Donna's Book Recommendations

Close Reading Lower Intermediate

• I Want My Hat Back
• Down the Road
• Each Kindness
• Frederick
• A Frog Thing
• Galimoto
• Hey, Little Ant
• Keep Climbing, Girls
• Melissa Parkington's Beautiful, Beautiful Hair
• Miss Rumphius
• Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of "Brave Bessie" Coleman
• The Sandwich Swap
• Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
• Tacky the Penguin
• Those Shoes

Close Reading Upper Intermediate

• As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
• A Bad Case of Stripes
• Be Good to Eddie Lee
• Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
• Dear Willie Rudd
• Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom & Wishes
• Eggbert: The Slightly Cracked Egg
• The Empty Pot
• Four Feet, Two Sandals
• 14 Cows for America
• The Honest-to-Goodness Truth
• Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie
• Just a Dream
• The Lotus Seed
• Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man
• The Memory String
• Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
• Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
• More Than Anything Else
• My Rows and Piles of Coins

General Recommendations

• The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
• The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants
• Silent Letters Loud and Clear
• Punctuation Takes a Vacation
• Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day

Autism

• How Do I Teach This Kid to Read?: Teaching Literacy Skills to Young Children with Autism, from Phonics to Fluency
• Helping Children with Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals

Science

• Science Question of the Day: 180 Standards-Based Questions That Engage Students in Quick Review of Key Content-and Get Them Ready for the Tests
• Even More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books to Guide Inquiry, K 5 - PB186X3
• Big Book of Science - Elementary K-6
• If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People, 2nd Edition
• If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States