Humble ISD
Comprehension Strategy Booklist
Compiled from Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller, Strategies That Work by Harvey & Goudvis,
Interactive Read Aloud, Linda Hoyt
Strategy: Making Connections/Schema
Title
Amazing Grace
Amos and Boris
The Art Lesson
Chrysanthemum
Fireflies
Hazel’s Amazing Mother
I Know a Lady
Ira Sleeps Over
Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs
Now One Foot, Now the Other
Oliver Button is a Sissy
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Tops and Bottoms
Owen
Koala Lou
Roxaboxen
The Relatives Came
Wilfred Gordon McDonald
Partridge
Goodnight Moon
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Author
Mary Hoffman
William Steig
Tomie dePaola
Kevin Henkes
Julie Brinkloe
Rosemary Wells
Charlotte Zolotow
Bernard Waber
Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola
Gloria Houston
Janet Stevens
Kevin Henkes
Mem Fox
Alice McLerran
Cynthia Rylant
Mem Fox
Suggested
Grade Level
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
Margaret Wise Brown K-2
1
Used as
example
lesson text
Grade Level/
Strategy
yes
Kinder/Monitoring
yes
Kinder/Monitoring
yes
Kinder/Schema
Frog and Toad Series
Shelia Rae, the Brave
The Two of Them
Wemberly Worried
Julius, Baby of the World
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Brave Irene
William’s Doll
Alexander and the Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!
Oliver Button Is a Sissy
Arnold Lobel
Kevin Henkes
Aliki
Kevin Henkes
Kevin Henkes
Kevin Henkes
William Steig
Charlotte Zolotow
Judith Viorst
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
Tomie dePaola
K-2
How Many Days to America
The Keeping Quilt
Chicken Sunday
Every Living Thing (short stories)
Lightning
Gleam and Glow
Mrs. Katz and Tush
My Rotten Redheaded Older
Brother
Thank you, Mr. Falker!
Going Home
Miss Maggie
A Picnic in October
The Summer My Father Was Ten
I Hate English
Baseball Saved Us
Eve Bunting
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polaccoo
Cynthia Rylant
Stephen Kramer
Eve Bunting
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
Patricia Polacco
Eve Bunting
Cynthia Rylant
Eve Bunting
Pat Brisson
Ellen Levine
Ken Mochizuki
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
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yes
3rd/Monitoring
yes
yes
yes
yes
3rd/Schema
3rd/Schema
5th/Monitoing
Strategy: Questioning/Asking Questions
Title
Charlie Anderson
Ameila’s Road
Grandfather Twilight
The Lotus Seed
All I See
Big Al
Grandmother Winter
Monarch Butterfly
Dr. DeSoto
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
The Polar Express
Fly Away Home
Why Is the Sky Blue?
Yanni Rubbish
Author
Suggested
Grade Level
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2 (2nd)
K-2
K-2
Hurricane
The Song and Dance Man
Bad Day at Riverbend
Barbara Abercrombie
Linda Altman
Barbara Berger
Sherry Garland
Cynthia Rylant
Andrew Clements
Barbara Berger
Gail Gibbons
William Steig
William Steig
Chris Van Allsburg
Eve Bunting
Sally Grindley
Shulamith Levey
Oppenheim
David Weisner
Karen Ackerman
Chris Van Allsburg
A Day’s Work
How Many Days to America
The Wall
The Wednesday Surprise
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret
Eve Bunting
Eve Bunting
Eve Bunting
Eve Bunting
Florence Heide
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
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K-2
K-2
2
Used as
example
lesson text
Grade Level/
Strategy
Yes
2nd/Questioning
Yes
1st/Questioning
Yes
3rd/Monitoring
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road
The Potato Man
The Librarian Who Measured the
Earth
Pink and Say
The Stranger
The Mary Celeste
Tight Times
The Wise Woman and Her Secret
An Angel for Solomon Singer
Grandfather's Journey
Cheyenne Again
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
The Name Jar
The Story Of Jumping Mouse
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Fly High: The Story of Bessie
Coleman
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Julius Lester
Megan McDonald
Kathryn Lanksy
3-5
3-5
3-5
Patricia Polacco
Chris Van Allsburg
Jan Yolen
Barbara Hazen
Eve Merriam
Cynthia Rylant
Allen Say
Eve Bunting
John Steptoe
Yangsook Choi
John Steptoe
Robert Cole
Louise Borden
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
5
4
Yes
Yes
5th/Questioning
5th/Questioning
Yes
Yes
Yes
yes
4th/Questioning
4th/Questioning
3rd/Questioning
3rd/Visualzing
Strategy: Visualizing/Creating Mental Images
Title
Author
Suggested
Grade Level
Used as
example
lesson text
Grade Level/
Strategy
Close Your Eyes
Color Me a Rhyme
Creatures of the Earth, Sea and
Sky
Fireflies at Midnight (poetry)
Jean Marzollo
Jane Yolen
Georgia Heard
K-2
K-2
K-2
yes
K;1st;2nd/Visualizing
Marilyn Singer
K-2
Yes
2nd/Visualizing
The Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in
Different Voices
Honey, I Love
Paul B. Janeczko,
Melissa Sweet
Eloise Greenfield
K-2
yes
1st/Visualzing
K-2
Yes
Kinder/Visualzing
The Napping House
The Salamander Room
Night Sounds, Morning Colors
Say Something
Wild, Wild Sunflower Child
Audrey Wood
Anne Mazer
Rosemary Wells
Mary Stolz
Nancy White
Carlstrom
Jane Yolen
Martha Robinson
Anne Westcott Dodd
Eve Merriam
Suzanna Marshak
Cynthia Rylant
Eve Merriam
Nancy White
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
Yes
Yes
Yes
Kinder/Visualizing
1st/Visualzing
1st/Visualizing
Yes
2nd/Visualizing
Greyling
The Zoo at Night
Footprints and Shadows
Goodnight to Annie
I Am the Ocean
Night in the Country
Quiet, Please
What Does the Rain Play?
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2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
City Sounds
Big Blue Whale
The Cloud Book
Dream Weaver
Harriet, You Drive Me Wild
The Teacher From the Black
Lagoon
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Frogs
All the Small Poems and Fourteen
Others
When I Was Young in the
Mountains
Chicken Sunday
A Bad Case of the Stripes
Twilight Comes Twice
Where the River Begins
Marianthe's Story: Painted
Words, Spoken Memories
Charlotte's Web
A Walk in the Rain Forest
All the Small Poems and Fourteen
Others
The Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in
Different Voices
Honey, I Love
Where the Sidewalk Ends
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Carlstrom
Jean Marzollo
Nicola Davies
Tomie dePaola
Jonathon London
Mem Fox
Mark Thayler
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
Yes
Yes
yes
1st/Visualizing
Kinder/Visualizing
Kinder/Visualizing
Laura Numeroff
Gail Gibbons
Valerie Worth
K-2
K-2
K-2
Yes
Yes
Yes
1st/Visualizing
2nd/Visualizing
2nd/Visualizing
Cynthia Rylant
K-2
Yes
2nd/Visualizing
Patricia Polacco
2
Yes
2nd/Visualizing
David Shannon
Ralph Fletcher
Thomas Locke
Aliki
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
E.B. White
Rebecca L. Johnson
Valerie Worth
3-5
3-5
3-5
Yes
Yes
Yes
3rd/Visualizing
3rd/Visualizing
3rd;4th/Visualizing
Paul B. Janeczko,
Melissa Sweet
Eloise Greenfield
Shel Silverstein
3-5
yes
3rd/Visualzing
3-5
3-5
Yes
yes
3rd;4th/Visualzing
3rd/Visualzing
6
See the Ocean
Shadow Ball: The History of the
Negro Leagues
A Lucky Thing
Bad Day At Riverbend
The Story Of Jumping Mouse
Dogteam
Owl Moon
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince
and His Orchestra
Grandfather's Journey
Sweet Clara and the Freedom
Quilt
Harlem
Song of the Water Boatman
Two Bad Ants
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Estelle Condra
Geoffry Ward
3-5
3-5
Alice Schertle
Chris Van Allsburg
John Steptoe
Gary Paulsen
Jane Yolen
Andrea Davis Pinkney
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
Allen Say
Deborah Hopkinson
3-5
3-5
Walter Dean Myers
Joyce Sidman
Chris Vans Allsburg
3-5
3-5
7
yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
3rd/Visualzing
4th/Visualzing
4th/Visualzing
4th/Visualzing
Yes
Yes
5th/Visualzing
5th/Visualizing
Strategy: Inferring
Title
Author
Suggested
Grade Level
Used as
example
lesson text
Grade Level/
Strategy
If You Listen
Brave Irene
Fly Away Home
Charlotte Zolotow
William Steig
Eve Bunting
K-2
K-2
K-2
Someday a Tree
Eve Bunting
K-2
Yes
2nd/Inferring-Theme
A Day’s Work
Eve Bunting
K-2
Yes
2nd Inferring-Theme
One Green Apple
Eve Bunting
K-2
Yes
2nd/Inferring-Theme
The Lotus Seed
Sherry Garland
K-2
Dandelions
Eve Bunting
K-2
Flower Garden
Eve Bunting
K-2
The Wednesday Surprise
Eve Bunting
K-2
The Great Gracie Chase
Cynthia Rylant
K-2
The Relatives Came
Cynthia Rylant
K-2
When I Was Young in the
Mountains
The Old Woman Who Named
Things
Alligator Boy
Cynthia Rylant
K-2
Cynthia Rylant
K-2
Cynthia Rylant
K-2
The Royal Bee
Frances Park
K-2
Something Beautiful
Sharon Dennis Nyeth
2
Ira Says Goodbye
Bernard Waber
K-1
Ira Sleeps Over
Bernard Waber
K-1
Oliver Button Is a Sissy
Good Dog Carl
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Tomie dePaola
Alexandra Day
K-2
K-2
8
2nd/Inferring-Theme
2nd/Questioning
Yes
2nd/Inferring
Yes
1st/Inferring
Yes
Yes
1st/Inferring
Kinder/Inferring
K-1
Yes
1st/Inferring
Catherine Stock
Maurice Sendak
2
K-2
Yes
Paul B. Janeczko,
Melissa Sweet
Tomie dePaola
Alexandra Day
Douglas Florian
Valerie Worth
K-2
yes
Kinder/Inferring;
1st/Inferring-theme
Kinder/Inferring
K-2 (2nd)
K-2
K-2
K-2
yes
yes
yes
Yes
Kinder/Inferring
Kinder/Inferring
Kinder/Inferring
Kinder/Inferring
Mem Fox
Lee Bennett Hopkins
K-2
K-2
Yes
Yes
Kinder/Inferring
Kinder/Inferring
Eloise Greenfield
Jerry Pinkney
Kevin Henkes
Helen Cowcher
Georgia Heard
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
Yes
Yes
Yes
yes
yes
1st/Inferring
1st/Inferring
1st/Inferring
1st/Inferring
2nd/Inferring
Eve Bunting
Patricia Polacco
Douglas Florian
2
2
K-2
Yes
Yes
Yes
2nd/Inferring
2nd/Inferring
2nd/Inferring
Rain Forest
Back Yard Books (Series)
 Are you a snail?
Read and Wonder Series
 Bats Love the Night
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse
Helen Cowcher
Kevin Henkes
Where Are You Going, Manyoni?
Where the Wild Things Are
The Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in
Different Voices
Pancakes for Breakfast
Good Dog Carl
On the Wings (poetry)
All the Small Poems and Fourteen
Others
Tough Boris
Spectacular Science: a book of
poems
Honey, I Love
Lion and the Mouse
A Weekend with Wendell
Antarctica
Creatures of the Earth, Sea and
Sky
Smoky Night
Just Plain Fancy
Insectlopedia
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K-2
K-2
K-2
9
KAT KONG
Dav Pilkey
K-2
Yes
2nd/Inferring
Encounter
How Many Days to America
Miss Maggie
Teammates
The Table Where Rich People Sit
Tight Times
The Stranger
Something Beautiful
June 29, 1999
Tuesday
Going Home
The Wall
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on
Her Head
Jumanji
Crow Boy
Cheyenne Again
Jane Yolen
Eve Bunting
Cynthia Rylant
Peter Golenbock
Byrd Baylor
Barbara Shook Hazen
Chris Van Allsburg
Sharon Dennis Nyeth
David Weisner
David Weisner
Eve Bunting
Eve Bunting
Kathryn Lansky
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3
3-5
Yes
5th/Inferring-theme
Chris Van Allsburg
Taro Yishima
Eve Bunting
Come Back, Salmon
All the Small Poems and Fourteen
Others
Top of the World
An Angel for Solomon Singer
The Other Side
Faithful Elephants
The Wise Enchanter
A Drop of Water
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3rd/Inferring-theme
Yes
3rd/Inferring
3-5
3-5
3-5
Yes
Yes
Mary Cone
Valerie Worth
3-5
3-5
Yes
Yes
3rd/Inferring
3rd/Inferring; 4th
Inferring-theme
4th/Inferring
4th/Inferring
Steve Jenkins
Cynthia Rylant
Jacqueline Woodson
Yukio Tsuchiya
Shelley Davidow
Walter Wick
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
Yes
10
3-5
3-5
3-5
5th/Inferring
5th/Inferrring-theme
4th/Inferring-theme
Coolies
An Orange for Frankie
One Candle
Snowflake Bentley
Silver Packages
Sparrow Girl
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds
The Other Side
Freedom Summer
The Train to Somewhere
What You Know First
My Rotten Older Redheaded
Brother
The Bee Tree
Pink & Say
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Yin
Patricia Polacco
Eve Bunting
J Briggs Martin
Cynthia Rylant
Sara Pennypacker
Paula Yoo
Jacqueline Woods
Deborah Wiles
Eve Bunting
Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia Polacco
3-5
3-5
3-5
2-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
2-5
3-5
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco
3-5
3-5
11
Yes
4th/Inferring
Yes
4th/Inferring
Yes
4th/Inferring-theme
Yes
5th/Inferring-theme
Strategy: Determining Importance
Title
Author
Used as example
lesson text
Airplanes and Flying Machines
Flight
The Mild Makers
First Discovery Books
Robert Burleigh
Gail Gibbons
K-2
K-2
K-2
Somewhere Today
Bert Kitchen
K-2
Spiders
Gail Gibbons
K-2
Hungry, Hungry Sharks
Joanna Cole
K-2
The Important Book
The Great Kapok Tree
The Cloud Book
Tops and Bottoms
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One
Cross a Bridge
Into the Sky
Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark
The Lady and the Spider
Aunt Harriet's Underground
Railroad in the Sky
Sophie's Masterpiece
The Grouchy Ladybug
The Important Book
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse
My Friend Rabbit
Joseph Had A Little Overcoat
House is a House for Me
A Chair for My Mother
Margaret Wise Brown
Lynne Cherry
Tomie dePaola
Janet Stevens
Kate Duke
Ryan Ann Hunter
Ryan Ann Hunter
Joanna Hurwitz
Faith McNulty
Faith Ringgold
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
Eileen Spinelli
Eric Carle
Margaret Wise Brown
Kevn Henkes
Eric Rohmann
Simms Taback
Mary Ann Hoberman
Vera Williams
K-2
K-1
K-2
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-2
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Grade Level/
Strategy
Yes
Yes
Kinder/Determine Imp.
Yes
1st/Determine Import.
Have You Seen My Duckling?
The Stray Dog
Snowflake Bentley
Nancy Tafuri
Marc Simont
J. Briggs Martin
K-1
K-2
2-5
Bull Run
Exploring the Titanic
Squanto's Journey; The Story of
the First Thanksgiving
Harvesting Hope: The Story of
Cesar Chavez
Now Let me Fly: The Story of a
Slave Family
Faithful Elephants: A True Story
of Animals, People and War
Encounter
Diary of a Worm
Seven Blind Mice
The Man Who Walked Between
the Towers
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse
Hawkins
The Art Lesson
Lady Liberty: A Biography
Roanke:The Lost Colony
Two Bad Ants
Paul Fleischman
Robert Ballard
Joseph Bruchac
3-5
3-5
3-5
Kathleen Krull
3-5
Delores Johnson
3-5
Yukio Tsuchiya
3-5
Jane Yolen
Doreen Cronin
Ed Young
Mordicai Gerstein
3-5
3
3
3-5
Barbara Kerley
3-5
Tomie dePaola
Doreen Rapapport
Jane Yolen
Chris Van Allsburg
3
3-5
3-5
3-5
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2nd/Determine Import,
Yes
Yes
Yes
3rd /Determine Import.
5th/Determine Import.
5th Determine Import.
Strategy: Synthesizing and Summarizing
Title
Author
Suggested
Grade Level
Mirette On the High Wire
An Amazing Octopus
The Alphabet Tree
Emily Arnold
Patricia Lauber
Leo Lionni
K-2
K-2
K-2
Charlie Anderson
Barbara Abercrombie
K-2
Fables
Arnold Lobel
K-2
Frederick's Fables
Leo Lionni
K-2
Oliver Button Is a Sissy
The Rag Coat
The Story of Jumping Mouse
Stellaluna
Verde
The Umbrella
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly
Julius, Baby of the World
A Color of His Own
The Art Lesson
The Great Kapok Tree
Fish is Fish
The Alphabet Tree
Amazing Grace
See the Ocean
Smoky Night
The Library
The Money Tree
Tomie dePaola
Lauren Mills
John Steptoe
Janell Cannon
Janell Cannon
Jan Brett
Eric Carle
Kevin Henkes
Leo Lionni
Tomie dePaola
Lynne Cherry
Leo Lionni
Leo Lionni
Mary Hoffman
Estelle Condra
Eve Bunting
Sarah Stewart
Sarah Stewart
K-2
K-2
2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K-2
K
K-2
K-2
K-1
K-1
K-2
2
2
1-2
1-2
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Used as
example
lesson text
Grade Level/
Strategy
Yes
1st/Synthesis
Yes
K/Synthesis
Yes
K/Synthesis
Yes
1st/Synthesis
2nd /Synthesis
2nd /Synthesis
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on
Her Head
See the Ocean
Smoky Night
The Table Where Rich People Sit
The Story of Jumping Mouse
Tea With Milk
An Angel for Solomon Singer
The Rough Faced Girl
Kathryn Lansky
3-5
Estelle Condra
Eve Bunting
Byrd Baylor
John Steptoe
Allen Say
Cynthia Rylant
Rafe Martin
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
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