MegaSkills® and Reading: Common Sense and Problem Solving

Common Sense

Early Grades
• Andersen, Hans Christian. The Woman With the Eggs.
• Asch, Frank. Turtle Tale.
• Duvoisin, Roger. Petunia.
• Gag, Wanda. Gone Is Gone.
• LaFontaine, Jean de. Miller, the Boy and the Donkey.
• Little Red Hen.
• Parish, Peggy. Amelia Bedelia.
• Zemach, Margot. It Could Always Be Worse.

 

Middle/ Upper Grades
• Byars, Betsy. The Eighteenth Emergency.
• Cresswell, Helen. Absolute Zero.
• Enright, Elizabeth. The Saturdays.
• Hale, Lucretia. The Peterkin Papers.
• Jones, Rebecca. Germy Blew the Bugle.
• Lowry, Lois. Anastasia Krupnik.
• Smith, Robert Kimmel. Jelly Belly.


Problem Solving

Early Grades
• Blegvad, Lenore Hochman, and Erik Blegvad. The Great Hamster Hunt.
• Brown, Margaret Wise. Once Upon a Time in a Pigpen.
• DePaola, Tomie. Fin m'Coul: The Giant of Knockmany Hill.
• French, Fiona. Anancy and Mr. Dry Bone.
• Greenfield, Eloise. Grandpa's Face.
• Hoban, Russell. A Bargain for Frances.
• Lionni, Leo. Inch by Inch.
• Steig, William. Dr. DeSoto.

Middle/ Upper Grades
• Atwater, Richard T. Mr. Popper's Penguins.
• Clark, Margaret Goff. The Latchkey Mystery.
• Gauch, Patricia. This Time, Tempe Wick?
• Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
• Naidoo, Beverly. Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story.
• O'Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
• Steig, William. Abel's Island.