Mentor Texts for Teaching Cause and Effect
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
Trinka Hakes Noble
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Numeroff
The Rain Came Down
David Shannon
Where Once There Was Good
Denise Fleming
Mentor Texts for Teaching Sequence
Jack’s Garden
Henry Cole
The Milk Makers
Gail Gibbons
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
Mentor Texts for Teaching Inference
Chalk
Bill Thomson
Deep in the Forest
Briton Turkle
Looking Down
Steve Jenkins
Pancakes for Breakfast
Tommie de Paola
Wave
Susy Lee
I See Myself
Vicki Cobb
Pop! A Book About Bubbles
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
Steve Jenkins
If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States
David J. Smith
The Little Plant Doctor: A Story About George Washington Carver
Jean Marzollo
Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, A Civil War Hero
Marissa Moss
Mentor Texts for Teaching Vocabulary
Lemons Are Not Red
Laura Vaccaro
Exactly the Opposite
Tana Hoban
Fancy Nancy’s Favorite Fancy Words: From Accessories to Zany
Jane O’Connor
Bring On the Birds
Susan Stockdale
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
Steve Jenkins
How Are You Peeling?
Saxton Freymann