Texts to Use for Teaching Comprehension Strategies Contributed by Anita Holding Campbell Street School, Hobart, Tasmania

Activating and Connecting Browne, A (1986). The Piggy Book. London : Walker Books Forward, T. & Cohen, I. (2005). The Wolf Story. London : Walker Books Perret, D. (2006). The Big Bad Wolf. New York : Sterling Publishing Pilkey, D. (1994). Dog Breath. U.S.A. : Scholastic Jeffers, O. (2006) The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Great Britain : Harper Collins Rylant, C. (1985). When the Relatives Came. New York : Aladdin. Thompson, C. (2011). The Naughty Corner. N.S.W. : Hachette Australia Shireen, N. (2011). Good Little Wolf. Great Britain : Random House Henkes, K. (1990). Julius, Baby of the World. New York : Harper Collins

Questioning Bland, N. (2007). When Henry Caught Imaginitis. NSW : Scholastic. Fox, M. (1984). Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partidge. NSW : Scholastic. Jeffers, O. (2005). How to Catch a Star. Great Britain ; Harper Collins. Jeffers, O. (2005). Lost and Found. Great Britain : Harper Collins. Jeffers, O. (2006) The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Great Britain : Harper Collins Lester, A. (1993). Yikes!. N.S.W. : Allen and Unwin Thompson, C. (2000). Unknown. NSW : Hodder Headline Australia Willens, M. (2010). City Dog, Country Frog. New York : Hyperion Books. Hume, L. (2006). Clancy the Courageous Cow. NSW : Scholastic Kasza, K. (2003). My Lucky Day. New York : Puffin.

Visualising and Inferring Baker, J. (2002). Window. London : Walker Books Carnavas, P. (2010). The Important Things. Australia : New Frontier Kasza, K. (2003). My Lucky Day. New York : Puffin. Dahl, R. (1991). Minpins. London : Puffin Ludy, M. (2008). The Flower Man. Austrlaia : New Holland Blabley, A. (2011). The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon. Australia : Penguin Lenman, B. (2004). The Red Book. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company Carmi, G. (2003). A Circle of Friends. New York : Star Bright Books Jeffers, O. (2006) The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Great Britain : Harper Collins Rylant, C. (1991). In The Night Country. New York : Aladdin. Shoshan, B. (2004). Memory Bottles. London : Meadowside Childrens Books Van Allsburg, C. (1998). The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. N.S.W. : Random House Determining Importance Davies, N. (2003). Surprising Sharks. London : Walker Books Davies, N. (2001). One Tiny Turtle. London : Walker Books Davies, N. (2008). Big Blue Whale. London : Walker Books Davies, N. (2001). Bat Loves the Night. London : Walker Books Tonkin, R. (2006). Leaf Litter. Australia : Harper Collins Seuss, D. (1972). The Lorax. New York : Harper Collins French, J. (2007). The Shaggy Gully Times. Sydney : Harper Collins Jenkins, M. (2011). Can We Save The Tiger. U.S.A. : Candlewick Press Jenkins, S. (2004). Actual Size. New York : Houghton Mifflin

Summarising and Synthesising Carnavas, P. (2009). Sarah’s Heavy Heart. NSW : New Frontier Jeffers, O. (2006) The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Great Britain : Harper Collins Seuss, D. (1972). The Lorax. New York : Harper Collins Jeffers, O. (2010). The Heart and the Bottle. Great Britain : Harper Collins Robinson, F. (2009). Wanted – The Perfect Pet. Australia : Penguin Robinson, F. (2011). The Perfect Present. Australia : Penguin Multimodal Texts Blabey, A. (2011). The Ghost of Miss Annabell Spoon. Australia : Penguin Hodgkinson, L. (2010). Limelight Larry. Sydney : Orchard Books McKinlay, M. (2011). No Bears. N.S.W. : Walker Books Seuss, D., & Prelutsky, J. (1998). Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! USA : Random House Scieszka, J & Smith, L. (1992). The Stinky Cheese Man. U.S.A. : Penguin Snicket, L. (2010). 13 Words. New York : Harper Collins (also a You Tube clip) Tan, S. (2000). The Lost Thing. Sydney : Hachette Australia Thompson, C. 1995). How to Live Forever. Great Britain : Random House Weisner, D. (2006). Flotsam. New York : Clarion Books Weisner , D. (2001). The Three Little Pigs. New York : Clarion Books Base, G. (2011). The Jewel Fish of Karnak. Australia : Penguin

T exts for Activities Cameron, S. (2009). Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies. New Zealand : Pearson Hoyt, L. (2009). Revisit, Relfect, Retell. Portsmouth : Heinemann Publishing