Strategies That Work Book List Compiled by Morgan Starkweather Making Connections Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman The Two of Them by Aliki The Pain and the Great One by Judy Bloom The Summer My Dad Was Ten by Brisson Going Home by Eve Bunting Sunshine Home by Eve Bunting Tornado by Byars Sol a Sol by Lori Marie Carlson Up North at the Cabin by Marshall Call Mama Coming and Going by Casely Getting Through Thursday by Cooper Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie DePaola The Art Lesson by Tomie de Paola Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs by Tomie de Paola Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie de Paola The Baby Sister by Tomie DePaola Abuela by Arthur Dorres Sophie by Mem Fox Koala Lou by Mem Fox Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild by Mem Fox Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes Julius, Baby of the World by Keven Henkes Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman Pumpkin Jack by Hubbell In Dad’s Day by Humphrey “My Favorite Word” by Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr. The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston and tomie DePaola The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Near the Window Tree: Poems and Notes by Karla Kuskin Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester I Hate English by Ellen Levine What Are You So Grumpy About? by Tom Lichtenheld I Want to Be a Police Officer by Liebman Hey World, Here I Am by Jean Little Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell Three Brave Women by C.L.G. Martin Mirette on a High Wire by Emily A. McCully The Most Thankful Thing by Lisa McCourt Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park It’s Okay to Be Different by Parr The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn A Pocketful of Kisses by Audrey Penn New Shoes for Silvia by Jerry Pinkney Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco Mrs. Mack by Patricia Polacco My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother by Patricia Polacco Some Birthday! by Patricia Polacco Thank You, Mr. Falker! by Patricia Polacco Thundercake by Patricia Pollacco Margaret and Margarita by Reiser The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant The Ticky-Tacky Doll by Cynthia Rylant Good-bye, Arnold by P.K. Roche Alice and Greta by Simmons Amos and Boris by William Steig Brave Irene by William Steig I Love My Hair by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley A Place for Ben by Titherington Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest by Judith Viorst The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber Ira Says Goodbye by Bernard Waber John, Joe, and the Big Hen by Martin Waddell Hazel’s Amazing Mother by Rosemary Wells Dragon Shirt by Rosemary Wells Bunny Cake by Rosemary Wells Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells Max Cleans Up by Rosemary Wells The Chocolate Chicken by Rosemary Wells Grandma’s Hurrying Child by Jane Yolen I Know a Lady by Charlotte Zolotow Williams Doll by Charlotte Zolotow Text to Text Connections Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini/ Zoom Broom by Margie Palatini (boys who like “girl” things) Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie de Paola Max, the Stubborn Little Wolf by Judes William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes Owen by Kevin Henkes (sibling rivalry) My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother by Patricia Polacco The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume Brother by Mary Ann Hoberman The Two of Them by Aliki Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie de Paola (friendship) Best Friends (poems) by Hopkins Two Close Friends by Lambert Why Are You Fighting, Davy? by Weninger The Gingerbread Man The Runaway Rice Cake by Ying Chang Compestine (friend that moves) My Best Friend Moved Away by Carlson The Lost and Found House by Cadnum (illiteracy / learning to read) The Surprise Wednesday by Eve Bunting Jeremiah Learns to Read by Bogart Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco (memories) William Gordon McDonald Partridge Something to Remember Me By The Memory Box (culture) Just Plain Fancy by Patricia Polacco Appelmendo's Dreams by Patricia Polacco Oh, Look! By Patricia Polacco We’re Going on a Lion Hunt by David Axtell When Lightning Comes in a Jar by Patricia Polacco The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Text to World Connections Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting Someday a Tree by Eve Bunting Call Back Mountain Smoky Night by Eve Bunting The Wall by Eve Bunting The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry The River Runs Wild by Lynne Cherry To Every Child, A Better World by Kermit the Frog/United Nations Baseball Saved Us by Kevin Mochizuki New York’s Bravest by Mary Pope Osborne Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss Lorax by Dr. Seuss Red Fish, Blue Fish Dr. Seuss What a Wonderful World by George D. Weiss & Bob Thiele The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson Asking Questions (Also use many books for “Making Inferences) Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie The Table Where Rich People Sit by Byrd Baylor Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger Ruby’s Wish by Shirlin Yim Bridges Going Home by Eve Bunting Butterfly House by Eve Bunting Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting Twister by Darleen Bailey Beard Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland A Spoon for Every Bite by Joe Hayes Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston At the Crossroads by Rachel Isadora A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson Freedom School, Yes! By Amy Littlesugar Daisy and the Doll by Michael Medearis and Angela Shelf Medearis The Monster Trap by Dean Morrissey Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson The Scarlet Stockings by Trinka Hakes Nobel My Freedom Trip by Frances Park and Ginger Park Good-bye by Frances Park and Ginger Park The Fire Keeper’s Son by Linda Sue Oark The Bird House by Cynthia Rylant Elizabeth’s Doll by Stephanie Stuve Bodeen The Bicycle Man by Allen Say My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say Tea With Milk by Allen Say Wish Come True Cat by Ragnhild Scamell Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat Zachary’s Ball by Matt Tavares Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg The Widow’s Broom by Chris Van Allsburg Elbert’s Bad Word by Audrey and Don Wood The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Audrey and Don Wood Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen Encounter by Jane Yolen Welcome to the Sea of Sand by Jane Yolen A New Coat For Anna by Harriet Ziefert Visualizing Touch the Poem by Arnold Adoff Painted Words / Spoken Moments by Aliki Old Black Fly by Aylesworth Zoom and Re-Zoom by Istvan Banyai Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Barrett I’m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Tangerine by Bloor Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown Voices from the Wild by Bouchard Smoky Night by Eve Bunting Up North in the Cabin by Marsha Wilson Chall See the Ocean by Condra Miss Rumphius by Cooney Snow Ponies by Cynthia Cotton Fishing in the Air by Sharon Creech Good Dog Carl by Alexandra Day Carl’s Afternoon in the Park by Alexandra Day Carl Goes Shopping by Alexandra Day Carl Goes to Daycare by Alexandra Day Big Blue Whale by N. Davies Vejigante, Masquerader by L. Delacre The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola Here We All Are by Tomie de Paola The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paola Everybody Cooks Rice by Dooley Morning Girl by M. Dorris Abuela by Arthur Dorros The Chocolate Chip Cookie Contest by Douglass Arctic Memories by Normee Ekoomiak Sailboat Lost by Leonard Everett Fisher Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher Pizza Pat by Gelman Winter at Long Pond by George Honey I Love by Eloise Greenfield Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard Elephant Dance, Memories of India by Theresa Heine An Octopus is Amazing by Patricia Lauber My Little Island by Lessac Where the River Begins by Thomas Locker Puddles by Johnathan London Like Butter on Pancakes by Jonathan London Through Grandpa’s Eyes by MacLachlan Journey by Patricia MacLaughlin I Am the Ocean by S. Marshak The Ghost-Eye Tree by Bill Martin, Jr. Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr. City Sounds by Marzollo The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey “On Our Way” by Eve Merriam Let’s Get the Rhythm by Miranda “An Appalachian Campsite in Autumn” by Mike Monroe “Until I Saw the Sea” by Lillian Moore Hello Ocean by Munoz The Call of the Wolves by Jim Murphy Festival of My Heart: Poems by Japanese Children edited by Bruno Navasky Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini Too Much Noise by Parks The Girl Who Hated Books by Maniusha Pawagi How To Make Apple Pie and See the World by Priceman Basket Moon by Ray Pumpkins by Ray Time Flies by Eric Rohmann Lizard in the Sun by Joanne Ryder Chipmunk Song by Joanne Ryder Winter Whale by Joanne Ryder Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant This Year’s Garden by Cynthia Rylant Tulip Sees America by Cynthia Rylant Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root A Lucky Thing by Alice Schertle Rain Talk by Mary Serfozo A Bad Case of Stripes by Shannon Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Sharmat Follow Your Nose by Showers The Listening Walk by P. Showers “Noise Day” by Shel Silverstein The Changing Maze by Z.K. Snyder Zeke Peppin by Steig Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas I’m Hungry by Tuer Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg Shadow Ball: The History of the Negro Leagues by Ward, Burns, and O’Connor Night Sounds, Morning Colors by Rosemary Wells A Chair for My Mother by Williams The Napping House by Audrey Wood Elbert’s Bad Word by Wood All the Small Poems and 14 More by Valerie Worth Something Beautiful by Wyeth The Trucker by Brenda and Mark Weatherby Circles of Hope by Karen Lynn Williams The Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter Mother Earth, Father Sky, Poems of our Planet by Jane Yolen Raising Yoder’s Barn by Jane Yolen Harvest Hoome by Jane Yolen If you Listen by Charlotte Zolotow The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow Making Inferences (Also use many of these books for “Asking Questions” and “Synthesizing.” Amelia’s Road by Linda Jacob Altman Dandelions by Eve Bunting December by Eve Bunting The Memory String by Eve Bunting So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting Trouble on the T-Ball Team by Eve Bunting The Wall by Eve Bunting The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting Pinduli by Janell Cannon Verdi by Janell Cannon Stellaluna by Janell Cannon Crickwing by Janell Cannon See the Ocean by Estelle Condra The Paper Dragon by Marguerite W. Davol Buster by Denise Fleming Dear Rebecca, Winter is Here by Jean Craighead George Morning, Noon, and Night by Jean Craighead George Snow Bear by Jean Craighead George Tight Times by Barbara Shook Hazen Just Like Josh Gibson by Angela Johnson Lost by Paul Johnson and Celeste Lewis Little Brother Moose by James Kasperson Floss by Kim Lewis I Hate English by Ellen Levine Six-Dinner Sid by Inga Moore Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki Dear Juno by Soyung Pak Sumi’s First Day of School Every by Soyung Pak The Royal Bee by Frances Park and Ginger Park In November by Cynthia Rylant The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant Summarizing The Principals New Clothes by Stephanie Calmenson The Frog Principal by Stephanie Calmenson Blabber Mouse by True Kelley Armadillo Tattletale by Helen Ketterman The Magic Fish by Freya Littledale Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack Synthesizing A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting Smokey Night by Eve Bunting Stellaluna by Janell Cannon Hunwick’s Egg by Mem Fox An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant Mirette on a High Wire by Emily Arnold Georgia Music by Helen V. Griffith She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head by K. Lasky An Octopus is Amazing by P. Lauber