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Jumanji

Cook-A-Doodle Doo!

Amelia Bedelia books

Strega Nona

No Problem

Angela’s Airplane

Two Logs Crossing

 

 

 

 

 

5th Grade Read Alouds
 


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Hatchet

Maniac Magee

Riding Freedom

Ghost of Fossil Glen

Where the Red Fern Grows

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or any of the Narnia books

The Bad Beginning from A Series of Unfortunate Events

Holes

The Giver

Number the Stars

Small Steps

A Wrinkle in Time

Dragon of Lonely Island

Regular Guy

The BFG

Missing May

Harriet the Spy

A Single Shard

Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes

Frindle

Because of Winn-Dixie

The Houdini Box

A Dog Called Kitty

Summer of the Monkeys

Shiloh

The Cay

Tuck Everlasting

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom

Walk Two Moons

Charlotte’s Webb

Banjo

Bill Wallace books

Weasel

Year Down Yonder

Wayside School Series

T.A. Barron Merlin Series

The Bridge to Terrabithia

Bud, Not Buddy

Watsons Go to Birmingham

Goblins in the Castle

Freak the Mighty

Something Upstairs

Belle Prater’s Boy

The Rats of NIHM

Long Way From Chicago

 

 

 

 

Figurative Language

 


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Chocolate Moose for Dinner

The King Who Rained

Pigs

Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Amelia Bedelia

How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head

It Looked Like Spilt Milk

Eight Ate

The Teacher from the Black Lagoon

The Wretched Stone

Owl Moon

Birdseye

Air Mail to the Moon

A Little Pigeon Toad

The Sixteen Hand Horse

A Surfeit of Similes

Quiet Please

The Dove Dove

Who Ordered Jumbo Shrimp?

 

 

 

Focus/Coherence
 

 


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All the Places to Love

Arthur Writes a Story

Click, Click, Moo: Cows that Type

Fish is Fish

Frog and Toad

Hog-Eye

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day

I Spy: Extreme Challenger!

Magic School Bus books

Martha Speaks

Snowflake Bentley

Squids Will be Squids

The 13th Clue

The Armadillo From Amarillo

The Graduation of Jake Moon

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

The Relatives Came

The Stinky Cheeseman

The Wednesday Surprise

Two Girls Can!

Verdi

What Dad’s Can’t Do

It’s OK to be Different

Martha Blah Blah

Stella Louella

101 Excuses for Not Doing Homework

39 Uses for a Friend

Aunt Flossie’s Hat

Big Mama

Everybody Needs a Rock

Hazel’s Amazing Mother

Miss Tizzy

No Nap

Stealing Freedom

The Always Prayer Shawl

The Bone Talker

The Girl With 500 Middle Names

Uno, Dos, Tres; One, Two, Three

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Autobiographies
 


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26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola

On the Bus with Joanna Cole

When I was Nine by James Stevenson

Bigmama’s by Donald Crews

My Mysterious World by Margaret Mahy

I am a Dancer

An Actor’s Life for Me!

One Man Show by Frank Asch

Can You Imagine? By Patricia McKissack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compare/Contrast Classificatory
 


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Little Red Riding Hood- Hyman

Lon Po Po- Young

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible Very Bad Day- Viorst

Today Was a Terrible Day- Giff

Miss Nelson Is Missing- Allard

Rosie and Michael

Chicken Little

The Mountain that Loved the Bird

The Relatives Came

When I was Young in the Mountains

The Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Ugly

Johnny Appleseed

Miss Rumphius

Prince Cinders

There’s An Alligator Under My Bed

There’s A Nightmare In My Closet

Somebody and The Three Blairs

Alexander and The Wind-Up Mouse

Stellaluna

Earthlets: As Explained by Professor Xargle

Nana Upstairs Nana Downstairs

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

The Great Kapok Tree

Earrings

Beware of Boys

The Rag Coat

The Quilt Story

The Little Red Hen

Cinderella- Perrault

Yeh-Shen (A Chinese Cinderella Story)

Cinderella

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog and The Dog Who Thought He Was A Cat- Singer

Not Now Said the Cow- Oppenheim

Some Things Are Different, Some Things Are the Same- Dantzer- Rosenthal

The Seal Mother

The Selkie Girl

Hidden Treasure

The Little Wood Duck

Big Al

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen

Your Dad Was Just Like You

My Mother’s Getting Married

 

 

 

Diaries
 




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  A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska

A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin

A Snake-Lover's Diary

A Time For Courage:  The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen

Amelia Takes Command

Amelia's Family Ties

Anastasia, The Last Grand Duchess

Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary

Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift

Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North

Diary of a Monster's Son

Diary of a Rabbit

Diary of a Worm

Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl

Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows

Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine

Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor

Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl

Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary

Isabel: Jewel of Castilla

Jahanara:  Princess of Princesses

Kaiulani:  The People's Princess

Lady Ch'iao Kuo: The Warrior of the South

Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan

My Diary From Here to There

My Heart Is On The Ground

My Prairie Year

My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck

Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba

One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss

Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth's Diary

Pepper's Journal: A Kitten's First Year

Seeds of Hope:  The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849

So Far From Home

Standing in the Light

Stowaway

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of Melanie Martin, or, How I Survived Matt the Brat

The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West

The Journal of Augustus Pelletier: The Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues

The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds:  the Donner Party Expedition

The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy

The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker

The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner

Trial By Journal

Valley of the Moon:  The Diaryof Maria Rosalia de Milagros

Victoria, May Blossom of Britannia

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady

West To a Land of Plenty

Westward to Home: Joshua's Diary

When Christmas Comes Again

Who's Reading Darci's Diary?

 

 

Drawing Conclusions
 


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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

Westlandia

Leah’s Pony

Hattie and the Fox

Fanny’s Dream

If You Give a Pig a Pancake

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

The Doorbell Rang

A Pig is Moving In

Two Bad Ants

Jumanji

The Stranger

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

The Biggest Bear

Heckedy Peg

Can I keep Him?

Anansi, The Spider

Bony-Legs

Chicken Sunday

The Frog Prince Continued

How Many Days to America

The Important Book

Miss Nelson is Missing

Miss Rumphius

The Paper Bag Princess

The Snowy Day

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Strega Nona

Wretched Sone

King Bidgood’s In the bathtub

Borreguita and the Coyote

No Such Thing

Seven Blind Mice

Black and White

Feathers for Lunch

No Jumping on the Bed

Bootsie Barker Bites!

The Knight and the Dragon

Play with Me

The Patchwork Quilt

Bedtime for Frances

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road

Mirette on the High Wire

Annie and the Old One

The Lily Cupboard

Tree of Cranes

Where the Wild Things Are

One Monday Morning

The Amazing Bone

Do Not Open

The Wreck of Zephyr

Lunch

The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea

The Animal

A Million Fish-more or Less

Stories to Solve

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

Tuesday

Town Mouse and Country Mouse

The Relatives Came

If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Possum Come-A-Knockin

Carl Books

A Regular Flood of Mishap

Watch Out! Big Bro’s Coming

Goodnight Owl

The Story of Ferdinand

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever

Big Anthony and the Magic Ring

Who’s in Rabbit’s House

Amazing Grace

Aunt Flossie’s Hats

Dawn

Marianna May and Nursey

Angus and the Cat

The Scarebird

Crusher is coming

Masai and I

Inch by Inch

The Rose in My Garden

Mice Twice

Never Trust and Ogre

Rose Blanche

The Tapestry Cats

There’s A Crocodile Under My Bed

The Island of the Skog

Daley B

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Living/Nonliving Anthropomorphism
 


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Three Little Pigs

Goldilocks

A Child’s Garden of Verses

The Land of Counterpane

The Moon is The North Wind’s Cookie

Who Has Seen the Wind

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alliteration
 


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Aster Aardvark’s Alphabet Adventures

Dinorella

Chicken Little

Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut

Sheep in a Shop

Clara Caterpillar

Little Tricker the Squirrel

Ogres! Ogres! Ogres!

Soup for Supper

Alison’s Zinna

Alligator Arrived with Apples

Rose in my Garden

Six Sleepy Sheep

Shrek!

Sun’s Day

There’s an Ant in Anthony

Winter Wren

Four Famished Foxes

Fosdyke

Ling Cho and His Three Friends

Busy Buzzing Bumblebees and other Tongue Twisters

What’s Under my Bed?

I think I Thought, and Other Tricky Verbs

More Parts

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cause and Effect
 


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Tops and Bottoms

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs

Why the Chicken crossed the Road

The Runaway Bunny

Elbert’s Bad Word

If You give a Mouse a Cookie and other Numeroff Books

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

The Paper Crane

Thanksgiving at the Tappletons

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

The Napping House

The Quarreling Book

Imogene’s Antlers

Earrings!

The Iguana Brothers

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Stone Soup

The Chocolate Touch

Strega Nona Stories

Claude series

The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash

Amelia Bedelia books

Where the Wild Things Are

The Giving Tree

The Mitten

No Jumping on the Bed

Arthur’s Tooth

Today Was a Terrible Day

Angel Child, Dragon Child

The Stranger

Pecos Bill

The Grouchy Ladybug

Peter Rabbit

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road

Giraffes Can’t Dance

Because Brian Hugged His Mother

Hog Music

Cookie’s Week

The Snake that Went to School

On Monday When it Rained

Faithful Elephants

Wolf’s Favor

The Big Balloon Race

Little Ninos Pizzeria

The Porcelain Cat

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

 

 

Characterization
 


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The Plain and the Great One

Strega Nona

My Great-Aunt Arizona

Tacky

Rag Coat

Sheep in a Jeep

Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner

Rosie and Michael

Our Granny

El Chino

Patchwork Quilt

Maggie and the Pirate

The Wednesday Surprise

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Ramona and Her Mother

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Bill and Pete

The Moves Make the Man

Cracker Jackson

That Julia Redfern

Bridge to Teribithia

The Wolves of Willoughby chase

Dogger

Kneeknock Rise

Wizard of Oz

Harriet the Spy

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret

A Wrinkle in Time

Mother Teresa

How to Eat Fried Worms

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

Journey Home

Snowflake Bentley

Wolf!

Abbie Against the Storm

Babe the Gallant Pig

The Real Thief

Blackberries in the Bark

An Anteater Named Arthur

On Monday When It Rained

Willy the Wimp and Willy the Champ

Ida Early comes Over the Mountain

Tom

My Grandfather’s Hat

Darkness and the butterfly

The Great Little Madison

The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian

Shelter From the wind

The Cybil War

The Silent Voice

Five Were Missing

Path of the Pale Horse

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Who really Killed Cock Robin?

Get On Out of Here

North to Freedom

Konrad

View From the Cherry Tree

Kate Shelley And the Midnight Express

Doctor De Soto

Julius the Baby of the World

The Grannyman

Tom

Now One Foot, Now the Other

 

 

 

 

 

Dictionary
 


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Miss Alaineus A Vocabulary Disaster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circle Stories
 


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The Steadfast Tin Soldier

The Grouchy Ladybug

Peter Rabbit

Little Nino’s Pizzeria

The Porcelain Cat

 

 

 

 

 

 

Details
 


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There’s a Nightmare in My Closet

Outside Over There

Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elaboration/Descriptive Writing
 


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Home Place     E SHE

All the Places to Love   E MAC

There’s Something in My Attic   E MAY

Roxaboxen   E MCL

Annie and the Old One  

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Hailstones and Halibut Bones   811 O"N

Sweet Corn 

The Napping House   E WOO

When I was Young in the Mountains   E RYL

Chester the Worldly Pig  

Song and Dance Man   E ACK

The Talking Eggs   398.2 SAN

The Relatives Came   E RYL

Knots on a Counting Rope   E MAR

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble   E STE

Three Bad Ants

A Medieval Feast

I’m in Charge of Celebrations

The Best Town in the World

A River Ran Wild

Harry and the Terrible Whatzit

Apple Tree

Whales

The Whale’s Song

Judy Scuppernong

The Tenth Good Thing about Barney

The Elephant’s Child

Big, Fat, Enormous Lie

 

 

Fact/Opinion Fact/Non-Fact
 


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Dear Mr. Blueberry

Gila Monster Meets You at the Airport

The Popcorn Book

The Pain and the Great One

The Magic School Bus

Wilma Unlimited

How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have and Other Tales

The Wolf

More True Lies: 18 Tales for You to Judge

Coyote Places the Stars

Soldier Watching

The Pottery Place

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homonyms
 


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A Chocolate Moose For Dinner

The King Who Rained

How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head

Amelia Bedelia

Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles

In a Pickle and Other funny Idioms

A Bear Before Breakfast

How a Horse Grew Hoarse of the Site Where He Sighted a Bare Bear

Stanleigh’s Wrong-Side-Out Day

The Sixteen Hand Horse

The Dove Dove

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How To's
 


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Dear Peter Rabbit

Beware of Boys

Visiting the Art Museum

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road

Thunder Cake

Your Best Friend Kate

Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One

Animals That Build Their Homes

Stone Soup

Pancakes, Pancakes!

Jake Baked the Cake

Little Red Hen

Tiny Seed

How a Book is Made

The Goat in the Rug

Charlie Needs a Cloak

The Knight and the Dragon

The Quicksand Book

How Does It Feel to Be Old?

The Pottery Place

How to Get Rid of Bad Dreams

How to Dig a Hole to the Center of the World

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

How to Lose All Your Friends

To Climb a Waterfall

How to Be a Texan

And So They Build

The Furry News

The Bear and Mr. Bear

Peanut Butter and Jelly

The Popcorn Book

The Blue Balloon

Growing Vegetable Soup

How to Hide an Octopus

Way to start a Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

Idioms
 


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Punching the Clock

In a Pickle

A Chocolate Moose For Dinner

Bubba the Cowboy Prince

More Parts

Mad as a Wet Hen! and Other Funny Idioms

The Big Orange Splot

Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inference and Generalizations
 


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Where the Forest Meets the Sea

Alejandro’s Gift

My Working Mom

Encounter

Miss Nelson Has a Field Day

No Jumping on the Bed!

The Patchwork Quilt

Once Upon Macdonald’s Farm

The Year of the Perfect Christmas

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road

Jumanji

The Wreck of the Zephir

Why Mosquito Buzz in People’s Ears

Feathers for Lunch

Lunch

Bedtime for Frances

The Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea

One Morning in Maine

Mirette on the High Wire

Tree of Cranes

Where the Wild Things Are

Harry the Dirty Dog

The Dove’s Letter

The Magic Fan

A is for Angry

Five Secrets in a Box

“Too Many Cooks” and Other Proverbs

Appointment

The House that Crack Built

Weird Parents

Use Your Head

Nosey Mr. Rat

Dawn

The Knight and the Dragon

The Chocolate Chip Cookie Contest

Rose Blanche

Come Out and Play, Little Mouse

Mice Twice

The Cut-ups

Five Minutes” Peace

Fat Chance, Claude

Roger’s Umbrella

Oma and Bobo

Someday a Tree

Shortcut

Snail Mail

She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl

Masai and I

Inch by Inch

The Amazing Bone

Stevie

 

 

 

Kinder Books - Funny
 


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Bertie Was a Watchdog

Miss Nelson is Missing

A Frog in the Bog

See You in Second Grade

Arthur’s Teacher Trouble

The Noisy Way to Bed

Flossie and the Fox

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

Chrysanthemum

Teacher form the Black Lagoon

Wilson Sat Alone

The Recess Queen

Wimberly Worried

Principal’s New Clothes

First Day Jitters

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come

The Kissing Hand

Muggie Maggie

Stella Louella’s Runaway Book

Piggie Pie!

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Dusty Locks and the Three Bears

Duck on a Bike

Rosemary Wells Books

May I Bring a Friend

The Trek

The 13th Clue

Owl Babies

Bark, George

Click, Clack, Moo

Froggy Plays Soccor

Froggy’s Halloween

Froggy’s First Kiss

Hattie and the Fox

The Gingerbread Man

Little Red Hen

Henny Penny

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Possum Come a Knockin’

Millions of Cats

Thank You Mr. Falker

Will I Have a Friend?

Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden

The Night Before Kindergarten

Amazing Grace

My Teacher sleeps in School

The Monster that Came to School

Froggy Gets Dressed

Suddenly

What Do You Say, Dear?

Animals Should Not Wear Clothing

Critter the Class Cat

Guinea Pigs Don’t Read Books

The Old Woman and Her Pig

Angela’s Airplane

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb

 

 

 

 

Letter Writing
 


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Dear Peter Rabbit

Plantzilla

With Love, Little Red Hen

Yours Truly, Goldilocks

 

 

 

 

 

Main Idea
 


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Jumanji

The Doorbell Rang

A Porcupine Name Fluffy

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

Swimmy

Polar Express

I with I were a Butterfly

Hot Air Henry-Calhoun

The Trouble with Mom

Captain Whiz Bang

Family Farm

The Little Engine that Could

 

 

 

 

 

Math Concepts
 


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Sir Cumference and the First Round Table

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angle Land

Owen

Ox-Cart Man

My Shadow

Tar Beach

A Chair for My Mother

Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash

Digging Up Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Bob and His Adventure with the Family Lizard

Gregory the Terrible Eater

How Much is a Million?

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Is This a House For Hermit Crab?

June 28, 1999

Math Curse

Milk Makers

Mummies Made in Egypt

Opt: An Illusionary Tale

The Patchwork Quilt

Paul Bunyan

Rechenka’s Eggs

Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

Saturday Sancocho

Seashore Surprises

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

A Three Hat Day

Tight Times

Watch the stars Come Out

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

Fox on the Job

Galimoto

Hail to Mail

Hotel Animal

How to Make an Apple Pie And See the World

 

 

 

 

Mood
 


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Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains?

Rain Drop Splash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narratives/Expressives & How To
 


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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

Two Bad Ants

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One

The Day the Teacher Went Bananas

Something from Nothing

Snow White in New York

If You Were a Writer

Ira Sleeps Over

Ramona and Her Father

Abel’s Island

Mirandy and Brother Wind

The Story of Helen Keller

Angelina’s Christmas

Frog and Toad are Friends

The Snowy Day

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

The Knight and the Dragon

Thunder cake

The Giant Jam Sandwich

Mirette on the High Wire

Easy-To-Make Water Toys That Really Work

Instant Paper Airplanes

How to Make Pop-Ups

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Jumanji

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

Polar Express

And to Think that I Saw it om Mulberry Street

Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One

Red riding Hood

The Pain and the Great One

The Giant Jam Sandwich

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Lazy Lion

Hot-Air Henry

Andy and the Lion

Mirandy and Brother Wind

Make Way for Ducklings

Once Upon a Golden Apple

The Best Present Ever

The Glorious Flight

The Goat in the Rug

Charles Needs a Cloak

The Pottery Place

Victoria House

How a Book is Made

Making Bread

Action Contraptions

Make It Special

Fifty Nifty Origami Crafts

Sidney: The Story of a Kingfisher

 

 

Onomatopoeia
 


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Good Night, Owl

Gobble, Growl, Grunt

Crash, Bang, Boom

50 Below Zero

Sh-h, Listen Again

Crocodile Beat

Plink, Plink, Plink

The Country Noisy Book

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organization
 



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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Dear Peter Rabbit

The Graduation of Jake Moon

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

The Trumpet of the Swan

Sleeping Ugly

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Something From Nothing

Two Bad Ants

What Do Authors Do?

Zoom

The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

A House is a House for Me

Amos and Boris

If You’re Not From the Prairie

It was a Dark and Stormy Night

Sitting Ducks

Thank You, Mr. Falker

The Big Orange Splot

The Flag We Love

The Very Best Friends

The Great Monarch Butterfly Chase

Hey! Get Off Our Train

The Potato Man

Sir Dana: A Knight

 

 

 

 

Paired Reading
 


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Little Red Riding Hood Lon PoPo
  Today was a Terrible Day Alexander and the Horrible… Day
  Three Little Pigs Three Little Javelinas
  Princess and the Pea Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea
  Nanny Fox Hungry Hen
  Henny Penny Chicken Little
  Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Ugly
 

Raisel’s Riddle

Persian Cinderella

  Goldilocks and the Three Bears Somebody and the Three Blairs or Goldie and the Three Bears
  The Gingerbread Man The Runaway Tortilla
 

Manners

Patsy Says
 

This is Baseball

Albert’s Ballgame
 

Frogs

Froggy Plays in the Band
 

Martin and the Giant Lions

Lions
 

Pigs

Little Pig is Capable
 

Crocodiles and Alligators

Egad Alligator!
 

Growing up Wild: Bears

Mama’s Little Bears
 

Bird

Wings on the Wind: Bird Poems
 

Zoonooz

Giraffes Can’t Dance
 

The Bug Scientists

Bugs!
 

Bats: Mysterious Flyers of the Night

Bats Around the Clock
 

All About Turtles

Jabuti, the Tortoise, A Trickster

 

Personification
 


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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Little Toot

The Little House

Loopy

Hercules

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Persuasive Writing/Propaganda
 


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Horace and Morris Join the Chorus (but what about Dolores?)

The 3 Little Pigs

Earrings

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

Little Red Riding Hood

Dear Mr. Blueberry

The Pain and the Great One

One Tough Turkey

Can I Have a Stegosaurus?

Stellaluna

Skinnybones

Beware of Boys

Dragons, Dragons, and Other Creatures that Never Were

Frederick                

Just a Dream

William’s Doll

Can I Keep Him?

If I Were in Charge of the World

Old Henry

I Want a Dog

Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers

Can I Have a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Dad?

Sea Monkey Summer

Hen Lake

Best Town in the World

Luckiest Kid on the Planet

Won’t Somebody Play with Me?

Mini Lessons for Revision

Writing Whizardry

Before the Test

Craft Lessons

The Art of Teaching Writing

Razzle Dazzle Writing

The Great Kapok Tree

If the Dinosaurs Came Back

The Right Number of Elephants

A Hundred Million Reasons for Owning an Elephant

Everybody Needs a Rock

The Mysteries of Harris Burdock

Julius, the Baby of the World

The Tenth Good Thing About Barney

The New House Villain

Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phonics
 


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Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People

I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!

Sheep in a Jeep

Sheep on a Ship

Over in the Meadow

Jamberry

Follow that Bus!

Wonder Books series

Phonics Sound Box Books

Bob Books

Bertie and the Bear

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

A House is a House for Me

Don’t Forget the Bacon!

Pingo the Plaid Panda

How Many Trucks can a Tow Truck Tow?

Marvin K. Mooney, will You Please Go Now!

I Think I Thought

 

 

 

Plot
 



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Superfudge

Queenie Peavy

Secret Garden

Summer of the Swans

Julia and the Hand of God

Ramona the Pest

Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth

Anastasia Krupnik

Arthur, For the Very First Time

Bridge to Terabithia

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Abel’s Island

The Loner

Child of the Owl

All Together Now

The Great Brain

By the Great Horn Spoon!

A Girl Called Al

Ellen Grae

Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Point of View
 



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Scary, Scary Halloween

The Sheriff Speaks***

A Deal Is a Deal***(Rumpelstiltskin's view)

The Puppy who Wanted a Boy

Earthlets, as Explained by Professor Xargle

Jack and the Beanstalk

My Prairie Year

Pedro’s Journey

Encounter

Katie’s Trunk

Letters for a Slave Girl

Letting Swift River Go

Cassie’s Journey

Immigrant Girl

Cherokee Summer

The Pilgrims of Plimoth

Sarah Morton’s Day

Working Cotton

Nothing but the Truth

Ben and Me

Morning Girl

Seven Blind Mice

Tacky, the Penguin

I Wish I were a Butterfly

The Rag Coat

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Two Bad Ants

Letting Swift River Go

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

The Pain and the Great One

Earth Tigerlets, as Explained by Professor Xargle

Earth Hounds, as Explained by Professor Xargle

Earth Mobiles, as Explained by Professor Xargle

Earth Weather as Explained by Professor Xargle

Anno’s Aesop

The Fourth Little Pig

The Prince of the Pond

Cinderella and the Untold Story

Happy Dens or a Day in the Old Wolves’ Home

Gooseberries to Oranges

Custer’s Last Battle

Sami and the Time of Troubles

Jeremy and the General

Rose Blanche

Watch the Stars Come Out

The Angel with a Mouth-Organ

Baseball Saved Us

The Vicksburg Veteran

Goodbye Vietnam

Klara’s New World

My Prairie Christmas

In Coal Country

No Star Nights

Dakota Dugout

Steal Away

Taking The Ferry Home

Bull Run

Timothy of the Cay

Nabby Adam’s Diary

Nelly Custus’ Diary

Patsy Jefferson’s Diary

Poor Richard in France

3 Pigs/ How I was Framed

The Perfect Spot

Fortunately, Unfortunately

That’s Good! That’s Bad!

How does It Feel to be Old?

One, Two and Three

Casey over There

All the Secrets of the World

The Borning Room

 

 

 

 

 

 

Predicting Outcomes
 


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The Stranger

Tuck Everlasting

Mousekin’s Christmas Eve

Locked in Time

Mighty Mizzly Mouse

The Trunk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prewriting Writing
 


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If I Were A Cricket

The Important Book

From Pictures to Words

I Know What I Like

Sara and the Door

David Was Mad

Nothing But a Dog

Mitzi’s Magic garden

Janey

Making Books by Hand

The Bookstore Mouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Problem Solving
 


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Chrysanthemum

Rachel Parker Kindergarten Show-Off

Strega Nona

Caleb Kate

Stellaluna

Too Many Pumpkins

Catwings

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Muggie Maggie

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Three Blind Mice

No Problem

Two Ways to Count to Tem

Tortoise Solves a Problem

Bernard Bear’s Amazing Adventure

Lunch Bunnies

McDuff and the Baby

The Purple Coat

Happy Birthday to Your, You Belong in a Zoo

Amazing Grace

Dance

The Chicken Sister

Don’t Fidget a Feather