Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: 4-yrs
Review: This book is about a tiny fish who takes something that does not belong to him and he thinks that he has gotten away with it. I liked this book because the little fish is clueless about what is happening the whole story.
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book with students who need help with making inferences. 

Genre: Juvenile Non Fiction 

Age/Audience: 4-8 yrs/ Level P
Review: This book is about the true story of a man in the army who buys a real baby bear from a hunter. The man takes care of the bear for a few years and then gives it to the zoo when the bear is older. Then a boy named Christopher Robin later becomes friends with the bear. Christopher's wrote stories about his son and his toy bear he called Winnie.
Possible Teaching Points: I would read this book to 1st, 2nd, or 3rd graders for a lesson about sequence of events.

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: 4-8 yrs/ Pre K-2nd grade
Review: This book is about a little boy who gets in trouble and decides to run away to a forest full of monsters. I like this book because the little boy has a great imagination.
Possible Teaching Points: I would read this book to k- 1st graders and use it as a story writing prompt. 

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: 4-8 yrs
Review: The bus driver puts the reader/audience in charge of watching the bus while he is away. I like this book because in the end the pigeon decides he wants to drive a truck.
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students who need help with engagement and comprehension.

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades 1-4
Review: Pinkalicious and her brother Peter decide to take a trip to their favorite park. But when they arrive, they discover that the park isn't as clean and green as it used to be. To make matters worse, Pinkalicious's favorite wand breaks! My favorite part of the book is when Pinkalicious makes another wand using a stick and flowers.
Possible Teaching Points: I love the imagination that Pinkalicious and her brother has in the story. I would use this book as a story prompt when students do creative writing.

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades Pre k-kindergarten
Review: Pinkalicious loves pink, especially pink cupcakes. Her parents warn her not to eat too many of them, but when Pinkalicious does... she turns pink! What to do? My favorite part of this book is when she is super excited about being pink.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book with preschool thru kindergarten students to teach the importance of moderation and also as a way to introduce the skill of inferring

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades Pre k-5
Review: This book is abouta beautiful fish who learns to make friends by sharing his most prized possessions — his shimmering scales. My favorite part of the book is when the fish learns that nothing is worth having without friends to share it with.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book with preschool thru kindergarten students to teach the importance of sharing.

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades 3rd-5th
Review: In California, Trisha was put in a special education class — but now that she can read, she can't wait for a fresh start at a new school in Michigan. But when she gets her class assignment, she's heartbroken to find out that her new class is called the junkyard (even her teacher refers to it that way). At first, Trisha wants to quit, but then with the help of an unforgettable teacher and amazing friendships with the other kids in her "tribe," she comes to realize that the junkyard is a place where every kid can become something truly special. My favorite part of this book was when the girl who never spoke finally spoke up and said the plane should be called "the Junkyard Wonders" in honor of their friend who had passed away.

Possible Teaching Points: This book has a lot of long words that are difficult to pronounce. Therefore, I would use this book with a strategy that helps students pronounce words.

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades Pre k-2
Review: In this delicious sequel to Jan Brett's popular Gingerbread Baby, the confident and cocky Gingerbread Baby is back, and this time he's looking for friends. Luckily, he happens upon a bakery, where he finds a sugar cookie girl. But despite all the dancing and prancing he does to try to win her friendship, she doesn't say a word. Neither do any of the other sweet treats he tries to befriend.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to introduce the skill of inferring. 

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades Pre k-2
Review: One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax. My favorite part of this book is when the grandmother sees that one of the boy's mittens is too big.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book when I use a goal that deals with retelling a story or has to do with sequence.

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades 3rd-5th
Review: This book is the opposite of the book The Three Little Pigs. Instead, the big bad pig is after the three little wolves. The pig does every imaginable to destroy the little wolves' home and spirit. However, in the end we find out that all the pig needed was for someone to show him kindness in order to soften his heart.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to build up comprehension and decoding skills. 

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades Pre K- Kindergarten
Review: This book is about a cat named Splat who is excited about going to the zoo to see the penguins. Splat thinks he might have missed seeing the penguins but his friend Seymour has a surprise for him. 

Possible Teaching Points: Possible teaching points for include: 
Morphology: Focus students’ attention complex words in book and have students write down words.
Morphology: Have students identify the root words of the longer words. 

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades 1st-2nd
Review: This book is about Bitsy and her friends. They are asked to paint a mirror and they don’t know what to paint. My favorite part of the book is when they all decide to paint something that represents who they are. 

Possible Teaching Points:  Possible teaching points for include: 
Morphology: Focus students’ attention on complex words in book and have those students sort the following words according to their affixes.
Morphology: Have students to "fix" the broken root words with the correct "affix." 

Genre: Fiction 

Age/Audience: Grades k-2nd
Review: This book will help students that compound words are two different words and their meaning can be discovered by breaking the words up and looking at the base word.

Possible Teaching Points: Possible teaching points for include: 
Semantics: Have students draw a chart and break up words.
Semantics: Have students make compound words by combining blocks with small words on them to make bigger words. 

Age/Audience: Grades k-2nd
Review: Kitty is not happy hen she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are Asparagus, Beets, Cauliflower, Dill...and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she: Ate my homework, Bit grandma, Clawed the curtains, Damaged the dishes, and so on, through Z. My favorite part is when Kitty decides to be good but then a new puppy arrives and that bad look is in Kitty's eyes.

Possible Teaching Points: Possible teaching points for include: 
Semantics: Have students draw a chart and break up words.
Semantics: Have students make compound words by combining blocks with small words on them to make bigger words.