Skill
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Book
Title
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Author
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ABC Books |
A is for
Salad
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Lester |
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Absolutely Awful
Alphabet |
Gerstein |
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Animalia |
Base |
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Antics |
Hepworth |
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Many Nations, An Alphabet of
Native Americans |
Bruchac |
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Miss Spider's ABC |
Kirk |
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Old Black Fly |
Aylesworth |
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Prairie Alphabet |
Bannatyne-Cugnet |
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Prairie Primer
A-Z |
Stutson |
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Tomorrow's Alphabet |
Shannon |
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Wacky Wedding |
Edwards |
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What Pete Ate
A-Z |
Kalman |
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| Acrostic Poems |
Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic |
Schnur |
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| Adjectives |
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary; What is
an Adjective? |
Cleary |
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Old Black Fly |
Aylesworth |
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Many Luscious Lollipops |
Heller |
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That's Good! That's Bad! |
Cuyler |
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Things that are Most in the
World |
Barrett |
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Adverbs |
Dearly, Nearly,
Insincerely What is an Adverb? |
Cleary |
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Faint Frogs Feeling
Feverish |
Obligado |
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Z Was Zapped |
Van
Allsburg |
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| Alliteration |
Absolutely Awful Alphabet |
Gerstein |
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Animalia |
Base |
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Dinorella |
Edwards |
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Faint Frogs Feeling
Feverish |
Obligado |
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Four Famished Foxes |
Edwards |
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Lilly's Purple Plastic
Purse |
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Some Smug Slug |
Edwards |
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Wacky Wedding |
Edwards |
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What Pete Ate From A-Z |
Kalman |
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Worrywarts |
Edwards |
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| Anagrams |
Elvis Lives! And Other
Anagrams |
Agee |
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| Beginnings & Endings (K-1) |
Elemenopeo |
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Follow the Moon |
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Grandfather Twilight |
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Ice Cream |
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James and the Giant Peach |
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Just Like Daddy |
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Mommy's Hands |
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Shortcut |
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Sophie |
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When Poppy and Max Grow Up |
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| Beginnings & Endings (2-3) |
Army
Ant Parade |
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Bridge to Terebithia |
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Crawdad Creek |
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The Old Cotton Blues |
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The Relatives Came |
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Salt in His Shoes |
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Shrek |
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Storm Book |
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The Tin Forest |
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Wednesday Surprise |
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| Character Development (K-1) |
Alexander & the
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
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Big Al |
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Bunnicula: Rabbit-Tale Mystery |
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David Gets in Trouble |
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Earl's Too Cool For Me |
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I Know a Lady |
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Jessica |
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Little Brown Bear Won't Take a Nap |
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My Last Chance Brother |
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Two of Them |
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| Character Development (2-3) |
Big Mama |
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Brave Irene |
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Danny, Champion of the World |
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The Grannyman |
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My Great Aunt Arizona |
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My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother |
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Robin's Room |
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The Song and Dance Man |
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Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon |
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Super-Completely Totally the Messiest |
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Compound Words |
Once there was a
Bull…(frog) |
Walton |
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| Descriptive Language (K-1) |
Dream Weaver |
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Fishing in the Air |
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Ghost Eye Tree |
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I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers |
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Listen to the Rain |
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Mud |
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The Paperboy |
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Puddles |
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Where Does the Wind Blow? |
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Won't Papa Be Surprised? |
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| Descriptive Language (2-3) |
Baby |
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Bippity Bop Barbershop |
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Earthdance |
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Hairs/Pelitos |
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Milo's Hat Trick |
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Night in the Country |
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Owl Moon |
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Scarecrow |
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Sun Dance Water Dance |
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The Wall |
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Extras (K-3) |
Baby Brains |
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Beach Day |
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How Are You Peeling? |
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I'm A Pig |
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Salt in His Shoes |
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Snowboard Twist |
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The Giving Tree |
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Who Hoots? |
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Flashback |
Alexander, Who Used to be Rich
Last Sunday |
Viorst |
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Miss Rumphius |
Cooney |
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Grammar |
Harvey Potter's Balloon
Farm |
Nolen |
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Old Jake's
Skirts |
Slonim |
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| Homonyms |
Eight Ate, A Feast of Homonym
Riddles |
Terban |
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Why the Banana Split |
Walton |
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Homophones |
A Chocolate Moose for Dinner |
Gwynne |
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Idioms |
Amelia
Bedelia |
Parish |
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Dog Breath |
Pilkey |
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In a Pickle, and Other Funny
Idioms |
Terban |
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My Momma Likes to Say |
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| Interjections and Conjunctions |
Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! |
Heller |
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| Jokes & Riddles |
Funny You Should Ask: How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles
with Wordplay |
Terban |
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| Letter Writing |
Armadillo from Amarillo |
Cherry |
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Around the World, Who's Been
Here? |
George |
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Letters from the Jolly Postman |
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Message in the
Mailbox |
Leedy |
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Stringbean's Trip to the Shining
Sea |
Williams |
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| Memorable Language |
Fireflies! |
Brinckloe |
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Home Place |
Dragonwagon |
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Jumanji |
Van Allsburg |
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Letting Swift River
Go |
Yolen |
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Memory Box |
Shanley |
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Midnight in the
Mountains |
Lawson |
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My Mama Had a Dancing
Heart |
Gray |
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Nothing Ever Happens on 90th
Street |
Schotter |
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Owl Moon |
Yolen |
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The Relatives Came |
Rylant |
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Nouns |
A
Cache of Jewels |
Heller |
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A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink,
What is a Noun? |
Cleary |
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| Onomatopoeia |
Heron Street |
Turner |
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That's Good! That's
Bad! |
Cuyler |
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ZZZng! ZZZng!
ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale |
Gershator |
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| Oxymorons |
Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp?
And other Oxymorons |
Agee |
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| Palindromes |
Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna
Hog! |
Agee |
|
Too Hot to Hoot
|
Terban |
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| Personification |
Call Me Ahnighito |
Conrad |
|
Giving Tree |
Silverstein |
|
If You Give a Pig a
Pancake |
Numeroff |
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Officer Buckle and Gloria |
Rathmann |
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
Steig |
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Velveteen
Rabbit |
Williams |
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Prepositions |
Behing the Mask |
Heller |
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Under, Over, by the Clover;
What is a Preposition? |
Cleary |
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Pronouns |
I and You and Don't
Forget Who |
Cleary |
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Mine, All Mine |
Heller |
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| Punctuation |
Punctuation takes a
Vacation |
Pulver |
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| Similes/Metaphors |
Brave as a
Mountain Lion |
Scott |
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Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon |
Williams |
|
Knots on a Counting
Rope |
Martin |
|
Like Jake and
Me |
Jukes |
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Old Jake's Skirts |
Slonim |
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Owl Moon |
Yolen |
|
Quick as a
Cricket |
Wood |
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Song and Dance
Man |
Ackerman |
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Swamp Angel |
Zelinsky |
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The Girl Who Loved Wild
Horses |
Goble |
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Superlatives |
Things that are Most In the World |
Barrett |
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Symbolism |
Fly Away Home |
Bunting |
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Keeping Quilt |
Polacco |
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Text Structure (K-1) |
Amber Was Brave, Essie
Was Smart |
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Central Park Serenade |
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Counting Kisses |
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Do You Know What I'll Do |
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It's Going to Be Perfect |
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K is for Kitten |
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My Grandma is Wonderful |
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The Relatives Came |
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Tough Boris |
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When I Was Young in the Mountains |
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Text Structure (2-3) |
Amber Was Brave,
Essie Was Smart |
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Family Pictures |
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A Journey to the New World |
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M is for Mayflower |
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My Momma Likes to Say |
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No One told the Aardvark |
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One Leaf Rides the Wind |
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Somewhere in the World Right Now |
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The Squiggle |
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A Walk in the Rainforest |
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| Time & Place (K-1) |
Birthday Presents |
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The Moon Was the Best |
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Night at the Fair |
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On Your Toes: A Ballet
ABC |
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Park Beat |
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Sarah, Plain and Tall |
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Seasons: A Book of Poems |
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Snow |
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Stormy Night |
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Today I'm Going Fishing With My
Dad |
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Time & Place (2-3) |
All the Places
to Love |
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Angel for Solomon Singer |
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Chalk Doll |
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Hello Ocean |
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Mixed-Up Files Mrs. Basil Frankweiler |
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Night in the Country |
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On the Way to the Beach |
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Peepers |
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Somewhere in the World Right Now |
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Two of Them |
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Verbs |
Kites
Sail High |
Heller |
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Old Black Fly |
Aylesworth |
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Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters
Wave: How Animals
Say Hello |
Singer |
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Pumpkin Soup |
Cooper |
|
To Root, to Toot, to Parachute; What
is a Verb? |
Cleary |
|
Zzzng! Zzzng! A Yoruba
Tale |
Gershator |
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Vocabulary |
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary
Disaster |
Frasier |
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| Voice & Dialog (K-1) |
Be Brown! |
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Gila Monster Meet You At Airport |
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I Am a Whale |
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I Need a Snake |
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I Stink! |
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Pippi Longstockings |
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Snow Day |
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Stevie |
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White Dynamite and Curly Kidd |
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Yo! Yes? |
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| Voice & Dialog (2-3) |
A Bird For You |
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I am the Dog, I am the Cat |
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Jake Gander |
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Kopow |
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A Medieval Feast |
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Miz Berlin Walks |
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Sisters |
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A Taste of Blackberries |
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Tight Times |
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Where the Forest Meets the Sea |
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| Word Choice |
Amos & Boris |
Steig |
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Chris Van Allsburg's Books |
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Home Place |
Dragonwagon |
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Patricia Polacco's Books |
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