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PICTURE THIS! Using Picture Books To Introduce or Teach Skills 2009-2010 Compiled by: Jana Starnes Boswell Elementary School Lebanon, Missouri

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PICTURE THIS! Using Picture Books

To Introduce or Teach Skills

2009-2010

Compiled by:

Jana Starnes Boswell Elementary School

Lebanon, Missouri [email protected]

(Updated 09-21-09)

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Table of Contents Math……………………………………………………………….3-6 Science…………………………………………………………….7-9 Social Studies……………………………………………………..10-14 Language Arts……………………………………………………..15-37 Multicultural……………………………………………………….38 Prejudice/Tolerance………………………………………………..39 Getting Along……………………………………………………...39-40 Grandparents/Elderly………………………………………………40 Death……………………………………………………………….40 Ecology…………………………………………………………….40-41 Music……………………………………………………………….41 Art………………………………………………………………….41 Character Education………………………………………………..42-48 Holidays/Seasonal………………………………………………….49-52 Family……………………………………………………………...52 Friendship………………………………………………………….52 Humor……………………………………………………………...52 Picture Book Biographies………………………………………….53 Bibliography of Professional Resources…………………………...54-55 Alphabetical List - Language Arts – by Title…………………….. 56-63

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Math

Addition/Subtraction: Domino Addition –Long 513.2 Great Math Tattle Battle - Bowen Jelly Beans for Sale – McMillan 332.4 (addition, money) Leaping Lizards – Murphy 513.2 (counting by 5’s and 10’s) Mission: Addition – Leedy 513.2 More M&M’s Math – McGrath 513 (Add, Subtract, Multiply, & Divide) Panda Math: Learning about Subtraction – Nagda 513.2 Ready, Set, Hop- Murphy (also teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Shark Swimathon – Murphy 513.2 (using tally marks; addition; 2-digit subtraction) Skittles Riddles Math – McGrath 372.7 (Number sentences, fractions) Subtraction Action – Leedy 513.2 Capacity & Liquid Measurement: Room for Ripley – Murphy 530.8 Counting: Grapes of Math – Tang 793.7 (math riddles, higher level counting) King’s Commissioners – Friedman (by 2’s, 5’s, etc.) Leaping Lizards – Murphy 513.2 (by 5’s and 10’s) Math Potatoes – Tang 793.74 (math riddles, grouping numbers) M&M’s Counting Book – McGrath 513.2 Spots: Counting Creatures from Sky to Sea – Lesser 513.2 Warthogs in the Kitchen – Edwards Critical Thinking: Anno’s Hat Tricks – Anno Division: Divide and Ride - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Doorbell Rang - Hutchins Great Divide – Dodds King’s Commissioners – Friedman One Hundred Hungry Ants - Pinczes Remainder of One – Pinczes Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee 398.2 Equivalent Concepts: Equal Shmequal: a Math Adventure – Krall Estimation/Rounding: Betcha! – Murphy 519.5

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Coyotes All Around - Murphy 519.5 Great Estimations – Goldstone 519.5 Fractions: Apple Fractions –Pallotta 513.2 Doorbell Rang – Hutchins Full House – Dodds 513.2 Give Me Half! - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Hershey’s Fractions Book – Pallotta 513.2 Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents –Gifford 513.2 Fraction Fun – Adler 513.2 Fractions – Steinecker 513.2 Making Fractions – King 513.2 Polar Bear Math: Learning about Fractions… -Nagda 513.2 Geometry: Elephants on Board – MacDonald Grandfather Tang’s Story (Tangrams) - Tompett Greedy Triangle – Burns Hamster Champs – Murphy (Measuring angles with a protractor ) 516 Sir Cumference and the First Round Table – Neuschwander 516 Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander 516 What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras?- Ellis 516.22 Graphs: Great Graph Contest – Leedy Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger – Nagda 518 Large Numbers: Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? – Wells A Million Fish…More or Less – McKissack On Beyond a Million –Schwartz 513.5 Measurement: Counting on Frank - Clement How Tall, How Short, How Faraway – Adler 530.8 Inchworm and a Half - Pinczes Millions to Measure – Schwartz 530.8 Super Sand Castle Saturday – Murphy 530.8 Twelve Snails to One Lizard - Hightower Circumference: Librarian Who Measured the Earth – Lasky 921 Era Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander 516 Area & Perimeter: Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! – Burns

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Money; Economics: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst If You Made a Million – Schwartz 332.042 Isabel’s Car Wash - Bair Jelly Beans for Sale – McMillan 332.4 Lemons and Lemonade – Loewen 338.5 Market Days – Jaffrey 381 Markets – Bendick 380.1 Pigs Will Be Pigs - Axelrod Multiplication: Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513 Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar – Anno 512 Arctic Fives Arrive – Pinczes Bats on Parade – Appelt Best of Times – Tang 513.2 One Grain of Rice – Demi 398.2 Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do – Murphy 513.2 Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee 398.2 Percentages: Grizzly Gazette – Murphy 513.2 Place Value: Earth Day – Hooray! – Murphy 513 A Place for Zero – LoPresti 513 Probability: No Fair! - Holtzman (teaching ideas in back of book) Problem Solving: Arithme-Tickle – 513 Lew Great Math Tattle Battle - Bowen Grapes of Math – Tang 793.7 Math Curse – Scieszka Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem-Solving – Tang 510 Riddle-iculous Math – Holub 818 Safari Park – Murphy (finding the missing element) 512.9 Ratio and/or Proportion: If Dogs Were Dinosaurs – Schwartz 513.2 If You Hopped Like a Frog – Schwartz 513.2 Small Numbers: Little Numbers and Pictures that Show Just How Little They Are – Packard 513.2

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Time: Chimp Math: Learning about Time from a Baby Chimpanzee – Nagda 529 Pigs on a Blanket - McGinley-Nally (teaching ideas in back of book) A Second is a Hiccup – Hutchins General Math: Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems – Hopkins 811 G is for Googol – Schwartz 510 Monster Who Did My Math - Schnitzlein Only One – Harshman 513.2 You Can, Toucan, Math – Adler 511.3

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Science

Bats: Bats at the Beach - Lies Bats at the Library - Lies Stellaluna – Cannon Dust: Stars beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust – Sayre Earthquakes: Great Shaking – Carson (Missouri 1811) Ecology: Just a Dream – Van Allsburg Miss Rumphius – Cooney Someday a Tree - Bunting Electricity: My Light - Bang Food Chains/Food Webs: Mojave – Siebert Sierra - Siebert Tadpole’s Promise - Ross General: Science Detectives: How Scientists Solved Six Real-Life Mysteries – 501 Science Fair Day -Plourde Science Fresh Squeezed! 41 Thirst-for-Knowledge-Quenching Poems - Shields 811 Science Verse – Scieszka & Smith Glaciers: Glaciers: Nature’s Icy Caps – Harrison 551.31 Icebergs and Glaciers – Simon 551.3 Groundhogs: Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather – Koscielniak Groundhog Gets His Say – Swallow Groundhog Stays Up Late – Cuyler It’s Up to You, Griffin – Pickford Insects: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective - Biedrzycki

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Owls: Owl Moon – Yolen White Owl, Barn Owl - Davies Plants: Life and Times of an Apple – Micucci 634 Old Elm Speaks, Tree Poems – George Popcorn Book – de Paola 641.6 Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden - Levenson Reason for a Flower - Heller (in Big Book form also) Sky Tree – Locker Someday a Tree - Bunting Tiny Seed - Carle A Tree is Growing – Dorros Trees: The First Forest – Giles Rocks/Minerals: Dave’s Down-to-Earth Rock Shop – Murphy 511.3 Seasons: Now it is Winter – Spinelli The Stranger – Van Allsburg This Year’s Garden – Rylant Snakes: Verdi -Cannon Space: Call Me Ahnightio - Conrad (about a famous meteorite) Spiders: Diary of a Spider - Cronin Like Jake and Me – Jukes Sun: My Light - Bang Temperate Biome: Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe 398.2 Water: Atlantic - Karas A Drop of Water – Wick 546 Water Dance - Locker

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Weather: The Big Storm – Hiscock 551.55 Cloud Book – de Paola 551.5 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett Feel the Wind – Dorros 551.5 Dor Flood – Calhoun (1993 Midwest floods) Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather – Koscielniak (Groundhog Day) It’s Up to You, Griffin – Pickford (Groundhog Day) On the Same Day in March, a Tour of the World’s Weather – Singer 551.4 River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (poems, flood in SD) Snow - Shulevitz Snowflake Bentley - Martin The Storm – Harshman The Storm Book – Zoloto Thunder Cake – Polacco W is for Wind, a Weather Alphabet – Michaels 551.5 Wetlands: Heron Street – Turner

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SOCIAL STUDIES Early Exploration: Animals Marco Polo Saw – Markle 921 Pol The Discovery of the Americas - Maestro Encounter - Yolen Native Americans: Annie and the Old One – Miles Beyond the Ridge – Goble D is for Drum – Shoulders 970.004 Gift of the Sacred Dog – Goble Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble Her Seven Brothers – Goble 398.2 Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – De Paola 398.2 Long Night Moon - Rylant Many Nations, an Alphabet of Native America – Bruchac 970 Mystic Horse- Goble 398.2 Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe 398.2 Thunder on the Plains – Robbins 599.64 Pilgrims: Courage of Sarah Noble (1707) - Dalgliesh (short chapter book, 58pages) Molly Bannaky (1603) - McGill On the Mayflower, Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice & a Passenger Girl – Waters P is for Pilgrim, A Thanksgiving Alphabet - Crane 394.26 Pilgrims of Plimoth – Sewall 974.4 Stranded at Plimoth Plantation – Bowen 973.2 Three Young Pilgrims – Harness Colonial: Baker’s Dozen, A Colonial American Tale – Forest Escape of Oney Judg; Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom – McCully Horse’s Tale: a Colonial Williamsburg Adventure - Lubner Our Colonial Year – Harness 973.2 A Picture Book of George Washington - Adler Revolutionary War: Charlotte – Lunn 921 Hai Dangerous Crossing – Krensky Farmer George Plants a Nation – Thomas 921 George Did It – Jurmain 921 George vs. George – Schanzer 973.3 George Washington’s Teeth – Chandra 973.4 Great Big Wagon That Rang, How the Liberty Bell was Saved - Slate

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Hand in Hand: An American History through Poetry – Hopkins 811 John, Paul, George & Ben - Smith Katie’s Trunk – Turner Let it Begin Here! Lexington & Concord – Fradin 973.3 Paul Revere’s Ride – Longfellow 811 Redcoats & Petticoats - Kirkpatrick Samuel’s Choice – Berleth Scarlet Stockings Spy - Noble This Time, Tempe Wick? - Gauch Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps – Barner Yankee Doodle America: The Spirit of 1776 from A to Z – Minor 973.3 1793/1913: A Penny in the Road – Precek Lewis and Clark Expedition: How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis & Clark – Schanzer 917.804 I Am Sacajawea, I Am York – Murphy 920 Lewis and Clark and Me; A Dog’s Tale - Myers (short fiction read-aloud, 63 pages) War of 1812: Dolley Madison Saves George Washington 921 Mad Gold Rush: Gold Fever - Kay Railroad Race (1863-1869): Iron Horses - Kay Civil War: Abraham Lincoln Comes Home - Burleigh 973.709 Blue and the Gray - Bunting Cecil’s Story - Lyon Ghosts of the Civil War - Harness Lincoln and Me – Borden Pink and Say – Polacco Red Legs, a Drummer Boy of the Civil War - Lewin Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Fleming Slavery/Underground Railroad: Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky - Ringgold Freedom Ship – Rappaport Henry’s Freedom Box - Levine Moses, When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Weatherford Nettie’s Trip South – Turner Night Boat to Freedom – Raven

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Secret to Freedom - Vaughan Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt -Smucker Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Hopkinson The Wagon – Johnston Westward Movement: Buffalo Storm - Applegate Cassie’s Journey, Going West in the 1860’s - Harvey Dandelions – Bunting Elephant Quilt - Lowell Going West – Van Leeuwen Grandmother Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams (Missouri) I Have Heard of a Land – Thomas Papa and the Pioneer Quilt – Van Leeuwen Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson Prairie Alphabet – Moore (modern times) Red Flower Goes West – Turner Season’s Sewn: a year in Patchwork - Paul Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt - Smucker Wagons West- Gerrard The Way West, Journal of a Pioneer Woman – Schlissel 917.8 Orphan Trains (1850’s-1920’s) Train to Somewhere - Bunting Dust Bowl/Depression: Dust Bowl – Booth The Gardener - Stewart Leah’s Pony - Friedrich The Babe & I – Adler Complete History of One Location: Barn - Atwell Heron Street - Turner House on Maple Street - Pryor River Ran Wild - Cherry Tree in the Trail – Holling Tuttle’s Red Barn – Michelson Effects of “Progress”: Heron Street - Turner Letting Swift River Go - Yolen Map Skills / Geography: Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry Around the World, Who’s Been Here? - George Geography from A to Z – Knowlton

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Go, Go America – Yaccarino 973 Mapping Penny’s World – Leedy Fic Lee Picture Book of the U.S.A. – Goodman Scrambled States of America – Keller Economics: Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513 Lemons and Lemonade: a Book about Supply and Demand – Loewen 338.5 Ox-Cart Man – Hall Government: Ghosts of the White House - Harness House Mouse, Senate Mouse – Barnes Madam President - Smith Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse – Barnes Otto Runs for President - Wells So You Want to Be President – St. George Woodrow For President – Barnes Woodrow, the White House Mouse – Barnes WWII: Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki The Bracelet – Uchida The Butterfly - Polacco Cello of Mr. O – Cutler Heroes – Mochizuki (Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team) Unbreakable Code - Hunter (Navajo code talkers) Yellow Star, the Legend of King Christian X of Denmark - Deedy In My Pocket – Sim Vietnam Memorial: The Wall - Bunting Missouri: Heartland – Siebert How to Draw Missouri’s Sights and Symbols - Kuedee The Great Shaking – Carson Langston’s Train Ride - Burleigh S is for Show Me: a Missouri Alphabet – Young Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams Famous Quotes: Who Said That? Famous Americans Speak - Burleigh Newspaper Headlines: Dateline: Troy – Fleischman

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Symbols of America: Uncle Sam and Old Glory, Symbols of America – West Black History/Civil Rights: A Band of Angels - Hopkinson Dear Mr. Rosenwald – Weatherford Duke Ellington - Pinkney Freedom Summer - Wiles Goin’ Someplace Special – McKissack Jackie’s Bat – Lorbiecki My Brother Martin, a Sister Remembers – Farris 921 Riding to Washington - Swain The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller Vinnie and Abraham – Fitzgerald 921 Rea Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker - Lasky

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LANGUAGE ARTS

ABC Books: A is for Salad – Lester Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1 Animalia – Base Antics – Hepworth 421 ABC, Letters in the Library – Farmer 027 L is for Library - Terry Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native Americans – Bruchac 970 Miss Spider’s ABC - Kirk Old Black Fly – Aylesworth Prairie Alphabet - Bannatyne-Cugnet 421 Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson Q is for Duck – Elting Tomorrow’s Alphabet – Shannon 411 Wacky Wedding – Edwards What Pete Ate A-Z - Kalman Alliteration: Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein Animalia - Base Dinorella - Edwards Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish - Obligado Four Famished Foxes – Edwards M is for Mischief - Ashman Some Smug Slug - Edwards Wacky Wedding - Edwards What Pete Ate from A – Z – Kalman Worrywarts – Edwards Anagrams: Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams – Agee 793.734 Author Study: Bunting, Eve De Paola, Tomie Henkes, Kevin Polacco, Patricia Rylant, Cynthia Steig, William Van Allsburg, Chris Cause & Effect: Across the Stream - Ginsburg Comet’s Nine Lives - Brett

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Encounter – Yolen (foreshadow, metaphor, point of view, inference, Columbus) If YouTake a Mouse to the Movies – Numeroff (personification, prediction) If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Numeroff (personification, prediction) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Numeroff (personification, prediction) If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff (personification, prediction) Mitten, The – Brett (sequencing) Napping House – Wood (visualization) River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia) Sierra – Siebert (point of view, mountains, animals) That’s Good! That’s Bad! – Cuyler (verb choice, onomatopoeia, adjectives) Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak (plot, story sequence) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema 398.2 (inference) Why the Chicken Crossed the Road – Macaulay Character Traits: Amazing Grace – Hoffman (strong theme) Amos & Boris – Steig (strong theme) An Angel for Solomon Singer – Rylant (irony, questioning, symbol) Chrysanthemum – Henkes (strong theme, irony, prediction, self-worth, text/self) Crow Boy – Yashima Gingerbread Cowboy – Squires 398.21 (parody) Like Jake and Me – Jukes (similes, metaphors, setting, fact/fiction, wolf spiders) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Henkes Lilly’s Big Day – Henkes (strong theme, text/self) Miss Rumphius – Cooney (ecology, visualization) My Great-aunt Arizona – Houston 921 Hug (compare/contrast, text/self) Odd Velvet – Whitcomb (strong theme) Olivia – Falconer Pain and the Great One – Blume (point of view, text/self) Pumpkin Runner – Arnold (perseverance) Rag Coat – Mills (strong ending, inference) The Relatives Came – Rylant (memorable language, personal narrative, strong beginning) Song and Dance Man – Ackerman (simile/metaphor, elderly) True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Scieszka (parody, point of view) When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant (personal narrative, point of view, text/self) Compare/Contrast: Cinderella –Perault (compare to other versions) My Great-Aunt Arizona – Houston (character traits, text/self) Stellaluna – Cannon (bats/birds, fact and fiction) Elements of a Story: Story with Pictures – Kanninen (satire) Fact/Fiction: Like Jake and Me – Jukes (foreshadow, similes, metaphors, character traits, setting, wolf spiders) Perfect Puppy for Me – O’Connor & Hartland

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Popcorn Book - de Paola 641.6 Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies – Dewey 597.96 Stellaluna – Cannon (compare/contrast bats/birds) Turtle’s Penguin Day – Gorbachev (penguins, strong ending) Verdi – Cannon (snakes) Flashback: Alexander; Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst (money) Home Place – Dragonwagon (imagery, memorable language, word choice) Miss Rumphius – Cooney (ecology) Wreck of the Zephyr – Van Allsburg (inference) Foreshadow: Annie and the Wild Animals – Brett Bootie Barker Bites – Bottner (inference, bullies) Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell (parody, simile) Come On, Rain! – Hesse (hyperbole, imagery, simile, metaphor, paradox, weather) Encounter – Yolen (metaphor, foreshadowing, point of view) Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler (Missouri Ozarks, inference) Full Belly Bowl – Aylesworth (irony) Gift of the Crocodile: a Cinderella Story – Sierra 398.2 (irony) Grandfather’s Journey –Say (irony) Honest to Goodness Truth – McKissack Just Plain Fancy – Polacco (prediction, Amish) Just One Flick of a Finger – Lorbiecki (bullies, inference, simile, metaphor) Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Like Jake and Me – Jukes (similes, metaphors, character traits, setting, fact/fiction, wolf spiders) Memory String – Bunting (imagery, inference, simile) Million Fish…More or Less – McKissack (hyperbole, inference) Night Tree – Bunting Passage to Freedom: the Sugihara Story – Mochizuki 921 Sug (point of view) Redcoats and Petticoats – Kirkpatrick (inference, Revolutionary War) Ruby the Copycat – Rathman (self-esteem) Sachiko Means Happiness – Sakai (inference, Alzheimer’s) Someday a Tree – Bunting (inference, text/world) Strega Nona – de Paola Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (imagery, personification, symbol, question) Voices in the Park – Browne (inference, point of view) Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian… -Deedy (inference, irony, simile, symbol) Genres: (See p. 35-36) Homonyms: Eight Ate, a Feast of Homonym Riddles – Terban 818 Why the Banana Split – Walton

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Homophones: A Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Gwynne 428.1 Hyperbole: Come On, Rain! – Hesse (foreshadow, imagery, metaphor, paradox, simile, weather) Dona Flora - Mora Fortunately – Charlip Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne 398.2 (inference, simile) Lies and Other Tall Tales - Myers Little Red Cowboy Hat – Lowell 398.2 (inference, onomatopoeia, parody, simile) Million Fish… More or Less – McKissack (inference, foreshadow) Thunder Rose – Nolen Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak (inference, cause/effect, plot, story sequence) Whitefish Will Rides Again! – Yorinks (inference, oxymoron, simile) Idioms: Amelia Bedelia - Parish Dog Breath – Pilkey Even More Parts - Arnold In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms - Terban 428.1 Monkey Business - Edwards My Momma Likes to Say – Brennan-Nelson 398.9 There’s a Frog in my Throat - Leedy Imagery: Angel City – Johnston (inference, metaphor, simile) Black Book of Colors – Cottin Come On, Rain – Hesse (foreshadow, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, paradox, weather) Cloud Book - dePaola Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett (sequence, tall tale, compound words) Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War – Turner (point of view, simile) Fireflies – Brinkloe (personal narrative, inference, memorable language, strong theme) Golem –Wisniewski 398.21 (foreshadowing, inference, irony, paradox, simile) Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble (simile, Native Americans) Home Place – Dragonwagon (flashback, memorable language, word choice) Memory String – Bunting (foreshadow, inference, simile, personal narrative) Miss Rumphius – Cooney (character traits, ecology, visualization) Night Boat to Freedom – Raven ( inference, metaphor, simile) Night in the Country – Rylant (strong beginning, text/world, visualization) Owl Moon – Yolen (mood, memorable language, simile, metaphor, personal narrative) Raising Yoder’s Barn – Yolen (inference, metaphor, simile, Amish) River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia) Salamander Room – Mazer Saturday and Teacakes – Laminack (family, grandparents) Sign Painter – Say (inference, point of view) Smoky Night – Bunting (strong theme, text/world)

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Snowflake Bentley – Martin 921 Ben (simile, biography) Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy- Sams (winter) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (foreshadow, personification, symbol) Thunder Rose – Nolen (hyperbole, tall tale, vocabulary, adjectives) Up North at the Cabin – Chall (simile, metaphor) Inference: Adele & Simon - McClintock Angel City – Johnston ( imagery, metaphor, simile) Annie and the Old One – Miles (Native Americans) Ant Bully – Nickle (foreshadow, personification, point of view) Art Lesson – DePaola (irony) Ben’s Dream – Van Allsburg Big, Bushy Mustache – Soto Bootsie Barker Bites – Bottner (foreshadowing, bullies) Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type – Cronin (irony, symbolism) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea – Johnston 398.2 (parody, simile) Dandelions – Bunting (Westward Movement) Day’s Work – Bunting (honesty, integrity, prediction) Encounter – Yolen (cause/effect, foreshadow, metaphor, point of view, Columbus) Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler (foreshadow, Missouri Ozarks) Fireflies – Brinkloe (imagery, memorable language, strong theme, personal narrative) Fly Away Home – Bunting (personal narrative, text/world, relationships, homeless) Garden of Abdul Gasazi – Van Allsburg (prediction) Gardener, The – Stewart Gleam and Glow - Bunting Golem – Wisniewski (foreshadow, imagery, irony, paradox, simile) Hogula, Dread Pig of Night - Gralley How Many Days to America? – Bunting (questioning) Just One Flick of a Finger – Lorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, simile, metaphor) Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne 398.2 (simile, hyperbole) Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (foreshadow, questioning, simile, metaphor, visualize) Little Red Cowboy Hat – Lowell 398.2 (hyperbole, onomatopoeia, simile, parody) Lost and Found – Jeffers (irony) Memory String – Bunting (foreshadow, imagery simile, personal narrative) Mirette on the High Wire – McCully (courage, synthesis) Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Weatherford Night Boat to Freedom – Raven (imagery, metaphor, simile) One Green Apple - Bunting Possum Magic – Fox Raft, The – LaMarche (personal narrative) Rag Coat – Mills (character traits, strong ending) Raising Yoder’s Barn – Yolen (imagery, metaphor, simile, Amish) Red Flower Goes West – Turner (simile, metaphor, symbol, Western Movement) Redcoats and Petticoats – Kirkpatrick (foreshadow, Revolutionary War) Sachiko Means Happiness – Sakai (foreshadow, Alzheimer’s) She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head – Lasky (synthesis)

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Shoes from Grandpa - Fox Sign Painter – Say (imagery, point of view) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch – Spinelli (irony) Someday a Tree – Bunting (foreshadow) Stranger, The – Van Allsburg (questioning, strong ending) Sweetest Fig – Van Allsburg (irony, strong ending) Teammates – Golenbock 796.3 (prejudice) Tight Times – Hazen (mood, questioning) Too Many Tamales – Soto (personal narrative, honesty) Voices in the Park – Browne (foreshadow, point of view) Wall, The – Bunting (personal narrative, text/world, questioning, Vietnam Memorial) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (personal narrative, prediction, character relationships, literacy) Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak (hyperbole, cause/effect, plot, story sequence) White Dynamite and Curly Kidd – Martin (mood) Whitefish Will Rides Again! – Yorinks (hyperbole, oxymoron, simile) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema 398.2 (cause/effect) Widow’s Broom – Van Allsburg Wreck of the Zephyr - Van Allsburg (flashback) Yellow Star: Legend of King Christian… – Deedy (foreshadow, irony, simile, symbol, inference) Irony: An Angel for Solomon Singer – Rylant (symbol, character traits, symbol) Art Lesson – de Paola (inference, personal narrative, text/self) Band of Angels – Hopkinson Chrysanthemum – Henkes (self-worth, character, strong theme, prediction, text/self) Click, Clack, Moo – Cronin (inference, symbol) Frog Prince Continued – Scieszka (main idea, plot) Full Belly Bowl – Aylesworth (foreshadow) Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story – Sierra (foreshadow) Golden Coin - Ada Golem – Wisniewski 398.21 (foreshadow, imagery, inference, paradox, simile) Grandfather’s Journey – Say (foreshadow,) Julius the Baby of the World – Henkes (text/self) Lost and Found – Jeffers (inference) Old Henry –Blos (elderly, tolerance) Pig Tale - Oxenbury Plump and Perky Turkey – Bateman School Lunch – Kelley Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch – Spinelli (inference, prediction, plot) Sweetest Fig – Van Allsburg (inference) Wemberly Worried - Henkes Yellow Star: the Legend of King Christian… – Deedy (inference, simile, symbol) Library: ABC Letters in the Library – Farmer Best Book to Read – Bertram

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Boy who was Raised by Librarians - Morris (strong ending) Delilah D. at the Library - Willis L is for Library - Terry Library Mouse – Kirk Our Librarian Won’t Tell Us Anything! – Buzzeo Shelf Elf Helps Out – Hopkins 372.4 That Book Woman – Henson (literacy) Tomas and the Library Lady - Mora Literacy: Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair – Polacco Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook – Garland More than Anything Else – Bradby (black history) Mr. George Baker – Hest (elderly, word choice, memorable language) Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco (text/self, strong beginning, personal narrative, point of view) That Book Woman – Henson (libraries) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (inference, personal narrative, prediction, character relationships) Main Idea: Art Lesson – dePaola (inference, irony, personal narrative, text/self, main idea) Chair for my Mother – Williams (personal narrative) Fables - Lobel Frog Prince Continued – Scieszka (irony, plot) Great Kapok Tree – Cherry (point of view, text/world) The Important Book – Brown (supporting details) Keeping Quilt – Polacco (personal narrative, point of view, symbolism, text/self) Miss Rumphius – Cooney Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Steptoe (Cinderella) Stellaluna – Cannon When Sophie Gets Angry – Bang Memorable Language: All the Places to Love – MacLaclan (strong ending, personal narrative, visualization) Come On, Rain! – Hesse (foreshadow, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, imagery, weather) Fireflies! – Brinckloe (strong theme, personal narrative, inference, imagery) Grandpa’s Face – Greenfield (character relationships) Hello, Harvest Moon – Fletcher (personification, simile/metaphor, visualization) Home Place – Dragonwagon (flashback, imagery) I’m in Charge of Celebrations - Baylor Jumanji – Van Allsburg (prediction, story sequence) Letting Swift River Go – Yolen (personal narrative) Lotus Seed – Garland (questioning) Midnight in the Mountains – Lawson My Mama Had a Dancing Heart –Gray (character, mood, strong beginning/ending, personal narr.) Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street – Schotter Owl Moon – Yolen (mood, personal narrative, simile, metaphor, visualization)

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The Relatives Came – Rylant (personal narrative, character traits, strong beginning) Seashore Book – Zolotow (mood, visualization) Sky Tree – Locker Water Dance – Locker (water cycle, point of view, visualization) Mood: Alexander and the Terrible…Day - Viorst Earrings! – Rylant Fly Away Home - Bunting Home Run – Burleigh Just a Dream – Van Allsburg My Mama had a Dancing Heart – Gray (memorable language, strong beginning/ending, per. narr.) Owl Moon – Yolen (memorable language, personal narrative, simile, metaphor, visualization) Relatives Came - Rylant Roxaboxen – McLerran (personal narrative) Seashore Book – Zolotow (memorable language) Sunshine Home – Bunting (character relationships) Storm Book – Zolotow Tight Times – Hazen (inference, questioning) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (Orphan Train) White Dynamite and Curly Kid – Martin (inference) Onomatopoeia: Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights - Miller Diary of a Worm – Cronin (personification) Heron Street – Turner (ecology, wetlands) Langston’s Train Ride – Burleigh (Civil Rights, MLK, Jr., Missouri poet) Little Red Cowboy Hat – Lowell (hyperbole, inference, parody, simile) My Light – Bang (sun, electricity) Night Noises – Fox (similes, elderly) River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (imagery, simile, metaphor, cause/effect) Science Fair Day - Plourde Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story - Johnson That’s Good! That’s Bad! – Cuyler (verb choice, cause/effect, adjectives) Three Silly Billies – Palatini (parody) We’re Going on a Bear Hunt - Rosen ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale - Gershator 398.24 (verbs) Oxymoron: Whitefish Will Rides Again! – Yorinks (hyperbole, inference, simile) Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons – Agee 818 Palindromes: Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! – Agee 793.73 Too Hot to Hoot – Terban 818

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Parody: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective – Biedrzycki (insects, point of view, simile, metaphor) Cindy Ellen: a Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell 398.2 (foreshadowing, simile) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea – Johnston (inference, simile) Gingerbread Cowboy – Squires (character traits) Jim and the Beanstalk – Coward-McCann Little Red Cowboy Hat – Lowell 398.2 (hyperbole, inference, onomatopoeia, simile) Romeow and Drooliet – Laden (text to text) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (foreshadowing, imagery) Three Silly Billies – Palatini (onomatopoeia) Tough Cookie – Wisniewski (satire, simile, point of view) True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Scieszka (point of view) Parts of Speech: (See p. 32-33) Personal Narratives: All the Places to Love – MacLachlan (memorable language, strong ending, visualization) Apple Picking Time – Slawson Art Lesson - de Paola (inference, irony, text/self) Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair – Polacco (literacy) Aunt Flossie’s Hats – Howard Babe & I –Adler Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki (Japanese-Americans, WWII) Bracelet, The – Uchida (Japanese-Americans, WWII) Canoe Days – Paulsen (visualization, text/self) Chair for my Mother – Williams Chicken Sunday – Polacco Dogteam – Paulsen (visualization) Fancy Nancy – O’Connor (vocabulary) Fireflies! – Brinckloe (inference, memorable language, strong theme, imagery) Fishing in the Air - Creech Fly Away Home – Bunting (homeless, inference, text/world, relationships) Grandfather’s Journey – Say (foreshadow, irony, prediction, questioning) Goin’ Someplace Special – McKissack Going Home – Bunting (text/self) Hickory Chair, The – Fraustino Keeping Quilt – Polacco (main idea, point of view, symbolism, text/self) Letting Swift River Go – Yolen (memorable language) Memory Box – Bahr (memorable language, character, strong theme) Memory String –Bunting (simile, foreshadow, imagery, inference) Mirandy and Brother Wind - McKissack My Momma had a Dancing Heart – Gray (mood, character, strong beginning, strong ending) My Prairie Christmas – Harvey My Rotten Red-headed Older Brother – Polacco Oliver Button is a Sissy – de Paola (inference)

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Orange Shoes – Noble (family, poverty) Owl Moon – Yolen (mood, memorable language, simile, metaphor, visualization) Raft, The – Lamarche (inference) Relatives Came, The – Rylant (memorable language, character traits, strong beginning)) Roxaboxen – McLerran (mood, text/self) Sailing Home – Rand Tar Beach - Ringold Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco (literacy, text/self, strong beginning, point of view) Thunder Cake – Polacco (strong beginning, visualization) Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan (point of view) Too Many Tamales – Soto (honesty, inference, prediction) Two Mrs. Gibsons – Igus Wall, The – Bunting (Vietnam Memorial, text/world, questioning) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (prediction, inference, character relationships, literacy) When I was Young in the Mountains – Bunting (character traits, point of view, text/self) Personification: Ant Bully – Nickle (foreshadowing, inference, point of view) Call Me Ahnighito- Conrad (fact/fiction, meteorites, point of view, questioning) Cave – Siebert (point of view) Diary of a Worm – Cronin (onomatopoeia, fact/fiction) Giving Tree – Silverstein (point of view, strong theme, voice) Hello, Harvest Moon – Fletcher (memorable language, visualization, simile/metaphor) If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff (cause/effect, prediction) Mississippi – Siebert (point of view, S.S., science, poetry) New York is English, Chattanooga is Creek - Raschka Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathmann Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (symbolism, foreshadow, imagery, questioning) Velveteen Rabbit – Williams Plot: Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Lobel Three Little Javelinas – Lowell (text/text) Three Little Pigs (text/text) Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak (cause/effect, hyperbole, inference, sequence) Use other fairy tales: traditional vs. modern version Point of View: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective – Biedrzycki (insects, parody, simile, metaphor) Ant Bully – Nickle (foreshadow, inference, personification) Barn – Atwell Black and White - Macaulay Call Me Ahnighito – Conrad (meteorites, personification, fact/fiction, questioning) Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War – Turner (simile, imagery) Encounter – Yolen (metaphor, inference, foreshadow, cause/effect, Columbus) First Day Jitters - Danneberg

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Giving Tree – Silverstein (personification, strong theme, voice) George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides – Schanzer 973.2 Great Kapok Tree – Cherry (main idea, text/world) Great Shaking –Carson (earthquakes, Missouri) Heartland – Siebert (poetry) Help Me, Mr. Mutt - Stevens Hey, Little Ant - Hoose Keeping Quilt – Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, symbolism, text/self) Mississippi – Siebert (personification, poetry, S.S., science) My Light – Bang (sun, electricity, onomatopoeia) Pain and the Great One – Blume (character traits, text/self, siblings) Sign Painter – Say (imagery, inference) Something to Tell the Grandcows – Spinelli (Adm. Byrd, South Pole) Sophie’s Masterpiece - Spinelli Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco (literacy, strong beginning, personal narrative, text/self) Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan (personal narrative) Tight Times – Hazen (inference, mood, questioning) Tough Cookie – Wisniewski (similes, metaphors, parody, satire) Toughest Cowboy – Frank (prediction, similes, metaphors, strong ending, humor) True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Scieszka/Smith (parody) Thunder Cake – Polacco (strong beginning) Two Bad Ants – Van Allsburg (visualization, prediction) Voices in the Park – Browne (foreshadow, inference) Water Dance – Locker (memorable language, visualization, water cycle) Wall, The – Bunting (personal narrative, questioning, text/world, Vietnam Memorial) When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant (personal narrative, character traits, text/self) Prediction: Chrysanthemum – Henkes (irony, strong theme, character, self-worth, text/self) First Day Jitters – Danneberg (school, teacher, strong ending) Grandfather’s Journey – Say (foreshadow, irony, personal narrative, questioning) I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More - Beaumont If You Give a Mouse… Numeroff (cause/effect, personification) Ira Sleeps Over – Waber (foreshadow, text-to-self) Just Plain Fancy – Polacco (foreshadow, Amish) Ruby the Copycat – Rathmann (foreshadow, self-worth) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch – Spinelli (irony, inference, plot) Swimmy – Lionni (cooperation) Toughest Cowboy – Frank (simile, metaphor, point of view, strong ending, tall tale) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (literacy, personal narrative, character relationships, inference) Questioning: An Angel for Solomon Singer – Rylant (character traits, irony, symbolism) Appelemando’s Dream - Polacco Big Al – Clements Brave Irene – Steig (courage)

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Call Me Ahnighito – Conrad (fact/fiction, personification, point of view, meteorites) Dandelions – Bunting (inference, Westward Movement) A Day’s Work – Bunting (honesty, integrity, inference, questioning) Encounter – Yolen (inference, metaphor, point of view, Columbus, foreshadow) Fly Away Home – Bunting (inference, personal narrative, homeless) Grandfather’s Journey – Say (foreshadow, irony, personal narrative, prediction) Grandpa’s Teeth – Clements (mystery, humor) How Many Days to America? – Bunting (inference) Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (foreshadow, simile/metaphor, inference, visualization) Librarian Who Measured the Earth – Lasky 921 Era Lotus Seed – Garland (memorable language) The Mary Celeste – Yolen (historical fiction, mystery) Pink and Say – Polacco (Civil War) Polar Express – Van Allsburg (strong ending) The Stranger – Van Allsburg (inference) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (foreshadow, imagery, personification, symbol) Three Questions – Muth Tight Times – Hazen (inference, mood) Wall, The – Bunting (personal narrative, Vietnam Memorial) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (personal narrative, summarizing, character, literacy, ending) When Jessie Came Across the Sea – Hest Satire: Story with Pictures – Kanninen (story elements) Terrific – Agee Tough Cookie – Wisniewski (parody, simile, point of view) Undone Fairy Tale – Lendler Sequence of Story: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain – Aardema Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett (tall tale, compound words) Jumanji - Van Allsburg King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub – Wood (strong ending) The Mitten – Brett 398.2 (plot) Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak (plot, hyperbole, inference, cause/effect) Similes/Metaphors: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective – Biedrzycki (parody, point of view, insects) Across the Alley – Michelson (prejudice, friendship) Angel City – Johnston (imagery, inference) Brave as a Mountain Lion – Scott (courage) Chanticleer and the Fox – Cooney 811 Cindy Ellen: a Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell 398.2 (foreshadowing, parody) Come on, Rain! – Hesse (foreshadow, imagery, hyperbole, memorable language, weather) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea – Johnston (inference, parody) Crazy like a Fox – Leedy

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Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War – Turner (imagery, point of view) Freedom Summer – Wiles (Civil Rights, prejudice) Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble (imagery, Native Americans) Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams (Missouri) Hello, Harvest Moon – Fletcher (visualization, personification, memorable language) In November – Rylant Just One Flick of a Finger – Lorbiecki (Bullies, inference, foreshadow) Kate and the Beanstalk –Osborne (hyperbole, inference) Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (questioning, foreshadow, inference, visualization) Letting Swift River Go – Yolen Like Jake and Me – Jukes (fact/fiction, character traits, descriptive language, wolf spiders) Little Red Cowboy Hat – Lowell (hyperbole, inference, onomatopoeia, parody) Ocean Is…- Kranking Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim (irony, elderly, grammar) Owl Moon – Yolen (mood, personal narrative, memorable language, imagery) Quick as a Cricket – Wood Railroad John and the Red Rock Run – Crunk Raising Yoder’s Barn – Yolen (imagery, inference) Red Flower Goes West – Turner (inference, symbol) River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (imagery, onomatopoeia, cause/effect) Secret to Freedom – Vaughan (slavery) Snowflake Bentley – Martin (imagery, biography) Song and Dance Man - Ackerman (character traits, elderly) Swamp Angel – Zelinsky Tough Cookie – Wisniewski (parody, satire) Toughest Cowboy – Frank (prediction, point of view, strong ending, tall tale, simile, metaphor) Understanding Poetry: Metaphors, Similes, and Other Word Pictures- Fandel 808 Up North at the Cabin – Chall (imagery, text/self) Whitefish Will Rides Again! – Yorinks (hyperbole, inference, oxymoron) Wild Boars Cook – Rosoff (adjectives) Strong Beginnings: Hey Al – Yorinks (strong ending) My Mama had a Dancing Heart – Gray (memorable language, mood, strong ending, personal narr.) Night in the Country – Rylant (text/world, visualization) Relatives Came, The – Rylant (character traits, memorable lang, personal narrative, beginning) Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco (point of view, literacy, text/self, personal narrative) Thunder Cake – Polacco (point of view, personal narrative) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox (strong ending) Wilma Unlimited – Krull 921 Rud (perseverance) Strong Endings: All the Places to Love – MacLachlan (memorable language, personal narrative, visualization) Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement (mystery, humor, questioning) Hey Al – Yorinks (strong beginning) Imogene’s Antlers - Small

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My Mama had a Dancing Heart – Gray (mood, strong beginning, mem. lang, per. narr.) Polar Express – Van Allsburg (questioning) Rag Coat – Mills (character traits) Stranger, The – Van Allsburg (inference, questioning) Strong to the Hoop – Coy Summer My Father was Ten – Brisson (honesty, personal narrative, text/self) Sweetest Fig – Van Allsburg (inference, irony) Tadpole’s Promise – Ross (food chain) Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig – Trivazas Toughest Cowboy – Frank (prediction, similes, metaphors, point of view, tall tale, humor) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (strong theme, orphan train) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (personal narrative, summarizing, per. narr., character, literacy) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox (strong beginning) Strong Theme: Amazing Grace – Hoffman (character traits) Amos & Boris – Henkes (character traits, friendship) Chrysanthemum – Henkes (self-worth, character, strong theme, irony, prediction) Fireflies – Grinckloe (memorable language, personal narrative, inference, imagery) Giving Tree – Silverstein (voice, point of view, personification) Just One Flick of a Finger – Rorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, inference, simile/metaphor) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Henkes (character traits) Memory Box – Bahr (character) Odd Velvet – Whitcomb (character traits) Smoky Night – Bunting (text/world, synthesis) Sunshine Home – Bunting (character relationships) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (orphan train, strong ending, character relationships) Summarizing: Kat Kong – Pilkey Legend of the Bluebonnet - dePaola Toughest Cowboy – Frank (simile/metaphor, prediction, point of view, strong end, tall tale) Village of Round and Square Houses – Grifalconi Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (inference, prediction, strong ending, personal narrative) Symbolism: An Angel for Solomon Singer – Rylant (irony, character traits, questioning) Click, Clack, Moo – Cronin (irony, inference) Fly Away Home – Bunting (inference, personal narrative, homeless) Keeping Quilt – Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, point of view, text/world) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (foreshadow, imagery, personification) Synthesis: Mirette on the High Wire – Arnold (inference, courage, text/self) Smoky Night – Bunting (strong theme, text/world) She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head – Lasky (inference) Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe 398.2

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Tales: (see p.36-37) Text-to-Self: Alexander and the Terrible…Day – Viorst Art Lesson – de Paola (inference, irony, personal narrative) Canoe Days – Paulsen (personal narrative, visualization) Chicken Sunday – Polacco (personal narrative) Chrysanthemum – Henkes (character traits, irony, strong theme, prediction, self-worth) Going Home – Bunting Ira Sleeps Over – Waber (prediction, foreshadow) Julius the Baby of the World – Henkes (irony) Keeping Quilt – Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, point of view, symbolism) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Henkes (character traits, strong theme) Mirette on the High Wire – McCully (inference, courage, synthesis) Mrs. Katz and Tush – Polacco Mrs. Mack – Polacco My Great-aunt Arizona – Houston (character traits, compare/contrast) My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother – Polacco (personal narrative) Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs – dePaola (death, elderly) Oliver Button is a Sissy – dePaola (teasing, being oneself) Owen – Henkes Pain and the Great One – Blume (point of view, character traits, siblings) Relatives Came – Rylant (character traits, memorable language, personal narrative, beginning) Roxaboxen – McLerran (mood, personal narrative) Sheila Rae, the Brave – Henkes Summer My Dad was Ten – Brisson (strong ending, honesty, personal narrative) Sunday Outing – Pinkney Thank You, Mr. Falkner – Polacco (strong beginning, literacy, personal narrative) Up North at the Cabin – Call (imagery, simile, metaphor, text/self) When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant (character traits, personal narrative, point of view) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox (strong beginning, strong ending) Your Move – Bunting (text/world, gangs) Text-to-World: Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki (personal narrative, Japanese-American, WWII) Fly Away Home – Bunting (inference, personal narrative, homeless) Gleam and Glow - Bunting Great Kapok Tree – Cherry (main idea, point of view,) Lady in the Box – McGovern (compassion, homeless) New York’s Bravest – Osborne (Sept. 11) Night in the Country – Rylant (strong beginning) Other Side, The – Woodson (prejudice) Picnic in October – Bunting

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Smoky Night – Bunting (strong theme) Someday a Tree – Bunting (foreshadow, inference) Those Shoes – Boelts (self-worth) Uncle Willy and the Soup Kitchen – DiSalvo-Ryan Wall, the – Bunting (personal narrative, questioning, Vietnam Memorial) Your Move – Bunting (text/self) Twin Texts: (Fiction to Nonfiction) Amazing Grace- Hoffman/Story of Ruby Bridges – Coles 921 Bri Apples to Oregon –Hopkinson/ True Tale of Johnny Appleseed- Hodges 921 App Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky –Ringgold/ Harriet Tubman: They Called Me Moses – Meyer 921 Tub Stellaluna – Cannon/ Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats- Earle 599.4 Train to Somewhere – Bunting/ Children of the Orphan Train – Littlefield 362.73 Tree that Would Not Die – Levine/Tree is Growing- Dorros 582.16 Mississippi – Seibert/ River Through the Ages –Steele 910 Patchwork Quilt – Flournoy/ Eight Hands Round A Patchwork Alphabet- Paul 746.9 Papa and the Pioneer Quilt- Van Leeuwen/ Seasons Sewn, a Year in Patchwork- Paul 746.46 America’s White Table –Raven/ Veterans’ Day, Remembering Our War Heroes- Landau 394.264 Letting Swift River Go- Yolen/ A River Ran Wild - /Cherry 974.4 Pumpkins – Ray/ Pumpkin Circle – 635 Lev That Book Woman – Henson / Mary on Horseback… - Wells 610.73 (Fiction to Fiction) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting/ Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco Julius, the Baby of the World – Henkes/ Owen – Henkes My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother – Polacco/ The Pain and the Great One-Blume Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox / Aunt Flossie’s Hats – Fitzgerald Memory Box – Bahr /Hundred Penny Box-Mathis /Memory String –Bunting Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen –DiSalvo/ Fly Away Home – Bunting Redcoats and Petticoats – Kirkpatrick/ Scarlet Stockings Spy – Noble (American Revolution historical fiction) Romeow and Drooliet – Laden/ Tales from Shakespeare - Packer Visualization: Abuela - Dorros All the Places to Love – MacLachlan (personal narrative, memorable language, strong ending) Bad Case of Stripes – Shannon (bullies) Canoe Days – Paulsen (personal narrative, text/self) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs –Barrett (imagery, sequence, tall tale, compound words) Dogteam – Paulsen (personal narrative) Everybody Cooks Rice – Dooley (multi-cultural)

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Fireflies – Brinkloe (inference, memorable language, strong theme, personal narrative) Hello, Harvest Moon – Fletcher (memorable language, personification, simile/metaphor, infer) Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (foreshadow, questioning, simile, metaphor, Native Americans) Miss Rumphius – Cooney (character traits, ecology) Napping House – Wood (cause/effect) Night in the Country – Rylant (strong beginning, text/world) Owl Moon – Yolen (mood, personal narrative, simile, metaphor, memorable language) Pumpkins – Ray River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (onomatopoeia, simile/metaphor, cause/effect) Salamander Room – Mazer Seashore Book – Zolotow (memorable language, mood) Smoky Night – Bunting (strong theme, text/world) Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan (personal narrative, point of view) Two Bad Ants – Van Allsburg (prediction, point of view) Water Dance – Locker (point of view, memorable language, water cycle) Vocabulary: Boy Who Loved Words – Schotter Max’s Words - Banks Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier River of Words - Williams Thunder Rose – Nolen (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, word choice) Voice: Scoop: An Exclusive by Monty Molenski – Kelly (mystery, word choice) Sweet Tooth – Palatini My Light – Bang 523.7 (sun, electricity, onomatopoeia) Word Choice: Amos & Boris – Steig (character traits, character relationships, strong theme) Beauty and the Beaks: A Turkey’s Cautionary Tale - Auch Boy Who Loved Words - Schotter Chris Van Allsburg’s books Duke Ellington – Pinkney Fancy Nancy – O’Connor Home Place – Dragonwagon (flashback, imagery, memorable language) Mr. George Baker – Hest (literacy, elderly) Thunder Rose – Nolen – (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, vocabulary, adjectives) Patricia Polacco’s books Wordless books: Free Fall - Wiesner Sector 7 – Wiesner

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Writing Skills: (see p.33-35) PARTS OF SPEECH: Adjectives: Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Old Black fly – Aylesworth (ABC book) Many Luscious Lollipops – Heller 428.2 Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky - Cleary, Brian 428.2 That’s Good! That’s Bad! – Cuyler (cause/effect, verb choice, onomatopoeia) Things that are Most in the World – Barrett Thunder Rose – Nolen (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, vocabulary) Wild Boars Cook – Rosoff (simile/metaphor) Adverbs: Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? –Cleary, Brian 428.2 Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish – Obligado (alliteration) Z Was Zapped - Van Allsburg 411 (ABC book) Alliteration, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives: Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1 Compound Words: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Barrett Once there was a Bull… (frog) – Walton Grammar: Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm – Nolen Miss Myrtle Frag the Grammar Nag - Bailey Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim Interjections and Conjunctions: Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! – Heller 425 Nouns: A Cache of Jewels – Heller 428.1 A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime; More About Nouns – Cleary 428.1 A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink, What is a Noun? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Nouns and Verbs have a Field Day - Pulver Pronouns: I and You and Don’t Forget Who – Cleary, Brian 428.2 Mine, All Mine – Heller 428.2s Prepositions: Behind the Mask – Heller 428.2 Under, Over, by the Clover: What is a Preposition? – Cleary, Brian 428.2

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Superlatives: Things that are Most In the World –Barrett Verbs: Kites Sail High – Heller 428.2 Old Black Fly - Aylesworth Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello – Singer 591.59 Pumpkin Soup – Cooper To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Zzzng! Zzzng! A Yoruba Tale – Gershator 398.24 WRITING SKILLS: Character Relationships: Amos and Boris – Steig Chicken Sunday – Polacco Fly Away Home – Bunting Grandpa’s Face – Greenfield My Mamma had a Dancing Heart – Gray Rudi’s Pond – Bunting Sunshine Home – Bunting Song and Dance Man – Ackerman Memory Box – Bahr Memory String – Bunting Train to Somewhere - Bunting Wednesday Surprise – Bunting White Dynamite and Curly Kid – Martin Character Traits: Amazing Grace – Hoffman (strong theme) Amos & Boris – Steig (strong theme) An Angel for Solomon Singer – Rylant (irony, questioning, symbol) Chrysanthemum – Henkes (strong theme, irony, prediction, self-worth, text/self) Crow Boy – Yashima Gingerbread Cowboy – Squires 398.21 (parody) Like Jake and Me – Jukes (similes, metaphors, setting, fact/fiction, wolf spiders) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Henkes Lilly’s Big Day – Henkes (strong theme, text/self) Miss Rumphius – Cooney (ecology, visualization) My Great-aunt Arizona – Houston 921 Hug (compare/contrast, text/self) Odd Velvet – Whitcomb (strong theme) Olivia – Falconer Pain and the Great One – Blume (point of view) Pumpkin Runner – Arnold (perseverance) Rag Coat – Mills (strong ending, inference) The Relatives Came – Rylant (memorable language, personal narrative, strong beginning) Song and Dance Man – Ackerman (simile/metaphor, elderly)

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True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Scieszka (parody, point of view) When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant (personal narrative, point of view, text/self) Jokes & Riddles: Funny You Should Ask: How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay – Terban 808 Letter Writing: Armadillo from Amarillo – Cherry Around the World, Who’s been Here? – George Dear Mrs. LaRue, Letters from Obedience School – Teague (point of view) Dear Peter Rabbit –Ada The Gardener - Stewart Message in the Mailbox – Leedy 395 Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea – Williams Yours Truly, Goldilocks – Ada (sequel to Dear Peter Rabbit) Poetry: Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic – Schnur 793.73 Carrots to Cupcakes: Reading, Writing, and Reciting Poems about Food – Freese 808.1 Punctuation: Alfie the Apsotrophe – Donohue Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Truss 428.2 (commas) Greedy Apostrophe, a Cautionary Tale – Carr Penny and the Punctuation Bee – Donohue Punctuation takes a Vacation – Pulver Twenty-odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts – Truss 428.2 Spelling/Phonics: Silent Letters Loud and Clear – Pulver Vowel Family: a Tale of Lost Letters – Walker Strong Beginnings: Hey Al – Yorinks (strong ending) My Mama had a Dancing Heart – Gray (memorable language, mood, strong ending, personal narr.) Night in the Country – Rylant (text/world, visualization) Relatives Came, The – Rylant (character traits, memorable lang, personal narrative, beginning) Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco (point of view, literacy, text/self, personal narrative) Thunder Cake – Polacco (point of view, personal narrative) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox (strong ending) Wilma Unlimited – Krull 921 Rud (perseverance) Strong Endings: All the Places to Love – MacLachlan (memorable language, personal narrative) Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement (mystery, humor, questioning) Hey Al – Yorinks (strong beginning) Imogene’s Antlers - Small My Mama had a Dancing Heart – Gray (mood, strong beginning, mem. lang, per. narr.)

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Polar Express – Van Allsburg (questioning) Rag Coat – Mills (character traits) Snow Day! – Laminack (prediction, strong ending) Stranger, The – Van Allsburg (inference, questioning) Strong to the Hoop – Coy Summer My Father was Ten – Brisson (honesty, personal narrative, text/self) Sweetest Fig – Van Allsburg (inference, irony) Tadpole’s Promise – Ross (food chain) Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig – Trivazas Toughest Cowboy – Frank (prediction, similes, metaphors, point of view, tall tale, humor) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (strong theme, orphan train) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (personal narrative, summarizing, per. narr., character, literacy) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox (strong beginning) Strong Theme: Amazing Grace – Hoffman (character traits) Amos & Boris – Henkes (character traits, friendship) Chrysanthemum – Henkes (self-worth, character, strong theme, irony, prediction) Fireflies – Grinckloe (memorable language, personal narrative, inference, imagery) Giving Tree – Silverstein (voice, point of view, personification) Just One Flick of a Finger – Rorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, inference, simile/metaphor) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Henkes (character traits) Memory Box – Bahr (character) Odd Velvet – Whitcomb (character traits) Smoky Night – Bunting (text/world, synthesis) Sunshine Home – Bunting (character relationships) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (orphan train, strong ending, character relationships) GENRES: Autobiography: Don’t You Know There’s a War On? – Stevenson, James Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby Biography: (also see Biography List) American Boy, the Adventures of Mark Twain – Brown 921 Twa Wilma Unlimited – Krull (Wilma Rudolph) 921 Rud Fantasy: Rootabaga Stories – Sandburg 808.8 Historical fiction: Butterfly- Polacco Dear Mr. Rosenwald – Weatherford (Black history) Pink and Say – Polacco (Civil War) Langston’s Train Ride – Burleigh (Mo. poet Langston Hughes) That Book Woman – Henson (text-to-text)

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Through Georgia’s Eyes – 921 Oke (art) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (Orphan Train) Vinnie and Abraham – 921 Rea (See Social Studies section for more.) Mystery: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective - Biedrzycki Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement Scoop! An Exclusive by Monty Molenski - Kelly Realistic fiction: Lady in the Box - McGovern Your Move – Bunting Science fiction: Mission Ziffoid – Rosen Nova’s Ark – Kirk Tales: Fairy Tales: Bad Boys – Papatini Chickerella - Auch Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella - Lowell 398.2 Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea - Johnston Egyptian Cinderella – Climo 398.2 Extra! Extra! Fairy Tale News from the Hidden Forest - Ada Fanny’s Dream - Buehner Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka Gift of the Crocodile, A Cinderella Story - Sierra 398.2 Gingerbread Cowboy – Squires 398.21 Glass Slipper ,Gold Sandal, a Worldwide Cinderella - Fleischman 398.2 Jim and the Beanstalk - Briggs 398.2 Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne 398.2 Little Red Cowboy Hat - Lowell 398.2 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters –Steptoe Once Upon a Time, the End – Kloske Paper Bag Princess - Munsch Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood – Artell 398.2 Princess Furball - Huck Squids Will Be Squids – Scieszka Stinky Cheese Man – Scieszka The End - LaRochelle Three Cool Kids Emberley – 398.2 Three Silly Billies – Palatini True Story of the Three Little Pigs –Scieszka Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China – Louie 398.2 Yours Truly, Goldilocks - Ada

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Fables: Blind Men and the Elephant – Backstein 398.21 Fables – Lobel, Arnold Tortoise and the Hare: an Aesop Fable – Stevens 398.2 Nursery Rhymes: Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon - Grey And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Stevens Here Comes Mother Goose – Opie 398.8 Itsy Bitsy Spider – Trapani Mary Engelbreit’s Mother Goose - Engelbreit Cumulative Tales: Book that Jack Wrote - Scieszka Napping House - Wood (also in Big Book form) No More Jumping on the Bed - Arnoco Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Taback Old Woman and Her Pig - Kimmel Shoes from Grandpa – Fox Modern Tales: Baby Brains – James Froggy Fable – Lechner Gold Miner’s Daughter, a Melodramatic Fairy Tale – Hopkins Granite Baby – Bertrand (Tall Tale) Gruffalo – Donaldson My Sister’s Rusty Bike – Aylesworth (tall tale) Pancakes for Supper - Isaacs Railroad John and the Red Rock Run – Crunk (tall tale) Thunder Rose – Nolen (tall tale) Cinderella Variations: Bubba, the Cowboy Prince – Ketteman Chickerella - Auch Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell Dinorella – Edwards Egyptian Cinderella – Climo Fanny’s Dream – Buehner Gift of the Crocodile, a Cinderella Story – Sierra Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, a Worldwide Cinderella – Fleischman 398.2 Golden Delicious, a Cinderella Apple Story - Smucker 634 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Steptoe Princess Furball – Huck Rough-face Girl – Martin Yeh-Shen, a Cinderella Story from China – Louie 398.2

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MULTICULTURAL Appalachia: Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds - Rylant My Great-Aunt Arizona - Houston Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston African-American: A Band of Angels - Hopkinson Duke Ellington – Pinkney Langston’s Train Ride - Burleigh The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Lasky African: Village of Round and Square Houses – Grifalconi Amish: An Amish Christmas - Ammon Just Plain Fancy - Polacco Raising Yoder’s Barn – Yolen Arab: The Storytellers – Lewin Chinese: Chee-Lin, a Giraffe’s Journey - Rumford Coolies – Yin Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella Story from China – Louie 398.2 Egypt: Day of Ahmed’s Secret – Heide Irish: O’Sullivan Stew – Talbott Japanese: Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki The Bracelet - Uchida Grandfather’s Journey - Say Mexican: Abuela – Dorros Going Home - Bunting Uncle Rain Cloud – Johnston Muslim: One Green Apple - Bunting Russian: The Keeping Quilt - Polacco

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PREJUDICE / TOLERANCE Blind Men and the Elephant - Backstein Friday Night at Hodges’ Café - Eagam Widow’s Broom – Van Allsburg African-American: Across the Alley - Michelson Band of Angels: a Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers – Hopkinson Freedom Summer - Wiles Mr. Lincoln’s Way - Polacco Other Side - Woodson Teammates – Golenbock Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby Vision of Beauty: the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Hannaway Jewish: Across the Alley - Michelson Molly’s Pilgrim – Cohen Mrs. Katz and Tush - Polacco Physically Handicapped: The Storm - Harshman (wheelchair) Mentally Handicapped: Be Good to Eddie Lee - Fleming (Down’s Syndrome) Japanese: The Bracelet – Uchida (WWII) internment camp) So Far from the Sea - Bunting (WWII internment camp) Homeless: Fly Away Home - Bunting Lady in the Box – McGovern Uncle Willy’s Soup Kitchen – DiSalvo-Ryan GETTING ALONG Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon (being yourself) Chrysanthemum - Henkes Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year – Kimmel Hey Little Ant – Hoose (respect; not looking down on others) Hooway for Wodney Wat – Lester (acceptance) Lizzie’s Invitation – Keller (being left out) Oliver Button is a Sissy – de Paola (being yourself) Stephanie’s Pony Tail - Munsch

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Summer Wheels - Bunting When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang (controlling anger) Wings - Myers (being yourself, acceptance of others) GRANDPARENTS / ELDERLY Abuela - Dorros Emma - Kesselman Aunt Flossie’s Hats – Howard Grandfather’s Journey -Say Grandpa’s Face –Cooper Grandpa’s Soup - Kadano Homeplace – Shelby Hundred Penny Box - Mathis I Go With My Family to Grandma’s - Levinson Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Miss Rumphius- Cooney Mr. George Baker – Hest Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs - dePaola Not the Piano, Mrs. Medley! - Levine Old Henry - Blos Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim Old Woman Who Named Things - Rylant Papa Lucky’s Shadow - Daly Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Sunday Outing – Pinkney Sunshine Home Bunting Thunder Cake – Polacco Two of Them - Aliki Tom - de Paola Wednesday Surprise – Bunting When I Was Young in the Mountains - Rylant Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partiridge – Fox DEATH Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs - dePaola Everett Anderson’s Goodbye – Clifton Rudi’s Pond - Bunting Two of Them, The - Aliki Ecology Great Kapok Tree – Cherry Great Trash Bash - Leedy Heron Street - Turner Just a Dream - Van Allsburg

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Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – dePaola Letting Swift River Go - Yolen Miss Rumphius – Cooney Owl Moon – Yolen River Ran Wild - Cherry Sierra - Siebert (effects of removal of a link in the food chain/web) Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe – Williams MUSIC Blues of Flats Brown – Myers Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler Froggy Plays with the Band – London Flute Player: an Apache Folktale - Lacapa M is for Melody: a Music Alphabet – Wargin Remarkable Farkle McBride – Lithgow Wood-hoopoe Willie – Kroll ART Art Lesson – De Paola Katie Meets the Impressionists – Mayhew Linnea in Monet’s Garden – Bjork No Good in Art – Cohen

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CHARACTER EDUCATION BULLYING Picture Books: Just One Flick of a Finger - Lorbiecki (serious book about guns) Kids Talk About Bullying – Finn 302.3 My Secret Bully - Ludwig Nobody Knew What to Do: A Story about Bullying – McCain Oliver Button is a Sissy - dePaola Recess Queen – O’Neill Say Something - Moss Read-Aloud Chapter Books: 18th Emergency - Byars Bad Girls - Wilson Berenstain Bears and the Bully - Berenstain Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain- Romain 302.3 Bully of Barkham Street- Stolz How to Be Cool in the Third Grade - Duffey Jake Drake, Bully Buster- Clements Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge –Shreve Mr. Lincoln’s Way - Polacco Surviving Brick Johnson - Myers Veronica Ganz - Sachs Professional Books: Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8 –Beane 371.102 Bully Proofing Your School – Garrity, et al. 372.17 Bul How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies – Cohen-Posey 303.6 The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander – Coloroso 371.7 SELF-WORTH Picture Books: Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon Children’s Book of Virtues – Bennett 808.8 Chi Chrysanthemum - Henkes Gumbo goes Downtown - Talley I’m Gonna Like Me- Curtis Just Like Mike - Herman Odd Velvet- Whitcomb Otis – Bynum Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco Those Shoes - Boelts Your Move - Bunting (pressure to be in a gang)

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(Self-Worth) Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Freckle Juice - Blume Girl with 500 Middle Names - Haddix The Girls - Koss Lizzie at Last - Mills Star Girl - Spinelli There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar Winners Take All - Bowen Zach’s Lie – Smith RESPONSIBILITY Picture Books: Alexander…Bad Day -Viorst Amos and Boris - Steig Apple Picking Time – Slawson Being Responsible - Small Berenstain Bears and the Blame Game - Berenstain Brave Irene - Steig Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Encounter - Yolen Everybody Cooks Rice – Dooley 641.6 Farmer Duck - Waddell Full Belly Bowl – Aylesworth Great Kapok Tree - Cherry Hana’s Year - Talley I Did It, I’m Sorry - Buehner It’s Up to You Griffin – Pickford Never Ride Your Elephant to School - Johnson Sachiki Means Happiness - Sakal Song and Dance Man – Ackerman Summer My Father was Ten - Brisson Swimmy - Lionni Tops and Bottoms – Stevens Very First, Last Time - Andrews Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Dog on Barkham Street - Stolz Family Under the Bridge - Carlson Light at Tern Rock - Sauer Marvin Redpost, Alone in His Teacher’s House - Sachar Night Swimmers - Byars On My Honor - Bauer

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One-Eyed Cat - Fox Sign of the Beaver -Speare Stone Fox - Gardiner Summer Wheels - Bunting RESPECT Picture Books: Amos & Boris – Steig Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry Arthur’s Eyes - Brown Arthur’s Nose – Brown Aunt Flossie’s Hats - Howard Chicken Sunday - Polocca Crow Boy – Yashima Everybody Cooks Rice – Dooley 641.6 Fireflies! - Brinkloe Frog and Toad Together - Lobel Great Kapok Tree – Cherry Hey, Al - Yorinks Hey Little Ant – Hoose Kids Talk About Respect – Finn 179 Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse - Henkes No Good in Art - Cohen Quarreling Book – Zolotow Relatives Came, The - Rylant Richard Wright and the Library Card - Miller Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai Smoky Night – Bunting Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Stellaluna - Cannon Strega Nona - De Paola Sweetest Fig – Van Allsburg Treat Me Right – Loewen 179 Two of Them - Aliki Ugly Duckling - Anderson Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Bully of Barkham Street - Stolz Hundred Penny Box - Mathis Nothing’s Fair in the Fifth Grade - DeClements Zucchini - Dana

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COURAGE Picture Books: Alexander, Who’s Not…Going to Move - Viorst Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart – Williams Bad Day at River Bend – Van Allsburg Black Snowman - Mendez Brand New Kid - Couric (courage to accept someone different) Brave as a Mountain Lion – Scott Brave Irene - Steig Cello of Mr. O - Cutler Children’s Book of Virtues – Bennett 808.8 Chi Courage – Waber Goin’ Someplace Special – McKissack How Many Days to America - Bunting Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare – DeBeer Might Santa Fe – Hooks My Prairie Christmas- Harvey Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Hopkinson There’s a Nightmare in My Closet – Meyer Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig - Trivazas Thunder Cake - Polacco Very First Last Time - Andrews Courage Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Call It Courage - Sperry Courage of Sarah Noble - Dalgliesh Drinking Gourd - Monjo Hatchet - Paulsen Helen Keller - Keller 921 Kel Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan Sign of the Beaver - Speare Snow Treasure - McSwigan Whipping Boy - Fleischman CARING/COMPASSION Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Viorst Be Good to Eddie Lee - Flelming Big Al - Clements Chair for My Mother - Williams Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Crow Boy - Yashima How Many Days to America? – Bunting Lady in the Box - McGovern Letting Swift River Go - Yolen Mean Soup – Everitt

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Mr. Lincoln’s Way – Polacco Mrs. Katz and Tush - Polacco My Momma had a Dancing Heart - Gray Other Side - Woodson Owl Moon - Yolen Rainbow Fish - Pfister Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai Smoky Night – Bunting Stranger, The – Van Allsburg Tar Beach - Ringold Those Shoes - Boelts Three Questions - Muth Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen - DiSalvo-Ryan Under the Lemon Moon - Fine Wednesday Surprise – Bunting When I was Young in the Mountains – Rylant Wilfred Gordan McDonald Partridge - Fox Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Robinson Hundred Dresses - Estes Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen Pinballs - Byars (Lit Set) Randall’s Wall - Fenner Secret Life of the Underwear Champ - Miles HONESTY Picture Books: Americans Who Tell the Truth – Shetterly 920 She Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Day’s Work - Bunting Empty Pot - Demi 398.2 Gold Coin – Ada Grandpa’s Teeth - Clement Honest Ashley - Kroll Honest to Goodness Truth - McKissack I Did It, I Am Sorry – Buehner Monster Who Did My Math - Schnitzlein Plato’s Journey – Talley Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie - Rankin Sam, Bangs and Moonshine - Ness Smoky Night - Bunting The Summer My Father Was Ten - Brisson Too Many Tamales - Soto

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Read-Aloud Chapter Books: The Cheat - Koss Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice Nothing But the Truth - Avi On My Honor – Bauer COOPERATION Picture Books: Berlioz the Bear- Brett Farmer Duck – Waddell Miss Nelson is Missing - Allard Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2 Swimmy – Lionni Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell Wild Christmas Reindeer - Brett PERSEVERANCE Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst Amazing Grace - Hoffman Apple Picking Time – Slawson Art Lesson - DePaola Brave Irene - Steig Chair for My Mother - Williams Empty Pot - Demi 398.2 Galimoto - Williams How Many Days to America - Bunting Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin Mrs. Mack - Polacco Ox-Cart Man - Hall Pumpkin Runner – Arnold Rocks in His Head – Hurst Sophie’s Masterpiece - Spinelli Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2 Swimmy - Lionni Tortoise and the Hare - Stevens Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell Wagon Wheels - Brenner Wednesday Surprise - Bunting Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph became the World’s Fastest Woman – Krull 921 Perseverance Read-aloud Chapter Books: Jason’s Gold - Hobbs Helen Keller – Keller 921 Hatchet - Paulsen There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar

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INTEGRITY Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible…- Viorst Bad Case of Stripes - shannon Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Read-aloud Chapter Books: Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice ANGER Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move - Viorst Amazing Millika - Parkison Andrew’s Angry Words - Lachner I’m Furious - Crary Quarreling Book - Zolotow Smoky Night - Bunting Uncle Rain Cloud - Johnston When Sophie Gets Angry – Bang Various Character Traits: Bite-Size Life Lessons – Rosenthal 179 Do Unto Otters - Keller

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HOLIDAYS & SEASONAL Jewish New Year: Gershon’s Monster – Kimmel Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Martin’s Big Words - Rappaport Groundhog Day: Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather – Koscielniak Groundhog Gets a Say –Swallow Groundhog Stays Up Late - Cuyler It’s Up to You, Griffin – Pickford Valentine’s Day: Happy Valentine’s Day, Dolores - Samuels Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch - Spinelli The Valentine Bears – Bunting St. Patrick’s Day: St. Patrick’s Day - Gibbons St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning – Bunting Easter: Cranberry Easter – Devlin April Fool’s Day: April Foolishness – Bateman Earth Day: Just a Dream – Van Allsburg Earth Day – Hooray! – Murphy 513 Memorial Day: Casey Over There - Rabin School: Biggest Test in the Universe - Poydar Chrysanthemum - Henkes Crow Boy – Yashima A Fine, Fine School – Creech Froggy Goes to School - London *Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Henkes Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster Miss Nelson has a Field Day – Allard Miss Nelson is Back – Allard

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Miss Nelson is Missing – Allard Mrs. McBloom, Clean Up Your Classroom! - DiPucchio Never Poke a Squid – Cazet Never Spit on Your Shoes – Cazet No Good in Art – Cohen Odd Velvet – Whitcomb Officer Buckle and Gloria - Rathmann Once Upon an Ordinary School Day – McNaughton Say Something – Moss School Picture Day - Plourde Science Verse – Scieszka Shrinking Violet – Best Stephanie’s Ponytail - Munsch Halloween/October/ Fall: Arthur’s Halloween - Brown Biggest Pumpkin Ever - Kroll Gargoyle on the Roof – Prelutsky Graves Family -Polacco Halloween Adventure - Dandi Halloween Day – Rockwell Halloween House – Silverman Hallo-weiner - Pilkey Hoodwinked –Howard Monster Mischief – Jane One Halloween Night - Teague Picking Apples & Pumpkins - Hutchings Pumpkin - Ray Pumpkin Eye – Fleming Pumpkin Heads – Minor Scarecrow – Rylant Widow’s Broom – Van Allsburg Veterans’ Day: America’s White Table – Raven The Wall - Bunting Thanksgiving: ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving - Pilkey All About Turkey – Arnosky 598.6 Arthur’s Thanksgiving – Brown How Many Days to America – Bunting In November - Rylant Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen Plump Perky Turkey –Bateman Thank You, Sarah; the Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving – 394.2649

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Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ – Spinelli Thanksgiving Wish - Rosen Turkey for Thanksgiving – Bunting Very first Thanksgiving Day – Greene We Gather Together…Now Please Get Lost! – deGroat Christmas: A Certain Small Shepherd – Caudill Albert and the Angels – Norris All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll - McKissack An Amish Christmas – Ammon Angel Pig & the Hidden Christmas – Waldron Arthur’s Christmas – Brown Arthur’s Perfect Christmas – Brown Auntie Claus – Primavera Bless You, Santa - Sykes Bright Christmas, an Angel Remembers – Clements Christmas Day in the Morning – Buck Christmas in the Country - Rylant Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey – Wojciechowski Christmas Tapestry - Polacco Christmas Trolls - Brett December – Bunting Ernest’s Special Christmas - Barnes Finest Christmas Tree – Hassett Froggy’s Best Christmas – London How Santa Got His Job - Krensky If You Take a Mouse to the Movies - Numeroff Lady in the Box - McGovern Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear! – Wood Mighty Santa Fe - Hooks My Prairie Christmas – Harvey Night Before Christmas – Moore 811 Night Tree - Bunting Olivia Helps with Christmas - Falconer Polar Express - Van Allsburg Red Ranger Came Calling – Breathed Sam’s Wild West Christmas - Antle Santa’s Book of Names – McPhail Silver Packages – Rylant Teachers’ Night Before Christmas - Layne 811 Three French Hens - Palatini Was that Christmas? - McKay Welcome Comfort – Polacco Wish to be a Christmas Tree - Monroe Worst Person’s Christmas- Stevenson

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Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston Winter: Frosty is a Stupid Name - Wilson Midnight in the Mountains – Lawson Now it is Winter – Spinelli Snow – Shulevitz Snow Day! - Laminack Snow Sounds – Johnson Snowy Day – Keats Stranger in the Woods - Sams Family: Cracked Corn and Snow Ice Cream: a Family Almanac – Willard Home Place – Dragonwagon Homeplace – Shelby Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin Memory String – Bunting Pain and the Great One – Blume Relatives Came – Rylant Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan Thunder Cake – Polacco Wednesday Surprise - Bunting When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant Friendship: Everett Anderson’s Friend – Clifton Leonardo the Terrible Monster – Williams Little Blue and Little Yellow – Lionni Misery Moo - Willis Mrs. Katz and Tush – Polacco Terrific - Agee Humor: Bedhead - Palatini Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Barrett Don’t Go Near that Rabbit, Frank! Fic Con (short chapter book 47pp) Ducks Don’t Wear Socks - Nedwidek Ed & Fred Flea - Edwards Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! - Beaumont Jake Johnson, the Story of a Mule - Seymour Never Spit on Your Shoes – Cazet No Jumping on the Bed – Arnold Those Darn Squirrels! - Rubin Web Files - Palatini

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Picture Book Biographies

Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin – Giblin Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy – Pinkney Daring Nellie Bly, America’s Star Reporter – Christensen Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins – Kerley Duke Ellington – Pinkney Farmer George Plants a Nation - Thomas Fossil Girl, Mary Anning’s Dinosaur Discovery – Brighton Galileo – Fisher Hero and the Holocaust, the story of Janusz Korczak and His Children – Adler Leonardo Da Vinci – Stanley Librarian who Measured the Earth – Hawkes Lindbergh – Demarest Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man – Adler Michelangelo – Stanley My Brother Martin - Farris Norman Rockwell, Storyteller with a Brush – Gherman Promises to Keep, How Jackie Robinson Changed America – Robinson, Sharon Revolutionary John Adams – Harness Ruth Law Thrills a Nation – Brown Seeker of Knowledge, the Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs – Rumford Shooting for the Moon, the Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley – Krensky Snowflake Bentley – Martin Story of Ruby Bridges – Coles Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller They Called Her Molly Pitcher – Rockwell Uncommon Traveler, Mary Kingsley in Africa – Brown Vision of Beauty, the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Lasky Voice from the Wilderness, Story of Anna Howard Shaw – Brown When Esther Morris Headed West – Wooldridge

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Bibliography of Professional Resources

Benedict, Susan, and Lenore Carlisle (Eds.). 1992. Beyond Words: Picture Books for Older Readers and Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books. Findlay, Diane. 2002. Pages of the Past: Exploring U.S. History through Children’s Literature. Atkinson, WI: Upstart Books. Findlay, Diane. 2001. Characters with Character: Using Children’s Literature in Character Education. Fort Atkinson, WI: Alleyside Press. Griffiths, Rachel. 1991. Books You Can Count On. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman Educational Books. Hall, Susan. 1990. Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices. Phoenix, AZ: Onyx Press. Hall, Susan. 1994. Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices, Volume Two. Phoenix, AZ: Onyx Press. Hall, Susan. 2000. Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Character Education. Phoenix, AZ: Onyx Press. Hall, Susan. 2002. Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices, Volume Three. Phoenix, AZ: Onyx Press. Hurst, Carol O., Palmer, L. O., Churchill, V., Ahern, M. S., and McMahon, B. G. 1999. Curriculum Connections: Picture Books in Grade 3 and Up. Worthington, OH: Linworth Publishing, Inc. Kreidler, William J. 1994. Teaching Conflict Resolution through Children’s Literature, Grades K-2. New York: Scholastic Professional Books. Kurstedt, Rosanne, and Maria Koutras. 2000. Teaching Writing with Picture Books as Models. New York: Scholastic Professional Books. McCarthy, Tara. 1997. Teaching Literary Elements. New York: Scholastic Professional Books. Novelli, Joan. 1998. Using Caldecotts Across the Curriculum. New York: Scholastic Professional Books. Ryan, Concetta Doti. 1994. Learning through Literature: U.S. History. Huntington Beach, CA: Teacher Created Materials, Inc.

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Tarlow, Ellen. 1998. Teaching Story Elements with Favorite Books. New York: Scholastic Professional Books. Whitin, David J. 1992. Read Any Good Math Lately? Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Whitin, David J. 1995. It’s the Story That Counts: More Children’s Books for Mathematical Learning, K-6. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Van Zile, Susan. 2001. Awesome Hands-on Activities for Teaching Literary Elements. New York: Scholastic Professional Books.

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Language Arts Picture Book Alpha List

A is for Salad – Lester (ABC books) ABC, Letters in the Library – Farmer (ABC books, libraries) Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein (ABC books, alliteration, nouns, verbs, adjectives) Abuela – Dorros (visualization) Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective – Biedrzycki (parody, insects, point of view, simile, metaphor) Across the Alley – Michelson (prejudice, friendship, similes, metaphors) Across the Stream – Ginsburg (cause/effect) Alexander and the Terrible…Day – Viorst (text/self) Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst (flashback, money) All the Places to Love – MacLachlan (memorable language, strong ending, personal narrative) Amelia Bedelia – Parish (idioms) Amazing Grace – (character traits, strong theme) Amos & Boris – Steig (character traits, character relationships, strong theme) An Angel for Solomon Singer – Rylant (character traits, irony, questioning, symbol) Animalia – Base (ABC books, alliteration) Annie and the Old Ones – Miles (inference, Native Americans) Annie and the Wild Animals – Brett (foreshadow) Ant Bully – Nickle (inference, foreshadow, personification, point of view) Antics – Hepworth (ABC books) Appelmando’s Dream – Polacco (questioning) Apple Picking Time – Slawson (personal narrative) Art Lesson – dePaola (inference, irony, personal narrative, text/self) Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair – Polacco (literacy, personal narrative) Aunt Flossie’s Hats – Howard (personal narrative) Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic – Schnur 793.73 (acrostic poetry) Babe & I – Adler (personal narrative) Bad Case of Stripes – Shannon (visualization, bullies) Barn – Atwell (point of view) Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki (personal narrative, Japanese-Americans, WWII, text/world) Band of Angels – Hopkinson (irony) Behind the Mask – Heller 428.2 (prepositions) Ben’s Dream – Van Allsburg (inference) Best Book to Read – Bertram (libraries) Big Al – Clements – (questioning) Big Bushy Mustache – Soto (inference) Black and White – Macaulay (point of view) Black Book of Colors – Cottin (imagery) Bootsie Barker Bites – Bottner (foreshadowing, inference, bullies) Boy Who Loved Words – Schotter (word choice) Boy Who was Raised by Librarians – Morris (strong ending) Bracelet, The – Uchida (personal narrative, Japanese-Americans, WWII) Brave as a Mountain Lion – Scott (similes, metaphors, courage) Brave Irene – Steig (questioning, courage) Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain – Aarmeda (story sequence) Cache of Jewels – Heller 428.1 (nouns) Call Me, Ahnighito – Conrad (fact/fiction, personification, meteorites, point of view, questioning) Canoe Days – Paulsen (personal narrative, visualization, text/self) Carrots to Cupcakes – Freese (writing, poetry) Cave – Siebert (personification, point of view) Chair for my Mother – Williams (main idea, personal narrative) Chanticleer and the Fox – Cooney 811 (similes, metaphors) Chicken Sunday – Polacco (personal narrative, text/self, character relationships) Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Gwynne 428.1 (homophones)

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Chrysanthemum – Henkes (character traits, irony, strong theme, prediction, self-worth, text/self) Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell (foreshadow, parody, simile) Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type – Cronin (inference, irony, symbol) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett (imagery, sequence, tall tale, compound words) Come On, Rain! – Hesse (foreshadow, hyperbole, imagery, simile, metaphor, mem lang., weather) Comets Nine Lives – Brett (cause & effect) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea – Johnston 398.2 (parody, simile, inference) Crazy Like a Fox – Leedy (simile) Crow Boy – Yashima (character traits) Dandelions – Bunting (inference, questioning, Westward Movement) Day’s Work – Bunting (inference, prediction, questioning, honesty, integrity) Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? – Cleary (adverbs) Delilah D. at the Library – Willis (libraries) Dinorella – Edwards (alliteration) Diary of a Worm – Cronin (personification, onomatopoeia, fact/fiction) Dog Breath – Pilkey (idioms) Dogteam – Paulsen (personal narrative, visualization) Dona Flora – Mora (hyperbole) Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War – Turner (imagery, point of view, simile) Eight Ate, a Feast of Homonym Riddles – Terban 818 (homonyms) Encounter – Yolen (cause/effect, foreshadow, metaphor, point of view, inference, Columbus) Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams – Agee (anagram) Even More Parts – Arnold (idioms) Everybody Cooks Rice – Dooley (visualization, multi-cultural) Fables – Lobel (main idea) Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish – Obligado (alliteration, adverbs) Fancy Nancy – O’Connor (personal narrative, vocabulary) Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! – Heller 425 (interjections, conjunctions) Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler (foreshadow, inference, Missouri Ozarks) Fireflies! – Brinkloe (imagery, inference, memorable language, strong theme, personal narrative) First Day Jitters – Danneberg (prediction, school, teachers) Fishing in the Air – Creech (personal narrative) Fly Away Home – Bunting (inference, personal narrative, text/world, relationships, homeless) Fortunately – Charlip (hyperbole) Four Famished Foxes – Edwards (alliteration) Freedom Summer – Wiles (Civil Rights, prejudice, simile/metaphor) Frog Prince Continued – Scieszka (irony, main idea, plot) Full Belly Bowl – Aylesworth (foreshadow, irony) Garden of Abdul Gasazi – Van Allsburg (inference, predict) Gardener, The – Stewart (inference) George vs. George – Schanzer 973.2 (point of view, American Revolution) Gift of the Crocodile: a Cinderella Story – Sierra 398.2 (foreshadow, irony) Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble (imagery, simile, Native Americans) Gingerbread Cowboy – Squires 398.21 (character traits, parody) Giving Tree – Silverstein (personification, point of view, strong theme, voice) Gleam and Glow – Bunting (text/world) Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! – Agee 793.73 (palindromes) Goin’ Someplace Special – McKissack (personal narrative) Going Home – Bunting (text/self, personal narrative) Golden Coin – Ada (irony) Golem – Wisniewski 398.21 (imagery, foreshadow, inference, irony, paradox, simile) Grandfather’s Journey – Say (foreshadow, irony, personal narrative, prediction, questioning) Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams (simile/metaphor, Missouri) Grandpa’s Face – Greenfield (character relationships, memorable language) Grandpa’s Teeth – Clements (questioning, strong ending, mystery, humor) Great Kapok Tree – Cherry (main idea, point of view, text/world)

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Great Shaking – Carson (point of view, earthquakes, Missouri) Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective? – Cleary 428.2 (adjectives) Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm – Nolen (grammar) Heartland – Siebert (point of view, poetry) Heron Street – Turner (onomatopoeia, wetlands, ecology) Hickory Chair – Fraustino (personal narrative) Hogula, Dread Pig of Night – Gralley (inference) Hello, Harvest Moon – Fletcher (personification, mem. lang., visualization, simile/metaphor) Help Me, Mr. Mutt – Stevens (point of view) Hey Al – Yorinks (strong beginning & ending) Home Place – Dragonwagon (flashback, imagery, memorable language, word choice) Home Run – Burleigh (mood) Honest to Goodness Truth – McKissack (foreshadow, honesty) How Many Days to America? – Bunting (inference, questioning) I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More – Beaumont (prediction) I and You and Don’t Forget Who – Cleary 428.2 (pronouns) If You Take a Mouse to the Movies – Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) I’m in Charge of Celebrations – Baylor (memorable language) Imogene’s Antlers – Small (strong ending) Important Book – Brown (main idea, supporting details) In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms – Terban 428.1 (idioms) In November – Rylant (simile/metaphor) Ira Sleeps Over – Waber (prediction, text/self) Jim and the Beanstalk – Coward-McCann (parody) Julius, the Baby of the World – Henkes (irony, text/self) Jumanji – Van Allsburg (memorable language, prediction, story sequence) Just a Dream – Van Allsburg (mood) Just Plain Fancy – Polacco (foreshadow, prediction, Amish) Just One Flick of a Finger – Lorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, inference, simile, metaphor) Kat Kong – Pilkey (summarizing) Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne 398.2 (inference, simile, hyperbole) Keeping Quilt – Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, point of view, symbolism, text/self) King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub – Wood (story sequence, strong ending) Kites Sail High – Heller 428.2 (verbs) Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (foreshadow, visualize, questioning, simile, metaphor, infer) L is for Library – Terry (ABC books, libraries) Lady in a Box – McGovern (text/world, compassion) Langston’s Train Ride – Burleigh (Civil War, MLK, Jr., Missouri poet) Legend of the Bluebonnet – dePaola (summarizing) Letting Swift River Go – Yolen (memorable language, personal narrative) Librarian Who Measured the Earth – Lasky 921 Era (questioning) Library Mouse – Kirk (libraries) Lies and Other Tall Tales – Myers (hyperbole) Like Jake and Me – Jukes (characters, foreshadow, similes, metaphors, setting, fact/fiction, spiders) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Henkes (character traits, strong theme, text/self, main idea) Lilly’s Big Day – Henkes (character traits) Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime; More About Nouns – Cleary (nouns) Little Red Cowboy Hat – Lowell 398.2 (hyperbole, inference, onomatopoeia, parody, simile) Lotus Seed – Garland (memorable language, questioning) M is for Mischief – Ashman (alliteration) Many Luscious Lollipops – Heller 428.2 (adjectives) Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native Americans – Bruchac (ABC books) Mary Celeste, The – Yolen (questioning, historical fiction, mystery)

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Max’s Words – Banks (vocabulary) Memory Box – Bahr (memorable language, personal narrative, character, strong theme) Memory String – Bunting (personal narrative, simile, foreshadow, imagery, inference) Midnight in the Mountains – Lawson (memorable language) Million Fish…More or Less – McKissack (foreshadow, hyperbole, inference) Mine, All Mine – Heller 428.2 (pronouns) Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink, What is a Noun? – Cleary 428.2 (nouns) Ming Lo Moves a Mountain – Lobel (plot) Mirette on the High Wire – McCully (inference, courage, synthesis) Mirandy and Brother Wind – McKissack (personal narrative) Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier (vocabulary) Miss Myrtle Frag the Grammar Nag – Bailey (grammar) Miss Rumphius – Cooney (character traits, ecology, visualization) Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook – Garland (literacy) Miss Spider’s ABC – Kirk (ABC books) Mississippi – Siebert (personification, point of view, S.S., science, poetry) Mitten, The – Brett 398.2 (story sequence, plot) Monkey Business – Edwards (idioms) Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom – Weatherford (inference) Mr. George Baker – Hest (word choice, literacy, elderly) Mrs. Katz and Tush – Polacco (text/self) Mrs. Mack – Polacco (text/self) My Great-Aunt Arizona – Houston 921 Hug (character traits, compare/contrast, text/self) My Light – Bang (onomatopoeia, sun, electricity) My Momma had a Dancing Heart – Gray (mem. lang, strong beginning/ending, personal narr.) My Momma Likes to Say – Brennan-Nelson 398.9 (idioms) My Prairie Christmas – Harvey (personal narrative) My Rotten Red-headed Older Brother – Polacco (text/self, person narrative) Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs – dePaola (text/self, death, elderly) Napping House – Wood (cause/effect, visualization) New York’s Bravest – Osborne (text/world, Sept. 11) Night in the Country – Rylant (strong beginning, text/world, visualization) Night Noises – Fox (similes, onomatopoeia, elderly) Night Tree – Bunting (foreshadow) Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street – Schotter (memorable language) Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day – Pulver (nouns, verbs) Odd Velvet – Whitcomb (character traits, strong theme) Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathmann (personification) Old Black fly – Aylesworth (ABC books, adjectives, verbs) Old Henry – Blos (irony) Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim (simile/metaphor, elderly, grammar) Oliver Button is a Sissy – dePaola (text/self, teasing, being oneself, personal narrative) Olivia – Falconer (character traits) Once There was a Bull…Frog – Walton (compound words) Other Side – Woodson (text/world, prejudice, friendship) Our Librarian Won’t Tell Us Anything – Buzzeo (libraries) Owen – Henkes (text/self) Owl Moon – Yolen (imagery, mood, memorable language, personal narrative, simile, metaphor) Pain and the Great One – Blume (character traits, point of view, text/self) Passage to Freedom: the Sugihara Story – Mochizuki 921 Sug (foreshadow, point of view) Perfect Puppy for Me – O’Connor (fact/fiction) Picnic in October – Bunting (text/world) Pig Tale – Oxenbury (irony) Pink and Say – Polacco (questioning, Civil War) Polar Express – Van Allsburg (questioning, strong ending) Popcorn Book – dePaola (fact/fiction)

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Possum Magic – Fox (inference) Prairie Alphabet – Bannatyne-Cugnet (ABC books) Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson (ABC books) Pumpkin Runner – Arnold (character traits, perseverance) Pumpkin Soup – Cooper (verbs) Pumpkins – Ray (visualization) Q is for Duck – Elting (ABC books) Quick as a Cricket – Wood (simile) Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky – Cleary 428.2 (adjectives) Raft, The – LaMarche (inference, personal narrative) Rag Coat – Mills (character traits, strong ending, inference) Railroad John and the Red Rock Run – Crunk (simile/metaphor) Rattlesnake Dance – Dewey 597.96 (fact/fiction) Recess Queen – O’Neill (bullies, verbs) Red Flower Goes West – Turner (inference, simile, metaphor, symbol, Western Movement) Redcoats and Petticoats – Kirkpatrick (foreshadow, inference, Revolutionary War) Relatives Came – Rylant (character traits, memorable language, personal narrative, strong beginning) River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (cause/effect, imagery, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia) River Ran Wild – Cherry (text/world) Romeow and Drooliet – Laden (text to text, parody) Roxaboxen – McLerran (mood, personal narrative, text/self) Ruby the Copycat – Rathman (foreshadow, prediction, self-esteem) Rudi’s Pond – Bunting (character relationships, death) Sachiko Means Happiness – Sakai (foreshadow, inference, Alzheimer’s) Sailing Home – Rand (personal narrative) Salamander Room – Mazer (visualization) School Lunch – Kelley (irony) Science Fair Day – Plourde (onomatopoeia) Scoop: an Exclusive by Monty Molenski – Kelly (voice, mystery, word choice) Seashore Book – Zolotow (memorable language, mood, visualization) Secret to Freedom – Vaughan (simile/metaphor, slavery) Sheila Rae, the Brave – Henkes (text/self) Shelf Elf Helps Out – Hopkins 372.4 (libraries) She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head – Lasky (inference, synthesis) Shoes from Grandpa – Fox (inference) Sierra – Siebert (point of view, mountains, animals, cause & effect) Silent Letters, Loud and Clear - Pulver Sign Painter – Say (imagery, inference, point of view) Sky Tree – Locker (memorable language) Smoky Night – Bunting (synthesis, strong theme, text/world) Snow Day! – Laminack (prediction, strong ending) Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story – Johnson (onomatopoeia) Snowflake Bentley – Martin 921 Ben (imagery, simile, biography) Some Smug Slug – Edwards (alliteration) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch – Spinelli (irony, inference, prediction, plot) Someday a Tree – Bunting (foreshadow, inference, text/world) Something to Tell the Grandcows – Spinelli (point of view, Adm. Bryd, South Pole) Song and Dance Man – Ackerman (character traits, simile/metaphor, elderly) Sophie’s Masterpiece – Spinelli (point of view) Stellaluna – Cannon (compare/contrast, fact/fiction) Storm Book – Zolotow (mood) Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe 398.2 (synthesis) Story with Pictures – Kanninen (elements of story, satire) Stranger, The – Van Allsburg (inference, questioning, strong ending) Strega Nona – dePaola (foreshadow) Strong to the Hoop – Coy (strong ending)

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Summer My Father was Ten – Brisson (strong ending, honesty, personal narrative, text/self) Sunday Outing – Pinkney (text/self) Sunshine Home – Bunting (character relationships, strong theme, death) Swamp Angel – Zelinsky (simile/metaphor) Sweet Tooth – Palatini (voice) Sweetest Fig – Van Allsburg (irony, inference, strong ending) Swimmy – Lionni (prediction, cooperation) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (foreshadow, imagery, personification, symbol, question) Tadpole’s Promise – Ross (strong endings, food chain) Tar Beach – Ringold (personal narrative) Teammates – Golenbock 796.3 (inference, prejudice) Terrific – Agee (satire) Thank You, Mr. Falker – Polacco (literacy, personal narrative, text/self, strong beginning & ending) That Book Woman – Henson (libraries, literacy) That’s Good! That’s Bad! – Cuyler (cause/effect, verb choice, onomatopoeia, adjectives) There’s a Frog in my Throat – Leedy (idioms) Things That are Most in the World – Barrett (adjectives, superlatives) Those Shoes – Boelts (text/world, self-worth) Three Little Javelinas – Lowell (plot, text to text) Three Little Pigs – (plot, text to text) Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig – Trivazas (strong ending) Three Questions – (questioning) Three Silly Billies – Palatini (onomatopoeia, parody) Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan (personal narrative, point of view) Thunder Cake – Polacco (personal narrative, strong beginning, visualization) Thunder Rose – Nolen (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, vocabulary, adjectives) Tight Times – Hazen (inference, mood, questioning, point of view) To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb? – Cleary 428.2 (verbs) Tomorrow’s Alphabet – Shannon (ABC books) Too Hot to Hoot! – Terban 818 (palindromes) Too Many Tamales – Soto (inference, honesty, personal narrative) Tough Cookie – Wisniewski (satire, parody, simile, point of view) Toughest Cowboy – Frank (simile, metaphor, prediction, point of view, strong ending, tall tale) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (strong ending, strong theme, character relationships, orphan train) True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Scieszka (parody, point of view, character traits) Turtle’s Penguin Day – Gorbachev (fact/fiction, strong ending, penguins) Two Bad Ants – Van Allsburg (point of view, visualization, prediction) Two Mrs. Gibsons – Igus (personal narrative) Uncle Willy and the Soup Kitchen – DeSalvo-Ryan (text/world) Under, Over, by the Clover: What is a Preposition? – Cleary 428.2 (prepositions) Understanding Poetry: Metaphors, Similes, and Other Word Pictures – Fandel 808 Undone Fairy Tale – Lendler (satire) Up North at the Cabin – Chall (imagery, simile, metaphor, text/self) Velveteen Rabbit – Williams (personification) Village of Round and Square Houses – Grifalconi (summarizing) Voices in the Park – Browne (foreshadow, inference, point of view) Vowel Family, a Tale of Lost Letters - Walker Wacky Wedding – Edwards (ABC books, alliteration) Wall, The – Bunting (Vietnam Memorial, personal narrative, questioning, text/world, point of view) Water Dance – Locker (memorable language, point of view, water cycle, visualization) Wednesday Surprise – Bunting (inference, personal narrative, predict, characters, literacy, ending) Wemberly Worried – Henkes (irony) We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Rosen (onomatopoeia) What Pete Ate A-Z – Kalman (ABC books, alliteration) When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant (character traits, per. narr, point of view, text/self) When Jessie Came Across the Sea – Hest (questioning)

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Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak (cause/effect, inference, hyperbole, plot, story sequence) White Dynamite and Curly Kidd – Martin (inference, mood) Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And Other Oxymorons – Agee 818 (oxymorons) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema (cause/effect, inference) Why the Banana Split – Walton (homonyms) Why the Chicken Crossed the Road – Macaulay (cause/effect) Widow’s Broom – Van Allsburg (inference) Wild Boars Cook – Rosoff (simile/metaphor, adjectives) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge – Fox (strong beginning, strong ending, text/self ) Wilma Unlimited ) Krull 921 Rud (strong beginning, perseverance) Worrywarts – Edwards (alliteration) Wreck of the Zephyr – Van Allsburg (flashback, inference) Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian…- Deedy (foreshadow, inference, simile, irony) Your Move – Bunting (text/self, text/world, gangs) Z was Zapped – Van Allsburg 411 (adverbs, ABC books) ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale – Gershator 398.24 (onomatopoeia, verbs)