Humble ISD
Comprehension Strategy Booklist
Compiled from Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller, Strategies That Work by Harvey & Goudvis,
Interactive Read Aloud, Linda Hoyt
Strategy: Making Connections/Schema
Title / Author / Suggested Grade Level / Used as example lesson text / Grade Level/ StrategyAmazing Grace / Mary Hoffman / K-2
Amos and Boris / William Steig / K-2
The Art Lesson / Tomie dePaola / K-2 / yes / Kinder/Monitoring
Chrysanthemum / Kevin Henkes / K-2
Fireflies / Julie Brinkloe / K-2
Hazel’s Amazing Mother / Rosemary Wells / K-2
I Know a Lady / Charlotte Zolotow / K-2
Ira Sleeps Over / Bernard Waber / K-2
Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs / Tomie dePaola / K-2
Now One Foot, Now the Other / Tomie dePaola / K-2
Oliver Button is a Sissy / Tomie dePaola / K-2
My Great-Aunt Arizona / Gloria Houston / K-2
Tops and Bottoms / Janet Stevens / K-2 / yes / Kinder/Monitoring
Owen / Kevin Henkes / K-2
Koala Lou / Mem Fox / K-2
Roxaboxen / Alice McLerran / K-2
The Relatives Came / Cynthia Rylant / K-2
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge / Mem Fox / K-2
Goodnight Moon / Margaret Wise Brown / K-2 / yes / Kinder/Schema
Frog and Toad Series / Arnold Lobel / K-2
Shelia Rae, the Brave / Kevin Henkes / K-2
The Two of Them / Aliki / K-2
Wemberly Worried / Kevin Henkes / K-2
Julius, Baby of the World / Kevin Henkes / K-2
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse / Kevin Henkes / K-2
Brave Irene / William Steig / K-2
William’s Doll / Charlotte Zolotow / K-2
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day! / Judith Viorst / K-2
Oliver Button Is a Sissy / Tomie dePaola / K-2
How Many Days to America / Eve Bunting / 3-5 / yes / 3rd/Monitoring
The Keeping Quilt / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
Chicken Sunday / Patricia Polaccoo / 3-5 / yes
Every Living Thing (short stories) / Cynthia Rylant / 3-5 / yes / 3rd/Schema
Lightning / Stephen Kramer / 3-5 / yes / 3rd/Schema
Gleam and Glow / Eve Bunting / 3-5 / yes / 5th/Monitoing
Mrs. Katz and Tush / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
Thank you, Mr. Falker! / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
Going Home / Eve Bunting / 3-5
Miss Maggie / Cynthia Rylant / 3-5
A Picnic in October / Eve Bunting / 3-5
The Summer My Father Was Ten / Pat Brisson / 3-5
I Hate English / Ellen Levine / 3-5
Baseball Saved Us / Ken Mochizuki / 3-5
Strategy: Questioning/Asking Questions
Title / Author / Suggested Grade Level / Used as example lesson text / Grade Level/ StrategyCharlie Anderson / Barbara Abercrombie / K-2
Ameila’s Road / Linda Altman / K-2
Grandfather Twilight / Barbara Berger / K-2
The Lotus Seed / Sherry Garland / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Questioning
All I See / Cynthia Rylant / K-2
Big Al / Andrew Clements / K-2
Grandmother Winter / Barbara Berger / K-2
Monarch Butterfly / Gail Gibbons / K-2
Dr. DeSoto / William Steig / K-2
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble / William Steig / K-2
The Polar Express / Chris Van Allsburg / K-2
Fly Away Home / Eve Bunting / K-2 (2nd)
Why Is the Sky Blue? / Sally Grindley / K-2
Yanni Rubbish / Shulamith Levey Oppenheim / K-2
Hurricane / David Weisner / K-2
The Song and Dance Man / Karen Ackerman / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Questioning
Bad Day at Riverbend / Chris Van Allsburg / 2
A Day’s Work / Eve Bunting / 3-5
How Many Days to America / Eve Bunting / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd/Monitoring
The Wall / Eve Bunting / 3-5
The Wednesday Surprise / Eve Bunting / 3-5
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret / Florence Heide / 3-5
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road / Julius Lester / 3-5
The Potato Man / Megan McDonald / 3-5
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth / Kathryn Lanksy / 3-5
Pink and Say / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
The Stranger / Chris Van Allsburg / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Questioning
The Mary Celeste / Jan Yolen / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Questioning
Tight Times / Barbara Hazen / 3-5
The Wise Woman and Her Secret / Eve Merriam / 3-5
An Angel for Solomon Singer / Cynthia Rylant / 3-5
Grandfather's Journey / Allen Say / 3-5
Cheyenne Again / Eve Bunting / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Questioning
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters / John Steptoe / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Questioning
The Name Jar / Yangsook Choi / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd/Questioning
The Story Of Jumping Mouse / John Steptoe / 3-5 / yes / 3rd/Visualzing
The Story of Ruby Bridges / Robert Cole / 3-5
Fly High: The Story of Bessie Coleman / Louise Borden / 5
Strategy: Visualizing/Creating Mental Images
Title / Author / Suggested Grade Level / Used as example lesson text / Grade Level/ StrategyClose Your Eyes / Jean Marzollo / K-2
Color Me a Rhyme / Jane Yolen / K-2
Creatures of the Earth, Sea and Sky / Georgia Heard / K-2 / yes / K;1st;2nd/Visualizing
Fireflies at Midnight (poetry) / Marilyn Singer / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Visualizing
The Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices / Paul B. Janeczko, Melissa Sweet / K-2 / yes / 1st/Visualzing
Honey, I Love / Eloise Greenfield / K-2 / Yes / Kinder/Visualzing
The Napping House / Audrey Wood / K-2 / Yes / Kinder/Visualizing
The Salamander Room / Anne Mazer / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Visualzing
Night Sounds, Morning Colors / Rosemary Wells / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Visualizing
Say Something / Mary Stolz / K-2
Wild, Wild Sunflower Child / Nancy White Carlstrom / K-2
Greyling / Jane Yolen / 2
The Zoo at Night / Martha Robinson / K-2
Footprints and Shadows / Anne Westcott Dodd / K-2
Goodnight to Annie / Eve Merriam / K-2
I Am the Ocean / Suzanna Marshak / K-2
Night in the Country / Cynthia Rylant / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Visualizing
Quiet, Please / Eve Merriam / K-2
What Does the Rain Play? / Nancy White Carlstrom / K-2
City Sounds / Jean Marzollo / K-2
Big Blue Whale / Nicola Davies / K-2
The Cloud Book / Tomie dePaola / K-2
Dream Weaver / Jonathon London / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Visualizing
Harriet, You Drive Me Wild / Mem Fox / K-2 / Yes / Kinder/Visualizing
The Teacher From the Black Lagoon / Mark Thayler / K-2 / yes / Kinder/Visualizing
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie / Laura Numeroff / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Visualizing
Frogs / Gail Gibbons / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Visualizing
All the Small Poems and Fourteen Others / Valerie Worth / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Visualizing
When I Was Young in the Mountains / Cynthia Rylant / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Visualizing
Chicken Sunday / Patricia Polacco / 2 / Yes / 2nd/Visualizing
A Bad Case of the Stripes / David Shannon / 3-5
Twilight Comes Twice / Ralph Fletcher / 3-5
Where the River Begins / Thomas Locke / 3-5
Marianthe's Story: Painted Words, Spoken Memories / Aliki / 3-5
Charlotte's Web / E.B. White / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd/Visualizing
A Walk in the Rain Forest / Rebecca L. Johnson / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd/Visualizing
All the Small Poems and Fourteen Others / Valerie Worth / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd;4th/Visualizing
The Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices / Paul B. Janeczko, Melissa Sweet / 3-5 / yes / 3rd/Visualzing
Honey, I Love / Eloise Greenfield / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd;4th/Visualzing
Where the Sidewalk Ends / Shel Silverstein / 3-5 / yes / 3rd/Visualzing
See the Ocean / Estelle Condra / 3-5
Shadow Ball: The History of the Negro Leagues / Geoffry Ward / 3-5
A Lucky Thing / Alice Schertle / 3-5
Bad Day At Riverbend / Chris Van Allsburg / 3-5
The Story Of Jumping Mouse / John Steptoe / 3-5 / yes / 3rd/Visualzing
Dogteam / Gary Paulsen / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Visualzing
Owl Moon / Jane Yolen / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Visualzing
Duke Ellington:The Piano Prince and His Orchestra / Andrea Davis Pinkney / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Visualzing
Grandfather's Journey / Allen Say / 3-5
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt / Deborah Hopkinson / 3-5
Harlem / Walter Dean Myers / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Visualzing
Song of the Water Boatman / Joyce Sidman / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Visualizing
Two Bad Ants / Chris Vans Allsburg
Strategy: Inferring
Title / Author / Suggested Grade Level / Used as example lesson text / Grade Level/ StrategyIf You Listen / Charlotte Zolotow / K-2
Brave Irene / William Steig / K-2
Fly Away Home / Eve Bunting / K-2 / 2nd/Inferring-Theme
Someday a Tree / Eve Bunting / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Inferring-Theme
A Day’s Work / Eve Bunting / K-2 / Yes / 2ndInferring-Theme
One Green Apple / Eve Bunting / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Inferring-Theme
The Lotus Seed / Sherry Garland / K-2 / 2nd/Questioning
Dandelions / Eve Bunting / K-2
Flower Garden / Eve Bunting / K-2
The Wednesday Surprise / Eve Bunting / K-2
The Great Gracie Chase / Cynthia Rylant / K-2
The Relatives Came / Cynthia Rylant / K-2
When I Was Young in the Mountains / Cynthia Rylant / K-2
The Old Woman Who Named Things / Cynthia Rylant / K-2
Alligator Boy / Cynthia Rylant / K-2
The Royal Bee / Frances Park / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Inferring
Something Beautiful / Sharon Dennis Nyeth / 2
Ira Says Goodbye / Bernard Waber / K-1 / Yes / 1st/Inferring
Ira Sleeps Over / Bernard Waber / K-1
Oliver Button Is a Sissy / Tomie dePaola / K-2
Good Dog Carl / Alexandra Day / K-2
Rain Forest / Helen Cowcher / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Inferring
Back Yard Books (Series)
- Are you a snail?
Read and Wonder Series
- Bats Love the Night
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse / Kevin Henkes / K-1 / Yes / 1st/Inferring
Where Are You Going, Manyoni? / Catherine Stock / 2
Where the Wild Things Are / Maurice Sendak / K-2 / Yes / Kinder/Inferring;
1st/Inferring-theme
The Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices / Paul B. Janeczko, Melissa Sweet / K-2 / yes / Kinder/Inferring
Pancakes for Breakfast / Tomie dePaola / K-2 (2nd) / yes / Kinder/Inferring
Good Dog Carl / Alexandra Day / K-2 / yes / Kinder/Inferring
On the Wings (poetry) / Douglas Florian / K-2 / yes / Kinder/Inferring
All the Small Poems and Fourteen Others / Valerie Worth / K-2 / Yes / Kinder/Inferring
Tough Boris / MemFox / K-2 / Yes / Kinder/Inferring
Spectacular Science: a book of poems / Lee Bennett Hopkins / K-2 / Yes / Kinder/Inferring
Honey, I Love / Eloise Greenfield / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Inferring
Lion and the Mouse / Jerry Pinkney / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Inferring
A Weekend with Wendell / Kevin Henkes / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Inferring
Antarctica / Helen Cowcher / K-2 / yes / 1st/Inferring
Creatures of the Earth, Sea and Sky / Georgia Heard / K-2 / yes / 2nd/Inferring
Smoky Night / Eve Bunting / 2 / Yes / 2nd/Inferring
Just Plain Fancy / Patricia Polacco / 2 / Yes / 2nd/Inferring
Insectlopedia / Douglas Florian / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Inferring
KAT KONG / Dav Pilkey / K-2 / Yes / 2nd/Inferring
Encounter / Jane Yolen / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Inferring-theme
How Many Days to America / Eve Bunting / 3-5
Miss Maggie / Cynthia Rylant / 3-5
Teammates / Peter Golenbock / 3-5 / 3rd/Inferring-theme
The Table Where Rich People Sit / Byrd Baylor / 3-5
Tight Times / Barbara Shook Hazen / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd/Inferring
The Stranger / Chris Van Allsburg / 3-5
Something Beautiful / Sharon Dennis Nyeth / 3
June 29, 1999 / David Weisner / 3-5
Tuesday / David Weisner
Going Home / Eve Bunting / 3-5
The Wall / Eve Bunting / 3-5
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head / Kathryn Lansky / 3-5
Jumanji / Chris Van Allsburg / 3-5
Crow Boy / Taro Yishima / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd/Inferring
Cheyenne Again / Eve Bunting / 3-5 / Yes / 3rd/Inferring; 4th Inferring-theme
Come Back, Salmon / Mary Cone / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Inferring
All the Small Poems and Fourteen Others / Valerie Worth / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Inferring
Top of the World / Steve Jenkins / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Inferring
An Angel for Solomon Singer / Cynthia Rylant / 3-5 / 5th/Inferrring-theme
The Other Side / Jacqueline Woodson / 3-5 / 4th/Inferring-theme
Faithful Elephants / Yukio Tsuchiya / 3-5
The Wise Enchanter / Shelley Davidow / 3-5
A Drop of Water / Walter Wick / 3-5
Coolies / Yin / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Inferring
An Orange for Frankie / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
One Candle / Eve Bunting / 3-5
Snowflake Bentley / J Briggs Martin / 2-5
Silver Packages / Cynthia Rylant / 3-5
Sparrow Girl / Sara Pennypacker / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Inferring
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds / Paula Yoo / 3-5
The Other Side / Jacqueline Woods / 3-5 / Yes / 4th/Inferring-theme
Freedom Summer / Deborah Wiles / 3-5
The Train to Somewhere / Eve Bunting / 3-5
What You Know First / Patricia MacLachlan / 2-5
My Rotten Older Redheaded Brother / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
The Bee Tree / Patricia Polacco / 3-5
Pink & Say / Patricia Polacco / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Inferring-theme
Strategy: Determining Importance
Title / Author / Used as example lesson text / Grade Level/ StrategyAirplanes and Flying Machines / First Discovery Books / K-2
Flight / Robert Burleigh / K-2
The Mild Makers / Gail Gibbons / K-2
Somewhere Today / Bert Kitchen / K-2
Spiders / Gail Gibbons / K-2 / Yes
Hungry, Hungry Sharks / Joanna Cole / K-2
The Important Book / Margaret Wise Brown / K-2
The Great Kapok Tree / Lynne Cherry / K-2
The Cloud Book / Tomie dePaola / K-2
Tops and Bottoms / Janet Stevens / K-2
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One / Kate Duke / K-2
Cross a Bridge / Ryan Ann Hunter / K-2
Into the Sky / Ryan Ann Hunter / K-2
Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark / Joanna Hurwitz / K-2
The Lady and the Spider / Faith McNulty / K-2
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky / Faith Ringgold / K-2
Sophie's Masterpiece / Eileen Spinelli / K-2
The Grouchy Ladybug / Eric Carle / K-1 / Yes / Kinder/Determine Imp.
The Important Book / Margaret Wise Brown / K-2
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse / Kevn Henkes / K-1
My Friend Rabbit / Eric Rohmann / K-1
Joseph Had A Little Overcoat / Simms Taback / K-1 / Yes / 1st/Determine Import.
House is a House for Me / Mary Ann Hoberman / K-1
A Chair for My Mother / Vera Williams / K-2
Have You Seen My Duckling? / Nancy Tafuri / K-1
The Stray Dog / Marc Simont / K-2
Snowflake Bentley / J. Briggs Martin / 2-5 / 2nd/Determine Import,
Bull Run / Paul Fleischman / 3-5
Exploring the Titanic / Robert Ballard / 3-5
Squanto's Journey; The Story of the First Thanksgiving / Joseph Bruchac / 3-5
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez / Kathleen Krull / 3-5
Now Let me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family / Delores Johnson / 3-5
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People and War / Yukio Tsuchiya / 3-5
Encounter / Jane Yolen / 3-5
Diary of a Worm / Doreen Cronin / 3
Seven Blind Mice / Ed Young / 3
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers / Mordicai Gerstein / 3-5
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins / Barbara Kerley / 3-5
The Art Lesson / Tomie dePaola / 3 / Yes / 3rd/Determine Import.
Lady Liberty: A Biography / Doreen Rapapport / 3-5 / Yes / 5th/Determine Import.
Roanke:The Lost Colony / Jane Yolen / 3-5 / Yes / 5th Determine Import.
Two Bad Ants / Chris Van Allsburg / 3-5
Strategy: Synthesizing and Summarizing
Title / Author / Suggested Grade Level / Used as example lesson text / Grade Level/ StrategyMirette On the High Wire / Emily Arnold / K-2
An Amazing Octopus / Patricia Lauber / K-2
The Alphabet Tree / Leo Lionni / K-2
Charlie Anderson / Barbara Abercrombie / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Synthesis
Fables / Arnold Lobel / K-2
Frederick's Fables / Leo Lionni / K-2
Oliver Button Is a Sissy / Tomie dePaola / K-2
The Rag Coat / Lauren Mills / K-2
The Story of Jumping Mouse / John Steptoe / 2
Stellaluna / Janell Cannon / K-2 / Yes / K/Synthesis
Verde / Janell Cannon / K-2
The Umbrella / Jan Brett / K-2
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly / Eric Carle / K-2
Julius, Baby of the World / Kevin Henkes / K-2 / Yes / K/Synthesis
A Color of His Own / Leo Lionni / K
The Art Lesson / Tomie dePaola / K-2
The Great Kapok Tree / Lynne Cherry / K-2 / Yes / 1st/Synthesis
Fish is Fish / Leo Lionni / K-1
The Alphabet Tree / Leo Lionni / K-1
Amazing Grace / Mary Hoffman / K-2
See the Ocean / Estelle Condra / 2
Smoky Night / Eve Bunting / 2 / 2nd /Synthesis
The Library / Sarah Stewart / 1-2 / 2nd /Synthesis
The Money Tree / Sarah Stewart / 1-2
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head / Kathryn Lansky / 3-5
See the Ocean / Estelle Condra / 3-5
Smoky Night / Eve Bunting / 3-5
The Table Where Rich People Sit / Byrd Baylor / 3-5
The Story of Jumping Mouse / John Steptoe / 3-5
Tea With Milk / Allen Say / 3-5
An Angel for Solomon Singer / Cynthia Rylant / 3-5
The Rough Faced Girl / Rafe Martin / 3-5
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