Recommended Books for Nonfiction Read-Alouds



|Recommended Books for Nonfiction Read-Alouds |

|PRIMARY |INTERMEDIATE |

|Our Seasons – Grace Lin & Ranida McKneally |I Wonder Why (series) – Kingfisher |

|If You Decide to Go to the Moon; How To Dig a Hole to the Other |Should There Be Zoos? – Tony Stead |

|Side of the Earth – Faith McNulty |Owen and Mzee – Isabella Hatkoff (companion book to Mama? – |

|Astronaut Handbook – Meghan McCarthy |Jeanette Winter) |

|The Five Senses – Adele Ciboul |The Scoop on Poop – Wayne Lynche |

|Arabella Miller’s Tiny Caterpillar – Clare Jarrett |Extreme Animals – Nicola Davies |

|Growing Frogs – Vivian French |It’s Disgusting and We Ate It! – Food Facts from Around the World |

|My Story of Life in a Pond – Steve Parker |– James Solheim |

|In One Tidepool: Crabs, Snails and Salty Tails; In One Cattail: |The Island That Moved: How Shifting Forces Shape Our Earth – |

|Turtles, Logs and Leaping Frogs; In One Flower: Butterflies, Ticks|Meredith Hooper & Lucia deLeiris |

|and a Few More Icks – Anthony D. Fredericks |All About My Brother – Sarah Peralta |

|Follow That Map - Scot Ritchie |Hurricanes Have Eyes But Can’t See – Melvin & Gilda Berger |

|Oh, Canada! - Per-Henrik Gurth |This Is Your Life Cycle – Heather Lynne Miller |

|Snowy Sports – Ready,Set,Play! – Per-Henrik Gurth |Tribal Alphabet – Nan Richardson |

|The Snow Show – Carolyn Fisher |How To Build Your Own Country – Valerie Worth |

|INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY |

|WHY? The best ever question and answer book about science, nature and the world around you – Catherine Ripley |

|How Big It It?; How Strong It It? – Ben Hillman |

|Are You a Spider?- Judy Allen (The Backyard books also available include Grasshopper, Ant, Bee, Dragonfly, Snail) |

|An Egg Is Quiet; A Seed Is Sleepy – Dianna Aston |

|I Wanna Iguana - Karen Orloff |

|The West Is Calling: Imagining British Columbia - Sarah N. Harvey, Leslie Buffam, & Dianna Bonder |

|Recommended Books for ZOOM IN (to nonfiction features) |

|PRIMARY |INTERMEDIATE |

|A Closer Look - Mary McCarthy |Zoom or Re-Zoom - Istvan Banyai |

|Looking Closely at the... (series include Forest, Seashore, Pond, |The Top of the World: Climbing Mt. Everest – Steve Jenkins |

|Desert) – Frank Serafini |Smart About Art (series includes Frieda Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, |

|Imagine You’re a Pirate … (series titles include Fairy, Knight, |Edgar Degas) - Grosset & Dunlap |

|Mermaid, Princess, Astronaut) - Lucy & Meg Clibbon |Creepy Crawlies – Editors of Kingfisher |

|See More Readers – Seymour Simon | |

|EYE Know (series) - DK Publishing | |

|INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY |

|Looking Down – Steve Jenkins |

|My Map Book – Sara Fanelli |

|Take Two Books – published by the Wright Group |

|Recommended Books for Promoting DEEP THINKING Questions |

|PRIMARY |INTERMEDIATE |

|Stella books – Marie-Louise Gay |The Philosopher’s Club – Christopher Phillips |

|Ask Me – Antje Damm |The Kids’ Book of Questions – Gregory Stock |

|Where Does Pepper Come From? - Brigitte Raab |Philosophy for Kids: 40 Fun Questions That Help You Wonder About |

|I Wonder Why: A Poem for Children – Connie Amarel |Everything! - David A. White (intermediate) |

|I Wonder Why – Lois Rock |What? Where? Why? – Questions and Answers About Nature – Jim Bruce |

|I Wonder – Tana Hoban |If – Sara Perry |

|I Wonder – Harriet Fishel |Biggest Ever Book of Questions and Answers – Ian James |

|Why? - Lila Prap |How Come? Planet Earth – Kathy Wollard |

|Have You Ever Seen a Duck in a Raincoat? – Etta Kaner | |

|INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY |

|Why? Everyday Questions About Science, Nature and the World Around You - Catherine Ripley (primary, intermediate) |

|Thinking Stories 1, 2 & 3 (Philosophical Inquiry for Children series) - Philip Cam (editor) |

|Recommended Books for Teaching MAIN IDEA (Determining Importance) |

|PRIMARY |INTERMEDIATE |

|Up Close:Tails That Talk and Fly - Diane Swanson (also Up Close: |Poo - Nicola Davies |

|Noses That Blow and Poke) |Extreme Animals - Nicola Davies |

|Animals Eat the Weirdest Things; Animals Can Be So Speedy; Animals Can|Animals Nobody Loves - Seymour Simon |

|Be So Sleepy - Diane Swanson |How Big Is It? – Ben Hillman |

|Extreme Readers (series) - School Specialty Publishing |How Strong Is It? - Ben Hillman |

|World of Plants (series includes Why Do Plants Have Flowers? Where Do |The Daily Disaster: Real Life Stories of 30 Amazing Disasters - |

|Plants Grow?) - Louise & Richard Spilsbury (Heinemann) |Cormac O’Brien |

| |Text on Two Levels (series includes Energy, Geography, Solar Power,|

| |Resources) (Stargazer Books) |

|INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY |

|Nonfiction Reading Practice (Evan-Moore Publishing): reproducible units with articles at three different reading levels; available in |

|various grade levels. |

|Read and Understand Science (Evan Moore Publishing): reproducible articles for content area reading practice; available in various grade |

|levels. |

|The Comprehension Toolkit: Primary and Intermediate - Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis |

|Recommended Books for Teaching CONNECT |

|PRIMARY |INTERMEDIATE |

|In My Neighbourhood (series) – Paulette Bourgeois |Usborne Book of Peoples of the World – Anne Claybourne |

|The Bare Naked Book – Kathy Stinson |Wake Up World! A Day in the Life of Children Around the World – |

|What Is a Community? – Bobbie Kalman |Beatrice Hollyer |

|You and Me Together, Moms and Dads and Kids Around the World – Barbara|Canada from A-Z – Bobbie Kalman |

|Kerley |Mysterious You (series) – Diane Swanson & Trudee Romanek |

|Me and My Family Tree – Joan Sweeny |Looking at Weather – David Suzuki |

|My Five Senses – Aliki |Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story – Neil Waldman |

|I Am a Living Thing – Bobbie Kalman |Weather FAQ’S – Valerie Wyatt (Frequently Asked Questions series) |

|Me and My Amazing Body – Joan Sweeny | |

|Our Seasons – Grace Lin | |

|Four Seasons Make a Year – Anne Rockwell | |

|INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY |

|I Wonder Why I Blink and Other Questions About My Body – Brigid Avison |

|Recommended Books for Teaching TRANSFORM |

|PRIMARY |INTERMEDIATE |

|10 Things I Can Do to Help My World – Melanie Walsh |One Well: The Story of Water on Earth – Rochelle Strauss |

|A Cool Drink of Water - Barbara Kerley |Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth - |

|Polar Bear, Why is Your World Melting? - Robert E.Wells |Rochelle Strauss |

|Where the Forest Meets the Sea - Jeanette Baker |Most Loved in All the World – Tonya Cherie Hegamin |

|Where Once There Was a Wood – Denise Fleming |If the World Were a Village - David J. Smith |

|First the Egg – Laura Vaccaro Seeger |We - Alice Schertle |

|The Bizarre Body – Katharine Kenah |The Storm: Students of Biloxi, Mississippi Remember Hurricane |

|Weird and Wacky Plants – Katharine Kenah |Katrina - Barbara Barbieri McGrath |

|Space Mysteries – Katharine Kenah |Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World - |

|I Wonder Why There’s a Hole in the Sky and Other Questions About the |Fred Pearce |

|Environment – Sean Callery (Kingfisher) |Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World - Jane Breskin |

|I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs and other questions about creepy crawlies|Zalben |

|– Amanda O’Neill (Kingfisher) |Material World: A Global Family Portrait – Peter Menzel |

|I Wonder Why the Dodo Is Dead and other questions about extinct and |Can We Save Them? Endangered Species of North America - David|

|endangered animals – Andrew Charman (Kingfisher) |Dobson |

|Our Home – Linda Glaser |Dear Children of the Earth – Schim Schimmel |

|INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY |

|A Little Peace - Barbara Kerley The Great Kapok Tree - Lynne Cherry |

|A Cool Drink of Water – Barbara Kerley What the Sea Saw - Stephanie St. Pierre |

|Ice Bear: In the Steps of the Polar Bear – Nicola Davies |

|Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest; Actual Size; Biggest, Fastest, Strongest; Almost Gone; The Top of the World: Climbing Mt. Everest; I|

|See a Kookaburra; What Do You Do When Someone Wants to Eat You? Slap, Squeak and Scatter: How Animals Communicate – Steve Jenkins |

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