First Grade Mentor Texts

Adjectives/Descriptive Words Five for a Little One by Chris Raschka Nouns If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen Grammar Tales Liza Charlesworth Lion's Lunch by Fiona Tierney The Magic Hat by Mem Fox Punctuation Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester Punctution Tales book set by Liza Charlesworth One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Dr. Seuss Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka Icy Watermelon by Mary Sue Galinda Rhyming Similes I Knew Two Who Said Moo by Judi Barrett Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story by Loreen Leedy Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guarino Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood A Fly Went By by Dr. Suess (any Dr. Suess)

Quotation Marks / Dialogue Tags Grammar Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein Grammar Tales book set by Liza Charlesworth “Fire, Fire!" said Mrs. Maguire by Bill Martin Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guarino Fact/Opinion Lion's Lunch by Fiona Tierney Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James

Following a Pattern Fluency The Important Book by Margaret Brown Wolf! By Becky Bloom

Sequencing Clarify When the Leaf Blew In by Steve Metzger The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins Ming Lo Moves the Mountains by Arnold Lobel Deep in the Swamp by Donna Bateman There Was an Old Lady Series by Lucille Colandro Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett Pickles to Pittsburgh by Judi Barrett Verbs Too Many Frogs by Sandy Asher Jiggle, Wiggle, Prance by Sally Noll for verbs. What a Party by Sandy Asher Grammar Tales Liza Charlesworth Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman Old Black Fly by Jim Ayelsworth Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman Adverbs Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton Jimmy’s Boa by Tinka Nobel Narrative Months Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Caralyn & Mark Buehner How Do You Say It Today, Jesse Bear? by Nancy Carlstrom Swimmy by Leo Lionni Apple Theme Opposites Up, Up Up! It's Apple Picking Time by Jody Fickes Shapiro Archibald’s Opposites (Veggiecational Series) by Phil Visher A Day at the Apple Orchard by Meagan Faulker and Adam Krawesdy Onomatopoeia Top Cat by Lois Ehlert Halloween How To A Day at the Pumpkin Patch by Meagan Faulker Build a Burrito by Denise Vega and Adam Krawesdy My Little Island by Frane Lessac Visualizing The 13 Nights of Halloween by Rebecca Dickinson The Gruffalo by Juila Donaldson Lily Brown’s Paintings by Angela Johnson Other Mentioned Books The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer Chocolatina by Erik Kraft Tuesday by David Weisner Shelia Rae, The Brave by Kevin Henkes Lars Little Polar Bear by Hans de Beer Predicting My Father’s Dragon (series) Ruth Stiles Gannett The Black Snowman by Phil Mendez Testing Miss Malarkey by Judy Finchler The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate by Carly Sheilds The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka The Nutty Nut Chase by Kathryn White Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza

Inferring Where are you going Manyoni? by Catherine Stock Tadpole’s Promise by Jeanne Willis

Letter Writing Toot & Puddle by Holly Hobbie I Wanna Iguana by Karen Orloff Click Clack Moo by Doreen Cornin Dear Mrs. LaRue by Mark Teague