Mentor Text Library RED4724 by Siara Encarnacion Gomez

A Little Book of Alliterations by Felix Arthur and Jenny Capon

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-09-18 23:05:22 UTC

This book includes alliteration in contexts that are relatable to students. Students can follow along during a read-aloud, listening to how sounds in words are repeated frequently throughout the book. This book highlights where alliteration is used to build explicit connections.

Once Upon a Twice by Denise Doyen

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-09-19 22:52:35 UTC

This book includes rhyming lines to keep readers engaged. The rhyming throughout this book, helps students follow along with sound patterns, identifying which sounds are repeated.

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-09-19 23:02:53 UTC

This book includes rhyme and rhythm, with recognizable repetitions in words. Students can begin to identify repeated sounds and endings to words as they listen. An example is "ickle, tickle, pickle". This book uses real words and nonsense words.

The Raft by Jim LaMarche

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-09-19 23:43:17 UTC

This book includes tier 2 vocabulary words used in context to facilitate vocabulary instruction during read-alouds. Examples include scattered, cluttered, chattering, drifted, etc. This book provides frequent opportunities for stopping and providing vocabulary instruction using the sentences as context for the words.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-09-19 23:51:16 UTC

This is a science fiction story that follows a girl as she is on the journey to find her father. This can be for students in 4th to 5th grade, providing tier 2 vocabulary words throughout the book. It is a longer read, but can be read in whole group together throughout a semester as students explore new vocabulary words and meanings.

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-09-19 23:56:48 UTC

This book provides students with rich vocabulary as they explore the friendship between a girl, a pig, and a spider. This is a longer book, so it can also be read as a whole class together, exploring vocabulary words as you read. Tier 2 vocabulary words include untimely, miserable, specimen, etc.

Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-07 19:07:39 UTC

This book provides a sequence of events where the character changes throughout the book, and students can observe character development and what led to the change in the character. It also teaches students a valuable lesson through the character who represents a student around their age.

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-07 19:15:20 UTC

This is an engaging story that offers an alternate storyline to the story students know and love about the three little pigs. This book prompts students to think about alternate perspectives of the same story. This text also includes humor throughout the story. This text also prompts students to make inferences and draw conclusions about things that aren't directly stated.

The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by H. Joseph Hopkins

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-07 19:34:19 UTC

This is a true story that highlights various aspects of text comprehension. This story has various themes that students can draw conclusions from and learn from. This book prompts students to think about cause and effect, sequencing of events, theme, main idea, and vocabulary. This book can be used to target any of these topics within text comprehension.

What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-07 19:41:23 UTC

This book is about the development of ideas when you nurture them and let them grow. This book can prompt students to think about their own ideas and how helping them grow can turn into something amazing, like in the story. This can target students' oral language development, as it can open a door for students to discuss their own ideas with one another and explain their thinking.

My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-07 19:49:48 UTC

This book is about a student who moves to the United States and struggles with her name and learning English. This book includes a lot of dialogue, which develops students' listening comprehension when used in the form of a read-aloud. Students read this dialogue and think about conversation structures. This book can open up conversations about communicating feelings and thoughts.

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-07 19:56:17 UTC

This book targets oral language development in the form of consistent dialogue throughout the story. Students listen to or read this dialogue and think about tone and expression as the characters talk to one another. They can think critically about how tone impacts the meaning of words and sentences, and interpret what they might mean. Students can also use this story to learn more about typical conversation structures.

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-31 00:05:35 UTC

This book is a popular fairytale for reading aloud. This book's predictable sequence and events can help students who struggle with reading difficulties make sense of the story without having unpredictable events that can hinder comprehension.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By Bill Martin Jr

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-31 00:11:43 UTC

This book, although lower-level, can support students with reading difficulties due to its extensive repetition. The repetition can help these readers read more fluently and increase their confidence when reading. The repetition also makes the book more predictable for those lower-level readers who may get anxious when reading.

Carmen Learns English By Judy Cox

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-31 00:17:20 UTC

This book tells a story about a little girl named Carmen who began to attend a school in the United States without knowing English. It promotes empathy and provides a relatable experience for our ELL students. It also allows students to build connections between Spanish and English words and phrases. This book also uses varied sentence structures, which can allow these students to gain experience reading books with various types of sentences.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-10-31 00:22:47 UTC

This book provides English Learners with repetitive text that becomes more predictable as they read. Students can begin to make inferences in their reading due to repetition. This book exposes English Learners to new vocabulary at their appropriate level.

Little People Big Dreams: Vivienne Westwood

bvjzqpb59t — 2025-11-12 21:25:49 UTC

This book has higher-level vocabulary used in relevant contexts as we follow the timeline of the life of the fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.