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Ginny Goblin Is Not Allowed To Open This Box (David Goodner).The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box: The Story of the Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer (Marcie Wessels).The Ant and the Grasshopper (Story by Aesop).Ada Twist, Scientist (Andrea Beaty, David Roberts).

A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez (David A.Who Was Rosa Parks? (Yona Zeldis McDonough, Stephen Marchesi).Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Jen Bryant).Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day (Jennifer George).Paul Revere’s Ride (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ted Rand).If you Give a Moose a Muffin (Laura Numeroff).The Cow Tripped Over the Mood: A Nursery Rhyme Emergency (Jeanne Willis, Joel Stewart).Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Doreen Cronin).The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery (Sandra Markle).Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst).A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School (Davide Cali, Benjamin Chaud).The Who Was Series – various authors – inform.The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps (Jeannette Winter) – inform.The True Story of the Three Pigs (Jon Scieszca) – persuade, entertain.The Secret Knowledge of Grownups (David Wisniewski) – entertain.Rotten Teeth (Laura Simms, David Catrow) – entertain.I Wanna Iguana (Karen Kaufman Orloff, David Catrow) – persuade.George Washington and the Genera’s Dog (Frank Murphy) – entertain, inform.

Gail Gibbons beautifully-illustrated nonfiction book series – inform.

Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs (Kathleen V.

Mentor Texts for Reading Skills Author’s Purpose Related: For read aloud books that teach to specific writing skills and genres, take a look at our list of mentor texts for elementary writing.Īnd if you’re currently in the process of planning for the start of the school year, see our collection of readers’ workshop activity ideas. Table of Contents for Mentor Texts for Readingīookmark this page so that you have it on hand as you plan for reader’s workshop. These reading selections/picture books suit grades 2, 3, 4, and 5 best.įor ease, the mentor texts within this list are categorized by reading skill/strategy. Though this list isn’t exhaustive (There are TONS of amazing mentor text examples for reading available, but it would be crazy to list them all!), these mentor texts for reading comprehension provide a great base of books for your elementary classroom’s literacy block, each book with its own powerful examples of a particular targeted reading skill. As you plan your mini-lessons for reader’s workshop, you’ll want to keep this massive list of mentor texts for reading handy.ĭoing so will save you much time – no need to search endlessly for books each time you plan to teach a new reading skill or strategy to your elementary students.