First Grade Text Sets

Planning for Interactive Read-Aloud: Text Sets Across the Year—Grade One

ALPHABET BOOKS MOTHER GOOSE/ NURSERY RHYMES SONGS PETS POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY

# The Awful Aardvarks Go to # Babushka’s Mother Goose # Peanut Butter and Jelly # My Cats Nick and Nora (Harper # Dog Poems (George)
School (Lindbergh) (Polacco) (Westcott) and Moser)
# Beneath a Blue Umbrella
# Q is for Duck (Elting and # Hey Diddle Diddle and Other # I Know an Old Lady Who # My Dog Rosie (Harper and (Prelutsky)
Folsom) Mother Goose Rhymes Swallowed a Fly (Westcott) Moser)
(dePaola) # Ride a Purple Pelican
# Tomorrow’s Alphabet # Old MacDonald (Round) # Our New Puppy (Harper and (Prelutsky)
(Shannon) # No Hickory, No Dickory, No Moser)
Dock: Caribbean Nursery # Ms. MacDonald Has a Class # Fathers, Mothers, Brothers,
# Alison’s Zinnia (Lobel) Rhymes (Agard) (Ormend) # A Pup Just for Me (Young) Sisters (Hoberman)
# Jambo Means Hello (Feelings) # Pick a Pet (Rotner)
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER # On Market Street (Lobel) # Old Mother Hubbard and Her # To Market, To Market (Miranda)
# City Seen From A to Z (Isadora) Wonderful Dog (Marshall) # A-Hunting We Will Go (Kellogg) # The Best Cat in the World
# Over in the Meadow (Langstaff) (Newman)
# By the Sea: An Alphabet Book # Three Little Kittens (Galdone)
(Blades) # Three Blind Mice (Ivemey) # The Last Puppy (Asch)
# Miss Mary Mack (Hoberman) # Bathtime for Biscuit (Capucilli)
# A is for Africa (Onyefulu)
# Babushka’s Mother Goose # Biscuit Visits the Farm
(Polacco) (Capucilli)

# My Cat Jack (Casey)

# How to Talk to Your Cat
(George)

# How to Talk to Your Dog
(George)

# I Love Dogs (Saltzberg)
# I Love Cats (Saltzberg)
# Sit, Truman! (Harper and

Moser)

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Planning for Interactive Read Aloud: Text Sets Across the Year—Grade One (CONTINUED)

RHYMING BOOKS SEASONS—FALL FAMILY STORIES CUMULATIVE TALES (EVENTS REPEATED POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY
# A Fine, Fine School (Creech and
# Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? # Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (Ehlert) # Nana Upstairs and Nana EACH EPISODE)
(Carlstrom) # Now It’s Fall (Lenski) Downstairs (dePaola) Bliss)
# Amy Loves the Wind (Hoban) # The Gingerbread Boy (Galdone)
# A Bear on a Bike (Blackstone) # Autumn Leaves (Robbins) # Amazing Grace (Hoffman) # The Gingerbread Baby (Brett) # The Motorcycle Song (Siebert)
# A Cake All For Me (Beil) # Henny Penny (Galdone)
# The Grumpy Morning (Edwards) # Why Do Leaves Change Color? # The Wednesday Surprise # Mice and Beans (Ryan)
(Maestro) (Bunting) # The House that Jack Built
# This is the Bread I Baked for Ned (Stobbs) # In the Tall Tall Grass (Fleming)
(Dragonwagon) # Patchwork Quilt (Martin)
OCTOBER # The Fat Cat (Kent)
# Pass the Fritters, Critters # Knots on a Counting Rope # The Napping House (Wood)
(Chapman) (Martin)
# Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
# Kiss the Crow (Root) # The Two of Them (Aliki) (Aardema)
# And Here’s to You (Elliott)
# Cock a Doodle-Moo (DuQuette) # Through Grandpa’s Eyes # The Rose in My Garden (Lobel)
(MacLachlan) # The Enormous Turnip (Parkinson)
# Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car
(Christelow) # Family Pictures (Garza)

# Jonathan and His Mommy
(Smalls)

# Mama Do You Love Me? (Joosse)

# Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab
Cakes Later) (Howard)

# Billy Tibbles Moves Out (Fearnley)
# Who’s Who in My Family (Leedy)

WEATHER AUTHOR STUDY—STEPHANIE STUVE- FRIENDSHIP AND BELONGING QUESTION AND ANSWER FORMAT POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY
# Rain (Kalan) BODEEN # Prelutsky’s Read Aloud Rhymes
# Weather Forecasting (Gibbons) # My Best Friend (Hutchins) # Bugs (Parker)
# Elizabeti’s Doll # Ira Sleeps Over (Waber) for the Very Young (Prelutsky)
# Weather Words and What They # Mama Elizabeti # Ira Says Goodbye (Waber) # Where Are You Going Little # Sing a Song of Popcorn
Mean (Gibbons) # Elizabeti’s School # A Rainbow of Friends (Hallinan) Mouse? (Kraus)
# Babu’s Song # My Best Friend (Rodman) (Deregniers)
# Rain Talk (Serfozo) # The Best-Worst Brother # Whose Mouse Are You? (Kraus) # Too Big, Too Small, Just Right
# Mushroom in the Rain (Ginsburg) # My Best Friend Moved Away
NOVEMBER # Listen to the Rain (Martin) (Carlson) # Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What (Minters)
Do You See? (Martin) # Snug as a Bug (Ross)
# When it Starts to Snow # We Are Best Friends (Aliki)
(Gershator) # Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What © Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.
# Blow Me a Kiss, Miss Lilly Do You See? (Martin)
(Carlstrom)
# What’s Up, What’s Down?
# Everett Anderson’s Friend (Schaefer)
(Clifton)

# Tom (dePaola)
# A Letter to Amy (Keats)
# Chester’s Way (Henkes)

Planning for Interactive Read Aloud: Text Sets Across the Year—Grade One (CONTINUED)

SEASONS—WINTER/SNOW ANIMALS (FACT AND FANTASY) MEMOIRS/PERSONAL NARRATIVES AUTHOR STUDY – TOMIE DEPAOLA POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY

# The Jacket I Wear in the Snow # Animals, Animals (Carle) # A Chair for My Mother # The Legend of Old Befana # The Seals on the Bus (Hort)
(Parker) (Williams) # The Popcorn Book # Oh Gosh Mrs. McNosh (Weeks)
# What Do You Do When # Oliver Button Is A Sissy
# Katy and the Big Snow (Parker) Something Wants to Eat You? # The Relatives Came (Rylant) # Streganona # Month by Month: A Year Goes
# Dream Snow (Carle) (Jenkins) # Streganona’s Magic Lesson Round (Shields)
# Snow (Shulevitz) # Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and # Streganona Takes a Vacation
# Snow is Falling (Branley and # Surprising Sharks (Davies) Crabcakes Later) (Howard) # The Cloud Book # The Grumpy Morning
# Goose (Banks) # 26 Fairmount Avenue (Edwards)
Deller) # Sea Turtles (Gibbons) # Always My Dad (Wyeth) # Here We All Are (26 Fairmount
DECEMBER # Snow (P.D. Eastman) # Penguins (Gibbons) # Grandpa’s Face (Greenfield)
# Snow Moon (Brunelle) Avenue)
# Snowballs (Ehlert) # Mrs. Wishy Washy’s Farm # Now One Foot, Now the Other # On My Way (26 Fairmount
(Cowley) (dePaola)
# The First Day of Winter Avenue)
(Fleming) # The Sunday Outing (Pinkney) # Things Will Never Be the Same
# Tom (dePaola)
# Names for Snow (Beach) (26 Fairmount Avenue)
# Snow Music (Perkins) # Adelita: A Mexico Cinderella

Story
# The Art Lesson

SEA LIFE COMMUNITY FICTION/NONFICTION PAIRS FAMILIAR SEQUENCES POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY

# Swimmy (Lionni) # The Night Worker (Banks) # If You Decide to Go to the # Big Week for Little Mouse # Winter Friends (Quattlebaum)
# The Rainbow Fish (Pfister) Moon (McNulty and Kellogg) (Fernandes) # Wiggle Waggle (London)
# Firefighters from A to Z # Ook the Book (Rovetch)
# Rainbow Fish to the Rescue (Demarest) # Kitten’s First Full Moon # Cookie’s Week (Ward) # Z-Z-Zoink! (Most)
(Pfister) (Henkes)
# Too Many Pears (French and # The Ocean Alphabet Book © Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell..
# Hooray for Fish (Cousins) Whatley) # All About Owls (Arnosky) (Pallotta)
# Fish is Fish (Lionni) # Owl Babies (Waddell)
# Fish Wish (Barner) # From Cow to Milk (Gibbons) # The Very Hungry Caterpillar
JANUARY # At the Beach (Rockwell) # Working at a Zoo (Knight) (Carle)

# A House for Hermit Crab # Tomas and the Library Lady
(Carle) (Mora)

# Beach Day (Oxenbury) # My Mother the Mail Carrier
# The Seashore Book (Zolotow) (Maury)

# Trash Trucks (Kirk)
# My Map Book (Fanelli)
# This Truck (Collicutt)
# Road Builders (Hennessy)

Planning for Interactive Read Aloud: Text Sets Across the Year—Grade One (CONTINUED)

FEBRUARY AUTHOR STUDY—VERA B. WILLIAMS ANIMAL FANTASY IMAGINATION FICTION/NONFICTION PAIRS POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY

# More, More, More Said the # Too Many Pears! (French and # Bottle Houses (Slaymaker) # Families (Morris) # Eggday (Dunbar)
Baby Whatley) # Once Upon a Time (Daly) # Fiddle-I-Fee (Hillenbrand)
# If You Hopped Like a Frog # Extra Cheese, Please (Peterson) # I Swapped My Dog (Ziefert)
# Scooter # Beach Day (Lakin) (Schwartz) # Pete’s a Pizza (Steig) # A My Name is Alice (Bayer)
# Music, Music for Everyone
# Lucky Song # I’m Not Moving, Mama # Jump Rope Magic (Scruggs)
# A Chair for My Mother (Carlstrom)
# Cherries and Cherry Pits # The Perfectly Orderly House
# Pig Pig Grows Up (Kraus) (McKenzie)
# Petunia (Duvoisin)
# Koala Lou (Fox) # Once I Was… (Leopold)
# Leo the Late Bloomer (Kraus)
# Marsupial Sue (Lithgow) # If You Take a Mouse to School
(Numeroff)

MARCH SEASONS—SPRING AUTHOR STUDY—KELLOGG TRANSPORTATION PLANTS POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY

# Flower Garden (Bunting) # Can I Keep Him? # Airport (Barton) # Jake’s Garden (Cole) # Fold Me a Poem (Groye)
# Secret Place (Bunting) # Chicken Little # School Bus (Crews) # Flower Garden (Bunting) # One of Each (Hoberman)
# Pinkerton and Friends # Trains (Rockwell) # Mr. Carey’s Garden (Cutler)
# Little Robin Redbreast # A Rose for Pinkerton # Truck (Crews) # City-Green (DiSalvo-Ryan) # Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop
(Halpern) # Tallyho, Pinkerton # New Road (Gibbons) # Planting a Rainbow (Ehlert) (Meiloso)
# Planes (Rockwell)
# One Child, One Seed (Cave) # How My Garden Grew # Pigs in the Mud in the Middle
(Rockwell) of the Road (Plourde)
# Whose Garden Is It?
(Hoberman) # Tops and Bottoms (Stevens)

APRIL FAMILY WEATHER—RAIN FOLKTALES—RETOLD MEMOIRS/PERSONAL NARRATIVES

# Mama, Do You Love Me? # Weather Words and What They # Jack and the Beanstalk # In My Momma’s Kitchen
(Joose) Mean (Gibbons) (Kellogg) (Bootman)

# Papa, Do You Love Me? (Joose) # The Magic School Bus Kicks Up # Goldilocks and the Three Bears # The Hard Times Jar (Smothers)
# Grandpa Loves (Dotlich) a Storm! A Book About (Brett)
# Mama Loves (Dotlich) Weather (White) # A Chair for My Mother
# Grandma’s Cat (Ketterman) # The Ugly Duckling (Pinkney) (Williams)
# Love You Forever (Munsch) # Rain (Kalan) # The Three Little Pigs (Marshall)
# Rain (Stojic) # Red Riding Hood (Marshall) # Jewels (Rochelle)
# Hansel and Gretel (Marshall) # My Dad (Daly)
# Down Comes the Rain # Grandpa (Burningham)
(Branley) # The Best Present (Keller)

# Listen to the Rain (Martin)
# Amy Loves the Rain (Hoban)
# If Frogs Made Weather (Bauer)

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Planning for Interactive Read Aloud: Text Sets Across the Year—Grade One (CONTINUED)

MAY/JUNE SEASONS—SUMMER FRIENDSHIP LOSS/SADNESS COURAGE POETRY/LANGUAGE PLAY

# Watermelon Day (Appelt) # The Recess Queen (O’Neil) # The Tenth Good Thing About # Doctor DeSoto (Steig) # Greetings, Sun (Gershator)
# Those Summers (Aliki) Barney (Viorst) # A Grog in the Bog (Wilson)
# Sunflower House (Bunting) # Iris and Walter: The School Play # Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood # I Like Cats (Hubbell)
# Grandpa and Bo (Henkes) (Guest) # Everett Anderson’s Goodbye Tale (Young) # Wherever Bears Be (Alderson)
# Time of Wonder (McCloskey) (Clifton)
# On a Summer Day (Lenski) # Boundless Grace (Hoffman) # Nessa’s Fish (Luen)
# Come on Rain (Hesse) # Chester’s Way (Henkes) # Nana Upstairs and Nana
# Friends (Lewis) Downstairs (dePaola) # The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
# Best Friends (Krupinski) (Goble)
# Friends (Isadora) # I Don’t Care (Sharmat)
# Poppy’s Chair (Hesse) # Courage (Waber)
# Goodbye Max (Keller) # Sheila Rae, the Brave (Henkes)

© Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.