List of Books Supporting the Different Comprehension Strategies

Stop & Think Strategy

What to look for:

• A strong story line
• Some predictability
• A story with discernible stopping points
• Texts that elicit a discussion

Don’t Need Friends by C. Crimi

Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes

Little Polar Bear by H. De Beer

Quacky Duck by P. and E. Rogers

Tacky the Penguin by H. Lester

Tops and Bottoms by Janet stevens

Making Connections

 What to look for:

•  A text they link to their life
• A text they link to something they have read before
• A text they link to the world around them
• Making connections with the text will help us to keep reading it.

 Text-to-Self Connections

 The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume

The Summer My Dad Was Ten by Brisson

A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting

Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting

Going Home by Eve Bunting

Sol a Sol by Lori Marie Carlson

Up North at the Cabin by Marshall Call

Rondo in C by Paul Fleischman

Koala Lou by Mem Fox

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

Text-To-Text Connections

 Now One Foot Than the Other by Tomie dePaola
The Two of Them by Aliki

Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie de Paola
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman & Caroline Binch
William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow

 The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Marius Pinkwater
Old Henry by Stephen Gammel

Text-To-World Connections

 Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting

A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting

Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey

Play Ball by Jorge Posada

An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant

• A good guess, formulating predictions, checking to see if they are correct. Helps the reader to notice if his/her thinking is on or off track.

Elee the Elegant Elephant by Carmela and Steven D’Amico

Knee-Knock Rise by Babbitt

Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe

A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting

The Old Women Who Named things by Cynthia Rylant

Cookies Week by Cindy Ward

Ask Questions

• Keeps us reading, makes the reader want to go onto the next page.

Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie

Amelia’s Road by Linda Altman

The Wolf by Margaret Barbalet

America the Beautiful by Katherine Bates

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco

Best Christmas Pagaent Ever by Robinson

All I See by Cynthia Rylant

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

“Windy Nights” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mailing May by Turner

Inferencing

Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen

Peppe, the Lamplighter by E. Bartone

Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger

Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America by Carol Bierman

The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting

See the Ocean by Estelle Condra

Getting’ Through Tuesday by Melrose Cooper

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

Carl Goes Shopping by Alexandra Day

Zoom Broom by Margie Palatini

The Tale of Mandarin Ducks by K. Paterson

The Royal Bee by Francis Park

Alvin Ailey by A. Pinkney

All I See by  Cynthia Rylant

Sensory Imaging

• We respond to the text at an emotional level. Pictures we make in our minds using all five of our senses.
• If I close my eyes,
• I can see…
• I can hear…
• I can feel…
• I can smell…
• I can taste…

A Lucky Thing by Alice Achertle

Painted Words / Spoken Moments by Aliki

Zoom and Re-Zoom by Istvan Banyai

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Barrett

I’m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor

Tangerine by Bloor

Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe

Good Dog Carl by Alexandra Day

Big Blue Whale by N. Davies

When Grandpa Kissed His Elbow by Cynthia DeFelice

The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola

Honey I Love by Eloise Greenfield

Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane

Tale of a Gambling Grandma by Dayal Kaur Khalsa

An Octopus is Amazing by Patricia Lauber

My Little Island by Lessac

Where the River Begins by Thomas Locker

Baby Whale’s Journey by Jonathan London

Summarizing

• Retelling the information, paraphrasing it
• Sort through information to pull essential ideas

Mirette On A High Wire by Emily Arnold

A Boy Called Slow  by Joseph Bruchac

Messages of Hope and Compassion by Nick Del Calzo

For Every Child a Better World by L. Gikow

Georgia Music by Helen V. Griffith

Yeh Shen A Cinderella Story from China  by Ai-Ling Louie

Cindy Ellen A Wild West Cinderella  by  Susan Lowell

Cinderella Skelton by Robert D. San Souci

An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant

Synthesizing

• Merge information with our own thinking and shape it into our own thoughts
• Readers integrate new information with their existing knowledge
• Add new information to their store of knowledge-think and learn more-changing that thinking based on what they have read

Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie

The Table Where Rich People Sit by Byrd Baylor

A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac

Smokey Night by Eve Bunting

Messages of Hope and Compassion by Nick Del Calzo

See the Ocean by Estelle Condra

Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie de Paola

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert

Koala Lou by Mem Fox

Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons