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© 2012 Jenifer Stewart http://TeachersPayTeachers.com/Store/Jenifer-Stewart

Mentor Texts for Writing Workshop

A list of over 900 texts for teaching the six traits of writing, writing genres, and more!

Includes Lexile levels!

2nd through 8th Grade

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Mentor Texts for 6-Trait WritingTrait Book Title Author Lexile

Ideas

A. Lincoln and Me Borden 650

Ideas

Aaron’s Hair Munsch 190

Ideas

Adventures of Ulysses Evslin 790

Ideas

All the Places to Love Maclachlan 920

Ideas

Amellia’s Notebook Moss 680

Ideas

Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar Anno 380

Ideas

Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems Sierra n/a

Ideas

Bad Case of Stripes, A Shannon 540

Ideas

Before I Was Your Mother Lasky n/a

Ideas

Bikes for Rent Olaleye 410

IdeasBook of Bad Ideas, The Beith 350

Ideas Bubba, the Cowboy Prince Ketteman 620IdeasBud, Not Buddy Curtis 950

Ideas

Call of the Wild, The London 1110

Ideas

Chrysanthemum Henkes 460

Ideas

Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails Kay n/a

Ideas

Dandelion Seed, The Anthony 490

Ideas

Days of Summer, The Bunting 360

Ideas

Diary of a Worm Cronin 360

Ideas

Do Like Kyla Johnson 510

Ideas

Dog Breath Pilkey 770

Ideas

Duck on a Bike Shannon 240

Ideas

Enemy Pie Munson 330

Ideas

Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury 890

Ideas

Faraway Home Kurtz 610

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Ideas

Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems Hoberman n/a

Ideas

Fine, Fine School, A Creech 300

Ideas

Fireflies! Brinckloe 630

Ideas

Fox Wild 500

Ideas

George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides Schanzer 1120

Ideas

George Washington’s Socks Woodruff 840

Ideas

Grandpa’s Teeth Clement 530

Ideas

Grapes of Wrath, The Steinbeck 680

Ideas

Great Gatsby, The Fitzgerald 1070

Ideas

Harry and the Terrible Whatzit Gackenbach 380

Ideas

Heroes of the Revolution Adler 890

IdeasHickory Chair, The Fraustino 700

Ideas Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth Burleigh 280IdeasHome to Medicine Mountain Santiago 520

Ideas

Honest to Goodness Truth, The McKissack 450

Ideas

How I Spent My Summer Vacation Teague n/a

Ideas

I Love Minne n/a

Ideas

I Spy: Extreme Challenger! Marzollo n/a

Ideas

I’m in Charge of Celebrations Baylor 700

Ideas

Important Book, The Brown 580

Ideas

Inside Story Woo n/a

Ideas

Jamaica’s Find Havill 460

Ideas

James and the Giant Peach Dahl 870

Ideas

Julius, Baby of the World Henkes 460

Ideas

Kissing Hand, The Penn 520

Ideas

Lily’s Big Day Henkes 660

Ideas

Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse Henkes 640

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Ideas

Looking Back Lowry 900

Ideas

Mama Played Baseball Adler 440

Ideas

Martin’s Big Words Rappaport 410

Ideas

Meanwhile Feiffer 500

Ideas

Monster Myers 670

Ideas

My Many Colored Days Dr. Seuss 190

Ideas

My Tour of Europe: By Teddy Roosevelt, Age 10 Jackson n/a

Ideas

Mysteries of Harris Burdick, The Van Allsburg 760

Ideas

Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street Schotter 600

Ideas

Oh, the Thinks You Can Think Dr. Seuss 240

Ideas

Old Turtle Wood 350

Ideas Out of the Ocean Frasier 690IdeasOwen Henkes 370

Ideas

Patchwork Quilt, The Flournoy 520

Ideas

Pearl, The Steinbeck 1010

Ideas

Players in Pigtails Corey 350

Ideas

Polar Express, The Van Allsburg 520

Ideas

Pictures of Hollis Wood Giff 650

Ideas

Reptiles are My Life McDonald 370

Ideas

Roller Coaster Frazee 490

Ideas

Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression Moss 820

Ideas

Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups, The Wisniewski 810

Ideas

Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: Second File, The Wisniewski 810

Ideas

Seven Blind Mice Young 350

Ideas

Show; Don’t Tell: Secrets of Writing Nobisso n/a

Ideas

Single Shard, A Park 920

Ideas

Six-Dinner Sid Moore 840

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Ideas

Skin I’m In, The Flake 670

Ideas

Snowflake Bentley Martin 830

Ideas

So Far From the Sea Bunting 590

Ideas

Stargirl Spinelli 590

Ideas

Stone Soup Muth 480

Ideas

Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, The Stevenson 1060

Ideas

Subtle Knife, The Pullman 890

Ideas

Summer My Father Was Ten, The Brisson 1040

Ideas

Ted DiTerlizzi 230

Ideas

Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco 650

Ideas

Theodore Keating 720

Ideas Three Questions, The Muth 410IdeasThrough My Eyes Bridges 860

Ideas

Through the Cracks Solloman n/a

Ideas

Time Machine, The Wells 1070

Ideas

Trouble on the T-Ball Team Bunting 190

Ideas

Unusual Suspects, The (The Sisters Grimm Book #2) Buckley 840

Ideas

Walk Two Moons Creech 770

Ideas

Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, The Curtis 1000

Ideas

Weslandia Fleischman 820

Ideas

Westing Game, The Raskin 750

Ideas

When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry... Bang n/a

Ideas

Where the Wild Things Are Sendak 740

Ideas

Wilfrid, Gordon, McDonald, Partridge Fox 760

Ideas

Wings Myer 400

Ideas

Wrinkle in Time, A L’Engle 740

Ideas

Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets, A Fletcher n/a

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Organization

Aaron’s Hair Munsch 190

Organization

Abominable Snowman, The (Choose Your Own Adventure #1) Montgomery 660

Organization

Afterlife, The Soto 810

Organization

Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Viorst 970

Organization

All About Deer Arnosky 850

Organization

Andrew’s Loose Tooth Munsch 570

Organization

Baseball in April Soto 830

Organization

Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! Dr. Seuss 460

Organization

Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure San Souci 600

Organization

Butterfly House Bunting 500

Organization

Can it Rain Cats and Dogs? Berger 710

OrganizationCannery Row Steinbeck 930

Organization Charlie’s Checklist Lerman n/aOrganization

Chief Ganci 800

Organization

Circle of Thanks Fowler 470

Organization

City by Numbers Johnson n/a

Organization

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Cronin 160

Organization

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Barrett 730

Organization

Composition, The Skarmeta 420

Organization

Courage Waber n/a

Organization

Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi 730

Organization

Daisy Comes Home Brett 540

Organization

Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary 910

Organization

Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letter’s From Obedience School Teague 500

Organization

Dogzilla Pilkey 720

Organization

Drop of Water, A Wick 870

Organization

Elmer’s Special Day McKee n/a

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Organization

First Day in Grapes Perez 570

Organization

G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book Schwartz 760

Organization

Get Out of Bed Munsch 470

Organization

Good Luck, Cat, The Harjo 540

Organization

Grandpa Never Lies Fletcher n/a

Organization

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Rowling 880

Organization

Hatchet Paulsen 1020

Organization

Holes Sachar 660

Organization

How I Became a Pirate Long 470

Organization

How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story Bunting 460

Organization

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Numeroff 660

Organization Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Thatcher Coville 710OrganizationJourney, The Stewart 900

Organization

Journey of Oliver K. Woodman, The Pattison 640

Organization

Jubal’s Wish Wood 400

Organization

Lady Liberty: A Biography Rappaport 760

Organization

Lincoln: A Photobiography Freedman 1040

Organization

Loudness of Sam, The Proimos n/a

Organization

Magic Fan, The Baker 590

Organization

Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster Frasier 690

Organization

Mousehole Cat, The Barber 1030

Organization

No More Dead Dogs Korman 610

Organization

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude O’Malley 550

Organization

Paperboy, The Pilkey 530

Organization

People Spier 440

Organization

Plantzilla Nolen 460

Organization

Rain Came Down, The Shannon 370

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Organization

Raising Dragons Nolen 670

Organization

Rimshots Smith 690

Organization

Roanoke: The Lost Colony, An Unsolved Mystery from History Yolen 850

Organization

Rocks in His Head Hurst 440

Organization

Secret Shortcut, The Teague 570

Organization

Sector 7 Wiesner n/a

Organization

Seedfolks Fleischman 710

Organization

Sisters McPhail 130

Organization

Snow Walker, The Mowatt 1130

Organization

Soldier’s Heart Paulsen 1000

OrganizationStand Tall, Molly Lou Melon Lovell 560

OrganizationSwitch on the Night Bradbury n/a

Organization

Tale of Despereaux, The DiCamillo 670

Organization

That’s Good! That’s Bad! Cuyler 510

Organization

There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mayer 670

Organization

Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! Best 360

Organization

Through My Eyes Bridges 360

Organization

Tub-boo-boo Palatini n/a

Organization

Tuesday Wiesner n/a

Organization

Twits, The Dahl 750

Organization

Up, Up, Down Munsch 180

Organization

Water Dance Locker 310

Organization

When Lightning Comes in a Jar Polacco 540

Organization

When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry... Bang n/a

Organization

Wolf Who Cried Boy, The Hartman 640

Organization

Wringer Spinelli 690

Organization

Z Was Zapped, The Van Allsburg n/a

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Voice

17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore Offill 750

Voice

Alaska’s Three Pigs Laverde n/a

Voice

Amelia’s Notebook Moss 680

Voice

And Here’s to You! Elliott n/a

Voice

Babe and I, The Adler 330

Voice

Because of Winn-Dixie DiCamillo 610

Voice

Ben & Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin & His Good Mouse Amos Lawson 1010

Voice

Beverly Billingsly Takes a Bow Stadler 650

Voice

Big Box, The Barchers 420

Voice

Bird House, The Rylant 680

VoiceBlood and Gore Cobb 900

Voice Caves Kramer 880VoiceCindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella Lowell 650

Voice

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type Cronin 500

Voice

Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters From Obedience School Teague 500

Voice

Diary of a Spider Cronin 510

Voice

Diary of a Worm Cronin 360

Voice

Dumpy LaRue Winthrop 380

Voice

Edward and the Pirates McPhail 550

Voice

Encounter Yolen 760

Voice

Fairytale News Hawkins 730

Voice

Frog Principal, The Calmenson 230

Voice

Gleam and Glow, The Bunting 450

Voice

Glory Field, The Myers 800

Voice

Good Boy, Fergus! Shannon n/a

Voice

Grody’s Not So Golden Rules Rubel n/a

Voice

Harris and Me Paulsen 1060

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Voice

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez Krull 800

Voice

Honey, I Love Greenfield n/a

Voice

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Dr. Seuss 750

Voice

How are You Peeling? Food with Moods Freyman n/a

Voice

How Whales Walked into the Sea McNulty 730

Voice

I Wanna Iguana Orloff 460

Voice

I Wish Tonight Rock n/a

Voice

If I Were in Charge of the World & Other Worries: Poems Viorst n/a

Voice

Julius, Baby of the World Henkes 460

Voice

Just the Two of Us Smith n/a

VoiceLady in the Box, The McGovern 370

Voice Let the Celebrations Begin! Wild n/aVoiceLight in the Attic, The Silverstein n/a

Voice

Little You: A Fuzzhead Tale Cannon n/a

Voice

Lord of the Flies Golding 770

Voice

Love That Dog Creech 1010

Voice

Maniac McGee Spinelli 820

Voice

Math Curse, The Scieszka 560

Voice

My Big Dog Stevens 180

Voice

My Brother Dan’s Delicious Layne 970

Voice

No, David! Shannon n/a

Voice

Oh, the Places You Will Go! Dr. Seuss 600

Voice

Other Side, The Woodson 300

Voice

Out of the Dust Hesse n/a

Voice

Pedro’s Journal Conrad 1030

Voice

Perilous Journey of the Donner Party, The Calabra 1020

Voice

Piggy Book, The Browne n/a

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Voice

Pirate Queens, The Yolen n/a

Voice

Pirate vs. Pirate Quattlebaum 510

Voice

Prince of Butterflies, The Colville n/a

Voice

Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson Ehrlich 930

Voice

Relatives Came, The Rylant 940

Voice

Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat Giff 200

Voice

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie Lubar 560

Voice

Sleeping Ugly Yolen 690

Voice

Sneetches and Other Stories, The Dr. Seuss n/a

VoiceSnow Bear, The Stafford 390

Voice Soldier’s Heart Paulsen 1000VoiceSpider and the Fly, The DiTerlizzi n/a

Voice

Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The Scieszka 520

Voice

Sweet Dream Pie Wood 890

Voice

Tangerine Bloor 680

Voice

Testing Miss Malarkey Finchler 450

Voice

Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco 650

Voice

There’s a Hair in My Dirt! Larson 640

Voice

To Kill a Mockingbird Lee 870

Voice

Too Many Toys Shannon 600

Voice

True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf, The Scieszka 570

Voice

Voices in the Park Browne 560

Voice

We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States Catrow n/a

Voice

Web Files, The Palatini 220

Voice

Where the Sidewalk Ends Silverstein n/a

Voice

Wolf! Bloom 340

Voice

Woodsong Paulsen 1090

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

WordChoice

13 Words Snicket n/a

WordChoice

Adventures of Jules and Gertie, The Watson n/a

WordChoice

Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Viorst 970

WordChoice

America: A Patriotic Primer Cheney 840

WordChoice

Armadillo Tattletale Ketterman 640

WordChoice

Bad Beginning, The Snicket 1010

WordChoice

Baloney, Henry P. Scieszka 400

WordChoice

Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race Berenstain 270

WordChoice

Big Al Clements 880

WordChoice

Blue So Blue, A Dumont n/a

WordChoice

Boy Who Cried Fabulous, The Newman n/a

WordChoice

Brave Potatoes Speed 520WordChoice Bullfrog Pops! Walton 200

WordChoice

Calling the Doves: El Cantos De Las Panomas Herrera 910

WordChoice

Captain Underpants & the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers Pilkey 890

WordChoice

Caves Kramer 880

WordChoice

Chasing Vermeer Balliett 770

WordChoice

Chicken Cheeks Black 1080

WordChoice

Clara Caterpillar (Alliterative Sentences) Edwards 660

WordChoice

Cloud Dance Locker 490

WordChoice

Curses! Foiled Again Yolen n/a

WordChoice

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? Cleary 860

WordChoice

Dog Breath Pilkey 770

WordChoice

Dreamer, The Rylant 760

WordChoice

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra Pinkney 800

WordChoice

Emily Bedard 450

WordChoice

Encounter Yolen 760

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

WordChoice

Epossumondas Salley 600

WordChoice

Flight Burleigh 570

WordChoice

Food Fight! Shields n/a

WordChoice

Girl With a Pearl Earring Chevalier 770

WordChoice

Go Away, Big Green Monster! Emberley 550

WordChoice

Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! Fox 280

WordChoice

Hello, Harvest Moon Fletcher n/a

WordChoice

Hello, Ocean Ryan n/a

WordChoice

Henny-Penny Wattenburg 430

WordChoice

Holes Sachar 660

WordChoice

Hoop Queens Smith n/a

WordChoice

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Dr. Seuss 750WordChoice House on Mango Street, The Cisneros 870

WordChoice

I Was There: The Buried City of Pompeii Tanaka 880

WordChoice

If Not for the Cat (Haiku) Prelutsky n/a

WordChoice

Insectlopedia Florian n/a

WordChoice

Into the A, B, Sea Rose 30

WordChoice

John Henry Lester 720

WordChoice

Joyful Noise: Poetry for Two Voices Fleischman n/a

WordChoice

Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn’t Tell a Lie Hayes 650

WordChoice

Knots on a Counting Rope Martin 480

WordChoice

Knucklehead Scieszka 750

WordChoice

Lauren McGill’s Pickle Museum Nolen n/a

WordChoice

Lincoln: A Photobiography Freedman 1040

WordChoice

Listen to the Rain Martin n/a

WordChoice

Mama Will Be Home Soon Minchella 150

WordChoice

Meanwhile Back at the Ranch Noble 500

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

WordChoice

Milkweed Spinelli 510

WordChoice

Mirandy and Brother Wind McKissack 690

WordChoice

Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster Frasier 690

WordChoice

Miz Berlin Walks Yolen 910

WordChoice

More Than Anything Else Bradley 660

WordChoice

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart Gray 1010

WordChoice

My Man Blue Grimes n/a

WordChoice

Night I Followed the Dog, The Laden 530

WordChoice

Night of the Gargoyles Bunting 1090

WordChoice

No More Dead Dogs Korman 610

WordChoice

Noodle Man Sayre 310

WordChoice

Once There Was a Bull...(frog) Walton n/aWordChoice Other Side, The Woodson 300

WordChoice

Owl Moon Yolen 630

WordChoice

Phantom Tollbooth, The Juster 1000

WordChoice

Pig, Pigger, Piggest Walton 520

WordChoice

Piggie Pie Palatini 420

WordChoice

Pirate Queens, The Yolen n/a

WordChoice

Place to Grow, A Pak 500

WordChoice

Raising Sweetness Stanley 530

WordChoice

Rattletrap Car, The Root 510

WordChoice

Roberto the Insect Architect Laden 400

WordChoice

S is for Silver: A Nevada Alphabet Coerr n/a

WordChoice

Sarah, Plain and Tall Maclachlan 560

WordChoice

Show, Don’t Tell: Secrets of Writing Nobisso n/a

WordChoice

Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy Wise n/a

WordChoice

Sky Tree Locker 610

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

WordChoice

Spiders and Their Web Sites Facklam 1150

WordChoice

Starry Night, The Waldman n/a

WordChoice

Story for Bear, A Haseley 630

WordChoice

Story of Ruby Bridges, The Coles 730

WordChoice

Subway Sparrow Torres n/a

WordChoice

Superhero ABC McLeod n/a

WordChoice

To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb? Cleary n/a

WordChoice

Toad Brown 1180

WordChoice

Tough Boris Fox 190

WordChoice

Under the Quilt of Night Hopkinson 580

WordChoice

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly Madison 750

WordChoice

Walter the Farting Dog Kotzwinkle 490WordChoice Washoe Seasons of Life: A Native American Story Wallis n/a

WordChoice

Water Dance, The Locker 310

WordChoice

We are the Bears Grooms n/a

WordChoice

We Dream of a World (by Gifted & Talented Students of Pershing Accelerated School)

680

WordChoice

Welcome to the Greenhouse Yolen 770

WordChoice

What If... Williams n/a

WordChoice

Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls 700

WordChoice

Who’s Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? Morrison n/a

WordChoice

Why the Banana Split Walton 70

WordChoice

Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became World’s the Fastest Woman Krulll 850

WordChoice

Winter Room, The Paulsen 1170

WordChoice

Wolf Who Cried Boy, The Hartman 640

WordChoice

Wump World, The Peet 930

WordChoice

Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary Larios n/a

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

SentenceFluency

All By Herself Paul 540

SentenceFluency

All the Places to Love MacLachlan 920

SentenceFluency

Bad Dog Laden n/a

SentenceFluency

Bat Loves the Night Davies 560

SentenceFluency

Behold the Trees Alexander 770

SentenceFluency

Big Box, The Barchers 420

SentenceFluency

Big Fat Cow that Goes Kapow, The Griffiths 380

SentenceFluency

Bigmama’s Crews 550

SentenceFluency

Black Cat Myers n/a

SentenceFluency

Come On, Rain! Hesse 780

SentenceFluency

Cowboy Camp Sauer 550SentenceFluency

Crab Moon Horowitz 460SentenceFluency

Dancing in the Wings Allen 540

SentenceFluency

Dogteam Paulsen 960

SentenceFluency

Don’t Take Your Snake for a Stroll Ireland n/a

SentenceFluency

Dream Weaver London 290

SentenceFluency

Emily Bedard 450

SentenceFluency

Family Reunion Quattlebaum n/a

SentenceFluency

Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping Christelow 600

SentenceFluency

Flicker Flash Graham n/a

SentenceFluency

Gathering the Sun Ada 590

SentenceFluency

Gauchada Lam n/a

SentenceFluency

Goal! Javaherbin 350

SentenceFluency

Great Kapok Tree: Tale of the Amazon Rainforest, The Cherry 670

SentenceFluency

Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! Fox 280

SentenceFluency

Hey You, C’mere! A Poetry Slam Swados n/a

SentenceFluency

Hide and Snake Baker n/a

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SentenceFluency

Home: A Journey Through America Locker n/a

SentenceFluency

Home Run Burleigh 280

SentenceFluency

Homer Price McCloskey 1000

SentenceFluency

Hoop Kings Smith n/a

SentenceFluency

Hoops Burleigh 260

SentenceFluency

Hooway for Wodney Wat Lester 360

SentenceFluency

House on Mango Street, The Cisneros 870

SentenceFluency

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More Beaumont 620

SentenceFluency

I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem Curtis n/a

SentenceFluency

If I Ran the Circus Dr. Seuss n/a

SentenceFluency

If You Give a Moose a Muffin Numeroff 590SentenceFluency

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Numeroff 660SentenceFluency

If You Take a Mouse to School Numeroff 190

SentenceFluency

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies Numeroff 240

SentenceFluency

Important Book, The Brown 580

SentenceFluency

It Takes a Village Fletcher 390

SentenceFluency

John Henry Lester 720

SentenceFluency

Joyful Noise: Poetry for Two Voices Fleischman n/a

SentenceFluency

Langston’s Train Ride Burleigh 690

SentenceFluency

Lightning Thief, The Riordan 470

SentenceFluency

Look Who Lives in the Desert Bessesen n/a

SentenceFluency

Lookin’ for Bird in the Big City Burleigh 660

SentenceFluency

Meanwhile... Feiffer 500

SentenceFluency

Momma, Where are You From? Bradby 730

SentenceFluency

Miss Nelson is Missing! Allard 340

SentenceFluency

My Man Blue Grimes n/a

SentenceFluency

My Name is Jorge: On Both Sides of the River Median 340

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SentenceFluency

Night of the Gargoyles Bunting 1090

SentenceFluency

Of Mice and Men Steinbeck 630

SentenceFluency

Oh, the Places You Will Go! Dr. Seuss 600

SentenceFluency

One Tiny Turtle Davies 650

SentenceFluency

Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story Peters n/a

SentenceFluency

Owl Moon Yolen 630

SentenceFluency

Pandora Burleigh n/a

SentenceFluency

Science Verse Scieszka n/a

SentenceFluency

Sebastian: A Book About Bach Winter 780

SentenceFluency

Shortcut Crews 210

SentenceFluency

Snowman Named Just Bob, A Moulton n/a

SentenceFluency

Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! Marsalis n/aSentenceFluency Storm Book, The Zolotow 1030SentenceFluency

Take Me Out of the Bathtub & Other Silly Dilly Songs Katz n/a

SentenceFluency

This is Just to Say... Sidman n/a

SentenceFluency

Tough Cookie Wisniewski 90

SentenceFluency

Twilight Comes Twice Fletcher n/a

SentenceFluency

Two Cool Cows Speed n/a

SentenceFluency

Up Tall and High Long n/a

SentenceFluency

Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Carle 460

SentenceFluency

Very Lonely Firefly, The Carle n/a

SentenceFluency

Very Quiet Cricket, The Carle 430

SentenceFluency

Water Dance Locker 310

SentenceFluency

Web Files, The Palatini 220

SentenceFluency

Whale’s Song, The Sheldon 490

SentenceFluency

White Snow, Bright Snow Tresselt 810

SentenceFluency

Why Butterflies Go On Silent Wings Davol 660

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Conventions

America: A Patriotic Primer (Spelling) Cheney 840

Conventions

Behind the Mask: A Book About Prepositions Heller 170

Conventions

Beverly Billingsley Borrows a Book Stadler 540

Conventions

Birds (Verbs) Henkes 410

Conventions

Blue Chameleon Gravett n/a

Conventions

Brave Irene (Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs) Steiger 630

Conventions

Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., The (Compound Adjectives) Messner 710

Conventions

But and For, Yet and Nor: What is a Conjunction? Cleary 650

Conventions

Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns, A Heller 420

Conventions

Case of the Incapacitated Capitals, The Pulver 480

Conventions

Children of the Earth: Remember Schimmel n/a

ConventionsDearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? Cleary 860

ConventionsDiary of a Worm Cronin 360

Conventions

Don’t Touch My Hat! Rumford 680

Conventions

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: Why Commas Really Do Matter Truss 380

Conventions

Fantastic! Wow! & Unreal! A Book About Interjections & Conjunctions Heller n/a

Conventions

Flowers for Algernon Keyes 910

Conventions

Frindle (Inventing a New Word) Clement 830

Conventions

Geektastic: Stories From the Nerd Herd (Compound Adjectives) Black 760

Conventions

Goin’ Someplace Special (Colons) McKissack 550

Conventions

Good Dog, Carl Day n/a

Conventions

Grammar Tales: A Verb for Herb Fleming 380

Conventions

Grammar Tales: Chicken in the City (Nouns) Fleming 550

Conventions

Grammar Tales: Francine Fribble, Proofreading Policewoman Fleming n/a

Conventions

Grammar Tales: The Bug Book (Adjectives) Fleming 660

Conventions

Grammar Tales: The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine Martin 580

Conventions

Grammar Tales: The Mystery of the Missing Socks (Quotation Marks) Martin 600

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Conventions

Grammar Tales: The No Good, Rotten, Run-on Sentence Charlesworth n/a

Conventions

Grammar Tales: The Planet Without Pronouns Martin 590

Conventions

Grammar Tales: Tillie’s Tuba (Adverbs) Fleming n/a

Conventions

Grammar Tales: When Comma Came to Town Berger n/a

Conventions

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective? Cleary n/a

Conventions

Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes Pulver 430

Conventions

Heart: Our Circulatory System, The Simon 1030

Conventions

Here’s a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry (Adverbs) Yolen n/a

Conventions

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest Jenkins 920

Conventions

How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? What are Homonyms and Homophones?

Cleary 880

ConventionsI and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun? Cleary n/a

Conventions If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Numeroff 660Conventions

If You Were a Writer Nixon 560

Conventions

If You Were Quotation Marks Blaisdell 780

Conventions

I’m and Won’t, They’re and Don’t: What’s a Contraction? Cleary 490

Conventions

Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs Heller 600

Conventions

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Pronouns) Willems 530

Conventions

Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More About Adverbs Cleary 720

Conventions

Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More About Nouns, A Cleary 800

Conventions

Little Owl’s Night (Adverbs) Srinivasan n/a

Conventions

LMNO Peas (Commas in a series) Baker 390

Conventions

Luka and the Fire of Life Rushdie n/a

Conventions

Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives Heller n/a

Conventions

Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns Heller n/a

Conventions

Mine, All Mine: A Book About Pronouns Heller 480

Conventions

Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What is a Noun?, A Cleary n/a

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Trait Book Title Author Lexile

Conventions

Miss Pell Would Never Misspell & Other Painless Tricks for Memorizing How to Spell & Use Wily Words

Cleary 770

Conventions

Music of Dolphins, The Hesse 560

Conventions

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Pulver 450

Conventions

Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin Barretta 910

Conventions

Pedaling to Perfect Punctuation Herman 540

Conventions

Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch Peterson 420

Conventions Pirate vs. Pirate (Adjectives) Quattlebaum 510Conventions

Punctuation Basher 780

Conventions

Punctuation Celebration Bruno 650

Conventions

Punctuation Station, The Pulver 690

Conventions

Punctuation Takes a Vacation Pulver 370

Conventions

Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More About Adjectives Cleary 790

Conventions

Rosie’s Walk Hutchins n/a

Conventions

Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More About Verbs Cleary n/a

Conventions

Tale of Two Cities, A (Antonyms & Comma Splices) Dickens 460

Conventions

Ten Tiny Babies Katz n/a

Conventions

To Root, To Toot, To Parachute: What is a Verb? Cleary n/a

Conventions

Tom Swift and His Flying Lab (Puns and Punctuation) Appleton n/a

Conventions

Train of States Sis 1120

Conventions

Under, Over, By the Clover: What is a Preposition? Cleary 420

Conventions

Up, Up, and Away: A Book About Adverbs Heller 480

Conventions

Weslandia (Adverbs, Adjectives, Verbs) Fleischman 820

Conventions

When I Go Camping With Grandma (Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs) Bauer n/a

Conventions

Where in the Wild: Camouflaged Animals Concealed...& Revealed (Adverbs)

Schwartz n/a

Conventions

Yo! Yes! Raschka n/a

Conventions

Your Move Bunting 230

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Persuasive

Aphrodite the Diva (Goddess Girls #6) Holub 750

Persuasive

Artemis the Loyal (Goddess Girls #7) Holub 720

Persuasive

Babymouse for President Holm 370

Persuasive

Be a Friend to Trees Lauber 500

Persuasive

Best Town in the World, The Baylor 920

Persuasive

Can I Keep Him? Kellogg 510

Persuasive Can We Save the Tiger? Jenkins 970PersuasiveCaps for Sale Slobodkina 480

Persuasive

Children Make Terrible Pets Brown n/a

Persuasive

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Cronin 160

Persuasive

Creepy Creatures Collard 890

Persuasive

Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters From Obedience School Teague 500

Persuasive

Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation Teague 950

Persuasive

Dog in Charge Going 310

Persuasive

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Willems 120

Persuasive

Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late Willems 270

Persuasive

Earrings! Viorst 470

Persuasive

Emily’s Runaway Imagination Cleary 910

Persuasive

Emmett’s Snowball Miller n/a

Persuasive

Great Kapok Tree, The Cherry 670

Persuasive

Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 30

Persuasive

Have I Got a Book For You! Watt 460

Persuasive

Hey, Little Ant! Hoose n/a

Persuasive

I Wanna Iguana Orloff 460

Persuasive

I Wanna New Room Orloff 540

Persuasive

If Mom Had Three Arms Orloff 580

Persuasive

Jack London’s Call of the Wild: A Choose Your Path Book London n/a

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Persuasive

LaRue for Mayor: Letters From the Campaign Trail Teague 880

Persuasive

Letters From a Nut Nancy 840

Persuasive

Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President & the Country Krull 860

Persuasive

Luz Sees the Light Davila 360

Persuasive

Mom, Can I Have a Stegosaurus, Mom? Can I? Please? Grambling 560

Persuasive

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle MacDonald 1070

Persuasive

My Brother Dan’s Delicious Layne 970

Persuasive

My Lucky Day Kasza 270

Persuasive

My Teacher for President Winters 370

Persuasive

Perfect Pet, The Palatini 210

PersuasivePete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes Litwin 240

Persuasive Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes Litwin 600Persuasive

Pigeon Wants a Puppy, The Willems n/a

Persuasive

Place for Bats, A Stewart n/a

Persuasive

Purple, Green, and Yellow Munsch 650

Persuasive

Salamander Room, The Mazer 660

Persuasive

Saturdays and Teacakes Laminack 840

Persuasive

Should There be Zoos?: A Persuasive Text Stead 900

Persuasive

Should We Have Pets? Lollis 780

Persuasive

Snow Walker, The Mowat 1130

Persuasive

Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving Anderson 350

Persuasive

Tom Sawyer Twain 450

Persuasive

True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf, The Scieszka 570

Persuasive

Where is the Love (Song) Black-Eyed Peas

n/a

Persuasive

Why We Must Run With Scissors: Voice Lesson in Persuasive Writing Lane n/a

Persuasive

Writing to Persuade: Minilessons to Help Students Plan, Draft & Revise Caine n/a

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Informational

All About Rattlesnakes Arnosky 870

Informational

Chameleons Are Cool Jenkins 810

Informational

Dangerous Book for Boys, The Iggulden n/a

Informational

Eat This, Not That Zinczenko n/a

Informational

Fox Wild 500

Informational

Frogs Gibbons 600

Informational

Go Out and Play! Kaboom!/Hammond n/a

Informational

Going Ape! Bustos n/a

Informational

Harry, the Tarantula Tyson 360

Informational

Hungry, Hungry Sharks Cole 410

Informational

Illusionology Wyatt/Pinfold n/a

InformationalJust the Facts: Writing Your Own Research Report Loewen 580

Informational Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin, The Kalman 880Informational

Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan Yolen 970

Informational

Moonshot Floca 990

Informational

Mummies: Secrets of the Dead Griffey 820

Informational

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science Fleischman 1030

Informational

Place for Bats, A Stewart n/a

Informational

Poopendous! Bennett n/a

Informational

Seed by Seed Codell 940

Informational

Smart-opedia: The Amazing Book About Everything Drobot n/a

Informational

Spiders Simon 950

Informational

Spiders and Their Web Sites Facklam 1150

Informational

This I Believe (NPR Podcast) NPR n/a

Informational

Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors Sidman 1300

Informational

Who Wants Pizza? The Kids’ Guide to the History, Science & Culture of Food

Thornhill n/a

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Narrative & Memoir

Been to Yesterdays Hopkins n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Best Story, The Spinelli 390

Narrative & Memoir

Big Nate: In a Class by Himself Peirce 500

Narrative & Memoir

Bigmama’s Crews 550

Narrative & Memoir

Car Followed Us, A Barrows n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul Canfield 760

Narrative & Memoir

Chicken Sunday Polacco 650

Narrative & Memoir

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir Greenfield 1000

Narrative & Memoir

Click Cox n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Fireflies! Brinckloe 630

Narrative & Memoir

From the Notebooks of Melanie Sun Woodson 690Narrative & Memoir Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown Danziger 300Narrative & Memoir

Guys Read: The Sports Pages Scieszka 840

Narrative & Memoir

Hey World, Here I Am Little 570

Narrative & Memoir

House on Mango Street, The Cisneros 870

Narrative & Memoir

I’m Just Like My Mom; I’m Just Like My Dad Ramos n/a

Narrative & Memoir

In My Momma’s Kitchen Nolen 530

Narrative & Memoir

Journey MacLachlan 630

Narrative & Memoir

Just Us Women Caines 610

Narrative & Memoir

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka Scieszka 750

Narrative & Memoir

Knuffle Bunny Willems 120

Narrative & Memoir

Let’s Go for a Drive Willems n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Linnea in Monet’s Garden Bjork 710

Narrative & Memoir

Looking Back Lowry 900

Narrative & Memoir

Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid Fletcher n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Memoirs of a Goldfish Scillian 490

Narrative & Memoir

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart Gray 1010

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Narrative & Memoir

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother Polacco 480

Narrative & Memoir

Owl Moon Yolen 630

Narrative & Memoir

Paperboy, The Pilkey 530

Narrative & Memoir

Pete the Cat and His Groovy Buttons Litwin 350

Narrative & Memoir

Peter’s Chair Keats 390

Narrative & Memoir

Relatives Came, The Rylant 940

Narrative & Memoir

Roller Coaster Frazee 490

Narrative & Memoir

Same Sun Here House/Vaswani 890

Narrative & Memoir

Saturdays and Teacakes Laminack 840

Narrative & Memoir

Shortcut Crews 210

Narrative & Memoir

Self-Portrait With Seven Fingers Lewis n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Snowy Day, The Keats 500Narrative & Memoir So Sleepy Boland n/aNarrative & Memoir

Squid and Octopus: Friends for Always Nyeu 420

Narrative & Memoir

Story World: Quests & Adventures: Create-a-Story Matthews n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Strange Things Violet n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Tall Tales: Six Amazing Basketball Dreams Smith 670

Narrative & Memoir

There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mayer 670

Narrative & Memoir

This is Not My Hat Klassen 340

Narrative & Memoir

Two of Them Aliki n/a

Narrative & Memoir

What You Know First MacLachlan n/a

Narrative & Memoir

When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant 980

Narrative & Memoir

When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up Ehrlich 930

Narrative & Memoir

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Cisneros 960

Narrative & Memoir

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox 760

Narrative & Memoir

Would I Ever Lie to You? Buehner n/a

Narrative & Memoir

Zombie in Love DiPucchio 400

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

How-To

Apple Cake: A Recipe for Love Paschkis n/a

How-To

Chop and Pop Diaz n/a

How-To

From Seed to Plant Gibbons 660

How-To

Gross Grub Porter n/a

How-To

How a Book is Made Aliki 390

How-To

How a House is Built Gibbons 570

How-To

How I Became a Pirate Long 470

How-To

How Monkeys Make Chocolate Forsyth 1120

How-To

How to Babysit an Orangutan Darling 810

How-To

How to Build Your Own Country Wyatt 960

How-To

How to Grow Crystals Anderson 700

How-ToHow to Lose All Your Friends Carlson 480

How-ToHow to Make Sock Puppets Weintraub 500

How-To

How to Make Salsa Lucero 500

How-To

Ink Blot Peot n/a

How-To

Let’s Make a Kite Trumbauer 430

How-To

Look at My Book: How Kids Can Write & Illustrate Terrific Books Leedy 410

How-To

Making Collages Johnson 220

How-To

Once Upon a Time: Writing Your Own Fairy Tale Loewen 570

How-To

Oranges to Orange Juice Snyder 210

How-To

Pumpkin Book, The Gibbons 570

How-To

Rabbits, Rabbits, and More Rabbits Gibbons 530

How-To

Share a Scare: Writing Your Own Scary Story Loewen 470

How-To

Show Me a Story: Writing Your Own Picture Book Loewen 510

How-To

Usborne Book of Juggling, The Gifford n/a

How-To

Walk On! A Guide to Taking the First Step Frazee n/a

How-To

Words, Wit, & Wisdom: Writing Your Own Poem Loewen 670

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Descriptive Writing

All the World Scanlon 380

Descriptive Writing

And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street Dr. Seuss n/a

Descriptive Writing

Blackout Rocco n/a

Descriptive Writing

Dirty Cowboy, The Timberlake 840

Descriptive Writing

Flower in the Snow, A Corderoy 770

Descriptive Writing

Gentle Giant Octopus Wallace 490

Descriptive Writing

Girl Who Remembered Horses, The Benson n/a

Descriptive Writing

How to Steal a Dog O’Connor 700

Descriptive Writing

Humming Room, The Potter 800

Descriptive Writing

Just Like My Dad Gardella 780

Descriptive Writing

Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel Rushdie n/a

Descriptive Writing

Monsieur Marceau Schubert 740Descriptive Writing My Mixed-Up, Berry Blue Summer Gennari 570

Descriptive Writing

Night on the Range, A Frisch n/a

Descriptive Writing

Owl Moon Yolen 630

Descriptive Writing

Painter, The Cattalanotto 30

Descriptive Writing

Pirate vs. Pirate Quattlebaum 510

Descriptive Writing

Scarecrow Rylant 600

Descriptive Writing

Seed by Seed Codell 940

Descriptive Writing

Sleep Like a Tiger Logue n/a

Descriptive Writing

Snowmen at Night Buehner 910

Descriptive Writing

Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! Marsalis n/a

Descriptive Writing

Tua and the Elephant Harris 790

Descriptive Writing

Uptown Collier 420

Descriptive Writing

Water Asch 140

Descriptive Writing

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Lin 810

Descriptive Writing

Wolves and Beyond: Lone Wolf Lasky 770

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore (Making Lists) Offill 750

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

A Book Gerstein n/a

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More Worth n/a

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Amelia’s Notebook (Journal Writing) Moss 680

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One Duke 580

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Because of Winn-Dixie DiCamillo 610

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Bigmama’s Crews 550

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Born Yesterday: The Diary of a Young Journalist Solheim 500

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Charlotte’s Web White 680

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Fireflies! Brinckloe 630

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Flip’s Fantastic Journal DeCesare n/aLaunching Writer’s

Workshop

Hey World, Here I Am! Little 570Launching Writer’s

Workshop Look at My Book! How Kids Can Write & Illustrate Terrific Books Leedy 410

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Looking Back (Inspiration for Writer’s Notebook) Lowry 900

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart Gray 1010

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street Schotter 600

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Once Upon a Cloud (Wonderings) Walker n/a

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Out of the Ocean (Collecting Ideas) Frasier 690

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Paperboy, The Pilkey 530

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Peter’s Chair Keats 390

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Plot Chickens, The Auch 410

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Read & Write Sports: Reader’s Theater & Writing Activities for Grades 3-8 Suen n/a

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls & Rhythms Smith 690

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Roller Coaster Frazee 490

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox 760

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Speare 850

Launching Writer’s

Workshop

Word After Word After Word Maclauchlan 450

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Strong Leads

Adventures of Daniel Boom: AKA Loud Boy, The Steinberg 460

Strong Leads

All the Places to Love MacLachlan 920

Strong Leads

Athena’s Son Schoenbeck n/a

Strong Leads

Babushka Baba-Yaga Polacco 570

Strong Leads

Bat Poet Jarrell 660

Strong Leads

Bea and Mr. Jones Schwartz n/a

Strong Leads

Beasty Story Martin n/a

Strong Leads

Bee Tree Polacco 680

Strong Leads

Bigmama’s Crews 550

Strong Leads

Bridge to Terabithia Patterson 810

Strong Leads

But I’ll be Back Again Rylant n/aStrong Leads

Cabin Key Rand n/aStrong Leads

Charlie Anderson Abercrombie 480

Strong Leads

Charlotte’s Webb White 680

Strong Leads

Cinder-Elly Minters n/a

Strong Leads

Circus Ship, The Van Dusen 660

Strong Leads

Coyote Cry Baylor n/a

Strong Leads

Cross-Country Cat Calhoun 770

Strong Leads

Discovery Channel’s Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Predators Greenberger n/a

Strong Leads

Discovery Channel’s Top 10 Deadliest Sharks Brusha n/a

Strong Leads

Do You Know What I’ll Do? Zolotow 300

Strong Leads

Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School Barshaw 510

Strong Leads

Eye of the Storm Messner 740

Strong Leads

Fireflies! Brinckloe 630

Strong Leads

Frog Prince, Continued Scieszka 600

Strong Leads

Ghosts Hour, Spooks Hour Bunting n/a

Strong Leads

Going Home Bunting 480

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Strong Leads

Grandpa Burningham n/a

Strong Leads

Have You Ever Done That? Larios n/a

Strong Leads

Heat Wave Spinelli 610

Strong Leads

Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, The Healey 750

Strong Leads

How Many Days to America? Bunting 460

Strong Leads

I Can Hear the Sun Polacco 530

Strong Leads

I Know a Lady Zolotow 750

Strong Leads

I Know an Old Lady Karas 680

Strong Leads

I Like to be Little Zolotow 160

Strong Leads

Imogene’s Antlers Small 640

Strong Leads

Iron Man Hughes 760

Strong Leads

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Ahlberg 780Strong Leads James and the Giant Peach Dahl 870Strong Leads

Jay-Z: Hip Hop Icon Gunderson 570

Strong Leads

June 29, 1999 Wiesner 750

Strong Leads

Just a Dream Van Allsburg 550

Strong Leads

Last Licks: A Spaldeen Story Best 740

Strong Leads

Liliana’s Grandmothers Torres n/a

Strong Leads

Louis the Fish Yorinks 320

Strong Leads

Marty McGuire Digs Worms! Messner 660

Strong Leads

Math Curse Scieszka 560

Strong Leads

Max Found Two Sticks Pinkney 690

Strong Leads

Meteor! Polacco 870

Strong Leads

Million Fish...More or Less McKissack 690

Strong Leads

Monster Mama Rosenberg n/a

Strong Leads

Mr. Grigg’s Work Rylant 1030

Strong Leads

Relatives Came, The Rylant 940

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Strong Leads

Sarah, Plain and Tall MacLachlan 560

Strong Leads

Seashore Book Zolotow 840

Strong Leads

Shrek! Steig 540

Strong Leads

Sitti’s Secrets Nye 590

Strong Leads

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon Lovell 560

Strong Leads

Stellaluna Cannon 550

Strong Leads

Story of Ruby Bridges, The Coles 730

Strong Leads

Tar Beach Ringgold 790

Strong Leads

This Quiet Lady Zolotow 590

Strong Leads

Thundercake Polacco 630Strong Leads Tiger Called Thomas, A Zolotow n/a

Strong Leads

To Market, to Market Miranda 350

Strong Leads

Tree of Birds Meddaugh 380

Strong Leads

Tree of Cranes Say 470

Strong Leads

Trumpet of the Swan White 850

Strong Leads

Tuesday Wiesner n/a

Strong Leads

Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, The Curtis 1000

Strong Leads

We Are Best Friends Aliki 60

Strong Leads

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox 760

Strong Leads

Willy the Wimp Browne 300

Strong Leads

Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman Krull 850

Strong Endings

Arrival, The Tan n/a

Strong Endings

At the Beach Harvey n/aStrong Endings

Beneath the Surface Crew n/aStrong Endings

Boo to a Goose Fox n/a

Strong Endings

Can I Cuddle the Moon? Brown n/a

Strong Endings

Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book Donaldson n/a

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Strong Endings

Dogs Gravett n/a

Strong Endings

Duck, Death, and the Tulip Erlbruch n/a

Strong Endings

Duckling Gets a Cookie!? Willems 210

Strong Endings

Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate, The Cowley 350

Strong Endings

Giving Tree Silverstein 530

Strong Endings

Great Expedition, The Carnavas n/a

Strong Endings

Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! Fox 280

Strong Endings

Herman and Rosie Gordon n/a

Strong Endings

Hunwick’s Egg Fox 550Strong Endings

I Am So Strong Ramos 440Strong Endings

I Want my Hat Back Klassen 90

Strong Endings

If You Had a Rock Christian n/a

Strong Endings

If You Were Born a Kitten Bauer 700

Strong Endings

Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Jeffers 470

Strong Endings

Jellybeans Van Ommen n/a

Strong Endings

Josephine Wants to Dance French 400

Strong Endings

Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ness 860

Strong Endings

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale Willems 120

Strong Endings

Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion Willems 530

Strong Endings

Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity Willems 690

Strong Endings

Laundry Day Manning n/a

Strong Endings

Lilli-Pilli, the Frog Princess Farrer n/a

Strong Endings

Making the World Wood 950

Strong Endings

Man Who Loved Boxes, The King n/a

Strong Endings

Man Whose Mother was a Pirate, The Mahy 580

Strong Endings

Millie Marsden n/a

Strong Endings

Naughty Corner Thompson n/a

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Genre Book Title Author Lexile

Strong Endings

No Bears McKinlay n/a

Strong Endings

Nobody Owns the Moon Riddle n/a

Strong Endings

Noni the Pony Lester 930

Strong Endings

Odd Egg, The Gravett n/a

Strong Endings

Off We Go! Yolen n/a

Strong Endings

Old Hu-Hu, The Mewburn n/a

Strong Endings

Pie Weeks 930

Strong Endings

Pumpkin Town! McKy 920

Strong Endings

Red Tree, The Tan n/aStrong Endings Relatives Came, The Rylant 940Strong Endings

Robot Zombie Frankstein Simon n/a

Strong Endings

Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley, The Thompson n/a

Strong Endings

Shrinking of Treehorn, The Heide 480

Strong Endings

Someday a Tree Bunting 570

Strong Endings

Stuck Jeffers n/a

Strong Endings

Teaser and the Firecat Stevens n/a

Strong Endings

There’s a Monster at the End of This Book Stone n/a

Strong Endings

This Little Chick Lawrence 460

Strong Endings

Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Carle 460

Strong Endings

Waiting for Mummy Lee n/a

Strong Endings

Watertower, The Crew n/a

Strong Endings

When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant 980

Strong Endings

Where is the Green Sheep? Fox 260

Strong Endings

Where the Wild Things Are Sendak 740

Strong Endings

Wolves Gravett n/a

Strong Endings

Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku Wardlaw n/a

Strong Endings

Z is for Moose? Bingham n/a

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UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Aminal, The Balian 800

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Bedhead Palatini 140

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Chair for My Mother, A Wiliams 640

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Chocolatina Kraft 560

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Close Your Eyes Banks 280

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Every Friday Yaccarino n/a

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Field Beyond the Outfield, The Teague 950

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More Beaumont 620

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

I Stink! McMullan n/aUsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

If Perry n/aUsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Imagine a Night Thomson n/a

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

It is the Wind Wolff 1230

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Miss Smith’s Incredibly Storybook Garland 680

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images Mr. George Baker Hest 520

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Night in the Country Rylant 580

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Pancakes for Breakfast dePaola n/a

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Pigsty Teague 590

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Poetry books Prelutsky n/a

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Raft, The LaMarche 540

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Salamander Room, The Mazer 660

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

See the Ocean Condra 710

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Star Challengers: Moonbase Crisis Moesta n/a

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Stick Kid Holowitz 310

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening Frost n/a

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Sweetest Fig, The Van Allsburg 530

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Trucker, The Weatherby 530

UsingSensory Details

& MakingMental Images

Where the Wild Things Are Sendak 740

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