Title Author Genre Curriculum Connection

Mind Your Manners B. B.

Wolf Judy Sierra Fantasy

Beverly Billingsly

Borrows a Book

Alexander Stadler Fiction alliteration

Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke

Pamela Duncan Edwards Fantasy alliteration

The Worrywarts Pamela Duncan Edwards Fantasy alliteration

Pumpkin Hill Elizabeth Spurr fantasy cause and effect

Rudolph to the Rescue Robert L. May Fantasy cause and effect

Because Brian Hugged His

Mother Rice Realistic

Fiction cause/effect

Cock A Doodle Doo Janet Stevens Fantasy cause/effect

Just in Case Judith Viorst realistic fiction cause/effect

Just Plain Fancy Patricia Polacco Fiction cause/effect

Pig and Crow Kay Chorao cause/effect

Rough-Face Girl Folktale cause/effect

Showdown at the Food Pyramid

Rex Barron Fantasy cause/effect

Skippyjon Jones Judy Schachner Fantasy cause/effect

The End La Rochelle Fiction cause/effect

The Gingerbread

Boy Paul Galdone Folktale cause/effect

The Paper Crane Bang Fantasy cause/effect

The Quarelling Book Zolotow Realistic fiction cause/effect

The Rain Came Down Shannon Realistic fiction cause/effect

The Tiny Seed Eric Carle cause/effect

Zee Michel Gay Fantasy cause/effect

Cowboy Camp Tammi Sauer Fiction character

Dooby, Dooby, Moo Doreen Cronin Fantasy character

Ella Sets the Stage Carmela D’Amico Fantasy character

Starring Miss Darlene Amy Schwarts fantasy character

Superdog the Heart of a Hero Caralyn Buehner Fantasy character

The Great Fuzz Frenzy Janet Stevens fiction character

The Great Turkey Race Steve Metzger Fantasy character

The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson Fantasy character

The Other Side Woodson Realistic Fiction character

What to Do? What to Do? Toni Teevin Fantasy

character – traits, feelings, motives

character change

Alexander and the Wind-Up

Mouse Leo Lionni Fiction character change

Ira Sleeps Over Bernard Waber Fiction character change

Julius, the Baby of the World Kevin Henkes Fiction character change

Little One Step James Fantasy character change

Petunia Roger Duvoisin Fiction character change

My Favorite Thing

(According to Alberta)

Emily Jenkins Realistic Fiction character development

Shy Charles Rosemary Wells Fantasy character development

The Widow’s Broom

Chris Van Allsburg Fantasy character development

How Leo Lion Learned to be

King Pfister fantasy character

development/traits

The Selfish Crocoldile

Faustin Charles and Michael

Terry fantasy character

development/traits

Bravo, Tavo! Brian Meunier realistic fiction character feelings

Coming On Home Soon

Jacqueline Woodson

Historical Fiction character feelings

Crazy Hair Day Saltzberg Fantasy character feelings

Glad Monster, Sad Monster Ed Emberly Fantasy character feelings

My Name is Yoon Recorvits Realistic fiction character feelings

My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Fiction character feelings

Oh, No! Where Are My Pants?

Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry character feelings

Pig In a Wig MacDonald Fantasy character feelings

The Day of Ahmed’s Secret

Florence Parry Heide Fiction character feelings

The Scaredy Cats Bottner Fantasy character feelings

The Way I Feel Janan Cain Realistic fiction character feelings

Today I Feel Silly Jamie Lee Curtis Realistic

Fiction character feelings

Too Many Tamales Gary Soto Realistic

Fiction character feelings

Tough Boris Fox fantasy character feelings

Yoko* Rosemary Wells Fiction character feelings

Knuffle Bunny, Too Mo Willems realistic fiction character feelings

A Weekend With Wendel Henkes Fantasy character feelings and

traits

Pete’s a Pizza William Steig Realistic Fiction

character feelings, traits, motives

Pinduli Janell Cannon Fantasy character feelings, traits, motives

Bootsie Barker Bites Bottner Realistic fiction character motives

Centipede’s 100 Shoes Tony Ross Fantasy character motives

Darcy and Gran Don’t Like

Babies Jane Cutler Realistic

Fiction character motives

Doctor DeSoto William Steig Fantasy character motives

Eloise* Kay Thompson Fiction character motives

Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite!

Diane deGroat Fantasy character motives

Harry and the Terrible Whazit

Dick Gackenbach Fiction character motives

Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney Realistic Fiction character motives

Not Norman Kelly Bennett Realistic Fiction character motives

Saving Sweetness Diane Stanley Fiction character motives

The Mysterious Tadpole Steven Kellogg Fantasy character motives

The Old Woman Who Named

Things Cynthia Rylant Fiction character motives

Enemy Pie Munson Fiction character motives, feelings, traits

A Weekend With Wendel Henkes Fantasy character relationships

Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Realistic Fiction Character Relationships

Amos and Boris William Steig Fantasy Character Relationships

Chicken Sunday Patricia Polacco Fiction Character Relationships

Freedom Summer Deborah Wiles Historical

Fiction Character Relationships

Iris and Walter Elissa Haden Guest Fiction Character Relationships

Mrs. Katz and Tush Patricia Polacco Fiction Character Relationships

Now One Foot, Now the Other Tomie DePaola Realistic

Fiction Character Relationships

Stella Queen of the Snow

Marie-Louise Gay Fiction Character Relationships

Tico and the Golden Wings Leo Lionni Fiction Character Relationships

Absolutely Not Matthew McElligott fantasy character traits

Albert the Bear Butterworth Fantasy character traits

Brave Irene William Steig Fiction character traits

Centipede’s 100 Shoes Tony Ross Fantasy character traits

Crow Boy Taro Yashima Fiction character traits

Duck on a Bike David Shannon Fantasy character traits

Earl the Squirrel Don Freeman Fantasy character traits

Flossie and the Fox

Patricia McKissack Fiction character traits

Frederick Leo Lionni Fantasy character traits

John, Paul, George, and

Ben Lane Smith Fiction character traits

King Long Shanks Jane Yolen Fantasy character traits

Lazy Ozzie Michael Coleman Fantasy character traits

Morris the Artist Segal Realistic fiction character traits

My Great Aunt Arizona Realistic

Fiction character traits

Odd Velvet Mary Whitcomb Fiction character traits

Olivia Ian Falconer Fantasy character traits

Patchwork Quilt Valerie Flournoy historical fiction character traits

Strega Nona Tomie DePaola Fantasy character traits

The Monster Ate My Peas Schnitzlein Fantasy character traits

The Royal Bee Francis Park fiction character traits

Tight Times Barbara Shook realistic fiction character traits

Twinnies* Bunting Realistic Fiction character traits

Weslandia Paul Fleischman Fiction character traits

Peeping Beauty Mary Jane Auch fantasy character traits

Sister Anne’s Hands Lorbiecki Historical

fiction

character traits and feelings (comparing 2

characters)

Princess Penelope’s

Parrot Helen Lester Fantasy character traits and

motives

Jennifer Jones Won’t Leave Me

Alone* Wishinsky Realistic fiction character traits/feelings

Maxwell’s Mountain Shari Becker Realistic

Fiction character traits/feelings

The Dog Who Had Kittens Robertus Fantasy character traits/feelings

Halmoni’s Day* Hunt Realistic fiction characters: compare feelings of 2

Button* Fanelli Fantasy circle story

Gilbert the Great Jane Clarke and Charles Fuge fantasy circle story

Civil War Artist Morrison Historical Fiction Civil War

Red Legs* Civil War

Silent Witness Friedman Civil War

Story of Old Abe Wargin Historical Fiction Civil War

The Last Brother Trinka Hakes Noble

Historical Fiction Civil War

The Promise Quilt Ransom Historical

fiction Civil War

Almost to Freedom

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Historical fiction Civil War/point of view

Pink and Say Patricia Polacco Historical Fiction Civil War/Questioning

Almost to Freedom

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Historical fiction context clues

Baloney Scieszka Fantasy context clues

Skippyjon Jones Judy Schachner Fantasy context clues

Weslandia Paul Fleischman Fantasy context clues

Alfie the Apostrophe fantasy contractions/possessives

Bat Loves the Night Davies Nonfiction determining importance

Red Fox Wallace Nonfiction determining importance

Surprising Sharks Davies Nonfiction determining importance

Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend Melanie Watt Fantasy diagrams

Alex and the Amazing

Lemonade Scott Fiction economics

Leah’s Pony Elizabeth Friedrich

Realistic Fiction economics

A New Coat for Anna Historical

Fiction economics - bartering

Big Green Pocketbook Fiction economics - goods and

services

On the Town Judith Caseley Realistic Fiction

economics – goods and services

Mr. Pines Mixed Up Signs* Kessler economics - human

resources

Bunny Money Rosemary Wells Fantasy economics - needs/wants

Something Special for Me Williams economics - wants and

opportunity costs

Pumpkins Mary Lyn Ray economics - wants, needs, scarcity

Wolves Gravett Fiction Fiction/Nonfiction

Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie Whelan Realistic

Fiction figurative language

The House Takes a Vacation

Jacqueline Davies fantasy figurative language -

personification

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to

You Hoberman Poetry fluency /poems for 2

voices

Betsy Who Cried Wolf

Gail Carson Levine Folktale fractured fable

The Fourth Little Pig*

Teresa Noel Celsi Folktale fractured trickster tale

Thank You Aunt Tallulah Coyle Fiction geography

The Journey of Oliver K.

Woodman Darcy Pattison Fantasy geography

Searching for Oliver K.

Woodman Darcy Pattison Fantasy geography of U.S.

Today and Today Issa Poetry haiku

John, Paul, George, and

Ben Lane Smith Fiction historical figures

My Little Sister Ate One Hare Grossman Fantasy homophones

The House Takes a Vacation

Jacqueline Davies Fantasy homophones – play on

words

A Chocolate Moose for

Dinner Fred Gwynne Fantasy homophones and multiple

meaning words

Parts Arnold Fiction human body

Even More Parts Arnold fantasy idioms

Monkey Business Wallace Edwards Fantasy idioms

My Momma Likes to Say Brennan-Nelson poetry idioms

My Teacher Likes to Say

Denise Brennan-Nelson nonfiction idioms

The Bookshop Dog Rylant Fantasy idioms

There’s a Frog in my Throat Leedy Nonfiction Idioms

More Parts/Even More Parts Arnold Fiction idioms (do “Once Around

the Block”)

Why the Banana Split* Rick Walton Fantasy idioms/synonyms

The Lonely Scarecrow Tim Preston Fantasy imagery

Wait! No Paint! Bruce Whatley Fantasy importance of illustrations

Minerva Louise Morgan Stoeke Fantasy importance of schema

A Pig is Moving In Claudia Fries Fantasy Inferring

Alice the Fairy David Shannon realistic fiction inferring

All the Places to Love MacLachlan Realistic

Fiction inferring

Anna Aphid* Christine Goppel fiction inferring

Baseball Saved Us Ken Mochizuki Historical

Fiction inferring

Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes Fantasy inferring

David Gets in Trouble David Shannon Realistic

Fiction inferring

David Goes to School David Shannon Realistic

Fiction inferring

Dear Willie Rudd Libba Moore Gray

Realistic Fiction inferring

Diary of a Spider Cronin Fantasy inferring

Diary of a Worm Cronin Fantasy Inferring

Earth to Audrey Susan Hughes Realistic Fiction inferring

Ed and Fred Flea* Pamela Edwards Fantasy Inferring

Follow the Drinking Gourd Jeanette Winter Historical

Fiction inferring

Good Boy, Fergus! David Shannon Fiction inferring

Imogene’s Antlers David Small Fantasy inferring

Ira Sleeps Over Bernard Waber Realistic Fiction inferring

Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie Whelan Realistic

Fiction inferring

More Than Anything Else Marie Bradby Realistic

Fiction inferring

Mysteries of Harris Burdick

Chris Van Allsburg fantasy inferring

Plantzilla Jerdine Nolen Fantasy inferring

Redcoats and Petticoats Kirkpatrick Historical

fiction inferring

Rotten Ralph Jack Gantos inferring

Saint George and the Dragon Margaret Hodges Fantasy inferring

Scaredy Squirrel Melanie Watt Fantasy inferring

Shortcut MacCauley realistic fiction inferring

Tar Beach Faith Ringgold Fantasy inferring

That New Animal Emily Jenkins Realistic

Fiction inferring

The Black Snowman Phil Mendez Fiction inferring

The Bookshop Dog Rylant Fantasy inferring

The Great Kapok Tree Lynne Cherry Fiction inferring

The Leaving Morning* Angela Johnston inferring

The Library Sarah Steward Fiction inferring

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry,

Don and Audrey Wood Fantasy inferring

The Memory String Bunting Realistic

Fiction inferring

The Mitten Jan Brett Fantasy inferring

The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Mo Willems Fantasy inferring

The Promise Quilt Ransom Historical

fiction inferring

The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Fantasy inferring

The Wall Eve Bunting Fiction inferring

The Wretched Stone

Chris Van Allsburg Fantasy inferring

Tight Times Barbara Shook Hazen

Realistic Fiction inferring

Tomorrow’s Alphabet George Shannon inferring

Tops and Bottoms Jan Stevens Fantasy inferring

Tuesday David Wiesner Fantasy inferring

Welcome to the Green House Jane Yolen nonfiction inferring

White Socks Only Evelyn Coleman Historical

Fiction inferring

Zoom* MacCauley realistic fiction inferring

The Cat Who Lost His Purr Michele Coxon fiction inferring

Jack and the Night Visitors Pat Schories fantasy inferring from pictures

Please, Puppy, Please Spike Lee Realistic

Fiction inferring from pictures

What Moms Can’t Do Douglas Wood Fantasy inferring from text and

pictures

Emma Kate Patricia Polacco Fiction inferring without showing the pictures(who is Emma

Kate?)

Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden Pattou Realistic fiction inferring/beginning of year

Two Bad Ants Chris Van Allsburg Fantasy Inferring/Point of View

Boomer’s Big Day

Constance W. McGeorge

Realistic Fiction Inferring/Predicting

If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your

Hand Dakos Poetry making connections

Morris the Artist Segal Realistic fiction making connections

How to Get a Gorilla Out of the Bathtub

Hall Fiction manners

Among the Odds and Evens Turner Fantasy math

Anno’s Magic Seeds Mitsumasa Anno Fantasy math

Skittles Riddles McGrath Nonfiction math

The Hershey’s Addition Book Jerry Pallotta Nonfiction math - addition

Lemonade for Sale Stuart Murphy Realistic

Fiction math - bar graphs

Chicka, Chicka, 1, 2, 3 Bill Martin Jr. Fantasy math - counting by 1s and

10s

Double the Ducks Stuart Murphy Realistic

Fiction math - Doubling Numbers

The Great Graph Contest Loreen Leedy Fantasy math - Graphs

Pigs in the Pantry Amy Axelrod Fantasy math - Measurement of

Liquid and Solid Quantities

Sir Cumference and the Great

Knight of Angleland

Cindy Neuschwander Fantasy math - Measuring angles

with a protractor

No Small Change Luksetich Fiction math - Money

The Hershey’s Multiplication

Book Jerry Palotta Nonfiction math - Multiplication

Grandpa Gazillion’s

Number Yard Keller Rhyming math - numbers 1-10

One Odd Day Doris Fisher Fiction math - Odd Numbers

10 Little Rubber Ducks Eric Carle Realistic

Fiction math - ordinal numbers

Sir Cumference and the Dragon

of Pi

Cindy Neuschwander Fantasy math -

Pi/Diameter/Circumference

Do You Wanna Bet? Jean Cushman Realistic

Fiction math - Probability

Pigs at Odds Amy Axelrod Fantasy math - Probability

Actual Size Steve Jenkins Nonfiction math - ration and perspective

A Remainder of One Elinor Pinczes Fantasy math - Remainders in

Division

Spunky Monkeys on

Parade Stuart Murphy Fantasy math - Skip Counting by 2,

3, 4

Sir Cumference and the Sword

in the Cone

Cindy Neuschwander Fantasy math - solid shapes/vertex

Shark Swimathon Stuart Murphy Fantasy math - Subtracting 2-Digit

Numbers

Monster Musical Chairs Stuart Murphy Fantasy math - Subtracting One

A Place for Zero A. LoPresti Fantasy math -

Zero/Multiplication/Place Value

Math Appeal Greg Tang Poetry math riddles

Math-terpeices Greg Tang nonfiction math riddles with artwork

Book George Ella Lyon Poetic metaphors

Cars at Play* Rick Walton metaphors

Squids Will Be Squids Scieszka Folktale modern fables

The Hair Scare Jeffrey Fisher Fantasy modern folktale

Little Brown Hen’s Shower

Pamela Duncan Edwards Fantasy multiple meaning words

Miss Alaineus Frasier Realistic fiction multiple meaning words

Little Pigeon Toad Gwynne fantasy multiple meaning words

(body sort)

Bullfrog Pops* Walton Fantasy multiple meaning words/Direct Objects

Clever Beatrice Margaret Willey Fantasy onomatopoeia

Old MacDonald Had a

Woodshop Shulman Fantasy onomatopoeia

My Big Dog Stevens Realistic fiction onomatopoeia/ Interjections

The Cat Who Lost His Purr fiction onomatopoeia

My Friend Lucky Milgrim Fiction opposites

Is That You, Winter?*

Stephen Gammell Fiction personification

It Looks A Lot Like Reindeer Brian Cleary Fantasy play on words

John Willy and Freddy McGee Meade Realistic fiction plot

If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your

Hand Dakos Poetry poetry - free verse and

rhymed

Please Bury Me in the Library J. Patrick Lewis Poetry poetry about reading

How I Became a Pirate Long Fantasy point of view

I Am the Dog/I Am the Cat Donald Hall Realistic fiction point of view

Minerva Louise and the Red

Truck

Janet Morgan Stoeke Fantasy point of view

Muldoon Pamela Duncan Edwards/Henry

Cole Fantasy point of view

Odd Velvet Whitcomb Realistic Fiction point of view

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle

Dude Kevin O’Malley fiction point of view

The Ugliest Dog in the World* Bruce Whatley Realistic

Fiction point of view

Voices in the Park Anthony Browne fantasy point of view

A Day in the Life of Murphy

Provenson Fantasy point of view – 1st person

That New Animal Emily Jenkins Fantasy point of view of dogs

Alice and Greta Steven Simmons fantasy point of view/author’s message

A Weekend With Wendel Henkes Fantasy predicting

Baghead Krosoczka Fantasy predicting

Chocolatina Kraft Fantasy predicting

Earl the Squirrel Don Freeman Fantasy predicting

Elbert’s Bad Word Fantasy predicting

Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm Jerdine Nolen Fantasy predicting

Hurry, Granny Annie Alda Realistic fiction predicting

Lilly’s Big Day Kevin Henkes fantasy predicting

Mailing May Michael Tunnell Fiction predicting

My Big Dog Stevens Realistic fiction predicting

My Cat is Going to the Dogs* Mike Thaler predicting

My Friend Rabbit Rohmann Fantasy predicting

Saving Sweetness Diane Stanley fiction predicting

Score One for the Sloths Helen Lester fantasy predicting

Some Birthday Polacco Realistic fiction predicting

Tadpole’s Promise Jeanne Willis fiction predicting

The Aminal L. Balian predicting

The Bugliest Bug Diggory Shields Fantasy predicting

The Great Fuzz Frenzy Janet Stevens fiction predicting

The Scaredy Cats Bottner Fantasy predicting

The Wacky Substitute Sally Derby fiction predicting

Pirate for Hire Matthew McElligott Fantasy predicting – make, confirm,

revise

A Wolf at the Door Nick Ward Fantasy predicting fairy tale

characters

Red, Red, Red Gorbachev Fiction predicting outcome

Rudolph to the Rescue Robert L. May Fantasy predicting outcome

The Great Turkey Race Steve Metzger Fantasy predicting outcome

Who Sank the Boat? Pamela Allen Fantasy predicting outcome

Baa-Choo! Sarah Weeks Fantasy predicting outcomes

The Blizzard Betty Ren Wright Historical Fiction

Predicting/ Inferring

The Happy Hocky Family Lane Smith Fantasy Predicting/Inferring

The Mystery of Eatum Hall John Kelly Fantasy Predicting/Inferring

Hungry Hen Richard Waring Fantasy predicting/visualize last page

The Old Woman Who Named

Things Rylant Realistic

Fiction proper nouns

Punctuation Takes a Vacation

Pulver Fantasy punctuation marks

A Day’s Work Eve Bunting Fiction questioning

A Story for Bear Haseley Fantasy questioning

A Weekend with Wendell Kevin Henkes fantasy questioning

An Angel for Solomon Singer Cynthia Rylant Realistic

Fiction questioning

Bad Day at Riverbend Van Allsburg Fantasy questioning

Basket Moon Mary Lyn Ray questioning

Bootsie Barker Bites Bottner Realistic fiction questioning

Bruna Cottringer Fantasy questioning

Charlie Anderson

Barbara Abercrombie

Realistic Fiction questioning

Cloud Dance Thomas Locker nonfiction questioning

Danitra Brown Class Clown* Nikki Grimes Fiction questioning

Diary of a Spider Cronin Fantasy questioning

Dr. White Jane Goodall Realistic Fiction questioning

Earth to Audrey Susan Hughes Realistic Fiction questioning

Farm Fresh Cats Scott Santoro Fantasy questioning

Flora’s Surprise Gilori Fantasy questioning

Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Realistic Fiction questioning

Grandfather Twilight Barbara Berger Fantasy questioning

Grandpa’s Teeth Clement Fiction questioning

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther

King Jean Marzollo Nonfiction questioning

If I Were in Charge of the

World Viorst Poetry questioning

Lilly’s Big Day Kevin Henkes fantasy questioning

Meanwhile Back at the Ranch

Trinka Hakes Noble questioning

Mirette on the High Wire

Emily Arnold McCully

Realistic Fiction questioning

Mrs. Katz and Tush Patricia Polacco Realistic

Fiction questioning

My Ol’ Man Polacco Realistic fiction questioning

Owen and Mzee Isabella Hatkoff Nonfiction questioning

Ruby’s Wish Shirin Yim Bridges

Realistic Fiction questioning

Sam and the Lucky Money Karen Chinn Fiction questioning

Score One for the Sloths Helen Lester fantasy questioning

See The Ocean* Estelle Condra Realistic Fiction questioning

Star of Fear, Star of Hope Jo Hoestland Historical

Fiction questioning

Tell Me a Scary Story Carl Reiner Realistic

Fiction questioning

The Emperor’s Egg Martin Jenkings Nonfiction questioning

The Other Side Jacqueline Woodson

Historical Fiction questioning

The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Fantasy questioning

The Talking Eggs

Robert San Souci Folktale questioning

The Wall Eve Bunting Realistic Fiction questioning

The Web Files Margie Palatini Fantasy questioning

The Wise Woman and Her

Secret Eve Merriam Realistic

Fiction questioning

The Wreck of the Zephyr

Chris Van Allsburg Fantasy questioning

Through Grandpa’s Eyes

Patricia MacLachlan

Realistic Fiction questioning

Tikvah Means Hope Polacco Realistic fiction questioning

White Socks Only Evelyn Coleman Historical fictin questioning

Widget Lyn Rossiter McFarland Fantasy questioning

Dooby, Dooby, Moo Doreen Cronin Fantasy questioning/inferring

I Call It Sky* Will Howell Quickwrite springboard for “fog”

When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry

Molly Bang realistic fiction Quickwrite springboard for a feeling

If… Sarah Perry Fantasy Quickwrites

Edward in the

Jungle McPhail Fantasy reading

Mr. George Baker Amy Hest realistic fiction reading

The Bee Tree Polacco Realistic fiction reading

Charlie Cook’s Favorite book Donaldson Fiction Reading Enjoyment

Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook

Garland Fantasy Reading Enjoyment

The Library Dragon

Carmen Agra Deedy Fantasy Reading Enjoyment

Too Many Frogs Sandy Asher Fantasy Reading Enjoyment

Wild About Books Judy Sierra Fantasy Reading Enjoyment

George Vs. George Schanzer Nonfiction Revolutionary War

Redcoats and Petticoats Kirkpatrick Historical

fiction Revolutionary War

The Magic Hat Fox Fantasy rhyming words

Duck For President Cronin Fantasy s. studies - Elections

Wow! America Neubecker Nonfiction s. studies - Patriotic Symbols/Geography

I Pledge Allegiance Bill Martin Jr. Nonfiction s. studies - Pledge of

Allegiance – meaning

We the Kids David Catrow Nonfiction s. studies - preamble to the Constitution

Grandmama’s Pride Burtha Historical

Fiction s. studies - segregation

White Socks Only Evelyn Coleman Historical

fiction s. studies - segregation

Freedom on the Menu

C. Boston Weatherford

Historical Fiction

s. studies - segregation – the Greensboro sit-ins

This is the Dream Diane Z. Shore Historical

Fiction s. studies - segregation to

integration

Henry’s Freedom Box Levine Nonfiction s. studies - Underground

Railroad

Let Them Play Margot Theis Raven

Historical Fiction

s. studies -segregation – little league baseball

Atlantic Karas Fantasy s. studiesthe Atlantic Ocean

Green Wilma Arnold Fantasy science - amphibians – characteristics

Chameleon, Chameleon Joy Cowley Realistic

Fiction science - Animal

Adaptations

From Caterpillar to Butterfly

Deborah Heiligman nonfiction science - butterfly life cycle

Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug

Mystery Walsh Fantasy science - camouflage

Lost in the Woods Carl R. Sams II Fantasy science -

camouflage/Instinct

Farfallina and Marcel Keller Fantasy science - duck and

caterpillar life cycles

An Island Grows Lola Schaefer nonfiction science - forming of island

Armadillo From Amarillo Fiction science - Habitats

No Place Like Home

Jonathan Emmett Fantasy science - Habitats

Leaves David Ezra Stein Fantasy science – hibernation

Widget Lyn Rossiter McFarland Fantasy science - Instinct/Learned

Behavior

In a Nutshell Joseph Anthony Realistic fiction science - Life cycle of tree/uses of trees

What is the World Made Of?

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Nonfiction science - matter

How the Moon Regained Her

Shape Janet Heller Folktale science - Phases of the

Moon

Pumpkin Jack Hubbell Realistic fiction science - plant life cycle

Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery

Walsh Fantasy science - Plants - traveling seeds

How Groundhog’s Garden Grew

Lynne Cherry Fantasy science - plants (needs, parts, life cycle); hibernation

Pumpkin Circle George Levenson science - pumpkin life

cycle

On Earth G. Brian Karas Nonfiction science - rotation/revolution

Grumpy Bird Jeremy Tankar Fantasy sequencing – first grade

The Invisible Mistakecase

Charise Mericle Harper fantasy sequencing events –

Grandpa’s story

Dr. Rabbit’s Foundling* Jan Wahl Fantasy setting

Encounter Jane Yolen historical fiction setting

Hill of Fire Thomas P. Lewis historical fiction setting

I’m in Charge of Celebrations Byrd Baylor Fiction setting

Pictures for Miss Josie Sandra Belton historical fiction setting

The Other Side Woodson Historical Fiction setting

The Paper Crane Molly Bang Fiction setting

White Socks Only Evelyn Coleman Historical Fictin setting – segregation

In My Momma’s Kitchen Nolen Realistic fiction setting influences text

Freedom Summer Wiles historical fiction setting/how setting effects

plot

Grandfather’s Lovesong* Lindbergh Realistic

Fiction similes

How Can You Dance Rick Walton

Fantasy similes

If You Hopped Like a Frog Schwartz Nonfiction similes

My Daddy Snores Nancy Rothstein Fiction similes

My Two Hands/My Two

Feet* Rick Walton Fantasy similes

Stella Queen of the Snow

Marie-Louise Gay Fiction similes

Boomer’s Big Day

Constance W. McGeorge

Realistic Fiction story elements

The Great Turkey Race Steve Metzger Fantasy story elements

Wibble, Wobble Moss Realistic fiction story elements

Bad Case of Stripes David Shannon fantasy story elements -

summarizing

Crickwing Janell Cannon fantasy story elements – summarizing

Possum Magic Mem Fox fantasy story elements – summarizing

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Judith Barrett fantasy story elements -summarizing

Home Run: the Story of Babe

Ruth Burleigh Biography story structure

Because of Winn Dixie DiCamillo Realistic

Fiction strategy map

The Ink Drinker Eric Sanvoisin Fantasy strategy map

The Room of Wonders Ruzzier Fiction strategy map

Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg fantasy summarizing

My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Fiction summarizing

Once Upon a Time, The End Geoffrey Kloske Fiction summarizing

Raising Dragons* Jerdine Nolen Fantasy summarizing

Roxaboxen Alic McLerran summarizing

Stellaluna Janell Cannon Fantasy summarizing

The Cat Who Wore a Pot on

Her Head Jan Slepian fantasy summarizing

The Cowboy and the Black-

Eyed Pea Tony Johnston Fiction summarizing

The True Story of the 3 Little

Pigs Jon Scieszka Fractured Fairy

Tale summarizing

The Lonely Scarecrow Preston Fiction summarizing - beginning,

middle, and end

Princess Pigsty Cornelia Funke fantasy summarizing and sequencing events

Things That Are Most in the

World Judi Barrett Nonfiction superlative adjectives

It’s Raining Laughter Nikki Grimes Poetry T - S Connections

My Rotten Red-Headed Older

Brother Polacco Realistic fiction T - S connections

The Art Lesson Tomie DePaolo Realistic Fiction T - S Connections

The Night Tree Eve Bunting Realistic Fiction T - S connections

The Soccer Mom from Outer

Space B. Saltzberg Realistic

Fiction T - S Connections

Wibble, Wobble Moss Realistic fiction T - S connections

AAAAArgghh! Spider! Lydia Monks fiction T – S Connections

If I Were in Charge of the

World Viorst Poetry T – S Connections

Knuffle Bunny Willems realistic fiction T – S Connections

Beatrice Doesn’t Want

To Laura Numeroff Fantasy T – S Connections (finding

connection to reading)

Trupp Cannon Fantasy T - T connection to Eggbert

Giggle, Giggle, Quack Cronin Fantasy T – T connection with

Click, Clack Moo

Wemberly Worried Kevin Henkes Fantasy T - T connection with The

Worrywarts

Rough-Face Girl Rafe Martin Folktale T - T Connections

Chocolatina Kraft Fantasy T - T connections with Chocolate Fever

The Recess Queen Alexis O’Neill Fantasy T - T Connections with

Hooway for Wodney Wat

Show Way Jacqueline Woodson

Historical Fiction

T - T Connections with Sweet Clara and the

Freedom Quilt

Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie Whelan Realistic

Fiction T - T with My Rows and

Piles of Coins

The Monster Ate My Peas Schnitzlein Fantasy

T - T with The Lima Bean Monster

How Groundhog’s Garden Grew

Lynne Cherry Fantasy T - T with Tops and Bottoms

Hungry Hen Richard Waring Fantasy T - T with Wolf’s Chicken Stew; Hattie and the Fox, My Lucky

Day

In a Nutshell Joseph Anthony Realistic fiction T - W connections

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen

Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan

Realistic Fiction T - W connections

Tikvah Means Hope Polacco Realistic fiction T - W with disasters

The Butterfly Polacco Historical fiction

T - W with slavery

Mr. Lincoln’s Way Polacco Realistic fiction teaching diversity

Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Realistic Fiction theme

Big Al Andrew Clements Fantasy theme

Brave Irene William Steig Realistic Fiction theme

Bravo, Livingston

Mouse!

Pamela Duncan Edwards Fantasy theme

Elmer David McKee Fantasy theme

Help! A Story of Friendship Holly Keller Fantasy theme

How Leo Lion Learned to be

King Pfister fantasy theme

Jamaica’s Find Juanita Havill Realistic Fiction theme

Jubal’s Wish Audrey Wood Fantasy theme

Kate Shelley and the Midnight

Express

Margaret Wetterer

Historical Fiction theme

Little Flower Gloria Rand Realistic Fiction theme

Math Fables Greg Tang Fables theme

Miss Tizzy Libba Moore Gray

Realistic Fiction theme

Mr. Peabody’s Apples Madonna Realistic fiction theme

Mr. Pusskins Sam Lloyd fantasy theme

Mrs. Crump’s Cat Linda Smith fiction theme

No Place Like Home

Jonathan Emmett Fantasy theme

Olivia Ian Falconer Fantasy theme

Otis Bynum Fantasy theme

Owen and Mzee Craig Hatkoff nonfiction theme

Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore David McPhail Fantasy theme

Pinduli Janell Cannon Fantasy theme

Puppies For Sale Dan Clark Realistic

Fiction theme

Ruby in Her Own Time

Jonathan Emmett Fantasy theme

Sylvester and the Magic

Pebble William Steig Fantasy theme

The Babe and I David Adler Historical Fiction theme

The Bugliest Bug Diggory Shields Fantasy theme

The Crayon Box That Talked DeRolf fantasy theme

The Other Side Woodson Historical Fiction theme

The Pea Blossom Amy Lowry Poole Folktale theme

The Room of Wonders Ruzzier Fiction theme

Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Fantasy theme

Ugly Fish Lareau Fiction theme

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop

Margaree King Mitchell

Historical Fiction theme

Vera’s Baby Sister Vera Rosenberry fiction theme

Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry

Crocodile Paye Folktale trickster tale

Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco Realistic fiction Understanding learning

disabilities

A Quiet Place Douglas Wood Fiction visualizing

All the Places to Love

Patricia MacLachlan

Realistic Fiction visualizing

Amber on the Mountain Tony Johnston Realistic

Fiction visualizing

I Love You the Purplest

Barbara M. Joosse

Realistic Fiction visualizing

If You Listen Zolotow Realistic fiction visualizing

Mammoths on the Move Lisa Wheeler Nonfiction visualizing

Mufaro’s Beautiful

Daughters John Steptoe Folktale visualizing

Night in the Country Rylant Realistic fiction visualizing

That New Animal Emily Jenkins realistic fiction visualizing

The Bunyans Audrey Wood Fractured Fairy Tale visualizing

The Monster Ate My Peas Schnitzlein Fantasy visualizing

The Night Tree Eve Bunting Realistic Fiction visualizing

The Salamander Room Anne Mazer Fiction visualizing

The Storm Book Charlotte Zolotow

Realistic Fiction visualizing

The Wretched Stone

Chris Van Allsburg Fantasy visualizing

A Bad Case of Stripes David Shannon Fantasy visualizing and

summarizing

A Story for Bear Haseley Fantasy visualizing and summarizing

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Judy Barrett Fantasy visualizing and summarizing

Tomás and the Library Lady Mora Realistic fiction visualizing and

summarizing

Wow! It’s Great Being a Duck Rankin Fantasy visualizing and

summarizing

The War Between the

Vowels and the Consonants

Turner Fantasy word study

Here Comes Silent e Anna Jane Hays Friction word study - vowel-

consonant-e pattern

All the Places to Love MacLachlan Realistic

Fiction writing

The Boy Who Loved Words Schotter fantasy writing – specific word

choice

In November Cynthia Rylant Poetry writing - acrostic poems

I’ll Always Be Your Friend Sam McBratney Fantasy writing - adjectives

Just Enough Daniels Realistic fiction writing - adjectives

That’s My Dog* Rick Walton writing - adjectives

Suddenly Alligator Rick Walton Fantasy writing - adverbs

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Norton Juster Realistic Fiction

writing – central idea

Dick and Jane Danielle Denega Fiction writing - combining sentences

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves Lynne Truss nonfiction writing - commas

Pig, Pigger, Piggest* Walton Fantasy writing - comparative

adjectives

Just Me and 6,000 Rats Rick Walton fiction writing – conjunctions

Tiny Toes* Donna Jakob writing - descriptive language

Toad Brown Fantasy writing - descriptive language

For You are a Kenyan Child Kelly Cunnane Realistic

Fiction writing - descriptive words

Tough Boris Fox fantasy writing - descriptive words

Heave Ho! Heinz Janisch Fiction writing – elaboration

The Journey of Oliver K.

Woodman Darcy Pattison Fantasy writing - friendly letter

Dear Bear Joanna Harrison Fantasy writing – friendly letters

Letters from a Desperate Dog Eileen Christelow Fantasy writing – friendly letters

How to Be a Good Dog Gail Page Fiction writing – how – to

All You Need for a Snowman Alice Schertle Fiction writing - How To…

How To Catch an Elephant Amy Schwartz Fiction writing - How To…

How to Get a Gorilla Out of the Bathtub

Hall Fiction writing – How-To

It’s a Bad Day Mary Ellen Friday Fiction writing – idea starter for personal narrative

One of Those Days

Amy Krouse Rosenthal Nonfiction writing – idea starter for

personal narrative

Things That Make You Feel

Good Parr Nonfiction writing – Ideas

The Bear Came Over to My

House Rick Walton fantasy writing - irregular past

tense verbs

The Cat Who Lost His Purr Michele Coxon fiction writing – onomatopoeia

Night Driving John Coy Realistic Fiction writing - personal Narrative

When Lightning Comes in a Jar Polacco Realistic fiction writing - personal narrative

Granddad’s Fishing Buddy Mary Quigley Realistic

Fiction writing – personal narrative

The Invisible Mistakecase

Charise Mericle Harper fantasy writing – personal narrative

Christmas Tree Farm Ann Purmell realistic fiction

writing - personal narrative/sequencing of life

cycle of tree

I Wanna Iguana Karen Kaufman Orloff Fiction writing - persuasive letter

writing

Dear Mrs. LaRue Teague Fantasy writing - persuasive writing

Earrings Judith Viorst Fiction writing - persuasive writing

Plantzilla Nolen Fiction writing - plants/letter writing

The Girls Like Spaghetti Lynne Truss nonfiction writing - possessives and

apostrophes

Around the House the Fox

Chased the Mouse

Rick Walton Fiction writing - prepositional phrases

Do Not Open This Book!

Michaela Muntean Fiction Writing - Process

The Show and Tell Lion

Barbara Abercrombie realistic fiction writing – putting pictures to

words/ideas for writing

Nouns and Verbs Have a

Field Day Robin Pulver Fantasy writing - sentence writing –

nouns and verbs

Granddad’s Fishing Buddy Mary Quigley Realistic

Fiction writing – showing not

telling

Fancy Nancy Jane O’Connor realistic fiction writing - specific word choice

The Wriggly, Wriggly Baby Clerk Fantasy writing - specific words

Thesaurus Rex Laya Steinberg Fantasy writing - specific words/using a thesaurus

If I Had a Dragon Ellery Fiction writing – story starter

Patches Lost and Found Steven Kroll Realistic

Fiction writing - Use of Drawing as

a Pre-Writing Activity

The Boy Who Cried Fabulous* Leslea Newman fiction writing – using synonyms

Max’s Words Kate Banks fiction writing – vocabulary

There’s a Nightmare in My

Closet Mercer Mayer Fiction writing - voice

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle

Dude Kevin O’Malley fiction writing – voice

Voices in the Park Anthony Browne fantasy writing –voice

Danitra Brown Leaves Town Nikki Grimes Realistic

Fiction

written in friendly letters and poetry – Comparing

communities

Rose Meets Mr. Wintergarten Bob Graham realistic fiction character change

Meet Wild Boars Meg Rosoff fantasy character traits – matching evidence to trait