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
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