The internal structure of the piece

  • Beginning, middle, and ending
  • Ability to organize and group
  • Good sense of sequence

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Books to use when teaching organization:

Call Number / Title & Author
E VIO
E FLE
E STE
E BRE
PB H EASY
E POL
E CHE
E DEP
E MUS
E POL
E DUK
921 LES
*
599.4 GIB
*
E PIN
E MAC
E MCG
PB H EASY
E WEL
E BUN
E WIL
E AND
E HEN
E CRO
E BRE
304.8 MAE
FIC SKA
*
978 ERI
*
PB T EASY
*
E TUR
E CRO
E STE
*
546 WIC
921 ELL
E MCP
ENF 398.2 AND
E BAY
E LOB
*
929.9 RYA
PB C EASY
*
510 SCH
*
E BAN
E CHE
E MED
FIC SAC
*
E HOB
E BUN
E SEU
502.8 KRA
E HAL
811 VIO
E NUM
E NUM
325 LEV
FIC BAY
*
ENF 398.2 ZEM
E STE
E WIE
E VAN
*
E WOO
E MAR
E FOX
ENF 398.2 DEP
PB D EASY
E YOL
*
*
E BUR
E BAK
Various Call #’s
*
*
E FEI
637 GIB
*
ENF 398.2 BRE
*
921 PAUL
*
E FAN
*
E POL
E WIN
*
E VAN
E WOO
E BLO
E RYL
FIC HES
E WAD
E PIL
E SPI
E BRO
*
E FOX
*
*
*
E RYL
700 BAN
811 MYE
974.4 CHE
*
E GAN
ENF 398.2 MAR
E JOY
*
E TEA
E WIE
E SHU
E EHL
E BRI
*
921 GAL
E CAN
E SCI
E MCN
E BUN
E MAR
582.16 LOC
*
E LES
*
E POL
E CUY
*
E SCH
*
E POL
E LIO
*
ENF 398.2 STE
*
FIC WHI
FIC BAB
E WIE
*
E VAN
E CAN
E CAR
E BUN
E HEN
*
E BAN
*
E SEN
921 RUD
E RAS
ENF 811 HOB
*
E VAN
700 BAN / Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
Alphabet Under Construction – Denise Fleming
Amos and Boris – William Steig
Annie and the Wild Animals – Jan Brett
Antics! – Catherine Hepworth
Appelemando’s Dreams – Patricia Polacco
Armadillo from Amarillo, The – Lynne Cherry
Art Lesson, The – Tomie dePaola
Ashanti to Zulu – Margaret Musgrove
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair – Patricia Polacco
Aunt Isabel Tells A Good One – Kate Duke
Author: A True Story – Helen Lester
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave – Marianna Mayer
Bats – Gail Gibbons
Behind the Mask – Ruth Heller
Big Orange Splot, The – Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Black and White – David Macaulay
Boomer Goes to School – Constance W. McGeorge
Boundless Grace – Mary Hoffman
Bunny Cakes – Rosemary Wells
Butterfly House – Eve Bunting
Chair for My Mother, A – Vera B. Williams
Charlie Anderson – Barbara Abercrombie
Chrysanthemum – Kevin Henkes
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type – Doreen Cronin
Comet’s Nine Lives – Jan Brett
Coming to America – Betsy Maestro
Composition, The – Antonio Skármeta
Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The – Neil Gaiman
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon – Paul Erickson
Dear Mr. Blueberry – Simon James
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School – Mark Teague
Dear Peter Rabbit – Alma Flor Ada
Deep in the Forest – Brinton Turkle
Diary of a Worm – Doreen Cronin
Dish Ran Away With the Spoon, And the – Janet Stevens
Down the Road – Alice Schertle
Drop of Water, A – Walter Wick
Duke Ellington: the Piano Prince and his Orchestra – Andrea Pinkney
Edward and the Pirates – David McPhail
Emperor’s New Clothes, The – Hans C. Anderson
Everybody Needs a Rock – Byrd Baylor
Fables – Arnold Lobel
Feathers and Fools – Mem Fox
Flag We Love, The – Pam Munoz Ryan
From Here to There – Margery Cuyler
From Pictures to Words: a book about making a book – Janet Stevens
G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Work – David M. Schwartz
Going Home – Eve Bunting
Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, The – Molly Bang
Great Kapok Tree, The – Lynne Cherry
Hog-Eye – Susan Meddaugh
Holes – Louis Sachar
Home Place – Crescent Dragonwagon
House is a House for Me, A - Mary Ann Hoberman
How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story – Eve Bunting
How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
How To Think Like a Scientist – Stephen Kramer
I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat – Donald Hall
If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries – Judith Voirst
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Laura Numeroff
If You Take a Mouse to School - Laura Numeroff
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island – Ellen Levine
I’m in Charge of Celebrations – Byrd Baylor
In November – Cynthia Rylant
It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale – Margot Zemach
Journey, The – Sarah Stewart
June 29, 1999 – David Wiesner
Just a Dream - Chris Van Allsburg
Keeping Quilt, The – Patricia Polacco
King Bidgood’s In the Bathtub – Don and Audrey Wood
Knots on a Counting Rope – Bill Martin Jr.and John Archambault
Koala Lou – Mem Fox
Legend of the Bluebonnet, The – Tomie DePaola
Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, The – Tomie DePaola
Letting Swift River Go - Jane Yolen
Listen Buddy – Helen Lester
Little Beaver and the Echo – Amy MacDonald
Little House, The – Virginia L. Burton
Magic Fan, The – Keith Baker
Magic Schoolbus Series – Joanna Cole
Man Who Lived Alone, The – Donald Hall
Mean Soup – Betsy Everitt
Meanwhile… – Jules Feiffer
Milk Makers, The – Gail Gibbons
Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman – Alan Schroeder
Mitten, The – Jan Brett
Money Tree, The – Sarah Stewart
My Life in Dog Years – Gary Paulsen
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart – Libba Moore Gray
My Map Book – Sara Fanelli
My Ol’ Man – Patricia Polacco
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother – Patricia Polacco
My Teacher for President – Kay Winters
MyVisit to the Aquarium - Aliki
Mysteries of Harris Burdick, The – Chris Van Allsburg
Napping House, The – Don and Audrey Wood
Old Henry – Joan Blos
Old Woman Who Named Things, The – Cynthia Rylant
Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell
Paperboy, The – Dav Pilkey
People – Peter Spier
Piggybook – Anthony Browne
Plantzilla – Jerdine Nolen
Possum Magic – Mem Fox
Raft, The – Jim LaMarche
Rainbabies, The – Laura Krauss Melmed
Raising Dragons – Jerdine Nolen
Relatives Came, The – Cynthia Rylant
Rezoom - Istvan Banyai
Rimshots: basketball pix, rolls, and rhythms – Charles R. Smith Jr.
River Ran Wild, A – Lynne Cherry
Rocks in His Head – Carol Otis Hurst
Rotten Ralph – Jack Gantos
Rough-Face Girl, The – Rafe Martin
Santa Calls – William Joyce
Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups, The – David Wisniewski
Secret Shortcut, The – Mark Teague
Sector 7 – David Wiesner
Snow – Uri Shulevitz
Snowballs – Lois Ehlert
Snowman, The – Raymond Briggs
Some Birthday – Patricia Polacco
Starry Messenger: a book depicting the life of a famous scientist,
mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei – Peter Sis
Stellaluna – Janell Cannon
Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The – Jon Scieszka
Suddenly – Colin McNaughton
Sunflower House – Eve Bunting
Swine Lake – James Marshall
Sky Tree: seeing science through art – Thomas Locker
Table Where Rich People Sit, The – Byrd Baylor
Tacky the Penguin – Helen Lester
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust – Eve Bunting
Thank You, Mr. Falker – Patricia Polacco
That’s Good, That’s Bad! In the Grand Canyon – Margery Cuyler
Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! – Cari Best
Things I Learned in Second Grade – Amy Schwartz
Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges
Thunder Cake – Patricia Polacco
Tico and the Golden Wings – Leo Lionni
Tomas and the Library Lady – Pat Mora
Tops and Bottoms – Janet Stevens
Tough Boris – Mem Fox
Trumpet of the Swan, The – E. B. White
Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
Tuesday – David Wiesner
Twilight Comes Twice – Ralph Fletcher
Two Bad Ants – Chris Van Allsburg
Verdi – Janell Cannon
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The – Eric Carle
Wednesday Surprise, The – Eve Bunting
Weekend With Wendell – Kevin Henkes
When Lightning Comes in a Jar – Patricia Polacco
When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry… - Molly Bang
Where Once There Was a Wood – Denise Fleming
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Wilma Unlimited: how Wilma Rudolph became the world’s fastest woman –
Kathleen Krull
Yo! Yes? – Chris Raschka
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You – Mary Ann Hoberman
Yours Truly Goldilocks – Alma Flor Ada
Z Was Zapped, The – Chris Van Allsburg
Zoom – Istvan Banyai