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Suggested mentor text Lists for

Comprehension Skills, Strategies,

Standards and Grade Level Complexity

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aligned to my Hello Common Core Fiction Set for 3-6

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RL.1 Suggested mentor texts for teaching how to Ask & Answer

Questions Amelia’s Road

Are You a Spider? Charlie Anderson Fly Away Home

An Angel for Solomon Singer Knots on a Counting Rope Officer Buckle and Gloria

Stone Fox The Cinder Eyed Cats The Patchwork Quilt Trumpet of the Swans

Yanni Rubbish Amazing Grace

The Relatives Came The Stranger

Grandfather Twilight The Other Side Each Kindness

This is the Rope

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RL.1

Suggested mentor texts for Predicting

Babushka Baba Yaga Ella the Elegant Elephant

It looked like spilt Milk Just a Dream

Tuesday Bad Day at Riverbend

Pink and Say Sarah, Plain and Tall

Just Plain Fancy Bea and Mr. Jones

Day Gogo Went Cat Heaven

Cinnamon’s Day Out Coyote Cry

Just a Dream Mouse’s Birthday

Tiger Called Thomas Wretched Stone

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RL.1

Suggested mentor texts for Inferring

Alexander Who Use to be Rich Last Sunday Annie and the Old One

Basket Moon How Many Days to America?

Cornelius Dear Mrs. LaRue

Harry and the Terrible Whatzit Hattie and the Fox

Hug Encounter

More Than Anything Else Something Beautiful

Tar Beach Teammates

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi The Royal Bee

The Sweetest Fig Tight Times Time for Bed

Fly Away Home

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Suggested mentor texts for Visualizing

Abuela All the Small Poems

Appalachia Barn Dance

Carl Goes Shopping Charlotte’s Web

Color Me a Rhyme Could Be Worse

Gilberto and the Wind Grandpa’s Face

I Love you the Purplest I’m in Charge of Celebrations

One Leaf Rides the Wind Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Painted Words/Spoken Memories

Two Bad Ants The Storm Book When I’m Sleepy The Snowy Day See the Ocean

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RL.2 Suggested mentor texts with a

Moral, Lesson, Message

Just the Two of Us The Tin Forest

Mr. Peabody's Apples

A Splendid Friend Indeed Say Hello to Zorro!

Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind My Very Own Room

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Squids Will Be Squids

Three Hens and A Peacock

Our Tree Named Steve

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

17 Things I’m Not Allowed to do Anymore

The Giving Tree

Those Shoes

Thunder Cake

Tight Times

Dirty Gert Birthday Presents The Pig’s Picnic

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RL.2 Suggested mentor texts for teaching Summary & Synthesis

Just the Two of Us Day of the Dragon King Annie and the Wild Ones Charlie Needs a Cloak Freedom School, Yes!

Regards to the Man in the Moon Sleeping Ugly The Magic Fish

The Mitten The Trouble with Trolls Charlie the Caterpillar

Chrysanthemum Clara Caterpillar

Owen Tea With Milk

The Alphabet Tree Smoky Night

The Story of Jumping Mouse The Table Where Rich People Sit

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RL.3

Suggested mentor texts for teaching Beginning, Middle, End

Train to Somewhere

The Lotus Seed

How Many Days to America?

Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One

Paddle to the Sea

Pink & Say

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Jumanji The Harmonica

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table

The Wretched Stone

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly Dandelions

White Socks Only

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Duffy & the Devil: A Cornish Tale

The Story of Ruby Bridges

Baghead Mr. Lincoln’s Way

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Suggested mentor texts for teaching Characters

Candy Shop Chester Chowder

Amber on the Mountain One Green Apple

My Lucky Day Widget

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Fanny’s Dream

Henry’s Freedom Box Wilma Unlimited

Thank You, Mr. Faulkner Sukey and the Mermaid

The Day of Ahmed’s Secret The Talking Eggs

Probuditi! Wind-Wild Dog

Weslandia Diary of a Worm

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RL.3

Suggested mentor texts for teaching Character Conflict

Man vs. Man Crow Boy

Number the Stars Pepe the Lamplighter The Big Orange Splot

The War With Grandpa The Yellow Star

Man vs. Nature Amos & Boris Brave Irene

Hatchet Just a Dream

My Side of the Mountain

Man vs. self Ira Sleeps Over

Ira Says Goodbye Annie and the Old One

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RL.3

Suggested mentor texts: Character actions Cause & Effect

Abiyoyo Sierra

Stories For All Seasons That’s Good! That’s Bad!

The Gingerbread Boy If you Give a Moose a Muffin

The Tiny Seed If You Decide to Go to the Moon

Why I Will Never, Ever Have Enough Time to Read This Book

Old Henry Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears

The Flea’s Sneeze The Napping House

The Grumpy Morning The Stray Dog

Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible... Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!

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RL.4 Suggested mentor texts: books that evoke Feelings & Senses

Night Sounds, Morning Colors

Saturdays and Teacakes

Chicken Cheeks Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street

The Salamander Room What You Know First

Scaredy Squirrel Pinduli

Mars Needs Moms! The Friend

The Silver Swan The Honest to Goodness Truth

Tangerine Knots on a Counting Rope

Word After Word After Word When I Was Young in the Mountains

All the Places I Love The Rag Coat

Fireflies The Orange Shoes

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RL.4 Suggested mentor texts for teaching Figurative Language

Similies/Metaphors: Zero is the Leaves on the Tree

You’re Finally Here! Rimshots

A Turkey for Thanksgiving Snowflake Bentley

Up North at the Cabin

Personification: Scarecrow

The Snow Speaks The Lonely Scarecrow

The Perfect Bear Red Sings from the Tree Tops

Stelluluna Bad Boys

Alliteration: The Z Was Zapped

The Great Fuzz Frenzy Some Smug Slug

Four Famished Foxes

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RL.4 Suggested mentor texts for teaching Figurative Language

Idioms: More Parts

Who Let the Cat Out of the Bag? Bunny Money

Monkey Business The King Who Rained

There’s A Frog in My Throat A Chocolate Moose for Dinner

Crash, Bang and Boom Fingers are Always Bringing me News

Miss Alanieus: A Vocabulary Disaster Ounce, Dice, Trice

The Sixteen Hand-Horse What is That Sound?

What is That Thing? Whose Stuff Is This?

Hyperbole: Steamboat Annie Library Lill

Widdermaker Apples to Oregon My Dad Saving Sweetness

Clever Beatrice A Million Fish-More or Less

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RL.5 Suggested mentor texts for teaching Text Structure

Circular: If you Give a Mouse a Cookie If You’re Not From the Prairie

Watch the Stars Come Out

Cumulative: In Enzo’s Splendid Garden The Cake that Mack Ate

The Napping House This is the Teacher

The Bee Tree

Increasing: Bark, George

Mushroom in the Rain A House for a Hermit Crab

There Was An Old Lady Who...

Linear: Max’s Dragon Shirt

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Tops and Bottoms

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RL.6 Suggested mentor texts for teaching Point of View

I Am the Dog, T am the Cat

Going Home

Raising Yoder’s Barn Miz Berlin Walks

Arnie the Doughnut Aunt Flossie’s Hats

The Butterfly Two Bad Pilgrims

The Wreck of the Zephyr Been to Yesterdays

I Love My Hair In Momma’s kitchen The River Ran Wild

The Baby Sister Morning Milking Duck! Rabbit!

First Day Jitters Snow Lambs Encounter

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RL.9

Suggested mentor texts for teaching Compare & Contrast

Just the Two of Us (book & video)

Wild by Emily Hughes & Jemmy Button by Jen Uman

The Hundred Dresses & Each Kindness Rabbityness & The Tenth Good Thing about Barney Wilifred Gordon McDonald Partridge & A Angel for

Solomon Singer Big Bad Bunny & The Black Rabbit

Owl Babies & Little Lost Owl Brothers of the Knight & 12 Dancing Princesses

Bubba the Cowboy Prince & Chickerella Jack & the Beanstalk & Kate and the Beanstalk

Sleeping Beauty & Sleeping Ugly Button Soup and Stone Soup Old MacDonald & Piggie Pie

Gingerbread Boy & Bad Boys Get Cookie! Snow & The Snowy Day

Manana Iguana & Armadilly Chili The Three Little Tamales & The Three Little

Javelinas

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Suggested mentor texts for teaching Historical Fiction

The Civil War Diary of a Drummer Boy

Pink & Say The Promise Quilt

Civil Rights Freedom on the Menu

I Have a Dream White Socks Only & The Other Side

African American History Chicken Sunday

Cornrows Black Snowman

Asian American History Look at the Moon

Grandfather’s Journey Baseball Saved Us

Hispanic American History Under the Mesquite

A Day’s Work Amelia’s Road

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Suggested mentor texts for teaching Historical Fiction

Depression Era The Gardener

Potato Something Permanent

Immigration Immigrant Kids

Peppe the Lamplighter The Memory Coat

My Grandmother’s Journey Watch the Stars Come Out

When I First Came to This Land Train to Somewhere

Native American History Abuelita’s Heart

Children of the Earth and Sky Hiawatha

Knots on a Counting Rope The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

Love Flute

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RL.9

Suggested mentor texts for teaching Myths, Legends & Folktales

That’s What Leprechauns Do Leprechaun’s Gold

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain Why the Sky is Far Away

Arrow to the sun The Legend of the Bluebonnet

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush Anansi the Spider

Coyote: A Trickster Tale From the Am. Southwest Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific

Northwest Cyclopes

Mount Olympus Basketball Greek Myths: DK Readers

Favorite Greek Myths The Gods & Goddesses of Olympus

Heroes, Gods & Monsters of the Greek Myths King Midas: The Golden Touch

Magical Creatures

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RL.10 Suggested mentor texts in the 3rd Grade Lexile Band 520-820

Tsunami! By Kajikawa The Great Kapok Tree

Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life The Talented Clementine

Stink the Incredible Shrinking Kid Donovan’s Word Jar

Punished! If the Shoe Fits

Mr. Lincoln’s Way There’s A Frog in My Throat!

Horrible Harry and the Dead Letters May Way for Dyamonde Daniel

Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street More Than Anything Else

Bad Kitty Gets a Bath Stuck in the Middle & Take the Court

Trash Crisis on Earth & Invasion of the Relatives

Text Complexity

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RL.10 Suggested mentor texts in the 4th Grade Lexile Band 740l-940l

Free Baseball

The Secret of Robber’s Cave Tar Beach

Umbrella Summer Thank You, Mr. Faulkner

Abiyoyo Medusa Jones

The Memory Coat The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

A Pizza the Size of the Sun If Not for the Cat

See You Gladiator, The Time Warp Trio Sitting Bull Remembers

Because of Winn-Dixie (book & movie) The Fairy Tale Detectives & The Sisters Grimm

The Adventures of Spider & West African Folktales A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Bunnicula

Text Complexity

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RL.10 Suggested mentor texts in the 5th Grade Stretch Band 83ol-1010l

Life of Pi Rules

Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat How to Steal a Dog

The Thing about Georgie Bud, Not Buddy Maniac Magee

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean Ralph S. Mouse

Ida B, and her Plans to Maximize Fun The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

Bound for Oregon Abuelita’s Heart

Mystery on the Iditarod Trail Baseball in April and Other Stories Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The Egypt Game

Text Complexity

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RL.10 Suggested mentor texts in the 6th Grade Stretch Band 925l-1070l

The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863: My Name is America

The Dark is Rising Bud, Not Buddy Elijah of Buxton

Ida B., and Her Plans to Maximize Fun The Phantom Tollbooth

The Big Field The Golden Goblet

Island of the blue Dolphins American Tall Tales

The Golden Fleece, and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

The Golden Compass The Wump World

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks Nim’s Island

Text Complexity

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These mentor text lists were created and included in my Hello Literacy Common Core Reading package for all Reading Literature

standards 1-10 for grades 3-6.

There are over 350 reading response sheets, graphic organizers and reading activities

addressing RL. 1, RL. 2, RL. 3, RL.4, RL. 5, RL.6, RL.7, RL.9 and RL.10…enough to last all year!

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