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K-4 Read Aloud Book List

Book Grade Concept
100th Day Worries 1 Plot
14 Cows for America 4
26 Fairmount Avenue 2 Author's Purpose
A Bad Case of Stripes 2 Voice
A Bad Case of the Giggles: Kids' Favorite Funny Poems 2 Theme
A Cache of Jewels 4 Author's Purpose
A Chair for My Mother 2 Sequence
A Cricket in Times Square 3 Author's Purpose
A Day with Firefighters K Main Idea
A First Look at Animals: On the Farm 1 Genre Studies
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms Compiled 4 Voice
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart K Genre Studies
A Picture Book of Anne Frank 4 Genre
A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin 1 Genre Studies
A Picture Book of George Washington K Genre Studies
A Picture Book of Helen Keller 1 Fact and Opinion
A Picture Book of Paul Revere 3 Sequence
A Picture Book of Sacagawea 1 Genre Studies
A Pizza the Size of the Sun 4 Voice
A Pocket for Corduroy K Character
A to Z Mysteries: The White Wolf 3 Fact and Opinion
A Weekend with Picasso 4 Author's Purpose
A Weekend with Wendell K Pronoun Reference
Abiyoyo 2 Cause and Effect
Abraham Lincoln K Compare and Contrast
Abuela 2 Genre
Addy Learns a Lesson 3 Main Idea
Aesop's Fables 2 Theme
Africa 3 Vocabulary in Context
Alan Apostrophe 3 Fact and Opinion
Aldo Applesauce 3 Plot
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 1 Drawing Conclusions
Aliens for Breakfast 3 Genre
All About Cats and Kittens K Compare and Contrast
All About Lizards 1 Fact and Opinion
Allie's Basketball Dream 3 Genre
Alligators and Crocodiles 3 Compare and Contrast
Amazing Gorillas! K Main Idea
Amazing Grace 2 Voice
Amazing Sharks! 1 Fact and Opinion
Amazing Tigers! K Main Idea
Amazing Whales! K Main Idea
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon 3 Voice
American Revolution: A Companion to the Revolutionary War on Wednesday (Magic Tree House Research Guides) 4 Main Idea
Amos and Boris 2 Theme
Amphibians 3 Explicit Information
An Extraordinary Egg 1 Vocabulary in Context
An Octopus is Amazing 2 Genre
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? 4 Genre
Andrew's Bath K Character
Animal Hearing K Explicit Information
Animal Homes 3 Classify and Categorize
Animal Sight K Explicit Information
Animal Smell K Fact and Opinion
Animal Survivors of the Arctic 4 Classify and Categorize
Animal Taste K Explicit Information
Animal Touch K Fact and Opinion
Animals of the Sea and Shore 3 Classify and Categorize
Animals That Hibernate 4 Classify and Categorize
Anna Banana and Me 2 Drawing Conclusions
Annie and the Old One 3 Voice
Apple Cider-Making Days 1 Main Idea
Apples 2 Author's Purpose
Apples of Your Eye 1 Genre
Are You My Mother? K Pronoun Reference
Arthur for the Very First Time 3 Setting
Arthur's Computer Disaster 1 Predicting
Arthur's Mystery Envelope Marc Brown 2 Classify and Categorize
Arthur's Nose 2 Character
Arthur's Pet Business 1 Classify and Categorize
Arthur's Prize Reader 1 Plot
Astronaut Living in Space 1 Vocabulary in Context
Astronauts 3 Classify and Categorize
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky 4 Predicting
Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble 2 Predicting
Autumn (Seasons of the Year) K Genre
Bats K Genre Studies
Bea and Mr. Jones K Character
Beast Feast 4 Figurative Language
Because of Winn-Dixie 3 Plot
Bedtime for Frances K Sequence
Beezus and Ramona 3 Character
Best Friends 1 Plot
Bigmama's 2 Setting
Block Party Today K Pronoun Reference
Boundless Grace 3 Theme
Bravo Maurice! K Figurative Language
Bread and Jam for Frances K Genre
Bread Bread Bread K Main Idea
Bringing Down the Moon K Plot
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? K Predicting
Bud, Not Buddy 4 Genre
Bugs and Other Insects 3 Main Idea
Bugs are Insects 1 Classify and Categorize
Bull Run 4 Drawing Conclusions
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery 3 Genre
Burnt Toast on Davenport Street 3 Compare and Contrast
Busy Toes K Vocabulary in Context
Butterflies and Moths 3 Compare and Contrast
Butterflies: Scholastic First Discoveries K Main Idea
Caimans 2 Main Idea
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball 4 Character
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Monkey House 3 Main Idea
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the UFO 3 Genre
Can Do, Jenny Archer 3 Main Idea
Caps for Sale K Plot
Carlos and the Cornfield 3 Theme
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop! K Figurative Language
Chato's Kitchen 1 Setting
Check It Out: The Book About Libraries K Sequence
Chester's Way K Plot
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom K Figurative Language
Chicken Little 2 Cause and Effect
Chicken Sunday 3 Compare and Contrast
Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia 2 Genre
Chinese Children's Favorite Stories 3 Theme
Chirping Crickets 2 Genre
Chocolate Touch 3 Plot
Chrysanthemum 1 Main Idea
Cinder Edna 1 Predicting
City 2 Compare and Contrast
City Green 3 Drawing Conclusions
Class Clown 3 Predicting
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type K Genre
Clifford the Big Red Dog: Tummy Trouble 1 Cause and Effect
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Cause and Effect
Colonial Life 3 Compare and Contrast
Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy 3 Genre
Corduroy K Plot
Cowboys and Cowgirls: YippieYay! 3 Classify and Categorize
Crickets and Grasshoppers 3 Compare and Contrast
Crow Boy 2 Theme
Curious George 1 Character
Daisy's Garden 1 Sequence
Dandelions 2 Drawing Conclusions
Dandelions (Early Bird Nature Books) 1 Fact and Opinion
Dandelions: Stars in the Grass 1 Fact and Opinion
Danny and the Dinosaur 1 Genre
Danny the Champion of the World 3 Setting
David Gets in Trouble 1 Character
David Goes To School 1 Character
Day of the Blizzard 3 Fact and Opinion
Days to Celebrate 3 Figurative Language
Days with Frog and Toad 1 Compare and Contrast
Dear Mr. Henshaw 4 Plot
Dear Whiskers 3 Theme
Deserts 4 Compare and Contrast
Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) 2 Explicit Information
Diary of a Spider 2 Author's Purpose
Diary of a Worm 2 Voice
Digging up Dinosaurs 1 Explicit Information
Dinosaur Joke Book: A Compendium of Pre-Hysteric Puns 4 Figurative Language
Dinosaurs K Fact and Opinion
Diving Dolphin 1 Vocabulary in Context
Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa 2 Setting
Doctor DeSoto 2 Predicting
Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis 2 Plot
Dogs K Compare and Contrast
Don't Forget to Come Back 1 Plot
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! 3 Point of View
Don't Say Ain't! 2 Plot
Double Fudge 4 Author's Purpose
Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story 4 Genre
Duck for President 2 Drawing Conclusions
Duck on a Bike 1 Genre
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra 4 Genre
Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco 4 Genre
Earthquakes 4 Author's Purpose
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables A to Z K Classify and Categorize
Ella the Elegant Elephant 1 Classify and Categorize
Elmer 1 Plot
Eloise 1 Character
Emily 3 Character
Emma's Yucky Brother 2 Classify and Categorize
Encounter 4 Drawing Conclusions
Endangered Animals 3 Classify and Categorize
Endangered Plants 4 Classify and Categorize
Enemies of Slavery 4 Theme
Even More Short and Shivery: Thirty Spine-tingling Tales 4 Setting
Fables 1 Drawing Conclusions
Fantastic Mr. Fox 4 Character
Farm Animals K Main Idea
Farm Community 2 Compare and Contrast
Feelings 2 Classify and Categorize
Filipino Children's Favorite Stories 4 Theme
Fireboat: The Heroic Advertures of the John J. Harvey 3 Drawing Conclusions
Fireflies 1 Explicit Information
First Day Jitters 1 Compare and Contrast
First Grade, Here I Come 1 Compare and Contrast
Fishes 3 Explicit Information
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed 1 Cause and Effect
Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary 4 Main Idea
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll 1
Flat Stanley 2 Setting
Floss 1 Drawing Conclusions
Fly Away Home 2 Drawing Conclusions
Flying K Setting
Flying Over Brooklyn 2 Setting
Fossils Tell of Long Ago 2 Vocabulary in Context
Fox and His Friends 2 Character
Franklin Rides a Bike 1 Plot
Freckle Juice 2 Classify and Categorize
Frindle 4 Plot
Frog and Toad are Friends 1 Main Idea
Frog and Toad Together 1 Genre
Froggy Goes to School 1 Genre
Frogs 1 Explicit Information
From Seed to Plant 1 Sequence
From Head to Toe K Vocabulary in Context
From Wax to Crayon 1 Fact and Opinion
Gaspard and Lisa at the Museum 1 Setting
Gaspard and Lisa: Friends Forever 3 Point of View
Gaspard at the Seashore K Setting
Gator Girls 2 Genre
George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends 1 Compare and Contrast
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen Both Sides 4 Main Idea
George Washington's Socks 4 Point of View
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Art: Monet 4 Compare and Contrast
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Art: Picasso 4 Compare and Contrast
Giant Pandas K Genre Studies
Gilberto and the Wind 2 Figurative Language
Glaciers 2 Explicit Information
Go Fish 4 Setting
Go, Dog. Go! K Genre
Goin' Someplace Special 3 Plot
Golden Eagles (Animals that Live in the Mountains) 1 Genre
Goldilocks and the Three Bears K Drawing Conclusions
Good-Night Owl! 1 Plot
Goodnight Moon K Predicting
Grace's Letter to Lincoln 4 Predicting
Granddaddy's Gift 3 Theme
Great Black Heroes: Five Bold Freedom Fighters 2 Fact and Opinion
Great Black Heroes: Five Notable Inventors 4 Classify and Categorize
Great Planet Earth Search 4 Main Idea
Groundhog Stays Up Late 1 Plot
Growing Vegetable Soup K Vocabulary in Context
Halmoni and the Picnic 3 Setting
Hansel and Gretel 4 Character
Harlem 4 Voice
Harriet and the Roller Coaster K Genre
Harry by the Sea 1 Character
Harry Goes to Day Camp K Setting
Harry Takes a Bath K Character
Harry the Dirty Dog K Pronoun Reference
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez 4 Theme
Have You Seen My Cat? K Classify and Categorize
Hearing 3 Classify and Categorize
Hedgie's Surprise 1 Predicting
Henny Penny 2 Cause and Effect
Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea 1 Setting
Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat 1 Main Idea
Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures K Sequence
Henry and Ribsy 3 Genre
Henry Huggins 3 Point of View
Hi New Baby! 3 Character
Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth 3 Sequence
Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems 2 Voice
Horrible Harry Moves Up to Third Grade 3 Character
How a Book is Made 2 Sequence
How a House is Built K Fact and Opinion
How Cold Was It? 1 Figurative Language
How Kittens Grow 1 Explicit Information
How Maps Are Made 3 Vocabulary in Context
How My Parents Learned to Eat 2 Sequence
How Teddy Bears Are Made: A Visit to the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory K Genre
How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages? 4 Main Idea
I Can't Get My Turtle To Move 1 Drawing Conclusions
I Love You the Purplest K Setting
I Want a Dog 2 Predicting
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato 1 Drawing Conclusions
I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs and Other Questions About Creepy Crawlies 1 Genre Studies
I'm Not Going to Chase the Cat Today K Sequence
I'm Ready for Math: I Know Big and Small K Classify and Categorize
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks 2 Fact and Opinion
If You Give a Moose a Muffin 1 Cause and Effect
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 1 Cause and Effect
If You Give a Pig a Pancake 1 Cause and Effect
If You Hopped Like a Frog 3 Figurative Language
If You Lived 100 Years Ago 2 Fact and Opinion
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King 4 Genre
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War 3 Compare and Contrast
If You Lived in Colonial Times 2 Author's Purpose
If You Take a Mouse to School 1 Cause and Effect
If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School 4 Voice
Iktomi and Boulder 1 Figurative Language
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories 1 Setting
In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms 4 Figurative Language
In Daddy's Arms, I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers 3 Theme
In My Momma's Kitchen 2 Main Idea
In My Own Backyard 4 Predicting
In the Small, Small Pond 1 Setting
In the Swim 1 Genre Studies
In the Wild: Leopards K Main Idea
Indian Children's Favourite Stories 4 Theme
Indian in the Cupboard 4 Author's Purpose
Insectlopedia 1 Genre Studies
Insects 3 Explicit Information
Ira Says Goodbye 2 Drawing Conclusions
Ira Sleeps Over K Pronoun Reference
It's Science: The Five Senses K Fact and Opinion
Jamaica's Find K Character
James and the Giant Peach 3 Author's Purpose
Japan 4 Compare and Contrast
Japan -- the People 4 Classify and Categorize
Jason's Bus Ride 1 Sequence
Jenny Archer to the Rescue 4 Character
Jessica 1 Vocabulary in Context
Jim and the Beanstalk 2 Compare and Contrast
Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America 3 Drawing Conclusions
Judge (Our Government Leaders) 3 Fact and Opinion
Julian's Glorious Summer 2 Setting
Julian, Dream Doctor 2 Vocabulary in Context
Julian, Secret Agent 2 Plot
Julius, the Baby of the World 2 Drawing Conclusions
Jungle 3 Vocabulary in Context
Just So Stories 4 Cause and Effect
Kinda Blue 3 Figurative Language
Kit Saves the Day: A Summer Story: 1934 3 Fact and Opinion
Kitten's First Full Moon 1 Sequence
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale K Setting
Koko's Kitten K Genre
Ladybugs K Main Idea
Last Day Blues 2 Sequence
Leo the Late Bloomer K Plot
Leopards (In the Wild) 2 Main Idea
Let's Drive, Henry Ford! 3 Fact and Opinion
Let's Go to the Museum K Fact and Opinion
Let's Go to the Zoo K Genre
Let's Make a Cake K Genre Studies
Let's Make Bread K Vocabulary in Context
Let's Make Pizza K Genre Studies
Let's Make Tacos K Genre Studies
Let's Read About Abraham Lincoln 1 Fact and Opinion
Let's Read About Rain 1 Genre
Let's Read About Snow K Fact and Opinion
Let's Read About…Rosa Parks 1 Genre Studies
Let's Read About…Ruby Bridges 3 Cause and Effect
Life Cycle of a Frog 1 Genre
Life Cycle of an Apple 2 Main Idea
Lilly's Big Day 2 Character
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse 2 Character
Lily and the Wooden Bowl 4 Plot
Lisa in New York K Setting
Lisa in the Jungle 3 Cause and Effect
Lisa's Baby Sister 3 Character
Little Bear, You're a Star! 1 Genre Studies
Little Red Riding Hood K Genre Studies
Living on Farms K Fact and Opinion
Lizards 3 Explicit Information
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China 3
Long Ago and Today K Compare and Contrast
Look Closer K Vocabulary in Context
Look What Came From India 2 Fact and Opinion
Look! Snow! K Setting
Looking at Caribbean Countries 2 Classify and Categorize
Looking at India 3 Classify and Categorize
Looking at Nigeria 3 Fact and Opinion
Lost! K Character
Lost! A Story in String 4 Sequence
Lotta on Troublemaker Street 2 Classify and Categorize
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile K Plot
Madeline 1 Character
Manatees 2 Main Idea
Marsh Music K Figurative Language
Marshes and Swamps 2 Explicit Information
Martha Speaks K Genre
Martin Luther King, Jr: A Man of Peace 4 Cause and Effect
Marvin and the Meanest Girl 4 Predicting
May'Naise Sandwiches & Sunshine Tea 4 Sequence
Mayor (Our Government Leaders) 3 Classify and Categorize
Meet Addy: An American Girl 4 Genre
Meet Felicity: An American Girl: 1774 4 Predicting
Meet Kaya 3 Main Idea
Minerva Louise at School K Setting
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain 1 Plot
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten K Sequence
Miss Maggie 3 Drawing Conclusions
Miss Malarky Leaves No Reader Behind 3 Author's Purpose
Miss Nelson is Missing! 1 Compare and Contrast
Miss Rumphius 2 Sequence
Missing May 4 Point of View
Mitchell Is Moving 2 Plot
Molly's Pilgrim 3 Drawing Conclusions
Monarch Butterfly 2 Genre
Monkey Business 3 Figurative Language
Moondogs 3 Genre
More Parts 2 Figurative Language
More Stories Huey Tells 2 Explicit Information
More Stories Julian Tells 3 Voice
Morris Goes to School 1 Genre
Moses Goes to a Concert K
Mountains 2 Explicit Information
Mr. George Baker 3 Character
Mr. President: A Book of U.S. Presidents 4 Compare and Contrast
Mr. Putter and Tabby Write the Book 2 Main Idea
Mrs. Katz and Tush 3 Voice
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters 3 Theme
Muggie Maggie 3 Cause and Effect
My Apron 1 Sequence
My Best Friend 1 Compare and Contrast
My Big Animal Book K Classify and Categorize
My Big Dinosaur Book K Classify and Categorize
My Big Truck Book K Classify and Categorize
My Big World Book K Classify and Categorize
My Dad 1 Figurative Language
My Father the Dog 1 Character
My Mom 1 Figurative Language
My Ol' Man 4 Sequence
My Red Balloon K Plot
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother 3 Voice
My Teacher Is an Alien 3 Genre
My Teacher Sleeps in School 1 Drawing Conclusions
Nate the Great 2 Character
National Worm Day 2 Author's Purpose
Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat 1 Genre
Nettie's Trip South 4 Figurative Language
Next Stop, New York City! The Polk Street Kids on Tour 3 Setting
Night at the Fair 1 Setting
No Roses for Harry! 1 Predicting
No, David! K Drawing Conclusions
Noisy Nora K Genre
Not My Dog 2 Classify and Categorize
Ocean Floors (Water Habitats) 2 Fact and Opinion
Oceans 2 Explicit Information
Officer Buckle and Gloria 2 Character
Oh Were They Ever Happy! 2 Plot
Old Henry 1 Plot
Old MacDonald Had a Farm K Figurative Language
Oliver Pig at School 1 Setting
Olivia… and the Missing Toy K Plot
Once in a Blue Moon 2 Figurative Language
Owen K Character
Owl at Home 1 Setting
Owl Moon K Drawing Conclusions
Pancakes for Breakfast K Sequence
Pandora's Box 1 Genre Studies
Paul Bunyan K Genre Studies
Pecos Bill K Genre Studies
Penguins 2 Fact and Opinion
Penguins! 2 Genre
Peter's Chair 1 Plot
Pink and Say 4 Cause and Effect
Pinkie Leaves Home 1 Setting
Pinky and Rex 2 Genre
Pinky and Rex and the Bully 2 Predicting
Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin 2 Main Idea
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes 4 Voice
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? K Predicting
Popcorn K Plot
Poppleton and Friends 1 Genre
Punching the Clock: Funny Action Idioms 2 Figurative Language
Rain Talk K Figurative Language
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 3 Fact and Opinion
Ramona the Pest 3 Plot
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf 1 Main Idea
Red-Eyed Tree Frog K Explicit Information
Reptiles 3 Explicit Information
Rex and Lilly Family Time: A Dono Easy Reader 1 Genre
Rhyme and PUNishment: Adventures in Wordplay 4 Figurative Language
Rosa 4 Classify and Categorize
Rose Blanche 4 Drawing Conclusions
Rosie's Walk K Sequence
Ruby the Copycat 1 Figurative Language
Ruby's Wish 3 Plot
Rumpelstiltskin 1 Genre Studies
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 4 Voice
Sail Away K Figurative Language
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett K Genre Studies
Sarah, Plain and Tall 4 Drawing Conclusions
Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms (Revised) 2 Figurative Language
Scholastic First Discoveries: Ladybugs and Other Insects 1 Main Idea
Scholastic Q and A: How Do Bats See in the Dark? 2 Fact and Opinion
School K Setting
Scooter 4 Plot
Seals and Sea Lions 2 Vocabulary in Context
Seasons of the Year (Spring) K Fact and Opinion
See How they Grow: Calf K Genre
Seven Brave Women 3 Drawing Conclusions
Sheep in a Jeep K Genre
Sheila Rae, the Brave K Character
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution 4 Classify and Categorize
Shoe Magic 2 Voice
Shoeshine Girl 4 Setting
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City 4 Voice
Sideways Stories from Wayside School 4 Author's Purpose
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems 2 Theme
Skyscrapers 3 Vocabulary in Context
Smoky Night 3 Drawing Conclusions
Snow White K Genre Studies
Snowed in with Grandmother Silk 3 Plot
So That's How the Moon Changes Shape! 2 Vocabulary in Context
Sojourner Truth 4 Theme
Sorting K Classify and Categorize
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One 3 Predicting
Spiders 1 Fact and Opinion
Splish! Splash! Animal Baths 2 Classify and Categorize
Spooky ABC 3 Voice
Squanto's Journey 4 Classify and Categorize
Stargazers 1 Genre Studies
Stellaluna 1 Explicit Information
Stevie 3 Voice
Stone Soup 1 Plot
Storms: Dust Storms 2 Fact and Opinion
Strega Nona 1 Predicting
Streganona Meets Her Match 2 Plot
Stuart Little 4 Author's Purpose
Suburb 2 Compare and Contrast
Summertime K Setting
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt 4 Plot
Swimmy K Plot
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble 2 Figurative Language
Take a Giant Leap, Neil Armstrong! 4 Genre
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing 3 Predicting
Talkin' About Bessie 4 Point of View
Tar Beach 3 Figurative Language
Tea with Milk 4 Plot
Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia K Pronoun Reference
Teammates 4 Drawing Conclusions
Tell Me a Story, Mama 4 Sequence
Thank You, Mr. Falker 3 Voice
The Adventures of Taxi Dog 2 Author's Purpose
The American Flag K Main Idea
The Art of Miss Chew 3
The Bat Boy and His Violin 2 Genre
The Big Book of Things that Go 1 Classify and Categorize
The Chalk Box Kid 4 Setting
The Courage of Sarah Noble 4 Theme
The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down 1 Setting
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash 1 Cause and Effect
The Digestive System: A True Book 4 Main Idea
The Discovery of the Americas 3 Main Idea
The Doorbell Rang 2 Predicting
The Empty Pot 2
The Foolish Tortoise 1 Vocabulary in Context
The Frog Prince K Genre Studies
The Frog Principal 2 Voice
The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper 3 Sequence
The Giant Carrot 1 Sequence
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses 3 Figurative Language
The Giving Tree 1 Drawing Conclusions
The Golden Flower 1 Genre Studies
The Golly Sisters Go West 2 Setting
The Good-Bye Book K Drawing Conclusions
The Great Gilly Hopkins 4 Drawing Conclusions
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest 2 Theme
The Grouchy Ladybug K Predicting
The Gunniwolf 1 Cause and Effect
The House on Mango Street 4 Predicting
The Hundred Penny Box 3 Theme
The Jazz Fly K Figurative Language
The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: and Other Surprising Stories about Inventions 4 Author's Purpose
The Legend of Old Befana 1 Genre Studies
The Legend of the Bluebonnet 1 Genre Studies
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush 1 Genre Studies
The Library Card 4 Plot
The Life Cycle of a Beetle 3 Vocabulary in Context
The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin 2 Vocabulary in Context
The Listening Walk K Setting
The Little House 2 Figurative Language
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear 1 Predicting
The Little Old Woman and the Hungry Cat 1 Figurative Language
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge K Setting
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families 4
The Meanest Thing to Say 1 Setting
The Memory Coat 3 Fact and Opinion
The Mitten 2 Vocabulary in Context
The Mitten Tree 2 Sequence
The Monster in the Third Dresser Drawer and Other Stories about Adam Joshua 2 Explicit Information
The Moon (in the Sky) 2 Fact and Opinion
The Moon Book 4 Cause and Effect
The Moon Lady 4 Sequence
The Mouse and the Motorcycle 3 Author's Purpose
The Mud Pony: A Traditional Skidi Pawnee Tale 3 Drawing Conclusions
The Napping House 2 Predicting
The Paper Bag Princess 2 Voice
The Paper Crane 3 Point of View
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed 1 Sequence
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! 3 Point of View
The Planets 3 Cause and Effect
The Popcorn Book K Genre Studies
The Post Office Book: Mail and How it Moves 1 Sequence
The Princess and the Pea (Favourite Tales) 2 Compare and Contrast
The Princess and the Pizza 2 Compare and Contrast
The Pumpkin Book K Main Idea
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children 4 Voice
The Relatives Came 3 Sequence
The Road to Mumbai 2 Setting
The Rough-Face Girl 4 Theme
The Runaway Bunny 2 Cause and Effect
The Runaway Tortilla 2 Figurative Language
The Secret 2 Predicting
The Secret Birthday Message 1 Sequence
The Secret Shortcut 1 Sequence
The Seven Chinese Brothers 3 Plot
The Shape of Things K Classify and Categorize
The Shark: Silent Hunter 2 Main Idea
The Snowman K Sequence
The Snowy Day K Pronoun Reference
The Statue of Liberty K Main Idea
The Stories Huey Tells 2 Explicit Information
The Stories Julian Tells 1 Predicting
The Story of Babar 1 Character
The Story of Noodles 3 Plot
The Story of Ruby Bridges K Genre Studies
The Teacher From the Black Lagoon 2 Author's Purpose
The Three Bears K Sequence
The Three Brothers: A German Folktale 4 Setting
The Three Little Pigs 1 Genre Studies
The Three Little Pigs 1 Cause and Effect
The Tiny Seed (Big Book) 1 Vocabulary in Context
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs 2 Cause and Effect
The Twits 4 Character
The Ugly Duckling 2 Theme
The Van Gogh Cafe 4 Setting
The Vegetables We Eat 1 Genre
The Very Busy Spider K Predicting
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle K Predicting
The Very Hungry Caterpillar K Sequence
The Very Lonely Firefly K Predicting
The Very Quiet Cricket K Predicting
The Wall 4 Drawing Conclusions
The Wedding 1 Main Idea
The Whipping Boy 4 Point of View
There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow 2 Cause and Effect
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly 2 Cause and Effect
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout! 2 Cause and Effect
There's a Frog in my Throat: 440 Sayings a Little Animal Told Me 2 Figurative Language
This Is My Story: I Come from Ivory Coast 2 Fact and Opinion
Those Amazing Ants K Explicit Information
Three by the Sea 2 Genre
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe 3 Sequence
Through My Eyes 4 Theme
Tight Times 2 Drawing Conclusions
Time for Kids: Butterflies! 3 Fact and Opinion
Today is Monday 1 Sequence
Tools 1 Classify and Categorize
Toot and Puddle 1 Compare and Contrast
Tracks in the Snow K Setting
Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other Stories 3 Setting
Tropical Oceans 3 Vocabulary in Context
Tropical Rain Forests 3 Explicit Information
Two Bad Ants 2 Predicting
Two Ways to Count to Ten: A Liberian Folk Tale 3 Cause and Effect
Umbrella 4 Figurative Language
Uncle Jed's Barbershop 2 Drawing Conclusions
Vanished!: The Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart 3 Author's Purpose
Volcanoes 2 Explicit Information
Volcanoes and Other Natural Disasters 3 Main Idea
Walt Whitman: Words for America 3 Fact and Opinion
We are All Alike . . . We are All Different 1 Classify and Categorize
Wemberly Worried 1 Main Idea
What Do Authors Do? 2 Author's Purpose
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? K Explicit Information
What Happens to a Hamburger? 2 Sequence
What Is the World Made Of?: All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases 2 Classify and Categorize
What's Alive? 1 Classify and Categorize
What's Cooking, Jenny Archer? 3 Genre
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? 3 Main Idea
When a Line Bends . . . A Shape Begins 1 Classify and Categorize
When Charlie McButton Lost Power 2 Plot
When I Grow Up... 3 Cause and Effect
When Sophie Gets Angry---Really, Really Angry K Pronoun Reference
When Will This Cruel War Be Over: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson 4 Point of View
Where Does the Mail Go? A Book about the Postal System 3 Cause and Effect
Where the Sidewalk Ends 3 Voice
Where the Wild Things Are K Pronoun Reference
Whistle for Willie 3 Point of View
White Socks Only 3 Point of View
Who Eats What: Food Chains and Webs 3 Cause and Effect
Who Lives in an Alligator Hole? 3 Author's Purpose
Who Sank the Boat? K Plot
Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses? 3 Author's Purpose
Why Do You Cry?: Not a Sob Story 2 Cause and Effect
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale 4 Cause and Effect
Why the Banana Split 4 Figurative Language
Wild Weather: Blizzards! 3 Main Idea
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? 4 Main Idea
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman 3 Main Idea
Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family 4 Plot
Yo! Yes? K Drawing Conclusions
You Can't Eat your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown 3 Explicit Information
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? 4 Theme
Your Pet Dog K Genre
Zathura 3 Genre
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin K
Zoo 2 Author's Purpose

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