q V Elisabeth Nivola STW

I Q S Elmer McKee O wanting to belong, friendship, self-esteem, K-4

I S Elmer and the Kangaroo McKee

I S Elmer and the Lost Teddy McKee

I S Elmer in the Snow McKee

Q Elves and the Shoemaker, The La Marche GR K-2; great for beginning, middle, end questions

S Emma Bean Van LeeuwenI Empty Pot, The Demi cause & effect; theme

I M Encounter Yolen STW,7Keys

V Ever heard of an Aardwolf? Moser

S Every Living Thing Rylant STW

I Everybody Needs a Rock Baylor I/C SF Life lessons

S NF Exploring the Titanic Ballard 363.1

NF Eyewitness Books (Series) Knopf RWM

I SYN Fables Lobel I/C RWM,STW 2-6; lesson or moral

NF Faces (magazine)

I Fairy Went A -Marketing, A Fyleman superb

I Q Faithful Elephants Tsuchiya V grades 4-6

V Navasky (ed.) STW

S Finklehopper Frog Livingston SF

NF Kalman I/C To introduce unimportant vs. important details; topic is 9/11/02

I Q S V Fireflies Brinkloe RWMSTW

I Firekeeper's Son Park K-6 predict what will happen next

S First Day Jitters Danneberg WC new to school

NF First Discovery Books (Series) Scholastic RWM

I Five Dog Night Christelow

I Five Secrets in a Box Brighton

I Floss Lewis 7Keys

I Q S Fly Away Home Bunting I/C V RWM,STW

V Footprints and Shadows Dodd RWM

SYN For Every Child, A Better World Gikow

I For the Good of the Earth and Sun Heard RWM

I Frank and Ernest Day WC STW 2-6; infer vocab

I Frank and Ernest on the Road Day WC STW 2-6; infer vocab

I Frank and Ernest Play Ball Day WC STW less context so hard to infer term's meanings

SYN Frederick's Fables Lionni SF WC RWM

I Q SYN Freedom Summer Wiles V 2-8; infer themes, author's purpose: SYN-use story clues to add to en

S Frog and Toad All Year Lobel SYW

S Frog and Toad Are Friends Lobel STW

S Frog and Toad Together Lobel STW

V From the Black Lagoon (Series) Thaler K-6

Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People

Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes,The

Detective LaRue: Letters from theInvestigation

Festival in My Heart: Poems by JapaneseChildren

T to T read with book Giraffes Can't Dance; beginning of yr bk for

difficulties, ok to be different; K-2 rhymingFireboat: The heroic Adventures of the JohnJ. Harvey



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STRATEGY 6-Trait

Q S Galimoto Williams

I Garden of Abdul Gasazi, The Van Allsburg STW

S Gator Gumbo Fleming GR T to T; read with "Chicken Little"

NF Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein Delano biography

I George and Martha Marshall STW great for intro of inferenceI George and Martha Encore Marshall STW great for intro of inference

I George and Martha Rise and Shine Marshall STW great for intro of inference

I Gershon's Monster Kimmel

V Ghost-Eye Tree, The Martin/Archambault

S Ginger Finds a Home Voake O K-4;having pet, cat; sequence of events

S Giraffes Can't Dance Andreae SF

V Girl Who Danced With Dolphins, The deSaix

I Giving Tree, The Silverstein V

Q God of Small Things, The Roy

I Q S V Going Home Bunting W STW K-3; 2-6, Mexico, field hands

V Going North Harrington WC 4-8; sights and sounds

S Goldie and the Three Bears Stanley GR T to T; read with "Goldilocks"

V Golem Wisniewski

I V Good Dog Carl Day O STW good for K-1S Good-bye Book, The Viorst

SYN Goodbye House Asch

V Goodnight to Annie Merriam RWM

Q Gorky Rises Steig STW K-2

I Q V Grandfather Twilight Berger V RWM K-2

M Grandfather's Journey Say I/C

V Grandpa's Slide Show Gould I/C

V Grassroots (poetry) Sanburg 7Keys

Q Great Kapok Tree, The Cherry I/C

NF Great White Sharks Markle I O

V Greyling Yolen RWM

S Grumblebunny Hartman T to T tales w/bad wolf & grumpy characters

I Guji Guji Chen K-2,great for prediction, comp/cont w Ugly Duck, Stellaluna & Horace

Q S V Guts Paulsen

S Halmonie's Day Bercaw

Q SYN NF Hana's Suitcase Levine I/C Link museum research to girl's life, two stories at once

I V Hard-Times Jar, The Smothers WC vocab/phrases within context, infer morals

I V Harmonica, The Johnston WC 3-5,vocab./life lessons/theme, use with Rose Blanche

SYN Hatchet (chapter) Paulson 7Keys

I Hattie and the Fox Fox

V Hawk, I'm Your Brother Baylor SF WC

S Hazel's Amazing Mother Wells RWM

V Heartland Siebert SF 3-6

I Hedgehog for Breakfast, The Turner

I I Hey Little Ant Hoose SF V K-3; unexpected ending which is strong text tool for prediction/inferrin

S Hey World, Here I Am Little STW

S Hey, Mama Goose Zalben SF text to text with tons of fairy tales

I Holes (chapter) Sachar 7Keys

I Home (wordless book) Baker V K-6,predict events based on person's eye, infer author's purpose

V Home Place Dragonwagon I/C SF WC 7Keys 3-6; remembering past through different objects & senses

I Hot Air Henry Calhoun

S House on the Hill, The Couture

Q S V How Angel Peterson Got His name Paulsen

Q SYN NF How Come? Wollard STW

I Q S How Many Days to America? Bunting RWM,STW text to world

Q How Seeds Travel Overbeck

NF Hungry Hungry Sharks Cole

Q S V Hurricane London O STW

S I Am America Smith

S I Am Eyes WardV I Am the Ocean Marshak RWM

NF I Can Read About… (Series) Troll Associates RWM

S I Hate English Levine STW

I Q S I Hate My Brother Harry Dragonwagon V

S I Have a Dream Francen V RWM text to world

S V I Know a Lady Zolotow RWM

S I Like To Be Little Zolotow RWM

S V I Love You As Much Melmed SF

S I Took the Moon for a Walk Curtis WC

V I Walk at Night Duncan

S I Wanna Iguana Orloff GR V K-3; letters requesting pet perfect for introducing voice

I I Wish I Had a Pirate Suit Allen

I I Wish I Were a Butterfly Howe 2-5; infer themes/morals

NF Ice-Cream Cones for Sale Greenstein K-6; fictionV If Perry

I NF If Not for the Cat Prelutsky (811)

SYN If the World Were a Village Smith

I V If You Listen Zolotow RWM

V I'm in Charge of Celebrations Baylor I/C STW

I I'm not Going to Chase the Cat Today Harper O K-2; predict next event in story

V Imagine Lester

I In a Small, Small Pond Fleming

I In the Attic Oram FIC

S In the Middle of the Night Hederson

I In the Tall, Tall Grass Fleming WC

I Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau, The Agee mystery

V Into This Night We Are Rising London STWS Ira Says Goodbye Waber

S Ira Sleeps Over Waber RWM/STW

S Ish Reynolds WC

S Island Boy Cooney

S It's A Good Thing There Are Insects Rookie Reader

S It's Hard to Be Five Curtis

Q It's Mine Lionni

S Jafta's Father Lewin

T to T read with book Finklehopper Frog; beginning of yr bk for difficuok to be different; K-2 rhyming

4-6; biography; short text; also use How Angel Peterson Got His Nam

both are biographies which give insight to where Paulsen gets his ide

4-6; biography; short text; also use Guts; both are biographies whichinsight to where Paulsen gets his ideas

2-6;infer what bro & sis are really saying by their actions, relationshipbetween siblings, fighting

K-6; guess animals from 3 line poem; det imp; K-2; which clue helpedanimal



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I SYN Jim and the Beanstalk Briggs

S Journey Home McKay

V Journey to the Bright Kingdom Winthrop

V Julie of the Wolves (chapter) George 7Keys

S Julius, the Baby of the World Henkes STW

I Jumanji Van Allsburg I/C STWI V Keeper for the Sea Brady I/C WC K-6

I Keeper of Soles Bateman 3-6; predict subject death but light hearted

S Keeping Quilt; The Polacco STW

SYN NF Kids Discover (magazine) RWM

Q Kid's Invention Book Erlbach V Voice

NF Killer Whales Markle I O

S King o' the Cats Shepard GR T to T; read with "Boy Who Cried Wolf"

S Kitten's First Full Moon Henkes O SF WC K-2; cause & effect

I V Knots on a Counting Rope Martin

S SYN Koala Lou Fox SF V WC RWM

SYN Learning About Unicorns Alden

S SYN Leo the Late Bloomer Kraus K-3 get better at something as grow older or practice

S V Let the Celebrations Begin! Wild 7Keys

SYN Let's Talk About Race Lester V bringing pieces of who you are together

NF Kroll V 7Keys

Q NF Librarian Who Measured the Earth Lasky STW 4-6;bio Eratosthenes; asking lots q's & making discovery

SYN Library, The Stewart RWM

S Lifetimes Mellonie/Ingpen RWM text to world

V Like Butter on Pancakes London STW

I Q S Lily Cupboard, The Oppenheim V WC

SYN Little Blue and Little Yellow Lionni

V Little Mouse's Painting Wolkstein

S Little Rat Sets Sail Bang-Campbell 2-beg 3; being afraid; chapter book

I Katz WC 3-8; leave out name of animal and have kids infer

I Loop the Loop Dugan

V Loser (chapter) Spinelli V

I Lost Years of Merlin, The (chapter) Barron 7Keys

I Q S SYN V Lotus Seed, The Garland WC RVM

S Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man Adler 7Keys

V Lucky Thing, A Schertle STW

I Lunch Fleming

S Madlenka Sis K-3; lost tooth & people from different places

I S Maggie Doesn't Want to Move O'Donnell I/C O V 2-4; infer who is really talking & what is really meant

SYN Magic Fish, The Littledale

MC SYN NF Magic Schoolbus Books Cole I/C O

I Man Who Walked Between the Towers, The Gerstein K-6; infer character traits

S Manana, Iquana Paul GR T to T, read with "Chicken Little"

SYN Matilda Dahl 7Keys

I Q May I Bring a Friend de Regniers

SYN May the Magnificent GackenbackSYN Maybe Garden, The Burke-Weiner

Q Me and Mr. Mah Spalding, Wilson

S Memory String, The Bunting

S Mirette on the High Wire McCully STW

I S Miss Maggie Rylant RWM/STW text to world

I V Miss Rumphius Cooney I/C

SYN Missing May (chapter) Rylant 7Keys

SYN Mitten, The Brett I/C O

Q Miz Berlin Walks Yolen

I Momma, Where Are You From? Bradby 2-6; infer setting; multicultural-African American

Q NF Monarch Butterfly Gibbons RWM write questions before reading based on picture walk thru book

S Monster Bed, The Willis K-3

NF Moon Book (magazine) Gibbons RWM

M Mortimer Munsch 7Keys

I Mother Earth, Father Sky Yolen RWMV Mountain Streams compact disc RWM

I Mouse Went Out To Get a Snack McFarland GR WC K-4; infer character's feelings from pictures and brief comments; funny book

S Mr. George Baker Hest SF

I S Mr. Lincoln's Way Polacco I/C 1-4; infer theme

I Q Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile Paye/Lippert V

Q S Mrs. Katz and Tush Polacco STW

S Mrs. Mack Polacco STW

SYN Music for Alice Say V 4-6,Parts of life flowing together-themes; Voice outstanding!

V My Chinatown: One Year in Poems Mak WC

S My Grandpa and the Sea Orr

S My Grandson Lew Zolotow

M S My Great Aunt Arizona Houston RWM

SYN My Louisiana Sky (chapter) Holt 7Keys

I My Lucky Day Kasza O K-2 predict next event in story, great story starter at endSYN My Mom Travels a Lot Bauer

I S My Name is Yoon Recorvits I/C V

S My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother Polacco I/C SF WC STW

I Q Mysteries of Harris Burdick Van Allsburg I/C O STW Intro. For K-6

SYN Nadia the Willful Alexander

S Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs de Paola STW

V Napping House, The Wood SF WC RWM

NF National Audubon Society First Field Guide RWM

NF National Geographic for Kids (magazine)

S Near the Window Tree: Poems and Notes Kuskin STW

S Neighborhood Odes (poetry) Soto 7Keys

V New Kid from the Black Lagoon, The Thaler K-6

Q V Newf Killiea out of print

NF Newspaper: Your local paper RWM

V Jenkins left side-description, right side-facts; all

V Night in the Country Rylant WC RWM

V Night Sounds, Morning Colors Wells RWM

I Night Tree, The Bunting 3-4; good intro to prediction and deeper inference

I SYN No Moon, No Milk Baccock making connections

SYN No More Baths Cole out of print

Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the AmericanWest

K-6; especially good for before, during, and after reading; way to intrWW2 to younger kids

Looking for Jaguar and Other Rain ForestPoems

relationship w/ grandpa, learning to read: Read w/ Amber on the Mo& Wed. Surprise

K-2; Use with My Lucky Day, text to text

K-6; infer her feelings before reading next pg of cat, bird, cupcake.Schema for ELL students

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STRATEGY 6-Trait

I No Peas for Nellie Demarest

I Noisy Book, The Brown

I Noisy Nora Wells

V North American Rain Forest Scrapbook, A Wright-Frierson WC 3-4; social studies; WA rain forest

I S Now One Foot, Now the Other de Paola RWM/STW text to text, K-3

Q Odyssey of Science MagazineI Officer Buckle and Gloria Rathmann

Q S Old Lady Who Named Things, The Rylant

I Old Turtle and the Broken Truth Wood WC 4-6, infer theme

I S SYN Oliver Button Is a Sissy de Paola RWM/STW text to text

Q On Call Back Mountain Bunting

I Once There Was a Tree Romanova I/C Leave off ending, infer author's purpose

V Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude O'Malley V

V Once Upon an Ordinary School Day McNaughton K-4; Great intro

I S Once Upon MacDonald's Farm Gammell

NF One Small Place by the Sea Brenner I/C

I NF One Small Place in a Tree Brenner nonfiction, predict next step in cause & effect

S Only Opal Whitely

Q Other Side of Paradise, The Layne

I Other Side, The Woodson

S Our Granny Wild K-3S Our Home is the Sea Levinson WC

I Out of the Dust (chapter) (poetry) Hesse 7Keys

Q Outside and Inside Dinosaurs Markle 2-adult; nonfiction

I S Owen Henkes I/C STW great for 1st exposure to inference

V Owl Moon Yolen V

NF P is for Putt Herzog 4-6; small one or two sentence summaries

S Pain and the Great One, The Blume STW

V Aliki STW

NF Pancakes, Pancakes Carle

V Paperboy, The Pilkey

NF Passage to Freedom Mochizuki 7Keys

I Q Passage to Freedom; The Shugihara Story Mochizuki

I Pea Blossom; The Poole GR V K-4; infer theme, life lessonsI Peep! Luthhardt K-1,predict next events in wordless book

I Peppe the Lamplighter Baritone

SYN Peter's Chair Keats

NF Peterson Field Guides for Young Naturalists RWM

I Pinduli Cannon WC themes

Q Pink and Say Polacco STW quest. related to history, injustice,& themes

I Place Called Freedom, A Sanders

Q Place My Words Are Looking For (poetry) Janeczko 7Keys

MC Polar Bear, Polar Bear Martin

I Poppy (chapter) Avi 7Keys

Q Potato Man, The McDonald STW

V Puddles London WC STW

S Pumpkin, Pumpkin Titherington K-1

V Putting the World to Sleep Thomas RWM

I M S Q is For Duck: An Alphabet Guessing Game Elting/Folsom 7Keys

I Quest, The The New York Times

SYN Quicksand Book, The DePaola

S V Quiet Place, The Wood fantastic for intro of visualization in reading

V Quiet, Please Merriam RWM

I Quiltmaker's Gift, The Brumbeau 2-6; character traits & building community

SYN Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl Moss 7Keys

I S SYN V Rag Coat, The Mills RWM,STW

M Rain Talk Serfozo 7Keys

I SYN Rainbow Fish, The Pfister

SYN Rainbow of My Own, A Freeman

NF Ranger Rick (magazine) RWM

S Reading With My Dad Jorgensen

I S Red Book, The (wordless) Lehman K-2; infer/predict using pictures. Schema: read T to T w/Zoom book

NF Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Ehlert I/C WC 7Keys K-2; Sequence with nonfiction growth of tree

I Redcoats and Petticoats Kirkpatrick

SYN Regards to the Man in the Moon Keats

S V Relatives Came, The Rylant V W RWM/STW text to text, K-3

SYN NF Morrison 3-12; several events to understand integration process

V Ride Like the Wind Fuchs WC grades 4-6

Q S River Dream, A Say 1-6;cover up title & kids will wonder if it is a dream

S Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat Giff K-2; getting better at sports with practice

S Rondo in C Fleischman SF STW

S Rosalie Hewett 7Keys

I Rose Blanche Innocenti STW 4-6 only; WW IIS Rosie and Michael Viorst V WC STW

S Roxaboxen McLerran I/C RWM text to text

I Royal Bee, The Park RWM

I Sachiko Means Happiness Sakai 7Keys

SYN Coerr V 7Keys

V Sailboat Lost Fisher STW

V Sailor Dog, The Brown STW

V Salamander Room, The Mazer RWM

I Salt in his Shoes Jordan K-6; infer themes

SYN Sarah, Plain and Tall (chapter) MacLachlan 7Keys

S Sarah's City Alexander

V Say Something Stoltz I/C RWM

V Seabird Holling

S V Seashore Book, The Zolotow WC STW K-6; great to intro sensory images, if majority of class has visited beac

I SYN V See the Ocean Condra RWM,STW

SYN Serious Trouble Howard V

I V Seven Blind Mice Young I/C O

V NF Ward/Burns/O'Connor STW

V Sheep in a Jeep Shaw

especially good; use with Old MacDonald

Painted Words/Spoken Memories:Marianthe's Story

3-6; nonfiction, WW2, excellent to infer different pt. of view and humaqualities

1-2; infer description or action words associated w/animal. Use w/"Tomorrow's Alphabet"

also use for vocab, cause & effect; http://www.nytimes.com/learning/te

Remember: The Journey to SchoolIntegration

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes(chapter)

Show's how author uses character traits to create ending; students cawrite own ending

Shadow Ball: The History of the NegroLeagues

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teacher/snapshots/archive.html%20%20;%20also%20use%20for%20vocab%20&%20cause%20&%20effect

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V Sheep in a Shop Shaw

V Sheep Out to Eat Shaw

S Sheila Ray the Brave Henkes I/C STW

S Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping Markes GR Explain or predict how pictures match occupation

Q Sick Day, The MacLachlan 7Keys

S Silly Suzy Goose Horacek GR K-2; T to T; read with Elmer; self-esteem (being alike & different)

S Sing a Song of Tuna Fish Codell

I S Yoo I/C "Remembering the journey to integration"

I Skippyjon Jones Schachner SF infer vocab

I Skippyjon Jones in the Dog House Schachner SF infer vocab

V Sky Dogs Yolen

S Slave Dancer, The (chapter) Fox 7Keys

SYN Sleeping Beauty Misc.

SYN Sleeping Ugly Yolen

Q S SYN V Smoky Night Bunting V WC RWM K-6, text to world

V Snail and the Whale Donaldson S K-4; good intro to concept of sensory img

S Snake Hunt Kastner

NF Snakes; Biggest! Littlest! Markle 2-6; acts related to size

S Snippets Zolotow STW

I S Snow Day Maestro especially after snow; multiple copies in RR

I S Snowy Day, The Keats RWM/STW K-1, text to text

I So Far From the Sea Bunting

S Sol a Sol Carlson STW

Q Solomon and the Rusty Nail Steig WC STW K-2; quest how nail will be free

S Some Birthday! Polacco STW

Q Some Frog Bunting K-6

I Something Beautiful Wyeth RWM

I Q Something Permanent Rylant STW Poems w/old photos, gr. 5-6 great for inference

S Something to Remember Me By Bosak

Q Sophie's Masterpiece Spinelli

NF Source Book for Short Text Harvey/Goudvis 4; use 2 articles from this book: "Turn it Off" and "Tigers Roar Back"

NF Spiders; Biggest! Littlest! Markle K-6; facts related to size; great photos

I Spinky Sulks Steig

Q Spinner's Gift, The RadleyI Spy Hops & Belly Flops Graham-Barber 2-4; infer types of animals

V Squiggle, The Schaefer SF WC K-6

Q Star of Fear, Star of Hope Hestlandt

I Stellaluna Cannon I/C V K-6; infer themes

SYN Stinky Cheese Man Scieszka V

Q Storm Boy Lewis STW

S Storm in the Night Stoltz WC

I Storm is Coming! Tekavec I/C O

S V Storm, The Nikola-Lisa

Q Story of Grump and Pout, The McEwan V K-3; esp. first half of story

I Q SYN Story of Jumping Mouse, The Steptoe RWM

Q NF Story of Ruby Bridges, The Coles K-3

I Q Stranger in the Woods Sams SF K-2

I Q Stranger, The Van Allsburg V RWM, STW THE BEST to intro questioning for gr 4-6Q S Sunday Outing, The Pinkney

Q Sunshine Home Bunting V K-6

V Swan in Love Bunting

NF Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Hopkins 4-6; underground railway

I MC Sweetest Fig Van Allsburg

I Swimmy Lionni WC infer from pictures

Q Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig SF WC

I Q SYN Table Where Rich People Sit, The Baylor I/C SF RWM,STW

V Tacky the Penguin Lester SF

V Tales of a Gambling Grandma Khalsa 7Keys

V Talking Walls Knight I/C 3-6;visualization

V Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina Tallchief/Wells WC 4th-8th

I M S V Tar Beach Ringgold V 7Keys

Q Tea With an Old Dragon YolenQ SYN Tea with Milk Say RWM K-6

I S NF Teammates Golenbock 796.357 STW infer themes

NF Tell Them We Remember Bachrach I/C 4-6

S Ten Little Rabbits Grossman

I S Tenth Good Thing About Barney, The Viorst I/C STW

SYN Blaine

Q Terrible Things: An allegory of the Holocaust Bunting

I S Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco V STW K-3

I S That's What Friends Are For Gorbachev GR K-2; infer theme; easy intro; friendship (S)

S There's a Nightmare in My Closet Mayer

S There's Something In My Attic Mayer V K-3; being afraid of sounds at night

V Things That are Most in the World Barrett O

I S Third Story Cat, The Baker I This Is the Key to the Kingdom Allison especially good

M This Year's Garden Rylant

S SYN Three Brave Women Martin STW

S Three Little Rigs, The Gordon GR K-2; T to T; read with "3 Little Pigs"

I Three Pigs Wiesner

Q SYN Three Questions Muth K-3

I S Three Silly Billies, The Palatini GR V vocab play on words and illiteration 3-8, T to T, fair tales (S)

S V Thundercake Polacco V

I S Tight Times Hazen STW K-3; infer meaning of vocab "tight times"

I Time Flies Rohmann I/C

I V Time for Bed Fox SF

NF Time for Kids/Big Picture Edition (magazine) RWM

I Titch Hutchins O K-2; predict what will happen

S Titch series Hutchins O K-2; growing older, cleaning room

V Toad Brown WC

I S Tomorrow's Alphabet Shannon

I Town Mouse, Country Mouse Brett

V Train Song Siebert

S Treasures of the Heart Miller

MC S V Trip, The Keats

Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: TheSammy Lee Story

K-3; animals' incorrect inferences changes their responses/can do motoo

K-4;read & show pictures later, funny book: read w/book Elmer, self esteem-ok to be different; vocab-adjectives & rhyming words.

Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House,The

1-2; noun associated w/future actions of given 1st item. Use w/ "QuacDuck"



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SYN NF Del Calzo

SYN Trouble With Trolls, The Brett O

Q SYN True Story of the Three Pigs Scieszka O V

Q Trumpet of the Swan, The (chapter) White SF V WC RWM

SYN Tuck Everlasting (chapter) Babbitt 7Keys

I Tuesday Wiesner I/C O

V Twilight Comes Twice Fletcher I/C SF WC STW

I M Two Bad Ants Van Allsburg O V

I Two Little Trains Brown

I S Two of Them, The Aliki RWM K-3, text to text

NF Two Old Potatoes Coy I/C K-3

Q UFO Diary Kitamura STW 2-6

NF Umbrella, The Brett WC circular plot eventsM Q Uncle Jed's Barbershop Mitchell 7Keys

NF Unhuggables, The Nat. Wildlife Fed. I/C K-6

S Up North at the Cabin Chall STW 4-6, text to text w/LostLake by Say (4th gr Basil)

Q Up the Learning Tree Vaughan I/C

Q NF Upstairs Room, The (chapter) Reiss 7Keys

Q V Van Gogh Café, The (chapter) Rylant STW

I Voices of Ancient Egypt Winters V 5-6, Guess person's occupation as teacher reads phrase as clue

S Walk Two Moons (chapter) Creech 7Keys

I Q S Wall, The Bunting V STW

Q S NF War Boy Foreman

I Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup de Paola

I Watch Out for Those Weirdos! Kline I/C 2-6; kids predict what author uses to portray each character trait

I Water Dance Locker V Water Hole Waiting Kurtz SF WC K-6; each pg has visual & auditory image for animals

V Water Music Yolen WC

S We Are Best Friends Aliki

I We the Kids; the Preamble to the Constitution Catrow 3-6; infer meaning of preamble vocab using picture clues

Q S SYN Wednesday Surprise, The Bunting STW K-6

NF Weekly Reader (newspaper) RWM

I Wet Dog Broach GR K-2; intro prediction

S Forward O K-1; first day of school

I What Do You Do With a Tail Like That? Jenkins/Page K-2; infer using pictures

V What Do You Dream? Kimmel WC K-2

V What Does the Rain Play? Carlstrom RWM

I What on Earth? Townson &Rees

S What You Know First MacLachlanV When Grandpa Kissed His Elbow DeFelice 7Keys

S When I Was Little Curtis

S When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant STW

V When I'm Sleepy Howard RWM

I I When Marian Sang Ryan

SYN When the Sun Rose Berger

S When Will I Read? Cohen

I Where Are You Going, Manyoni? Stock RWM

V Where the River Begins Locker

V Whipping Boy, The (chapter) Fleischman 7Keys

V Whisper From the Woods Wirth

S Whispering Cloth, The Shea

S Whispering in the Park Burstein

S White is for Blueberry Shannon GR

I V Who Owns the Sun Chbosky WC 5-6 topic slavery; infer theme/moral

S Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book Child 3-6,T-S what we did with books as kids, text to text; Fairy tales

Q Why Do Rabbits Hop? Holub

Q Why Is the Sky Blue? Grindley RWM/STW

SYN Wild Horse Winter Honda 7Keys

S SYN V Wild, Wild Sunflower Child Carlstrom RWM

S SYN Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox SF V STW 3-6;phrases,objects & characters all relate to create circular plot

S William's Doll Zolotow STW

I Winter Fox Stock RWM

Q Wise Woman and Her Secret, The Merriam RWM K-6: fun way to introduce importance of questioning

Q Wolf, The Barbalet 7Keys

I Wolf's Chicken Stew, The Kasza WC

I Woman Hollering Creek Cisneros 4-6; pt. of view and characterizationSYN World Famous Muriel and the Magic Mystery Alexander

I Wreck of the Zephyr, The Van Allsburg

I Q Wretched Stone Van Allsburg O

I Wrinkle In Time, A (chapter) L'Engle 7Keys

Q Yanni Rubbish Oppenheim RWM

SYN Yeh Shen A Cinderella Story from China Louie I/C

Q Deedy

S You Read to Me, I'll Read to You Hoberman SF V schema of fairy tales

I You'll Soon Grow into Them, Titch Hutchins STW

I V Young Hans Christian Andersen, The Hesse 6-8; similes & metaphors, vocab for 6-8

Q Your Move Bunting K-6

I Z Was Zapped, The Van Allsburg K-2; infer using pictures

SYN Zen Shorts Muth 2-6; stories within stories, life lessons

I Zinnia and Dot Ernst K-3;infer theme/moral

V Zoo at Night, The Robinson RWM

NF Zoobooks (magazine) RWM

Triumphant Spirit: Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors, Their Messages of Hope and Compassion

K-3; inference through pictures; cover up one side and infer picture onext to it

2-6; related to slavery & reading; Writing ideas; read with Amber on thMountain

What Did You Do Today?: The First Day of School

character traits, biography, equal rights and for more info read The VoThat Challenged a Nation

K-1; use schema to predict how colors relate to objects; good intro toto use schema as tool to predict

K-2; infer why it ended as it did & predict what will happen in future; Rw/ stories in basal

Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian Xof Denmark, The

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