Benchmark Suggested Metacognitive Title Author Genre Literacy Unit Strategy Focus 1 Ask Questions Pink and Say Patricia Polacco Historical Fiction 1 Ask Questions The Discovery of the Americas Betsy Maestro Informational Fiction 1 Ask Questions Dear Willie Rudd Libba Moore Gray Historical Fiction 1 Ask Questions The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History Jane Yolen Historical Fiction 1 Ask Questions Lady Liberty: A Biography Doreen Rappaport Informational Nonfiction 1 Ask Questions Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History Bryn Barnard Informational Nonfiction 1 Ask Questions Rosa's Bus:The Ride to Civil Rights Jo S. Kittinger Informational Nonfiction 1 Ask Questions When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Science Fiction 1 Ask Questions First Pitch: How Baseball Began John Thorn Informational Nonfiction 1 Ask Questions So You Want to Be an Inventor? Judith St. George Informational Nonfiction 2 Determine Text Importance We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Kadir Nelson Informational Nonfiction 2 Determine Text Importance Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind Allan Drummond Informational Nonfiction 2 Determine Text Importance Hatchet Gary Paulsen Realistic fiction 2 Determine Text Importance Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story S.D. Nelson Informational Nonfiction 2 Determine Text Importance Ice!: The Amazing Story of the Ice Business Laurence Pringle Informational Nonfiction 2 Determine Text Importance Far From Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage Sophie Webb Informational Nonfiction 2 Determine Text Importance The Great Fire Jim Murphy Informational Nonfiction 2 Determine Text Importance Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein Susan Goldman Rubin Biography 2 Determine Text Importance Presidential Pets: The Weird, Wacky, Little, Big, Scary, Strange Animals That Have Lived in the White House Julia Moberg Informational Nonfiction 3 Visualize Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration Shelley Tougas 3 Visualize Night of the Gargoyles Eve Bunting Fantasy 3 Visualize The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet: Native American Poems of the Land Joseph Bruchac Fables 3 Visualize The Quest to Digest Mary K. Corcoran Informational Fiction 3 Visualize Shakespeare's Seasons Miriam Weiner Poetry 3 Visualize Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron Mary Losure Informational Fiction 3 Visualize Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl Albert Marrin Informational Fiction 3 Visualize Monet Paintsa Day Julie Danneberg Informational Nonfiction 3 Visualize Drawing from Memory Allen Say Autobiography 3 Visualize The Wanderer Sharon Creech Realistic Fiction 4 Fix-up Monitoring Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth Anita Silvey Informational Nonfiction 4 Fix-up Monitoring So Far from the Sea Eve Bunting Historical Fiction 4 Fix-up Monitoring Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boy sof Sudan Mary Williams Historical Fiction 4 Fix-up Monitoring John Henry Julius Lester Fables 4 Fix-up Monitoring Muhammad Demi Biography 4 Fix-up Monitoring Wonder R.J. Palacio Realistic Fiction 4 Fix-up Monitoring Buried Treasures: Uncovering Secrets of the Past Stephane Compoint Informational Nonfiction 4 Fix-up Monitoring Holes Louis Sachar Realistic Fiction 4 Fix-up Monitoring Paiute Princess: The Story of Sarah Winnemucca Deborah Kogan Ray Biography 5 Determine Text Importance The Life and Death of Crazy Horse Russell Freedman Biography 5 Determine Text Importance A Black Hole Is Not a Hole Carolyn Cinami De Cristofano Informational Nonfiction 5 Determine Text Importance The Boston Tea Party Russell Freedman Informational Nonfiction 5 Determine Text Importance This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness Joyce Sidman Poetry 5 Determine Text Importance Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House Menno Metselaar Biography 5 Determine Text Importance Diamond Willow Helen Frost Novelin Verse 5 Determine Text Importance Jefferson's Sons Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Historical Fiction 5 Determine Text Importance Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World Douglas Wood Informational Nonfiction 5 Determine Text Importance Shipwrecked!: TheTrue Adventures of a Japanese Boy Rhoda Blumberg Informational Nonfiction 5 Determine Text Importance Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse Marilyn Singer Poetry 6 Make Connections Nettie'sTrip South Ann Turner Historical Fiction 6 Make Connections Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? 6 Make Connections Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool Historical Fiction 6 Make Connections Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Historical Fiction 6 Make Connections Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind a nAmerican Friendship Russell Freedman Informational Nonfiction 6 Make Connections Return to Sender Julia Alvarez Realistic Fiction 6 Make Connections Electric Ben:The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin Robert Byrd Biography 6 Make Connections Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People Albert Marrin Informational Nonfiction 6 Make Connections Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic Ginnie Lo Historical Fiction 6 Make Connections Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan Historical Fiction 7 Summarize & Synthesize The Gardener Sarah Stewart Realistic Fiction 7 Summarize & Synthesize Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West Lillian Schlissel Informational Fiction 7 Summarize & Synthesize Nim and theWar Effort Milly Lee Historical Fiction 7 Summarize & Synthesize Shooting the Moon Frances O'Roark Dowell Historical Fiction 7 Summarize & Synthesize The New Americans: Colonial Times, 1620-1689 Betsy Maestro 7 Summarize & Synthesize Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story Paula Yoo Biography 7 Summarize & Synthesize Children of the Great Depression Russell Freedman Informational Biography 7 Summarize & Synthesize Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories From the Tipi Paul Goble Native American Folklore 7 Summarize & Synthesize Gandhi: The March to Sea Alice B. McGinty Informational Nonfiction 7 Summarize & Synthesize The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Folktales 8 Make Inferences Amelia Lost: The Lift and Disappearance of Amerlia Earhart Candace Fleming Biography 8 Make Inferences River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River Hudson Talbott Informational Nonfiction 8 Make Inferences Bones: Skeletons and How TheyWork Steve Jenkins Informational Nonfiction 8 Make Inferences The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust Karen Gray Ruelle Informational Nonfiction 8 Make Inferences Pictures of Hollis Woods Patricia Reilly Giff Realistic Fiction 8 Make Inferences The King Who Barked: Real Animals Who Ruled Charlotte Foltz Jones Informational Nonfiction 8 Make Inferences Hey Batta Batta Swing: The Wild Old Days of Baseball Sally Cook Informational Nonfiction 8 Make Inferences The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Fantasy 8 Make Inferences Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America Sharon Robinson Biography 8 Make Inferences Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air Stewart Ross Informational Nonfiction 9 Make Connections Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Realistic Fiction 9 Make Connections A Tale Dark and Grimm Adam Gidwitz Fiction/Folktales 9 Make Connections 1621:A New Look at Thanksgiving Catherine O'Neill Grace Informational Nonfiction 9 Make Connections Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot Margot Theis Raven Historical Fiction 9 Make Connections The Story of Salt Mark Kurlansky Informational Nonfiction 9 Make Connections Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880–1924 Deborah Hopkinson Informational Nonfiction 9 Make Connections CodeTalker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac Historical Fiction 9 Make Connections I, Galileo Bonnie Christensen Biography 9 Make Connections The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan Mythology 9 Make Connections Shakespeare's Secret Elise Broach Fiction 10 Ask Questions On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer Realistic Fiction 10 Ask Questions Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World at the Bottom of the Sea Bradley Hague Informational Fiction 10 Ask Questions Really, Really Big Questions About Life, the Universe, and Everything Stephen Law Informational Fiction 10 Ask Questions How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous Georgia Bragg Informational Fiction 10 Ask Questions Tall Story Candy Gourlay Realistic Fiction 10 Ask Questions Frozen Secrets: Antarctica Revealed Sally M. Walker Informational Fiction