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Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading By: Tanny McGregor The Cafe Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment & Instruction By: Gaile Boushey & Joan Moser The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy Independance in the Elementary Grades By: Gail Boushey & Joan Moser The First Six Weeks of School By: Paula Denton, Roxann Kriete Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writers Notebook By: Aimee Buckner The Crayon Box That Talked By: Shane DeRolf (differences) Different Just Like Me By: Lori Mitchell Whoever You Are By: Mem Fox (differences) Oliver Button Is a Sissy By: Tomie dePaola (stereotypes) Mama Played Baseball By: David A. Adler Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores By: James Howe (stereotypes) I Get So Hungry By: Bebe Moore Campbell (Stereotypes/weight) And Tango Makes Three By:Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell (same-sex penguin couple) If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People By: David J. Smith We Were There, Too! Young people in US History By: Phillip Hoose Students on Strike By John A. Stokes ( National Geographic) The Hundred Dresses By: Eleanor Estes Big Book of Social Studies for Elementary K-6 By: Dinah Zike M.Ed.(Read, Write, Research) **Paper Folding** i.e flipbook etc. Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades By: Mary Cowhey (This is where the Compassion, Action, Change article came from)

//The Art of Teaching Writing// - Lucy Calkins //In the Company of Children// - Joanne Hindley //How's It Going?// - Carl Anderson //Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction// - John R. Bear (for phonics and decoding help)
 * RESOURCES: Professional Books**

For Great Beginnings: //The Library// ; Sarah Stewart //The Polar Express//; Chris Van Allsburg //The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs//; Jon Scieszka //Hey Little Ant//; Phillip & Hannah Hoose
 * RESOURCES: Children's Books**

For Descriptive Language: //What A Wonderful Day to Be a Cow//; Carolyn Lesser //Stellaluna//; Janell Cannon //Owl Moon//; Jane Yolen //The Polar Express//; Chris Van Allsburg

Wow Endings: //Stellaluna//; Janell Cannon //Thank You, Mr. Falker//; Patricia Polacco //Something From Nothing//; Phoebe Gilman //The Tin Heart//; Karen Ackerman

Behavior: Whole Body Listening Larry at School By Elizabeth Sautter and Kristen Wilson (there is also one for home and they are really great for students who are wiggling, talking, making noises etc while you are teaching) Mr.Peabody's Apples by Madonna (this one helps with gossiping, it's really cute!)