Books to Teach Comprehension
Metacognition – tracking your thinking
(wordless picture books:)
- Time Flies - Eric Rohmann
- Trainstop - Barbara Lehman
- Rainstorm - Barbara Lehman
- Pancakes for Breakfast - TomiedePaola
- The Knight and the Dragon - TomiedePaola
- Flotsam - David Wiesner
- Tuesday - David Wiesner
- FreeFall - David Wiesner
- Henry’s Freedom Box - Ellen Levineand KadirNelsonWilma
- Unlimited - Kathleen Krull
- How Many Days to America? - EveBunting
- Train to Somewhere - EveBunting
- Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen - Melissa Moss
- Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates - Jonah Winter
- America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle - David Alder
- Every Living Thing - Cynthia Rylant (book of short stories)
- Gleam and Glow - Eve Bunting
- Snowflake Bentley - JacquelineBriggs Martin
Connections
- Oliver Button is a Sissy -TomiedePaolaAmazing
- Grace - Mary Hoffman
- The Relatives Came - Cynthia Rylant
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day- Judith Voirst
- My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother - Patricia Polacco
- The Wall - Eve Bunting
- Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez - Kathleen Krull
- Martin’s Big Words: The Life ofDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Doreen Rappaport
- My Brother Martin - Christine King Farris
- Teammates - Peter Golenbo
Questioning
- Fly Away Home - Eve Bunting
- The Royal Bee- Frances and GingerPark
- The Keeping Quilt -Patricia Polacco
- Charlie Anderson - Barabara Abercrombie
- Brave Irene - William Steig
- Amelia’s Road - Linda Allman
- Baseball Saved Us - KenMochizuki
- Cheyenne Again - Eve Bunting
- The Mysteries of Harris Burdick -Chris Van Allsburg
Visualizing
- A Chair For My Mother -Vera B. Williams
- The Salamander Room - Anne Mazer
- The SeashoreBook - Charlotte Zolotow
- Fireflies - Julie Brinckloe
- Charlotte’s Web (chapter 3) - E.B. White
- The Lightning Thief -Rick Riordan
Inferring/Predicting
- Tight Times -Barbara Shook Hazen
- A Day’s Work - Eve Bunting
- Two Bad Ants - Chris Van Allsburg
- Fables - Arnold Lobel
- Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock - Eric Kimmel
- The Stranger- Chris Van Allsberg
- Owen - Kevin Henkes
Synthesis
- The Other Side - Jacqueline Woodson
- Freedom Summer - Deborah Wiles
- Follow the Drinking Gourd - Jeanette Winter
- Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney
- The Man WhoWalked Between the Towers -Mordicai Gerstein
- Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman- Louise Borden
(wordless picture books:)
- Time Flies - Eric Rohmann
- Trainstop - Barbara Lehman
- Rainstorm - Barbara Lehman
- Pancakes for Breakfast - TomiedePaola
- The Knight and the Dragon - TomiedePaola
- Flotsam - David Wiesner
- Tuesday - David Wiesner
- FreeFall - David Wiesner
- Henry’s Freedom Box - Ellen Levineand KadirNelsonWilma
- Unlimited - Kathleen Krull
- How Many Days to America? - EveBunting
- Train to Somewhere - EveBunting
- Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen - Melissa Moss
- Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates - Jonah Winter
- America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle - David Alder
- Every Living Thing - Cynthia Rylant (book of short stories)
- Gleam and Glow - Eve Bunting
- Snowflake Bentley - JacquelineBriggs Martin