The following is adopted from the Open Court Reading curriculum published by SRA/McGraw-Hill, 2000. Title Author Vocabulary Comprehension Skills and Strategies Come Back, Jack Catherine and Laurence Anholt boring, adventure, exciting, searched, steep, nimble predicting, compare and contrast, figurative language, position words, nouns Story Hour - Starring Megan! Julie Brillhart librarian, assistant, calm, patient, amazement, mistake making inferences, making connections, characterization, regular plurals, multisyllabic words, verbs My Book! David L. Harrison Poem Ant and the Three Little Figs Betsy Byars figs, finally, quickly, chance, anytime author's purpose, making connections, mood and tone, letter patterns, compound words, pronouns Books to the Ceiling Arnold Lobel Poem Tomas and the Library Lady Pat Mora midnight, howling, chattered, thorny, glaring, eager clarifying, author's point of view, summarizing, setting, endings with _ed and _ing, antonyms, adjectives Sequoyah: Inventor of the Cherokee Written Language Diane Shaughnessy syllables, communicate, culture, preserve, traditions, characters, honor clarifying, author's purpose, asking questions, summarizing, main idea and details, vowel plus r spellings, homographs, homophones, proper nouns, abc order The Pen Muhammad al-Ghuzzi Poem A Word is Dead Emily Dickinson Poem Amber on the Mountain Tony Johnston bristled, giddy, stubborn, task, notion, solitary, concentration compare and contrast, making connections, clarifying, predicting, dialogue, contractions, sight words Mushroom in the Rain Mirra Ginsburg clearing, barely, drenched, huddled, flicked clarifying, summarizing, drawing conclusions, plurals of words ending in y, comparatives The Elves and the Shoemaker Freya Littledale leather, polished, handsome, cobbler sequence, predicting, making inferences, irregular plurals, superlatives, types of sentences The Paper Crane Molly Bang serve, guests, stranger, manner, unusual, overjoyed asking questions, cause and effect, long vowel spelling patterns, synonyms Corduroy Don Freeman department, escalator, toppled, enormous, fastened clarifying, making inferences, abc order April Medicine Joyce Carol Thomas Poem The Story of Three Whales Giles Whittell lurk, surface, trudged, plight, invincible, ordeal main idea and details, clarifying, asking questions, summarizing, suspense and surprise, final e with endings _ed and _ing, context clues, pronouns The Whales' Song Dyan Sheldon wondrous, imagine, dusk, rustle fact and opinion, clarifying, compare and contrast, time and order words, possessive nouns Cinderella retold by Fabio Coen beautiful, cellar, diamonds, kingdom, shimmering clarifying, cause and effect, visualizing, plot, multiple-meaning words I See Animals Hiding Jim Arnosky natural, unaware, camouflage, wariest, slithering, invisible asking questions, compare and contrast, summarizing, point of view, consonant blends, prefixes, subject-verb agreement Animal Camouflage Janet McDonnell costume, surroundings, blends, marshes, mimicry, pretenders main idea and details, asking questions, summarizing, types of sentences What Color is Camouflage? Carolyn Otto stalk, thicket, prowling, prey, threatened, predator cause and effect, clarifying, drawing conclusions, making connections, suffixes, adverbs They Thought They Saw Him Craig Kee Strete glistened, wakeful, gripped, swooped, ridge drawing conclusions, predicting, special spelling patterns, high-frequency words The Chameleon John Gardner Poem Caterpillar Christina Rossetti Poem How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots retold by Barbara Knutson glossy, delicious, slinking, scrambled, cautiously, craned classifying and categorizing, making connections, predictions, drawing conclusions, frequently misspelled words, punctuating dialogue All Eyes on the Pond Michael J. Rosen view, gazes, tangled, echoes, peering, peculiar author's point of view, clarifying, visualizing Dinosaur Fossils Dr. Alvin Granowsky dinosaur, fossils, hardened, scientists, difficult, extinct main idea and details, asking questions, classifying and categorizing, summarizing, verbs with _ed and _ing, commas in a series The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard B. G. Hennesy hatched, neighborhood, swamp, rescue fact and opinion, making connections, words ending in il, al, or le, abbreviations Iguanodon Jack Prelutsky Poem Seismosaurus Jack Prelutsky Poem Why Did the Dinosaurs Disappear? Karen Sapp roamed, climate, starved, protection, moisture, erupt, discovery cause and effect, predicting, summarizing, subjects and predicates Monster Tracks Barbara Bruno clues, prehistoric, imprint, mold, shallow, textures, instructions sequence, making connections, compound words Molly the Brave and Me Jane O'Connor guts, homesick, wimp, swatted, creepy author's point of view, making connections, punctuation in a letter Courage Emily Hearn Poem Dragons and Giants Arnold Lobel puffing, avalanche, trembling drawing conclusions, making connections, summarizing Life Doesn't Frighten Me Maya Angelou Poem The Hole in the Dike retold by Norma Green gurgling, trickling, gushing, numb, rumbling, hero cause and effect, clarifying, asking questions, setting, letter patterns A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. David A. Adler powerful, protests, demanding, fair, riots, violence, prejudice drawing conclusions, asking questions, main idea and details, point of view, contractions, prefixes and suffixes The Empty Pot Demi successor, proclamation, swarmed, ashamed, worthy, admire, courage making inferences, summarizing, making connections, sequence, verbs ending with _ed and _ing, using context clues Brave as a Mountain Lion Ann Herbert Scott reservation, drifted, dreaded, qualified, gymnasium, swirling author's purpose, making connections, cause and effect, parts of speech Immigrants: Coming to America from You Are There: Immigrants Coming to America Gare Thompson immigrants, explorers, colony, settlers, revolution, government sequence, making connections, summarizing, main idea and details, long and short vowels, comparatives and superlatives Dreamplace George Ella Lyon tourists, hearths, mesa, canyon, harvest, dwelling, withered author's point of view, clarifying, homophones and homographs, irregular past tense A Place Called Freedom Scott Russell Sanders plantation, weary, sturdy, fretted, settlement, celebrate author's purpose, clarifying, asking questions, frequently misspelled words, commas in a series The Story of the Statue of Liberty Betsy Maestro harbor, ferry, monuments, symbol, fascination, voyage, independence sequence, clarifying, summarizing, words ending with il, al, and le, multisyllabilic words Statue of Liberty Myra Cohn Livingston Poem New Hope Henri Sorensen recycling, ferried, brisk, bustling, invitation, citizens cause and effect, asking questions, making connections, special spellings of /aw/, multiple-meaning words, subject-verb agreement The Butterfly Seeds Mary Watson tossed, passengers, harmonica, inspectors, alley, vendor making inferences, asking questions, visualizing, spelling vowel plus r words, position words, abbreviations A Very Important Day Maggie Rugg Herold apologize, congratulations, courthouse, certificate, examiner, oath, loyalty classifying and categorizing, making connections, asking questions, compare and contrast, consonant blends, time and order words, possessive nouns Jalapeno Bagels Natasha Wing jalapeno, ingredients, dough, knead, recipe, mixture author's point of view, clarifying, making connections, fact and opinion, plural nouns, antonyms and synonyms, the parts of a letter