These books will help your child to develop their basic skills in DRAWING CONCLUSIONS AND PREDICTING OUTCOMES; MAIN IDEA; POINT OF VIEW; SEQUENCING; CHARACTERIZATION; AND COMPARATIVE READING. These books could be borrowed from your school or public library so that you and your child could practice the skills that are essential and necessary to pass the TAAS Reading:
DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
Borrequita And The Coyote by Aardema
Piggybook by Browne
Amazing Grace by Hoffman
Aunt Flossies Hats by Howard
Old Macdonald Had A Farm by Jones
If You Give A Moose A Muffin by Numeroff
Wretched Stone by Van Allsburg
Possum Come-A-Knockin by Van Laan
King Bidgood's In The Bathtub by Wood.
MAIN IDEA
Hot Air henry by Calhoun
I wish I were a Butterfly by Howe
The Doorbell Rang by Hutchins
A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Lester
Swimmy by Lionni
Family Farm by Locker
The Little Engine That Could by Piper
Polar Express by Van Allsburg
POINT OF VEIW
The Jolly Postman by Ahlberg
The Pain In The Great One by Blume
Princess Smartypants by Cole
Three Bears by Galdone
The True Story Of The Three Little Bears by Scieszka