Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Adjectives
Adjectives (should I use them?)
Adjectives; Phonemic
awareness; word choice
Adjectives; Structure
(circular); repeated details;
memorable language; memoir;
Leads; endings (circular);
conversation text; Mood/tone;
Beginning-middle-end
Adjectives; Wordplay and
language skills
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration
Alliteration; Vivid Verbs
Allusion
Allusion
Authors as Mentors
Authors as mentors
Authors As Mentors
Authors As Mentors
Authors As Mentors
TITLE
My mom is excellent
Good Night, Good Knight
Edward Lear’s A was once an apple pie
AUTHOR
Butterworth
Thomas
MacDonald
RECOMMENDED BY:
Bridget Zino
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Judy Freeman
The relatives came
Rylant
K. Andronici; Teaching writing with
picture books; Revisiting the Reading
Workshop
Many Luscious Lollipops
Heller, Ruth
Lucy Calkins
Animalia
Clara Caterpillar
Four Famished Foxes
Matthew A.B.C.
Miss Bindergarten gets ready for
Kindergarten
Some Smug Slug
Superhero ABC
Tangerines and Tea, My Grandparents
and Me: An Alphabet Book
The Great Fuzz Frenzy
The Z Was Zapped
What Pete Ate from A-Z
Alphabet Under Construction
Dogzilla
Kat Kong
Do like Kyla
When I am old with you
Night at the fair
One of three
Pet show!
Base, Graeme
Edwards, Pamela
Edwards, Pamela
Catalanotto, Peter
Slate, Joseph
Eley; K. Andronici
Eley
Eley
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman
Edwards, Pamela
McLeod, Bob
Gritz, Ona
Eley
Eley
Eley
Stevens, Janet
Van Allsburg, Chris
Kalman, Maira
Fleming, Denise
Pilkey, Dav
Pilkey, Dav
Johnson, Angela
Johnson, Angela
Crews, Donald
Johnson, Angela
Keats, Ezra Jack
Eley
Eley
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman
Book Links March 2007
Book Links March 2007
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
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Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end
Beginning-middle-end;
imagination
Beginning-middle-end;
Moment (small); personal
narrative
Book Care
Book Care
Book Care
Book Care
Book Care
Book Choice
Book Choice
Breathing life into essays
Breathing Life into essays
Breathing life into essays;
show don’t tell; voice; point of
view; monologue; mood/tone
Breathing life into essays;
voice; Point of view
TITLE
Duffy and the devil: a Cornish tale
Little Red Riding Hood
Millions of cats
Rapunzel
Rosie’s Walk
Stellaluna
The pied piper of Hamelin
The tale of Peter Rabbit
Ugly Duckling
Verdi
Where the wild things are
AUTHOR
Zemach, Harve
Marshall,James
Gag, Wanda
Rogalsky/Zelinksy
Hutchins, Pat
Cannon
Folktale
Potter, Beatrix
Andersen, H.C.
Cannon
Sendak, Maurice
RECOMMENDED BY:
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Down the Road
Schertle, Alice
Lucy Calkins
Library Lil
Read it, don't eat it!
Richard Wright and the Library Card
The hard times jar
What happened to Marion’s book?
Goldie Socks and the 3 Libearians
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
I have a dream
The other way to listen
Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no
good, very bad day
Williams, Suzanne
Schoenherr
Miller, William
Smothers
Berg
Hopkins, Jackie
Marshall, James
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Baylor, Byrd
Viorst, Judith
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
The Pain and the Great One
Blume, Judy
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (series)
Napping House
Sierra
Stories for all seasons
Numeroff, Laura
Wood, Douglas
Siebert
Carle
www.fcrta.net
Lucy Calkins
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net
Eley
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Eley
Eley
Eley
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins; K. Andronici;
Teaching writing with picture
books; Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Lucy Calkins; Teaching writing with
pic. Books; Revisiting the Reading
Workshop
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Eley
Eley
Eley
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
TITLE
That's good! That's Bad!
The gingerbread boy
The tiny seed
Why I will never, ever, ever have
enough time to read this book
Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears
AUTHOR
Cuyler
Galdone or Egielski
Carle
Charlip
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Aardema (398.2)
Eley
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique)
Character (unique);
Persuasive Writing
Character (unique); voice
Candy shop
Chester; Chester's Back
Chowder
My Lucky Day
One Green Apple
Pink and Say
Probuditi!
Sukey and the mermaid
The Talking Eggs
Weslandia
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!
Wahl, Jan
Watt, Melanie
Brown
Kasza, Keiko
Bunting, Eve
Polacco, Patricia
Van Allsburg, Chris
San Souci, Robert
San Souci, Robert
Fleischman, Paul
Willems, Mo
Novelist K-8
Eley
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Diary of a worm
Cronin, Doreen
Character Motivation
Character Motivation
Character Motivation
Character Motivation
Character Motivation
Character Motivation; Leads
Character Relationships;
endings
Character Traits;
Character Traits; Endings
A color of his own
Fanny’s Dream
Henry’s Freedom Box
Wilma Unlimited
Wind-Wild Dog
Thank you, Mr. Falker
The two of them
Lionni, Leo
Buehner, Caralyn
Levine, Ellen
Krull, Kathleen
Joosse, Barbara
Polacco
Aliki
Novelist K-8 ; Papol/Haverstick
workshop
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Crow boy
Flossie and the Fox
Yashima
McKissack
Cause and effect
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RECOMMENDED BY:
Eley
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Lucy Calkins; Teaching writing with
picture books
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Character Traits; Expanding
sentences; “looking
backward”; edit; focus
Character Traits; Flashback;
Passing of time – one year;
relating characters to setting
Character Traits; Motivation;
Character Relationships;
strong theme; poetic language
TITLE
Song and Dance Man
AUTHOR
Ackerman
Miss Rumphius
Cooney
Amos & Boris
Steig
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Character Traits; Motivation;
Personification
Character Traits; Motivation;
strong theme; Character’s
change over time
Character Traits; strong
theme; Character’s change
over time; Problem/solution
Character; conversation text;
point of view; voice
Character; surprise ending;
Voice
Character; voice
Character’s change over time
Brave Irene
Steig
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Amazing Grace
Hoffman
Chrysanthemum
Henkes
I am the dog, I am the cat
Hall, Donald
Zino list
The day of Ahmed’s secret
Parry
Zino list
Table where rich people sit
Amber on the mountain
Character’s change over time
Ramona Forever
Character’s change over time
Sign of the Beaver
Character’s change over time
Stone Fox
Choosing a Place to Read
A Quiet Place
Compare and Contrast (texts)
Brothers of the Knight (compare with 12
Dancing Princesses)
Compare and Contrast (texts) Bubba the Cowboy Prince; Chickerella;
Fanny’s Dream; Mufaro's Beautiful
Daughters; Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella
(compare with Cinderella)
Compare and Contrast (texts) Kate and the Beanstalk (compare with
Jack & Beanstalk)
Baylor, Byrd
Johnston
Cleary
Speare
Gardiner
Wood, Douglas
Allen, Debbie
RECOMMENDED BY:
Notes:
Papol/Haverstick workshop;
Teaching writing with picture books
Teaching writing with picture books as models;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Teaching writing with picture books as models;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Teaching writing with picture books as models;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Zino list
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
various
Novelist K-8
various
Novelist K-8 ; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
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Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
TITLE
Compare and Contrast (texts) Sleeping Ugly (compare with Sleeping
Beauty)
Compare and contrast (texts)
Snow; The Snowy Day
Compare and Contrast (texts)
The Gingerbread Cowboy; The
Gingerbread Girl; Bad Boys Get
Cookie! (compare with Gingerbread
Boy)
Compare and Contrast (texts) The girl who spun gold (compare with
Rumpelstiltskin)
Compare and Contrast (texts) Bone Soup; Button Soup (compare
with Stone Soup)
Compare and Contrast (texts) The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza;
Manana Iguana; Armadilly Chili
(compare with Little Red Hen)
Compare and Contrast (texts); Piggie Pie (compare with Old
Allusion
MacDonald)
Compare and Contrast (texts); The Frog Prince Continued; (compare
Leads; Endings
with Frog Prince)
Compare and Contrast (texts); The Three Pigs, The Three Little
Story within a story
Tamales; The Three Little Javelinas, 3
Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
(compare with 3 Little Pigs)
Compare/contrast (characters) Cinderella stories
Compare/contrast (characters) Rosie and Michael
AUTHOR
various
RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
Shulevitz; Keats
various
Eley
Hamilton, Virgina
Novelist K-8
various
Eley
various
Eley
Palatini, Margie
Novelist K-8 ;
Scieszka, Jon
Novelist K-8
various
Novelist K-8 ; Eley; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
Various
Viorst
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Compare/contrast (setting)
Compare/contrast (setting)
Compare/contrast (setting)
Aesop
Ringgold; Bunting
Rylant; Johnston
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Shannon, David
Krosoczka
Wahl, Jan
Weatherford, Carole
Polacco, Patricia
Harrington
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
City Mouse/Country Mouse
Tar Beach; Smoky Night
When I was young in the mountains;
Amber on the Mountain
A Bad Case of Stripes
Baghead
Candy Shop
Jesse Owens: the Fastest Man Alive
Mr. Lincoln’s Way
The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar
County
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Notes:
Eley
K. Andronici
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
2nd grade
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax
Conflict & Climax; Leads
Conflict & Climax;
problem/solution; voice and
point of view; Character
Relationships
Conflict: Man v. Man
Conflict: Man v. Man
Conflict: Man v. Man
Conflict: Man v. Man
Conflict: Man v. Man
Conflict: Man v. Man
Conflict: Man v. Man; Cause
and effect
Conflict: Man v. Nature
Conflict: Man v. Nature
Conflict: Man v. Nature
Conflict: Man v. Nature
Conflict: Man v. Nature
Conflict: Man v. Nature; Mood;
Leads
Conflict: Man v. Self
Conflict: Man v. Self
Conflict: Man v. Self
Connect
Connect
Connect
TITLE
The Harmonica
The Rainbow Fish
My Lucky Day
White Socks Only
The Wretched Stone
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Chicken Sunday
AUTHOR
Johnston, Tony
Pfister, Marcus
Kasza, Keiko
Van Allsburg, Chris
Coles, Robert
Polacco, Patricia
RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8 ; Lucy Calkins; K.
Andronici; Teaching writing with pic.
books
Crow Boy
Number the Stars
Peppe the lamplighter
The Big orange splot
The war with grandpa
Yellow Star
Old Henry
Yashima, Taro
Lowry, Lois
Bartone, Elisa
Pinkwater, Daniel
Smith, Robert Kimmel
Roy, Jennifer
Blos, Joan
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Eley; Judy Freeman
www.fcrta.net
Amos and Boris
Brave Irene
Hatchet
Just a dream
My side of the Mountain
Just a dream
Steig
Steig, William
Paulsen, Gary
Van Allsburg, Chris
George, Jean Craighead
Van Allsburg
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Annie and the old one
Ira says goodbye
Ira sleeps over
Miles, Miska
Waber, Bernard
Waber, Bernard
Viorst, Judith
Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very
bad day
Amos & Boris
Birthday presents
Steig, William
Rylant, Cynthia
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Teaching writing with picture books as models
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Strategies that Work;
www.fcrta.net; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work p. 197
Strategies that Work p. 199
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
TITLE
Chicken of the Family
Chicken Sunday
Chrysanthemum
Courage
Geraldine’s Blanket
Going home
How to make friends with a giant
I hate English!
I'm sorry
It's okay to be different
Little Mama Forgets
Mirette on the high wire
Mrs. Mack
My freedom trip
My Mom is Trying to Ruin My Life
My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother
AUTHOR
Amato
Polacco, Patricia
Henkes, Kevin
Waber, Bernard
Keller, Holly
Bunting, Eve
Choldenko, Gennifer
Levine, Ellen
McBratney
Parr, Todd
Cruise, Robin
McCully, Emily
Polacco, Patricia
Park, Frances
Feiffer, Kate
Polacco, Patricia
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
Once upon an ordinary school day
Owen
Pictures from Our Vacation
Rosie and Michael
The Pain and the Great One
DePaola, Tomie
McNaughton
Henkes, Kevin
Perkins
Viorst, Judith
Blume, Judy
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect
Connect (background
knowledge
Connect (background
knowledge
The tenth good thing about Barney
The Younger Brother’s Survival Guide
William’s doll
Julius, the baby of the world
Snow Day!
The Summer My Father Was Ten
Verdi
Viorst, Judith
Kopelke, Lisa
Zolotow, Charlotte
Henkes, Kevin
Laminack, Lester
Brisson
Cannon
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
When I was young in the mountains
Rylant
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
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RECOMMENDED BY:
Judy Freeman
Strategies that Work p. 199
Strategies that Work p. 198
Reading Power
www.fcrta.net
Strategies that Work p. 197
Book Links May 2008
Strategies that Work p. 197
Reading Power
Reading Power
Strategies that Work
Strategies that Work p. 197
Strategies that Work p. 199
Strategies that Work p. 181
Eley
www.fcrta.net; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net
Reading Power
Strategies that Work p. 198
Eley
Strategies that Work
Strategies that Work p. 197;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Strategies that Work p. 198
Strategies that Work p. 198
Eley
Eley
Notes:
K-2
K-2
K-2
Noticing Thinking
K-2
RC Apology of Action
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Connect (background
knowledge); Making it your
own
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema)
Connect (Schema) (text to
self)
Connect (Schema);
Predicting; previewing;
Retelling a story
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
Connect (text to self)
TITLE
Finding the Titanic
AUTHOR
Ballard
Fireflies
I know a lady
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Now one foot, now the other
Oliver Button is a sissy
Roxaboxen
The Hello Goodbye Window
The Relatives came
The Snowy Day
The two of them
Koala Lou
Brinckloe, Julie
Zolotow, Charlotte
Houston, Gloria
DePaola, Tomie
DePaola, Tomie
McLerran, Alice
Raschka, Chris
Rylant, Cynthia
Keats, Ezra Jack
Aliki
Fox, Mem
Ira sleeps over
Waber, Bernard
A color of his own
Anansi the spider
Andrew’s Loose Tooth
Arthur’s Loose Tooth
Diary of a spider
I will never not ever eat a tomato
Max’s Dragon Shirt
My wobbly tooth must not ever fall out
Saturdays and Teacakes
Sometimes it’s turkey, sometimes it’s
feathers
Connect (text to self)
The Mixed up chameleon
Connect (text to self)
Thunder cake
Connect (text to self)
Too many pumpkins
Connect (text to self)
War with Grandpa
Connect (text to self)
Wemberley Worried
Connect (text to self); Inferring Scaredy Squirrel
RECOMMENDED BY:
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Eley
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning; Revisiting
the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning; Strategies
that work p. 197; Revisiting the Reading
Workshop
Lionni, Leo
McDermott, Gerald
Munsch
Brown
Cronin, Doreen
Child
Wells
Child
Laminack, Lester
Balian, Lorna
Carle, Eric
Polacco
White, Linda
Smith
Henkes
Watt, Melanie
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Haines workshop
Haines workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Eley
Haines workshop
Eley
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Eley
Eley
Haines workshop
Haines workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Haines workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Lucy Calkins
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Connect (text to self); Main
idea; Theme
Connect (text to self/world)
Connect (text to text)
TITLE
Stellaluna
AUTHOR
Cannon, Janell
RECOMMENDED BY:
Haines workshop; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
The memory box
Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato;
Jamie O’Rourke and the Pooka; The
leprechaun’s gold
Connect (text to text)
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse; Chester’s
Way
Connect (text to text)
My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother;
My Ol’ Man
Connect (text to text)
Wemberley Worried; Thundercake
Connect (text to text);
Julie of the Wolves; Island of the Blue
Characters’ change over time Dolphins; Magic of Dolphins
Connect (text to world)
An extraordinary egg
Connect (text to world)
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Bahr
DePaola, Tomie; Edwards, Haines workshop
Pamela
Connect (text to world);
Inferring
Connect (text-to-text) Bunting
author study; Questioning
Connect; Inferring
Connect; Making it your own;
Looking Back; Main Idea
Connect; Mental images
Swimmy
Lionni, Leo
The wall
Bunting, Eve
Thank you, Mr. Falker
The Keeping Quilt
Polacco, Patricia
Polacco, Patricia
All the places to love
MacLachlan, Patricia
Connect; Questioning
Journey to Ellis Island: how my father
came to America
A tree is nice
A quiet place
Abraham Lincoln bios
DK Readers
Eyewitness
Flight: the journey of Charles Lindbergh
Bierman, Carol
Details; a lot about a little
Details; focus on details
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining importance in nonfiction
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Henkes
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Polacco
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Henkes; Polacco
George, O’Dell, Hesse
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Lionni, Leo
Fox, Mem
Haines workshop
Strategies that Work p. 198;
Revisiting the Reading Wshop
Haines workshop
Udry
Wood
DK Publishing
DK Publishing
Burleigh, Robert
George Washington bios
Kids Discover (magazine)
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work p. 199
www.fcrta.net; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work;
www.fcrta.net ; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work p. 181;
Strategies that Work 2 p. 120
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Haines workshop
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
www.fcrta.net
Haines workshop
Reading with Meaning
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Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining Importance in Nonfiction
Determining importance in nonfiction
Determining importance in nonfiction; point
of view; voice
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue; Endings; Voice
Dialogue; quotation-less
quotations; sequence; speech
bubbles
Dialogue; speech bubbles
Diaries and Journals
Diaries and Journals
Endings
Endings
Endings
Endings
Endings (satisfying)
Endings (satisfying)
TITLE
Martin Luther King, Jr. bios
National Geo.Kids (magazine)
Ranger Rick (magazine)
Rosa Parks biographies
The Journey that saved Curious
George: the true wartime escape of
Margret and H.A. Rey
Water Dance
AUTHOR
Borden, Louise
RECOMMENDED BY:
Haines workshop
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Haines workshop
Strategies that work 2 p. 164
Locker, T.
www.fcrta.net
Bill Pickett: Rodeo Ridin’ Cowboy
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Fannie in the Kitchen
I will never not ever eat a tomato
Make way for ducklings
Piggie Pie!
Sam and the Tigers
Swamp Angel
Terrific
The harmonica
The scrambled states of America
Going home
The magic school bus in the haunted
museum: a book about sound
Pinkney
Willems, Mo
Hopkinson, Deborah
Child, Lauren
McCloskey
Palatini, Margie
Lester, Julius
Isaacs
Agee, Jon
Johnston, Tony
Keller, Laurie
Bunting, Eve
Cole, Joanna
Teaching writing with picture books as models
The popcorn book
Amelia books
Diary of a Wombat
Bad day at riverbend
If you give a moose a muffin
The stinky cheese man
William’s doll
Library Lion
Terrific
DePaola, Tomie
Moss, Marissa
French, Jackie
Van Allsburg
Numeroff, Laura
Scieszka, Jon
Zolotow, Charlotte
Knudsen, Michelle
Agee, Jon
Zino list
Book Links May 2006
Lucy Calkins
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Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Eley
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
www.fcrta.net
Zino list
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
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STRATEGY
Endings (satisfying)
Endings (satisfying)
Endings (satisfying)
TITLE
The Dot
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe
Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear
Endings (satisfying); narrative Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
sequenced by objects;
memories tied to objects;
theme; writing process
Endings (surprise)
Charlie Anderson
Endings; connected memories The Keeping Quilt
AUTHOR
Reynolds, Peter
McKissack, Patricia
Wood, Don and Audrey
RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Fox, Mem
Novelist K-8 ; Book Links May
2007; Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Abercrombie, Barbara
Polacco
Zino list
K. Andronici
Figurative language; close
echo effect; 2 part text (one
way/change/another way);
repeating sentence structure;
description; addressing reader
directly; rhythm; sensory
details
Figurative language; imagery;
Narrative genre (first person
“slice of life”); mood; Moment
(small); sensory details;
Similes
Figurative language; word
reversals; circular text;
borrows from nature; memoir;
Narrative genre (first person
“slice of life”); mood;
Character Relationships;
hook; strong ending
Figurative Language
Fix-Up Strategies
Fix-Up Strategies
Night in the Country
Rylant
K. Andronici
Owl moon
Yolen, Jane
Lucy Calkins; K. Andronici; Novelist
K-8 ; Teaching writing with picture books as models;
Notes:
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart
Gray
K. Andronici; Teaching writing with
picture books; Novelist K-8 ;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Loizeaux
Naylor
Jenkins
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Flashback
Wings
Shiloh
Top of the World: Climbing Mount
Everest
A chair for my mother
Williams, Vera
Lucy Calkins; Revisiting the Reading
Flashback
How my parents learned to eat
Friedman
Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
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Eley
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
chapter book
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
TITLE
Flashback
Sarah plain and tall
Flashback
Wringer
Foreshadowing
The Great Fuzz Frenzy
Foreshadowing
The patchwork quilt
Foreshadowing; Voice-Tone- The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (funny
satirical voice)
Mood: “Show Not Tell”;
Compare and Contrast
Essays; Point of view; Leads –
startling fact
Geographical text
Mapping Penny’s world
Geographical text
Me on the Map
Geographical text
Searching for Oliver K. Woodman
Geographical text; narrative
How to make an apple pie and see the
sequenced by objects
world
Geographical text; them
Tulip sees America
structure; repeated wraparound text
Geographical text
Follow the Line Around the World
Homonyms
Chocolate Moose for Dinner
Homonyms
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!
Homonyms
Dear deer
Homonyms
Eight Ate: a feast of homonym riddles
Homonyms
Flour does not flower
Homonyms
The king who Rained
Homonyms, Synonyms,
Antonyms, synonyms, & homonyms
antonyms
How - to Writing
From Maple Trees to Maple Syrup
How - to Writing
From Oranges to Orange Juice
How - to Writing
From Wax to Crayon
How - to Writing
How to talk to your dog; How to talk to
your cat
How - to Writing
We need directions
Hyperbole
Apples to Oregon
AUTHOR
MacLachlan
Spinelli
Stevens, Janet
Flournoy
Scieszka, Jon
RECOMMENDED BY:
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Book Links March 2007
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8 ; Teaching writing
through picture books; K.
Andronici; Book Links March 2007
Leedy, Loreen
Sweeney, Joan
Pattison, Darcy
Priceman, Marjorie
Eley
Eley
Eley
Zino list
Rylant
K. Andronici
Ljungkvist, Laura
Gwynne
Stevens, Janet
Barretta
Terban, Marvin
Scheunemann
Gwynne, Fred
Rayevsky
Reading Power
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Judy Freeman
Eley
Eley
Eley
Eley
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Thoenes Keller, Kristin
Thoenes Keller, Kristin
Forman, Michael H.
George, Jean
Eley
Eley
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
De Capua, Sarah
Hopkinson, Deborah
Calkins
Novelist K-8
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Notes:
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STRATEGY
Hyperbole
Hyperbole
Hyperbole
Hyperbole; Character (unique)
TITLE
Clever Beatrice
My Dad
Saving Sweetness
Rotten Teeth
AUTHOR
Willey, Margaret
Browne, Anthony
Stanley, Diane
Simms, Laura
Hyperbole; Leads
Idioms
Idioms
Idioms
Idioms
Idioms
Idioms
Illustrations’ role
Illustrations’ role
Illustrations’ role
Inferring
A million fish – more or less
Amelia Bedelia
Bunny Money
Monkey Business
More Parts
The King who Rained
There’s a frog in my throat!
Jumanji
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Rainbow Fish
Alexander who used to be rich last
Sunday
Annie and the old one
Basket moon
Bedtime for Frances
Cornelius
Creatures of earth, sea, and sky
Dandelions
Dear Mrs. LaRue
Fables
Fireflies
Fly High: the story of Bessie Coleman
For the Good of the Earth and Sun
George and Martha
Grandfather Twilight
Harry and the terrible whatzit
Hattie and the fox
Hug
In the tall, tall grass
McKissack, Patricia
Parish, Herman
Wells
Edwards, Wallace
Arnold, Tedd
Gwynne, Fred
Leedy
Van Allsburg
Rathman
Pfister
Viorst, Judith
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Miles
Ray, Mary Lyn
Hoban
Lionni, Leo
Heard, Georgia
Bunting, Eve
Teague, Mark
Lobel, Arnold
Brinckloe, Julie
Borden, Louise
Heard, Georgia
Marshall, James
Berger, Barbara
Gackenback, Dick
Fox, Mem
Alborough
Fleming
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RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
Notes:
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Judy Freeman
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Judy Freeman
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Haines workshop
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work p. 204
www.fcrta.net
Strategies that Work p. 205
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that work 2 p. 139
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work p. 206
Reading with Meaning
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Reading Power
www.fcrta.net
K-2
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring
Inferring; Connect
TITLE
Jumanji
June 29, 1999
Miss Rumphius
More than anything else
Mother Earth, Father Sky
Oliver Button is a sissy
Rainbow Fish
Something Beautiful
Tar Beach
Teammates
The garden of Abdul Gasazi
The polar express
The Royal bee
The stranger
The sweetest fig
The wreck of the zephyr
The wretched stone
Tight times
Time for bed
Yo! Yes?
You?
How many days to America?
AUTHOR
Van Allsburg, Chris
Wiesner, David
Cooney, Barbara
Bradby
Selected by Jane Yolen
Depaola, Tomie
Pfister, Marcus
Wyeth, Sharon
Ringgold
Golenbock, Peter
Van Allsburg, Chris
Van Allsburg, Chris
Park, Frances & Ginger
Van Allsburg, Chris
Van Allsburg, Chris
Van Allsburg, Chris
Van Allsburg, Chris
Hazen, Barbara Shook
Fox, Mem
Raschka
Radunsky, Vladimir
Bunting, Eve
Inferring; Connect (text to
world)
Inferring; Making it your own
Fly Away Home
Bunting, Eve
The other side
Woodson, Jacqueline
Inferring; Making it your own
Seven Blind Mice
Young, Ed
Inferring; Mental Images
Inferring; Questioning
Interjections
Irony
Irony
Irony
If you Listen
Encounter
If you were an interjection
My Lucky Day
The Araboolies of Liberty Street
The sweetest fig
Zolotow, Charlotte
Yolen, Jane
Loewen
Kasza, Keiko
Swope, Sam
Van Allsburg, Chris
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RECOMMENDED BY:
Strategies that Work p. 206
Strategies that Work p. 205
Strategies that Work
Notes:
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
www.fcrta.net
Reading with Meaning
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work p. 205
Strategies that Work p. 206
www.fcrta.net
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work p. 206
www.fcrta.net
Strategies that Work p. 206
Strategies that Work
Strategies that Work p. 205
www.fcrta.net
Reading Power
Eley
Reading with Meaning; Strategies
that Work p. 181
Reading with Meaning; Revisiting
the Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
www.fcrta.net; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work p. 205
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
K-2
K-2
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Irony; maxims
Launching
Launching
Launching
TITLE
Badger’s Fancy Meal
Edward and the Pirates
The bee tree
Wolf!
AUTHOR
Kasza, Keiko
McPhail
Polacco, Patricia
Bloom, Becky
RECOMMENDED BY:
Peggy Sharp
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Launching
Launching
Launching
Launching; everyday v. one
day; beginning-middle-end;
memorable language; memoir;
strong theme; Leads
Launching; Leads – start with
a question
Launching; sentence variety
Launching; structure (circular);
parallel stories boy/dog;
character comparison;
endings
Launching; where phrases;
Leads – start with a question
Launching: Rules
Launching: telling stories with
illustrations
Lead; endings
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Because of Winn-Dixie (chapter book)
Corduroy
Peter’s Chair
Fireflies!
DiCamillo, Kate
Freeman, Don
Keats, Ezra Jack
Brinckloe, Julie
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins; K. Andronici; Teaching
Notes:
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
writing with picture books as models
Charlotte’s Web (chapter book)
White, E.B.
Lucy Calkins
Shortcut
The paperboy
Crews, Donald
Pilkey, Dav
Lucy Calkins; K. Andronici
Lucy Calkins; K. Andronici
Bigmama’s
Crews, Donald
Lucy Calkins; K. Andronici
David Goes to School
My Little Island
Shannon
Lessac, Frane
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Louis the Fish
A Bad Case of Stripes
A beasty story
Alexander and the Terrible..
Baseball Saved us
Charlotte's Web
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Cross-country cat
Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Yorinks, Al
Shannon, David
Martin, Bill, Jr.
Viorst
Mochizuki, Ken
White, E.B.
Barrett
Calhoun, Mary
Weatherford, Carole B.
Eley
Novelist K-8
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Lucy Calkins
www.fcrta.net
Newhart
Lucy Calkins
setting
Action
LM_NET
chapter book
Setting
www.fcrta.net
Novelist K-8
Action
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
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STRATEGY
Leads
TITLE
Ghost’s Hour, Spook’s Hour
AUTHOR
Bunting, Eve
RECOMMENDED BY:
www.fcrta.net
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads
Leads; Dramatic Scene; Title
How many days to America?
How to Steal a Dog
Imogene’s antlers
Indian chiefs
Iron Giant (chapter book)
James and the giant peach
Library Lion
Math curse
Million fish…more or less
My side of the mountain
Pink and Say
Probuditi!
Shortcut
Shrek!
Swamp Angel
The Bad Beginning
The Cay
The Harmonica
The Lightning Thief
The Maze of Bones (39 Clues Book 1)
The Penderwicks
The Titan's Curse
Tree of cranes
We are best friends
White Socks Only
Wilma Unlimited
Arthur’s first sleepover
The black stallion
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Bunting, Eve
O'Connor
Small, David
Freedman, Russell
Hughes, Ted
Dahl, Roald
Knudsen, Michelle
Scieszka, Jon
www.fcrta.net
Eley
www.fcrta.net
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
George
Polacco, Patricia
Van Allsburg, Chris
Crews
Steig, William
Isaacs, Anne
Snicket, Lemony
Taylor, Theodore
Johnston, Tony
Riordan, Rick
Riordan, Rick
Birdsall, Jeanne
Rick Riordan
Say, Allen
Aliki
Coleman
Krull, Kathleen
Brown
Farley
MacLachlan, Patricia
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www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Novelist K-8
Notes:
Setting/onomotopo
eia
chapter book
3-4
chapter book
chapter book
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Setting
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Newhart
Action/onomotopoeia
Eley; Papol / Haverstick workshop Vivid verbs
Eley
LM_NET
LM_NET
Novelist K-8
LM_NET
LM_NET
Lucy Calkins
LM_NET
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Novelist K-8
Eley
chapter book
chapter book
chapter book
chapter book
chapter book
begin with dialogue
begin with dialogue
setting
www.fcrta.net
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Leads; edit; focus; Beginningmiddle-end
Leads; Endings; Monologue
Leads; Story within a story
Leads; Strong ending;
beginning-middle-end
Letter writing
Letter writing
Letter writing
Letter writing
Letter writing
Letter Writing; Geographical
text
Letter writing; language
Letter writing; persuasive
writing
Letter writing; voice
Listening Skills
Literary essays
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
TITLE
Thundercake
AUTHOR
Polacco, Patricia
RECOMMENDED BY:
www.fcrta.net
I know a lady
The day Jimmy’s boa ate the wash
Hey Al
Zolotow
Noble
Yorinks
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Dear Little Wolf
Dear Mr. Blueberry
Dear World
Detective LaRue: letters from the
investigation
Dying to Meet You
The journey of Oliver K. Woodman
Whybrow, Ian
James
Noda, Takayo
Teague, Mark
Lucy Calkins
Eley
Lucy Calkins
Zino list
Kate Klise
Pattison, Darcy
Eley
Eley
Baloney (Henry P.)
I wanna iguana
Scieszka, Jon
Orloff
Judy Freeman
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Peter Rabbit
No more! : stories and songs of slave
resistance
Abuela
All the small poems
Appalachia
Barn Dance
Carl goes shopping
Charlotte’s Web
Color me a rhyme
Could Be Worse!
Creatures of earth, sea and sky
Footprints and Shadow
Gilberto and the Wind
Grandpa’s face
Hello ocean
I love you the purplest
Cleary, Beverly
Potter
Rappaport, Doreen
Zino list
Dorros, Arthur
Worth, Valerie
Rylant, Cynthia
Martin, Bill, Jr.
Day, Alexandra
White
Yolen, Jane
Stevenson, James
Heard, Georgia
Ets, Marie
Greenfield
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Joosse
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Notes:
begin with dialogue
Teaching writing with picture books as models
chapter book
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Lucy Calkins
Strategies that Work p. 202
Strategies that Work p. 202
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Strategies that Work p. 203
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
www.fcrta.net
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading Power
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading Power
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
K-2
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images
Mental images; Connect
(schema)
Mental images; Connect;
Inferring
Mental images; Rereading to
clear up misconceptions
Mental images; Retelling a
story
Metaphor and Simile
Metaphor; memorable
language; Narrative (memoir);
Motivation (subtle); Character
Relationships; strong theme;
Leads; monologue; narrative
sequenced by objects; objects
promote memories
TITLE
I’m in charge of celebrations
Night in the Country
One leaf rides the wind
Owl Moon
Painted words/ spoken memories
Papa, please get the moon for me
Stone Fox
The napping house
The salamander room
The seashore book
The storm book
Twilight comes twice
Two Bad Ants
When I’m sleepy
A chair for my mother
AUTHOR
Baylor, Byrd
Rylant, Cynthia
Mannis, Celeste
Yolen, Jane
Aliki
Carle, Eric
Gardiner
Wood, Audrey
Mazer, Anne
Zolotow, Charlotte
Zolotow
Fletcher, Ralph
Van Allsburg, Chris
Howard, Jane
Williams, Vera
The snowy day
Keats, Ezra Jack
See the ocean
Condra, Estelle
Haines workshop; Strategies that
work
Lucy Calkins
Fireflies
Brinckloe
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar Janice Harrington
County
The memory box
Bahr
Metaphor; voice; point of view; Knots on a counting rope
figurative language
Metaphors
There’s a frog in my throat!
Moment (small)
Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes
Later)
Martin
Leedy
Howard, Elizabeth
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RECOMMENDED BY:
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Reading with Meaning
Book Links March 2007
Haines workshop
Strategies that Work p. 203
Haines workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work; p. 203
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Strategies that Work p. 203
www.fcrta.net
Reading with Meaning
Haines workshop
Judy Freeman
K. Andronici; Teaching writing with
picture books
K. Andronici; Teaching writing with
picture books
Judy Freeman
Novelist K-8
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Moment (small)
Moment (small)
Moment (small)
Moment (small)
Moment (small)
Moment (small); Authors as
mentors
Moment (small); Mood
Moment (small); writing small
Moment in time; sensory
details
Monitoring comprehension
Monitoring comprehension
Monitoring comprehension
Monitoring comprehension
Monitoring comprehension
Monitoring comprehension
Monitoring comprehension
Monitoring comprehension
Narrative
Narrative
Narrative
Narrative
Narrative (first person); K-2;
writing through a mask; five
senses; imagination;
personification
Narrative (memoir)
Narrative (memoir)
Narrative (memoir)
TITLE
Just us women
Night Driving
The Doorbell Rang
The Snow Day
The Snow Lambs
The snowy day
AUTHOR
Caines
Coy, John
Hutchins
Sakai, Komako
Gliori
Keats, Ezra Jack
RECOMMENDED BY:
K. Andronici; L. Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Novelist K-8
Eley
Novelist K-8
Lucy Calkins
The storm book
My father’s hands
Twilight comes twice
Zolotow
Ryder
Fletcher
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Alexander, who used to be rich last
Sunday
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you
see?
Gleam and glow
Magic School Bus books
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you
hear?
The day of Ahmed’s Secret
The Stranger
The trip
Coming on home soon
Grandpa never lies
Roller Coaster
Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul
Sierra
Viorst, Judith
www.fcrta.net
Martin, Bill, Jr.
www.fcrta.net
Bunting, Eve
Cole, Joanna
Martin, Bill, Jr.
Strategies that work 2
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Keide, Florence Parry
Van Allsburg, Chris
Keats, Ezra Jack
Woodson, Jacqueline
Fletcher
Frazee, Marla
Canfield, Jack, et al.
Siebert, Diane
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Zino list
Craft Lessons
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Author
Been to Yesterdays
I love my hair!
Lester
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Tarpley, Natasha
Eley
Lucy Calkins
Zino list
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K. Andronici
Zino list
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
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STRATEGY
Narrative (memoir)
TITLE
My brother Martin: a sister remembers
growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
Narrative (memoir)
The baby sister
Narrative (memoir); Character Patricia Polacco books
Traits; strong theme;
chronological time; focused
Moment (small)
Narrative (memoir);
Roxaboxen
chronological time
Narrative (memoir);
Painted words/spoken memories
Conversation text
Narrative (memoir); Endings Journey
(circular)
Narrative (memoir); Leads;
Tar Beach
sense of place; setting;
relating characters to setting
Narrative (memoir); memories The Keeping Quilt
AUTHOR
Farris, Christine King
Polacco, Patricia
Zino list
Narrative (memoir); Motivation An angel for Solomon Singer
(subtle); passing of time; shortshort long sentences
Rylant
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Narrative (memoir); Writing
about writing
Narrative genre
Narrative genre
Narrative genre
Narrative genre
Narrative genre
Narrative genre
The Art Lesson (and his memoir
series…On My Way, Why? Etc.)
Candy shop
Mailing May
Pink and Say
The Butterfly
The other side
The Rag Coat
Miz Berlin Walks
DePaola, Tomie
Book Links May 2006
Wahl, Jan
Tunnell, Michael
Polacco, Patricia
Polacco, Patricia
Woodson, Jacqueline
Mills, Lauren
Yolen, Jane
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Raising Yoder’s Barn
Yolen, Jane
Novelist K-8
Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes
Later)
Howard, Elizabeth
Novelist K-8 ; K. Andronici
Narrative genre (first person “slice of
life”)
Narrative genre (first person “slice of
life”)
Narrative genre (first person “slice of
life”); objects promote memories;
memoir
RECOMMENDED BY:
Zino list
DePaola, Tomie
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Cooney
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Aliki
Zino list
MacLachlan, Patricia
Lucy Calkins
Ringgold
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Teaching writing with picture books as models;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Narrative genre (first person
imaginative)
Narrative genre (first person
imaginative)
Narrative genre (first person
imaginative)
Narrative genre (first person
imaginative); point of view; letter
writing
Narrative genre; point of view;
voice
Narrative procedure
Narrative Procedure
Narrative procedure;
Persuasive writing; Creative
writing
Narrative; Launching; Raising
Quality of Writing
Narrative; Launching; Raising
Quality of Writing
Narrative; Mood
Narrative; Point of View
Narrative; repetition of
line/phrase; voice; point of
view; snapshot in time
Nonfiction (engaging)
Nonfiction (engaging)
Nonfiction (engaging)
Nonfiction (engaging)
TITLE
The Polar Express
AUTHOR
Van Allsburg, Chris
RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
The wreck of the Zephyr
Van Allsburg, Chris
Novelist K-8
The wretched stone
Van Allsburg, Chris
Novelist K-8
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from
Obedience School
Teague, Mark
Novelist K-8 ; Papol/Haverstick
workshop
Dandelions
Bunting, Eve
Novelist K-8
Apple Farmer Annie
Make way for ducklings
Meanwhile…
Wellington, Monica
McCloskey, Robert
Feiffer, Jules
Lucy Calkins
Judy Freeman
Zoom (and Re-Zoom)
Banyai, Istvan
Lucy Calkins
Looking Down
Jenkins, Steve
Eley
Tight times
Who is Melvin Bubble?
When I was young in the mountains
Hazen
Bruel
Rylant, Cynthia
Teaching writing with picture books as models
And then what happened, Paul Revere? Fritz, Jean
How much is a million?
Monarch Butterfly
Stars beneath your bed: the surprising
story of dust
Nonfiction (engaging)
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of
Mount St. Helens
Nonfiction (engaging); detailed A medieval feast
drawings; 3-4
Nonfiction (engaging); K-2;
The magic school bus at the
figuring out what is and isn’t
waterworks
true
zooming in to small
moments
zooming in to small
moments
Eley
Lucy Calkins; K. Andronici;
Teaching writing with picture books
Book Links July 2006
Schwartz, David
Gibbons, Gail
Sayre, April Pulley
Book Links July 2006
Book Links July 2006
Lucy Calkins
Lauber, Patricia
Book Links July 2006
Aliki
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Cole, Joanna
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
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Notes:
K-2
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Nonfiction (Lyrical)
Nonfiction (lyrical); science
Nonfiction (lyrical); science
Nonfiction (lyrical); science
Nonfiction detail selection; 34; selecting fascinating facts
Nonfiction Detail selection; K2; 3-5; adding supporting
details; subtitles
Nonfiction detailed drawings;
3-4; Voice and Point of view;
Conflict (man v. nature)
Nonfiction K-2; figuring out
what is and isn’t true
Nonfiction K-2; figuring out
what is and isn’t true
Nonfiction K-2; figuring out
what is and isn’t true
Nonfiction K-2; figuring out
what is and isn’t true
Nonfiction K-2; figuring out
what is and isn’t true
Nonfiction K-2; labeling a
picture
TITLE
The Journey
A Seed is Sleepy
An Egg is Quiet
Atlantic
A drop of water
AUTHOR
Rylant
Aston, Dianna
Aston, Dianna
Karas
Wick, Walter
RECOMMENDED BY:
Eley
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman
Eley
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Exploding Ants: Amazing facts about
how animals adapt
Settel, Joanne
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
The great kapok tree
Cherry, Lynne
Nonfiction Craft Lessons; Teaching
writing with pic. books
The magic school bus and the electric
field trip
The magic school bus inside a
hurricane
The Magic School bus inside the earth
Cole, Joanna
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Cole, Joanna
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Cole, Joanna
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
The magic school bus lost in the solar
system
The magic school bus on the ocean
floor
Feathers for Lunch
Cole, Joanna
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Cole, Joanna
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Ehlert, Lois
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Nonfiction K-2; talk before you
write; background; hypothesize
Kids at work
Freedman, Russell
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Nonfiction Voice; 3-4
Nonfiction writing
Nonfiction Writing
Nonfiction; Glossary; 3-4
Wolves
Ant cities
Snow is falling
Geography from A to Z: A picture
glossary
The top of the World
Simon, Seymour
Dorros, Arthur
Branley, Franklyn
Knowlton, Jack
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Lucy Calkins
Lucy Calkins
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Jenkins, Steve
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
If you were onomatopoeia
Tippy-tippy-tippy-hide!
Shaskan, Trish
Fleming
Eley
Nonfiction; Using
subheadings; 3-4
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia
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Notes:
3-4
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Onomatopoeia; figurative
language
Onomotopoeia; Phonemic
awareness
Organizing Information
Parody
Passing of time
Passing of time
Passing of time; Title
Personification
Personification
Personification
TITLE
Click clack moo
AUTHOR
Cronin
RECOMMENDED BY:
K. Andronici
Flip Flop Bop
Novak
Eley
The top of the world: climbing Mount
Everest
The stinky cheese man
Henry and Mudge: the first book
The Little Island
My rotten redheaded older brother
Jenkins, Steve
Zino list
Adventures of Dish and Spoon
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
I’m dirty! (and another book called I
Stink! )
Personification
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Personification
My Life with the Wave
Personification
Open Wide: Tooth School Inside
Personification
Sweet Tooth
Personification
The Shivers in the Fridge
Personification
Traction Man is here!
Personification
Velveteen Rabbit
Personification; Endings
Grandfather Twilight
Personification; Point of View Toys go out (chapter book)
Personification: schema:
Bad Boys
visualization: determining
importance; dialogue: pun:
idiom: strong verbs
Personifictation; close echo
Water Dance
effect; borrows from nature;
use of italics; word choice
(memorable)
Persuasive writing
Horace and Morris join the chorus (but
what about Dolores?)
Persuasive writing
The Pigeon finds a hot dog
Scieszka
Rylant
MacDonald
Polacco
K. Andronici
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Zino list; Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Grey, Mini
Martin, Bill, Jr.
McMullan, Kate
Novelist K-8
Book Links March 2007
Judy Freeman
O’Brien
Cowan, Catherine
Keller, Laurie
Palatini, Margie
Manushkin, Fran
Grey, Mini
Williams
Berger, Barbara
Jenkins
Palatini, Margie
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Locker
K. Andronici; Teaching writing with
picture books
Howe, James
Eley
Willems, Mo
Judy Freeman
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Eley
Eley
Eley
Eley
Novelist K-8
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
Judy Freeman; Dr. Peggy Sharp
IRA CONFERENCE
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Persuasive Writing Prompt
TITLE
Encounter
AUTHOR
Yolen
RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
Persuasive Writing Prompt
Fanny's Dream
Buehner
Eley
Stop before Fanny announces
decision. Write: Should Fanny go
to the ball? Why or why not?
Persuasive Writing Prompt
Fly Away Home
Bunting, Eve
Novelist K-8 ; K. Andronici;
Teaching writing with pic. Books;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Clarification Prompt: What is one
thing people can do to make life
better when they don't have a
home?
Persuasive Prompt: Do you think
it's importat to provide homes for
people who don't have them?
Persuasive Writing Prompt
The Araboolies of Liberty Street
Swope, Sam
Novelist K-8
Clarification Prompt: What is one
way you've fought unfair
treatment of others? Persuasive
Prompt: Should people who show
prejudice be punished?
Persuasive Writing Prompt
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry (concrete)
Poetry (young poets)
Poetry (young poets)
Weslandia
A rumpus of rhymes
Good sports
What a day it was at school!
Technically it’s not my fault
Every Time I climb a tree
Here’s a little poem: a very first book of
poetry
Frankenstein makes a sandwich
Fleischman, Paul
Katz
Prelutsky
Prelutsky
Grandits, John
McCord, David
Candlewick Press
Novelist K-8
Eley
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Eley, Judy Freeman
Strategies that Work
Judy Freeman; Peggy Sharp
Rex
Judy Freeman; Dr. Peggy Sharp
Arnie the Doughnut
Dear Mrs. LaRue
Duck! Rabbit!
First day jitters
My Lucky Day
Seven Blind Mice
Snow Lambs
Keller, Laurie
Teague, Mark
Rosenthal
Danneberg
Kasza, Keiko
Young, Ed
Gliori
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Eley
Poetry; humorous voice;
creative writing
Point of View
Point of View
Point of View
Point of View
Point of View
Point of View
Point of View
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Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Notes:
Clarification Prompt: What ways
can children talk adults into
choosing differently? Persuasive
Prompt: Do adults ever listen to
children? Explain your position on
this issue.
Use to introduce POV
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Point of View
Point of View
TITLE
The Sweetest Fig
Voices in the Park
Point of View; perspective; five Two Bad Ants
senses
Point of View; Similes
Encounter
Predicting
Babushka Baba Yaga
Predicting
Ella the Elegant Elephant
Predicting
It looked like Spilt Milk
Predicting
Just a dream
Predicting
Owl Babies
Predicting
Snow
Predicting
The Wretched Stone
Predicting
Tuesday
Predicting; Inferring
Bad Day at Riverbend
Predicting; previewing
If you give a mouse a cookie
Predicting; previewing
Just plain fancy
Predicting; previewing
Pink and Say
Predicting; previewing
Sarah plain and tall
Predicting; previewing;
Dr. White
Questioning
Problem/solution
Abiyoyo
Problem/solution
Big Anthony and the Magic Ring
Problem/solution
Heckedy Peg
Punctuation
Alan Apostrophe
Punctuation
Alfie the Apostrophe
Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leave: Why, Commas
Really Do Make a Difference!
Punctuation
Emma Exclamation Point
Punctuation
Hannah Hyphen-Hyphen
Punctuation
Junie B. Jones and the stupid smelly
bus
Punctuation
Peter Period
Punctuation
Punctuation takes a vacation
AUTHOR
Van Allsburg, Chris
Browne, Anthony
Van Allsburg
Yolen, Jane
Polacco, Patricia
D’amico
Shaw, Charles
Van Allsburg, Chris
Waddell, Martin
Shulevitz, Uri
Van Allsburg, Chris
Wiesner, David
Van Allsburg, Chris
Numeroff
Polacco
Polacco
MacLachlan
Goodall
RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8 ; Papol/Haverstick
workshop
Novelist K-8 ; K. Andronici
Novelist K-8
Eley
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Lucy Calkins
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Seeger
DePaola, Tomie
Wood
Cooper, Barbara
Donhue, Moira
Truss, Lynne
Eley
Eley
Eley
Eley
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Cooper, Barbara
Cooper, Barbara
Park, Barbara
Eley
Eley
Novelist K-8
Cooper, Barbara
Pulver, Robin
Eley
Novelist K-8 ; Papol/Haverstick
workshop
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Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Punctuation
Punctuation
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning
Questioning; Connect
Questioning; Connect
(Schema)
TITLE
Quincy Question Mark
The girl’s like spaghetti: why, you can’t
manage without apostrophes!
Amelia’s Road
Amelia’s road
Are you a spider?
Astronaut Handbook
Charlie Anderson
Fly Away Home
Growing Frogs
Hurricanes have eyes but can't see
I Love You the Purplest
I wonder
I wonder why…(Kingfisher pub)
Knots on a counting rope
Monarch Butterfly
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Pink and Say
Stone Fox
Tar Beach
The cinder-eyed cats
The day of Ahmed’s secret
The Lion and the Mouse
The patchwork quilt
Trumpet of the Swan
Under one Rock: bugs, slugs
Why? The best ever question and
answer book about nature, science and
the world
Yanni Rubbish
Brave Irene
Amazing Grace
AUTHOR
Cooper, Barbara
Truss, Lynne
RECOMMENDED BY:
Eley
Eley
Altman, Linda
Altman, Linda
Allen, Judy
McCarthy, Meghan
Abercrombie, Barbara
Bunting, Eve
French, Vivian
Berger, Melvin
Joosse, Barbara
Hoban, Tana
various
Martin
Gibbons, Gail
Rathmann, Peggy
Polacco, Patricia
Gardiner
Ringgold
Rohmann
Heide, Florence Parry
Aesop
Flournoy
White, E.B.
Fredericks, Anthony
Ripley
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work p. 200
Nonfiction Reading Power
Nonfiction Reading Power
Strategies that Work p. 200
Reading with Meaning
Nonfiction Reading Power
Nonfiction Reading Power
Haines workshop
Nonfiction Reading Power
Nonfiction Reading Power
Leo the Late Bloomer
Kraus, Robert
Oppenheim, Shulamith
Steig, William
Hoffman, Mary
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Notes:
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
Haines workshop
Strategies that Work p. 201
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading Power
Strategies that Work p. 200
Haines workshop
K-2
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
Nonfiction Reading Power
Nonfiction Reading Power
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work p. 202
Haines workshop; Strategies that
Work p. 197
Haines workshop
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Questioning; Connect (text to
world) ; monitoring
comprehension
Questioning; Connect;
sentences make long story
short
Questioning; Determining
Importance
Questioning; Determining
Importance
Questioning; Inferring
Questioning; Inferring
Questioning; Inferring
Questioning; Inferring
Questioning; mental images
Questioning; mental images
Questioning; mental images
Questioning; Mental Images;
Connect (Schema)
Questioning; monitoring
comprehension
Questioning; Synthesizing;
Making it your own
TITLE
The Lotus Seed
AUTHOR
Garland, Sherry
RECOMMENDED BY:
Reading with Meaning; Strategies
that Work
The Relatives Came
Rylant, Cynthia
Haines workshop; Strategies that
Work p. 200
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in Ringgold, Faith
the Sky
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Hopkinson, Deborah
Strategies that Work p. 175
Big Al
Charlie Anderson
Clements, Andrew
Abercrombie, Barbara
May I bring a friend?
The Stranger
Postcards from Pluto: a tour of the solar
system
Saturn
The sun
Hurricane
De Regniers, Beatrice
Van Allsburg, Chris
Leedy, Loreen
www.fcrta.net
Haines workshop; Strategies that
Work
www.fcrta.net
Reading with Meaning
Strategies that Work; p. 169
Simon, Seymour
Simon, Seymour
Wiesner, David
Strategies that Work; p. 169
Strategies that Work p. 169
www.fcrta.net
Grandfather Twilight
Berger, Barbara
Reading with Meaning
An angel for Solomon Singer
Rylant, Cynthia
Reading with Meaning; Strategies
that work; Revisiting the Reading
Workshop
Repetition
Repetition
Repetition
Caps for sale
Slobodkina
In November
Rylant
Tell me again about the night I was born Curtis
Repetition
Repetition
Repetition
Repetition; Leads – begin with
dialogue
Repetition; rhythm
The doorbell rang
The little red hen
The runaway bunny
King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
Hutchins, Pat
Galdone
Brown
Wood
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Mosel
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Strategies that Work p. 175
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Zino list
Zino list
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
K. Andronici
K. Andronici
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Repetition; Voice
Rhythm
Rhythm, rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme
Rhythm; rhyme; repetition
TITLE
Today I feel silly
Dizzy
In the small, small pond
Brown bear, brown bear
Chicka Chicka boom boom
Chicken soup with rice
Each peach pear plum
I can’t said the ant
In the Tall, Tall Grass
Jesse Bear, what will you wear?
Possum come a-knockin’
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Senses/Sensory Descriptions
One Green Apple
Senses/Sensory Descriptions
Pinduli
Senses/Sensory Descriptions
Saturdays and Teacakes
Senses/Sensory Descriptions The hickory chair
Senses/Sensory Descriptions
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth
Senses/Sensory Descriptions
The Rag Coat
Senses/Sensory Descriptions;
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
AUTHOR
Curtis
Winter
Fleming
Martin
Martin
Sendak
Ahlberg
Cameron
Fleming
Carlstrom
Van Laan
Mosel
Bunting, Eve
Cannon, Jannell
Laminack, Lester
Fraustino, Lisa Rose
McKissack, Patricia
Mills, Lauren
Fox, Mem
Sentence Fluency
Sentence variety
Sequence
Sequence
Sequence (first, next, then)
Sequencing
Sequencing
Sequencing
Sequencing; Cause and effect
The Old Woman who named things
Shortcut
Previously…
Once upon—1001 stories
Pancakes, pancakes!
Hot-air Henry
Ox-Cart Man
Stone Soup
The mitten
Rylant, Cynthia
Crews, Donald
Ahlberg, Allen
Prap
Carle, Eric
Calhoun
Hall
Brown
Brett
Setting
Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Weatherford, Carole
Leads/Beginnings; Endings
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RECOMMENDED BY:
K. Andronici
Judy Freeman; Dr. Peggy Sharp
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Eley
Zino list
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8 ; Teaching writing with
picture books
Novelist K-8
K. Andronici
Peggy Sharp
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Andronici
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Setting
TITLE
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar
Chavez
Setting
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Setting
Rotten Teeth
Setting
The Araboolies of Liberty Street
Setting
The Cello of Mr. O
Setting
The Other Side
Setting
Working cotton
Setting; sequences; narrative; All the places to love
memorable language; memoir;
strong ending; Leads
AUTHOR
Krull, Kathleen
RECOMMENDED BY:
Novelist K-8
Pinkney, Jerry
Simms, Laura
Swope, Sam
Cutler, Jane
Woodson, Jacqueline
Williams, Sherley
MacLachlan, Patricia
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Zino list
K. Andronici; Teaching writing with
picture books; L. Calkins
Short story
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes
Similes and Metaphors
Similes and Metaphors
Selected by Avi
Bunting, Eve
Johnston
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Leedy, Loreen
Bradby
Piven
Browne, Anthony
Ruckman, Ivy
Strom, Maria Diaz
Julius Lester
Martin, Jacqueline
Stolz
Arnold, Marsha
Johnston, Tony
McKissack, Patricia
Clement Moore
Leedy
Martin, Rafe
Dowson, Nick
Eley
Best Shorts: favorite stories for sharing
A Turkey for Thanksgiving
Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella
Chanticleer and the Fox
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story
More than anything else
My dog is as smelly as dirty socks
My Mom
Night of the Twisters (chapter book)
Rainbow Joe and Me
Sam and the Tigers
Snowflake Bentley
Storm in the night
The Bravest of Us All
The Harmonica
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth
The Night Before Christmas
There’s a frog in my throat!
The Rough Faced Girl
Tigress (do we have this?)
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LM_NET
Eley
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Eley
Eley
Eley
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
LM_NET
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
LM_NET
Judy Freeman
LM_NET
Judy Freeman
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Similes and metaphors;
memorable language
Similes; figurative language
Similes; Metaphors
Similes; Metaphors
Similes; repetition
Speech bubbles
Story Elements (setting, characters,
TITLE
Letting Swift River Go
AUTHOR
Yolen
RECOMMENDED BY:
Quick as a Cricket
Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar
County
Up north at the cabin
My Dad
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!
(almost all Mo Willems books
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One
Wood, Audrey
Harrington, Janice N.
Eley; K. Andronici
Peggy Sharp; Judy Freeman
Chall
Browne, Anthony
Willems
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
If you give a mouse a cookie
If you’re not from the prairie
Watch the stars come out
When a monster is born
In Enzo’s Splendid Garden
The cake that Mack ate
The Napping House
This is the teacher
Bark, George
Mushroom in the rain
There was an old lady who swallowed a
fly
Max’s dragon shirt
The very hungry caterpillar
Tops and bottoms
What do you do with a kangaroo?
When I was little
The tale of Despereaux: being the story
of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and
a spool of thread
Milton Hershey
Day of the dragon king
Numeroff
Bouchard, Dave
Levinson
Taylor, Sean
Polacco, Patricia
Robart, Rose
Wood
Greene, Rhonda
Feiffer, Jules
Ginsburg, Mirra
Taback, Simms
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Wells
Carle, Eric
Stevens
Mayer
Curtis, Jamie Lee
DiCamillo, Kate
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Simon, Charman
Osborne, Mary Pope
Lucy Calkins
Zino list
Teaching writing with picture books as models;
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Eley; K. Andronici
Eley
Duke, Kate
problem, and solution
Structure (circular)
Structure (circular)
Structure (circular)
Structure (circular)
Structure (cumulative)
Structure (cumulative)
Structure (cumulative)
Structure (cumulative)
Structure (increasing)
Structure (increasing)
Structure (increasing)
Structure (linear)
Structure (linear)
Structure (linear)
Structure (question answer)
Structure (then now)
Subtitles; Addressing reader
directly
Summarizing
Summarizing; writing a book
blurb
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Zino list
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Peggy Sharp; Book Links May 08
Book Links May 2006
Book Links May 2006
K. Andronici
Book Links May 2006
Book Links May 2006
Book Links May 2006
Book Links May 2006
Zino list
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
K. Andronici
K. Andronici
Zino list
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Superlatives; figurative
language
Supporting Details
Symbols
Symbols
Symbols
Symbols
Symbols
Symbols; Memorable
Language
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies)
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies)
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies)
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies)
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies)
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies)
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies)
Synthesis (spiral through
strategies); Workshop Rules;
Connect (text to self)
TITLE
Things that are most in the world
AUTHOR
Barrett
RECOMMENDED BY:
K. Andronici
Chickens Aren’t the only ones
Show Way
The Cello of Mr. O
The Rag Coat
The Terrible Things
The Wretched Stone
The Lotus Seed
Heller
Woodson, Jacqueline
Cutler, Jane
Mills, Lauren
Bunting, Eve
Van Allsburg, Chris
Garland, Sherry
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Annie and the wild animals
Charlie needs a cloak
Freedom School, Yes!
Regards to the man in the moon
Sleeping Ugly
The magic fish
The mitten
The quicksand book
The trouble with trolls
Arthur Goes to Camp
Brett, Jan
DePaola, Tomie
Littlesugar
Keats, Ezra Jack
Yolen, Jane
Littledale, Freya
Brett, Jan
DePaola, Tomie
Brett, Jan
Brown, Marc
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
www.fcrta.net
Haines workshop
Charlie the Caterpillar
DeLuise, Dom
Haines workshop
Chrysanthemum
Henkes, Kevin
Haines workshop
Clara Caterpillar
Edwards, Pamela
Haines workshop
Frog and Toad books
Lobel, Arnold
Owen
Henkes, Kevin
Haines workshop; Strategies that
Work p. 199
Haines workshop
Sheila Rae, the Brave
Henkes, Kevin
Haines workshop
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Henkes, Kevin
Haines workshop; Revisiting the
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8 ; Teaching writing with picture books
Reading Workshop
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Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing information;
Connect (text-to-text) (text to
world); Bunting author study;
strong theme
Synthesizing information;
Inferring
Synthesizing information;
Inferring
Synthesizing information;
Inferring
Theme
Theme
Theme
Theme
Theme structure; passing of
time
Theme; Cause and effect;
poetic language; sequence
Theme; Main idea
Theme; Main idea
Theme; Main idea
Theme; Sentences make long
story short
Vivid verbs
Vivid verbs; Character Traits;
Memoir; repeating line
Vivid verbs; Types of
sentences
TITLE
Charlie Anderson
Eleanor
Emily
Frederick’s Fables
Oliver Button is a sissy
Tea with milk
The alphabet tree
Fables
Smoky Night
AUTHOR
Abercrombie, Barbara
Cooney
Bedard
Lionni, Leo
DePaola, Tomie
Say, Allen
Lionni, Leo
Lobel, Arnold
Bunting, Eve
The Rag Coat
Mills, Lauren
The Story of Jumping Mouse: a Native
American Legend
The Table where rich people sit
Steptoe, John
Baylor, Byrd
Reading with Meaning; Strategies
that Work p. 205
Horton hears a who!
I wish I were a butterfly
The giving tree
The ugly duckling
Birthday presents
Seuss
Howe
Silverstein
Andersen
Rylant
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Lilly’s purple plastic purse
Henkes
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Miss Rumphius
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
The great kapok tree
Koala Lou
Cooney
Steptoe
Cherry
Fox, Mem
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Freedom on the menu
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Weatherford, Carole
Houston
John Henry
Lester, Julius
Eley
K. Andronici; Teaching writing with
picture books
Papol/Haverstick workshop
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RECOMMENDED BY:
Reading with Meaning
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning
Reading with Meaning; Strategies
that Work; Teaching writing with
picture books; Revisiting the
Reading Workshop
Reading with Meaning; Strategies
that Work p. 205
Reading with Meaning
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
K. Andronici
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Zino list; Revisiting the Reading Workshop
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Vivid Verbs; Verbs; Word
choice
Vivid Verbs: “Show Not Tell”
Vivid Verbs: “Show Not Tell”
Vivid Verbs: “Show Not Tell”
Vivid Verbs: “Show Not Tell”
Vivid Verbs: “Show Not Tell”
Vivid Verbs: “Show Not Tell”;
endings
Voice
Voice
Voice
Voice
Voice
Voice
Voice and Point of view
Voice and Point of view;
Flashback; Circular time
TITLE
Nouns and verbs have a field day
AUTHOR
Pulver
RECOMMENDED BY:
Judy Freeman
Hooway for Wodney Wat
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day
Weslandia
Wild about Books
Two Bad Ants
Lester, Helen
Frasier, Debra
Pulver, Robin
Fleischman, Paul
Sierra, Judy
Van Allsburg, Chris
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
David goes to school
I’ll fix anthony
No! David
On the day you were born
Wolf!
Wolves
In my momma’s kitchen
The river ran wild
Shannon
Viorst, Judith
Shannon
Frazier
Bloom, Becky
Simon, Seymour
Nelen
Cherry
K. Andronici
Zino list
K. Andronici
K. Andronici
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Zino list
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Arnie the Doughnut (rollicking voice)
Dear Mrs. LaRue (funny satirical voice)
Goin’ Someplace Special (Colloquial
voice)
I am too absolutely small for school
(rollicking voice)
Piggie Pie! (rollicking voice)
Show Way (lyrical / poetic voice)
The Rag Coat (powerful emotional
voice)
The Scrambled States of America
Keller, Laurie
Teague, Mark
McKissack, Patricia
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Child, Lauren
Novelist K-8
Palatini, Margie
Woodson, Jacqueline
Mills, Lauren
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Keller, Laurie
Novelist K-8
San Souci, Robert
Stanley, Diane
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Teaching writing with picture books as models
(playful voice)
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”
Voice-Tone-Mood: “Show Not Tell”;
Vivid Verbs; Similes
The Talking Eggs (Fairy Tale Voice)
Saving Sweetness (Colloquial voice)
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Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
TITLE
Voice; monologue; mood/tone Earrings!
; dialogue; exaggeration
AUTHOR
Viorst, Judith
Voice; Point of View
Dirty Laundry Pile: poems in different
voices
Spring thaw
A Particular Cow
Appalachia
Max’s Words
Meanwhile?
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Terrific
The Boy who Loved Words
William Steig books
Harlem
Sky tree
Grandpa’s face
Selected by Janeczko
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Schnur
Fox, Mem
Rylant, Cynthia
Banks, Kate
Feiffer, Jules
Frasier, Debra
Agee, John
Schotter, Roni
K. Andronici
Novelist K-8
Lucy Calkins, K. Andronici
Novelist K-8 ; Peggy Sharp
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8
Dr. Peggy Sharp
Myers
Locker
Greenfield
Teaching writing with picture books as models
The seashore book
Zolotow
Teaching writing with picture books as models
I’m in charge of celebrations
Baylor
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Possum magic
Fox, Mem
Zino list
Jumanji
Van Allsburg
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Tough Boris
Fox, Mem
My Life as a Chicken
Jokelopedia
Born to Read
Every Living Thing
Souperchicken
Kelley, Ellen
Weitzman, Ilana, et al
Sierra, Judy
Rylant, Cynthia
Auch
K. Andronici; L. Calkins, Reading
with Meaning
Peggy Sharp
Lucy Calkins
Eley
Lucy Calkins
Eley
Voice: Show don’t tell
Word Choice
Word choice
Word Choice
Word Choice
Word Choice
Word Choice
Word Choice
Word choice
Word choice
Word choice
Word choice (memorable);
Character Relations; focus
Word choice (memorable);
endings; framing question
text; story within a story
Word choice (memorable);
sense of place; setting
Word choice; Artful “and”;
Geographical text
Word choice; beginningmiddle-end
Word choice; organization
Word Choice; Point of View
Wordplay & Lang Skills
Writing about reading
Writing about reading
Writing about reading
RECOMMENDED BY:
K. Andronici; Revisiting the Reading
Workshop
Teaching writing with picture books as models
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Teaching writing with picture books as models
Teaching writing with picture books as models
Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
Writing about reading
Writing about writing
Writing about writing
Writing about writing
Writing about writing
Writing about writing
Writing about writing
TITLE
Wild about Books
Amber on the Mountain
Arthur writes a story
Author
Bunny cakes
It came from beneath the bed!
Look at My Book: how kids can write
and illustrate terrific books
Writing about writing
Mr. Putter and Tabby Write the Book
Writing about writing
My special day at Third Street School
Writing about writing
Notes from a liar and her dog
Writing about writing
Read a rhyme, write a rhyme
Writing about writing
Sahara special
Writing about writing
Sequoyah: the Cherokee man who
gave his people writing
Writing about writing
The Landry News
Writing about writing
The school story
Writing about writing
What do authors do?
Writing about writing
You have to write
Writing about writing (ways to Hard Times Jar
publish; love of writing)
Writing about writing; poetry
Love that Dog
Writing ideas (memories tied Anna’s table
to objects)
Writing ideas (ok to take risks) Ish
AUTHOR
Sierra, Judy
Johnston, Tony
Brown
Lester
Wells, Rosemary
Howe, James
Leedy, Loreen
Rylant, Cynthia
Bunting, Eve
Choldenko, Gennifer
Prelutsky, Jack, compiler
Codell, Esme Raji
Rumford, James
RECOMMENDED BY:
Eley
Book Links May 2006
Judy Freeman
Eley
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman
Book Links May 2006; Judy
Freeman
Book Links May 2006
Judy Freeman
Book Links May 2006
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman
Clements, Andrew
Clements, Andrew
Christelow
Wong, Janet S.
Smothers
Book Links May 2006
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman
Book Links May 2006
Papol/Haverstick workshop
Creech, Sharon
Bunting, Eve
Judy Freeman
Book Links May 2007
Reynolds, Peter
Book Links May 2007
Writing ideas (Picture Prompt); Flotsam
Wordless book
Writing ideas; picture prompts The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Writing ideas; Variety of
The Jolly Postman
writing genres
Writing ideas; Variety of
Written anything good lately?
writing genres
Wiesner
Judy Freeman; Dr. Peggy Sharp
Van Allsburg
Ahlberg
K. Andronici
K. Andronici
Allen
Dr. Peggy Sharp
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Notes:
Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
TITLE
AUTHOR
RECOMMENDED BY:
Notes:
Additional booklists for the following strategies can be found at http://www.fcrta.net/PAGES/resources.html :
Retelling/Summarizing
Setting-Distinct Sense of Place
Models for Writing
Seesaw Books
Voice
Metacognition
Characters-Strong, Descriptive
Imagery
Books About Words
Poetry
Oral Language
Writing Trait Database:
This is a searchable database of books which are good examples of various writing traits. You may search by any of the
following traits: voice; character relationship; character trait; sentence fluency; ideas; word choice; memoir; theme or big
idea; monologue or dialogue; voice & P.O.V.; organization; strong beginnings; conventions; flashback, circular; mood; strong
endings; chronology; character motivation; authentic dialogue.
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Books to Support Readers' and Writers' Workshop
**All books can be found in the Hillside Library. List Compiled by Susan Eley 2007-2010, Last Updated 1/18/13
STRATEGY
TITLE
AUTHOR
endings; chronology; character motivation; authentic dialogue.
http://panoply.mvhs.sad40.k12.me.us:591/Writing%20Traits/
RECOMMENDED BY:
Strong First Sentences:
http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive - Search for 'first lines' or 'first sentences' or 'opening lines' or 'one line
booktalks'
Picture Books Demonstrating Literary Terms:
http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/LM_NET/2007/Oct_2007/msg00799.html
More Simile and Metaphor books:
http://eduref.org/lm_net/archive/LM_NET/2008/Mar_2008/msg00075.html
Another good list of picture books used to teach writing and other subjects:
http://www.lebanon.k12.mo.us/profdev/picturethis_20050406.pdf
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