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I A More Perfect Union; The Story of Our Maestro O infer wise traits, convictions of founding fathers
Const
I Abby Caines
V Abuela Dorros STW
I Albert's Toothache Williams K-4
S Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Viorst O SF WC STW
Good, Very Bad Day
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-6
S 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 Always Remember Me; How One Family Russo GR V combining understanding of concentration camps if also read with "Rose
Survived World War 2 Blance", "Hannah's Suitcase", "Harmonica", and "Cats in Krasinski
Square"
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 words
M 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 connection
V 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 Big Bang! The Tongue Tickling Tale of a DeCristofano nonfiction; interesting sequence and questions
Speck
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 Calliope: World History for Young People RWM
(magazine)
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 War 2

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

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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 Souci
SYN 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 Cobblestone: The History Magazine for (magazine) RWM
Young People
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 Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, Hayward
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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 Detective LaRue: Letters from the Teague V WC
Investigation
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 Dorling 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 prediction
V 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 Leeuwen
I 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 Festival in My Heart: Poems by Japanese Navasky (ed.) STW
Children
S Finklehopper Frog Livingston SF T to T read with book Giraffes Can't Dance; beginning of yr bk for
difficulties, ok to be different; K-2 rhyming
NF Fireboat: The heroic Adventures of the John Kalman I/C To introduce unimportant vs. important details; topic is 9/11/02
J. Harvey
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 ending

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

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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 inference

I 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 T to T read with book Finklehopper Frog; beginning of yr bk for difficulties,
ok to be different; K-2 rhyming
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-1
S 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 4-6; biography; short text; also use How Angel Peterson Got His Name;
both are biographies which give insight to where Paulsen gets his ideas

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/inferring

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 4-6; biography; short text; also use Guts; both are biographies which give
insight to where Paulsen gets his ideas
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 Ward
V 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 2-6;infer what bro & sis are really saying by their actions, relationships
between siblings, fighting
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; fiction
V If Perry
I NF If Not for the Cat Prelutsky (811) K-6; guess animals from 3 line poem; det imp; K-2; which clue helped infer
animal
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 STW

S 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

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STRATEGY 6-Trait
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 STW
I 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 Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American Kroll V 7Keys
West
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 K-6; especially good for before, during, and after reading; way to introduce
WW2 to younger kids
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 Looking for Jaguar and Other Rain Forest Katz WC 3-8; leave out name of animal and have kids infer
Poems
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 Gackenback
SYN 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 RWM
V 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 relationship w/ grandpa, learning to read: Read w/ Amber on the Mountain
& Wed. Surprise
I S Mr. Lincoln's Way Polacco I/C 1-4; infer theme
I Q Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile Paye/Lippert V K-2; Use with My Lucky Day, text to text
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 end
SYN My Mom Travels a Lot Bauer
I S My Name is Yoon Recorvits I/C V K-6; infer her feelings before reading next pg of cat, bird, cupcake.
Schema for ELL students
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 Next Stop Neptune; Experiencing Solar Jenkins left side-description, right side-facts; all
System
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

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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 Magazine
I 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 especially good; use with Old MacDonald
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-3
S 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 Painted Words/Spoken Memories: Aliki STW
Marianthe's Story
NF Pancakes, Pancakes Carle
V Paperboy, The Pilkey
NF Passage to Freedom Mochizuki 7Keys
I Q Passage to Freedom; The Shugihara Story Mochizuki 3-6; nonfiction, WW2, excellent to infer different pt. of view and human
qualities
I Pea Blossom; The Poole GR V K-4; infer theme, life lessons
I 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 1-2; infer description or action words associated w/animal. Use w/
"Tomorrow's Alphabet"
I Quest, The The New York Times also use for vocab, cause & effect; http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teacher/snapshot

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 Remember: The Journey to School Morrison 3-12; several events to understand integration process
Integration
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 II
S 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 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Coerr V 7Keys
(chapter)
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 beach

I SYN V See the Ocean Condra RWM,STW

SYN Serious Trouble Howard V Show's how author uses character traits to create ending; students can
write own ending
I V Seven Blind Mice Young I/C O
V NF Shadow Ball: The History of the Negro Ward/Burns/O'Connor STW
Leagues
V Sheep in a Jeep Shaw

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STRATEGY 6-Trait
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 Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Yoo I/C "Remembering the journey to integration"
Sammy Lee Story
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 Radley
I 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 K-3; animals' incorrect inferences changes their responses/can do moral
too
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 4-6
Q 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 K-4;read & show pictures later, funny book: read w/book Elmer, self
esteem-ok to be different; vocab-adjectives & rhyming words.
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 Yolen
Q 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 Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House, Blaine
The
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 1-2; noun associated w/future actions of given 1st item. Use w/ "Quack
the Duck"
I Town Mouse, Country Mouse Brett
V Train Song Siebert
S Treasures of the Heart Miller
MC S V Trip, The Keats

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 Books 4 Comprehension Strategies Updated 1/4/2007

STRATEGY 6-Trait
SYN NF Triumphant Spirit: Portraits and Stories of Del Calzo
Holocaust Survivors, Their Messages of
Hope and Compassion
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 K-3; inference through pictures; cover up one side and infer picture on pg
next to it
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 events
M 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 2-6; related to slavery & reading; Writing ideas; read with Amber on the
Mountain
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 Catrow 3-6; infer meaning of preamble vocab using picture clues
Constitution
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 What Did You Do Today?: The First Day of Forward O K-1; first day of school
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 MacLachlan
V 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 character traits, biography, equal rights and for more info read The Voice
That Challenged a Nation
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 K-1; use schema to predict how colors relate to objects; good intro to how
to use schema as tool to predict
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 K-2; infer why it ended as it did & predict what will happen in future; Read
w/ stories in basal
I Woman Hollering Creek Cisneros 4-6; pt. of view and characterization
SYN 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 Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X Deedy
of Denmark, The
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