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Books to Teach Comprehension Strategies
Questioning
(What are you noticing? What are you wondering? What questions do you have about the book?/Before, during, and After Reading)
Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger
The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
Grandmother Winter by Barbara Berger
All I See by Cynthia Rylant
An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant
The Wise Woman and Her Secret by Eve Merriam
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Why is the Sky Blue? By Sally Grindley
Applelemando’s Dreams By Patricia Polacco
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
(Questioning Cause and Effect)
(What happened? Why did it happen?)
Anansi and the Moss Covered Moss by Retold by Eric A Kimmel
Harvey the Foolish Pig by Retold by Dick Gackenbach
Text to Self
Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe
Koala Lou by Mem Fox
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
The Snowy Day by Ezra Keats
My Rotten Red-Headed Brother by Polacco
Text to Text
Amazing Grace By Mary Hoffman
Oliver Button Is A Sissy By Tomie dePaola’
Smokey Night by Eve Bunting
My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
When Lightening Comes in a Jar by Patricia Polacco
Text to World
A Picnic In October by Eve Bunting
Let’s Go Home by Cynthia Rylant
Stranger in the Woods by
Predicting
The Royal Bee by Frances and Ginger Park
Possum Magic by Mem Fox
The Van Gogh Café by Cynthia Rylant
Visualizing
Winter at Long Pond by William T George
Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe
Thundercake by Patricia Pollaco
North Country Night by Daniel San Souci
Smokey Night by Eve Bunting
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judy Barrett
(Sensory Visualizing)
Let’s Go Home by Cynthia Rylant
Where the River Begins by Thomas Locker
Inferring
Creatures of the Earth, Sea and Sky by Georgia Heard
Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe
Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger
How Many Days to America? By Eve Bunting
If you Listen by Charlotte Zolotow
Mother Earth, Father Sky by Jane Yolen
Where are you going, Manyoni? By Catherine Stock
Synthesizing
Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola
Tea with Milk by Allen Say
Smokey Night by Eve Bunting
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
The Library by Sarah Stewart
The Story of the Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe
The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills
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