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Literature list to support Math TEKS, Level 1 | Updated 8/25/2017 Excerpted from Total Motivation Math Teacher Edition, Level 1 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads

TEKS 1.2(A) Recognize the Quantity of Structured Arrangements

Title — Author My Notes

12 Ways to Get to 11 — Eve Merriam

Count and See — Tana Hoban

Domino Addition — Lynette Long, Ph.D.

Finger Counting Fun — Sujatha Lalgudi

Fish Eyes — Lois Elhert

From the Garden — Michael Dahl

How Many Snails? — Paul Giganti Jr.

Math for All Seasons — Greg Tang

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish — Dr. Seuss

Tally O'Malley (MathStart 2) — Stuart J. Murphy

Ten Black Dots — Donald Crews

Ten Little Caterpillars — Bill Martin Jr.

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TEKS 1.2(B) & 1.2(C) Represent Numbers to 120 in Different Forms


A Place for Zero: A Math Adventure — Angeline Sparagna LoPresti

Centipede’s 100 Shoes — Tony Ross

Curious George Learns to Count from 1 to 100 — H. A. Rey

Earth Day—Hooray!: Place Value — Stuart J. Murphy

Let's Count to 100! — Masayuki Sebe

Math Fables — Greg Tang

Place Value (My Path to Math) — Penny Dowdy

Place Value — Danielle Carroll

Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens — Cindy Neuschwander

The Blast Off Kid — Laura Driscoll

The Case the Missing Birthday Party — Joanne Rocklin

Two Ways to Count to Ten — Ruby Dee



TEKS 1.2(D) & 1.2(E) Generate and Compare Numbers to 120


Anno's Counting Book — Mitsumasa Anno

City by Numbers — Stephen T. Johnson

Counting Crocodiles — Judy Sierra

Is It Larger? Is It Smaller? — Tana Hoban

Just Enough Carrots: Comparing Amounts — Stuart J. Murphy

Mice Twice — Joseph Low

Monster Math — Grace Maccarone

Mouse Count — Ellen Stoll Walsh

One Hundred Hungry Ants — Elinor J. Pinczes

The 100th Day of School — Angela Shelf Medearis

The Baseball Counting Book — Barbara Barbieri McGrath

The Case of the Missing Birthday Party — Joanne Rocklin

The M&M's® Counting Book — Barbara Barbieri McGrath

The Wolf's Chicken Stew — Keiko Kasza

Two Ways to Count to Ten — Ruby Dee



TEKS 1.2(F) & 1.2(G) Compare and Order Whole Numbers


Alfie the Alligator: A Teaching Rhyme About Comparing Numbers — Sandy Turley

Is It Larger? Is It Smaller? — Tana Hoban

Just Enough Carrots: Comparing Amounts — Stuart J. Murphy

More or Less: Comparing Numbers — Stuart J. Murphy

Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6 — M. W. Penn



TEKS 1.3(A) Find Sums of Multiples of 10 and One-Digit Numbers


Earth Day—Hooray!: Place Value — Stuart J. Murphy

If You Were a Plus Sign — Trisha Spped Shaskan

Just Enough Carrots — Stuart J. Murphy

Monarch Migration: Counting by 10s — Megan Atwood

One Gorilla — Atsuko Morozumi

Reese's Pieces Count by Tens — Jerry Pallotta

Skippyjon Jones 1-2-3 — Judy Schachner

Tail Feather Fun: Counting by Tens — Michael Dahl

Ten Little Ladybugs — Melanie Gerth

Ten for Me — Barbara Mariconda

Toasty Toes: Counting by Tens — Michael Dahl

What’s New at the Zoo?: An Animal Adding Adventure — Suzanne Slade



TEKS 1.3(B) Solve Word Problems: Addition and Subtraction Within 20


Adding and Subtracting at the Lake — Amy Rauen

All for Pie, Pie for All — David Martin

Animals on Board: Adding — Stuart J. Murphy

Cats Add Up — Dianne Ochiltree

Don’t Forget the Bacon! — Pat Hutchins

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly — Colin and Jacqui Hawkins

Maggie’s Whopper — Sally Hobart Alexander

Mouse Soup — Arnold Lobel

My Little Sister Ate One Hare — Bill Grossman

Night Noises — Mem Fox

Ten Apples Up on Top! — Dr. Suess

The Great Math Tattle Battle — Anne Bowen

The Hershey’s Kisses Addition Book — Jerry Pallotta

Who Sank the Boat? — Pamela Allen



TEKS 1.3(C) Compose 10 with Two or More Addends


10 Little Rubber Ducks — Eric Carle


A Fair Bear Share: Regrouping — Stuart J. Murphy


Anno's Counting House — Mitsumasa Anno

Dealing with Addition — Lynette Long, Ph.D.

Feast for 10 — Cathryn Falwell

One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab — April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre

Ten Apples Up On Top! — Dr. Suess

Ten for Dinner — Jo Ellen Bogart

Ten on the Sled — Kim Norman



TEKS 1.3(D) & 1.3(E) Apply and Explain Fact Strategies: Add and Subtract Within 20


1 + 1 = 5: and Other Unlikely Additions — David LaRochelle


A Collection for Kate — Barbara deRubertis

A Dozen Dozens — Harriet Ziefert



Building Sets of Ten — Minta Berry

Candy Counting: Delicious Ways to Add and Subtract — Lisa McCourt

Domino Addition — Lynette Long, Ph. D.

Double Play!: Monkeying Around with Addition — Betsy Franco

Double the Ducks: Doubling Numbers — Stuart J. Murphy

Monster Math Picnic — Grace Maccarone

Monster Musical Chairs: Subtracting One — Stuart J. Murphy

Sixteen Cows — Lisa Wheeler

Ten Friends — Bruce Goldstone

The Hershey’s Kisses Subtraction Book — Jerry Pallotta

Two of Everything — Lily Toy Hong

What’s New at the Zoo?: An Animal Adding Adventure — Suzanne Slade



TEKS 1.3(F) Generate and Solve Problems Given a Number Sentence



Adding Animals — Colin Hawkins


Elevator Magic: Subtraction — Stuart J. Murphy

Math for All Seasons — Greg Tang

Mission: Addition — Loreen Leedy


One is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab — April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre

Quack and Count — Keith Baker

So Many Cats! — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Subtraction Action — Loreen Leedy

Ten Sly Piranhas — William Wise

The Action of Subtraction — Brian P. Cleary

The Mission of Addition — Brian P. Cleary

Tyrannosaurus Math — Michelle Markel



TEKS 1.4(A) Identify Coins and Their Values


A Chair for My Mother — Vera B. Williams

A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy — Caren Holtzman

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday — Judith Viorst

Benny’s Pennies — Pat Brisson

Jelly Beans for Sale — Bruce McMillan

Let’s Find Out About Money — Kathy Barabas

One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money — Bonnie Worth

Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money — Amy Axelrod

“Smart” from Where the Sidewalk Ends — Shel Silverstein

The Coin Counting Book — Rozanne Lanczak Williams

The Penny Pot: Counting Coins — Stuart J. Murphy



TEKS 1.4(B) & 1.4(C) Determine the Value of a Set of Coins and Use the Cent Symbol



A Dollar for Penny — Dr. Julie Glass

A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy — Caren Holtzman


Apple Farmer Annie — Monica Wellington

Benny’s Pennies — Pat Brisson

Jelly Beans for Sale — Bruce McMillan

Jenny Found a Penny — Trudy Harris

Lots and Lots of Coins — Margarette S. Reid

Penny: The Forgotten Coin — Denise Brennan-Nelson

Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money — Amy Axelrod

The Coin Counting Book — Rozanne Lanczak Williams

The Penny Pot: Counting Coins — Stuart J. Murphy



TEKS 1.5(A) Recite Numbers Between 1–120



Centipede's 100 Shoes — Tony Ross

Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 — Bill Martin Jr.

City by Numbers — Stephen T. Johnson

Curious George Learns to Count from 1 to 100 — H. A. Rey

From One to One Hundred — Teri Sloat

Let's Count to 100! — Masayuki Sebe

One Hundred Days — Margaret McNamara

Out for the Count: A Counting Adventure — Kathryn Cave

Richard Scarry's Best Counting Book Ever — Richard Scarry



TEKS 1.5(B) Skip Count by Two, Five, and Ten



98, 99, 100! Ready or Not, Here I Come! — Teddy Slater

100th Day Worries — Margery Cuyler

Footprints in the Snow: Counting by Twos — Michael Dahl

Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos — Michael Dahl

Hands Down: Counting by Fives — Michael Dahl


Count on Pablo — Barbara deRubertis

Cat Up a Tree — John and Ann Hassett

Spunky Monkeys on Parade: Counting by 2s, 3s, and 4s — Stuart J. Murphy

Icky Bug Numbers — Jerry Pallotta

In My Garden: A Counting Book — Ward Schumaker

Reese’s Pieces Count by Fives — Jerry Pallotta



TEKS 1.5(C) Determine Numbers 10 More/Less Than a Given Number


Bunches of Buttons: Counting by Tens — Michael Dahl

Leaping Lizards: Counting by 5s and 10s — Stuart J. Murphy

Plenty of Petals: Counting by Tens — Michael Dahl

One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab — April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre




TEKS 1.5(D) Represent Word Problems with Addition and Subtraction


Adding and Subtracting at the Lake — Amy Rauen

Adding Animals — Colin Hawkins

Cat Up a Tree — John and Ann Hassett

Mission: Addition — Loreen Leedy

Ready, Set, Hop!: Building Equations — Stuart J. Murphy

So Many Cats! — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers


Ten Sly Piranhas — William Wise

The Math Curse — Jon Scieszka

This Plus That: Life’s Little Equations — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? — Bonnie Lass & Philemon Sturges



TEKS 1.5(E) Understand the Meaning of the Equal Sign


1 + 1 = 5: and Other Unlikely Additions — David LaRochelle

Addition — Paul C. Challen

Balancing Act — Ellen Stoll Walsh

Equal Shmequal — Virginia Kroll

Math Words and Symbols — Lynn Peppas


Plus 0, Minus 0 — Ann Matzke

Plus 2, Minus 2 — Ann Matzke

Tar Beach — Faith Ringgold

The Untidy Little Hedgehog — Molly Brett

This Plus That: Life’s Little Equations — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Tyrannosaurus Math — Michelle Markel



TEKS 1.5(F) Determine the Unknown Number in Equations


10 Bears in My Bed: A Goodnight Countdown — Stan Mack

Elevator Magic: Subtracting — Stuart J. Murphy

Five Silly Fisherman — Roberta Edwards

If You Were a Minus Sign — Trisha Speed Shaskan

Many Luscious Popsicles — Ruth Heller

Missing Math: A Number Mystery — Loreen Leedy


Mouse Count — Ellen Stoll Walsh

My Little Sister Ate One Hare — Bill Grossman

Quack and Count — Keith Baker

Ready, Set, Hop!: Building Equations — Stuart J. Murphy

Rooster's Off to See the World — Eric Carle

Safari Park: Finding Unknowns — Stuart J. Murphy

Seven Blind Mice — Ed Young


Ten Little Mice — Joyce Dunbar

The Untidy Little Hedgehog — Molly Brett



TEKS 1.5(G) Apply Properties of Operations to Add/Subtract


A Collection for Kate — Barbara deRubertis

A House for Hermit Crab — Eric Carle

Adding it Up at the Zoo — Judy Nayer

Adding Puppies and Kittens — Patricia J. Murphy

Adding with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Circus — Jill Anderson


Building Sets of Ten — Minta Berry

Domino Addition — Lynette Long, Ph.D.

Double Play!: Monkeying Around with Addition — Betsy Franco

Guinea Pigs Add Up — Margery Cuyler


Sea Sums — Joy N. Hulme

The M&M's® Addition Book — Barbara Barbieri McGrath

Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree — Betsy Franco



TEKS 1.6(A) Classify and Sort 2-Dimensional Shapes


Grandma’s Button Box — Linda Williams Aber

Harriet’s Halloween Candy — Nancy Carlson

Mouse Shapes — Ellen Stoll Walsh

Not a Box — Antoinette Portis

Shape by Shape — Suse MacDonald

Shapes that Roll — Karen Nagel

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes — Tana Hoban

Sort It Out! — Barbara Mariconda

Sorting — Henry Pluckrose

The Button Box — Margarette S. Reid

The Shape of Me and Other Stuff — Dr. Seuss

The Shapes Game — Paul Rogers

Whoo? Whoo? — David A. Carter

Windows, Rings, and Grapes: A Look at Different Shapes — Brian P. Cleary



TEKS 1.6(B) Distinguish Attributes of 2- and 3-Dimensional Shapes


A 3-D Birthday Party — Ellen B. Senisi

A Circle Here, A Square There — David Diehl

A Cloak for the Dreamer — Aileen Friedman

Bear in a Square — Stella Blackstone

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes: Three-Dimensional Shapes — Stuart J. Murphy

Circus Shapes: Recognizing Shapes — Stuart J. Murphy

Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres — Tana Hoban

Icky Bug Shapes — Jerry Pallotta



Skippyjon Jones Shape Up — Judy Schachner

So Many Circles, So Many Squares — Tana Hoban

Square Cat — Elizabeth Schoonmaker

The Greedy Triangle — Marilyn Burns

The Shape of Things — Dayle Ann Dodds

The Silly Story of Goldie Locks and the Three Squares — Grace Maccarone

Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes — Grace Maccarone

What Is an Attribute? — Nancy Kelly Allen

When a Line Bends… A Shape Begins — Rhonda Gowler Greene



TEKS 1.6(C) Create 2-Dimensional Shapes


Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet — Ann Whitford Paul

Grandfather Tang's Story — Ann Tompert

Icky Bug Shapes — Jerry Pallotta

Shape Up! — David A. Adler



The Secret Birthday Message — Eric Carle


What Shape Is It? — Bobbie Kalman




TEKS 1.6(D) Use Attributes to Identify 2-Dimensional Shapes


Circus Shapes: Recognizing Shapes — Stuart J. Murphy

Color Zoo — Lois Ehlert

I See Shapes — Marcia Fries

I Spy Shapes in Art — Lucy Micklethwait

Math Fair Blues — Sue Kassirer


Not Enough Room! — Joanne Rocklin

Round Is a Mooncake — Roseanne Thong

Shapes in Sports — Rebecca Rissman


Shape Up! — David A. Adler

So Many Circles, So Many Squares — Tana Hoban



The Silly Story of Goldie Locks and the Three Squares — Grace Maccarone




TEKS 1.6(E) Identify and Describe 3-Dimensional Solids


Block City — Robert Louis Stevenson

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes: Three-Dimensional Shapes — Stuart J. Murphy

Changes, Changes — Pat Hutchins

Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres — Tana Hoban

Cones — Laura Hamilton Waxman

Cylinders — Laura Hamilton Waxman

Kitten Castle — Mel Friedman & Eileen Weiss

Prisms — Laura Hamilton Waxman

Shapes That Roll — Karen Nagel


Spheres — Laura Hamilton Waxman

The Incredibly Awesome Box: A Story About 3-D Shapes — Joanne Rocklin

Three Dimensional Shapes: Cubes — Luana K. Mitten

Three Dimensional Shapes: Cones — Luana K. Mitten

Three Dimensional Shapes: Cylinders — Luana K. Mitten

Three Dimensional Shapes: Spheres — Luana K. Mitten



TEKS 1.6(F) Compose 2-Dimensional Shapes


A Cloak for the Dreamer — Aileen Friedman

Grandfather Tang's Story — Ann Tompert

Mice on Ice — Eleanor May


The Quiltmaker’s Gift — Jeff Brumbeau

The Seasons Sewn: A Year in Patchwork — Ann Whitford Paul



What Shape Is It? — Bobbie Kalman



TEKS 1.6(G) & 1.6(H) Identify Halves and Fourths in 2-Dimensional Shapes



Apple Fractions — Jerry Pallotta

Eating Fractions — Bruce McMillan

Fraction Action — Loreen Leedy

Full House: An Invitation to Fractions — Dayle Ann Dodds

Give Me Half!: Understanding Halves — Stuart J. Murphy

How Many Ways Can You Cut a Pie? — Jane Belk Moncure

If You Were a Fraction — Trisha Speed Shaskan

Mary Clare Likes to Share — Joy Hulme

My Half Day — Doris Fisher & Dani Sneed

Piece = Part = Portion — Scott Gifford

Pizza Counting — Christina Dobson

The Half-Birthday Party — Charlotte Pomerantz

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear — Don & Audrey Wood

The Missing Piece — Shel Silverstein

The Wishing Club: A Story About Fractions — Donna Jo Napoli



TEKS 1.7(A) & 1.7(B) Use Tools to Measure and Explain Length


How Big Is a Foot? — Rolf Myller

How Long or How Wide? — Brian P. Cleary

Learn About Measuring with Little Miss Muffet — Saviour Pirotta

Length — Henry Arthur Pluckrose

Measuring Penny — Loreen Leedy

Size — Henry Arthur Pluckrose

Super Sand Castle Saturday: Measuring — Stuart J. Murphy

The Biggest Fish — Sheila Keenan

The Line Up Book — Marisabina Russo

Twelve Snails to One Lizard: A Tale of Mischief and Measurement — Susan Hightower



TEKS 1.7(C) & 1.7(D) Measure and Report Length with Appropriate Units


How Big Is a Foot? — Rolf Myller

How Do You Measure Length and Distance — Thomas K. & Heather Adamson

How Long or How Wide? — Brian P. Cleary

Inch by Inch — Leo Lionni

Is a Paw a Foot? All About Measurement — Kris Hirschmann

Length — Henry Arthur Pluckrose

Me and the Measure of Things — Joan Sweeney

Measuring Penny — Loreen Leedy

Millions to Measure — David M. Schwartz

Olivia Measures Up — Maggie Testa

Super Sand Castle Saturday: Measuring — Stuart J. Murphy

The Foot Book — Dr. Seuss

The Long and Short of It — Cheryl Nathan & Lisa McCourt

The Royal Treasure Measure — Trudy Harris

Twelve Snails to One Lizard: A Tale of Mischief and Measurement — Susan Hightower



TEKS 1.7(E) Tell Time to the Hour and Half Hour


A Day on the Avenue — Robert Roennfeldt

All in a Day — Mitsumasa Anno

Clocks and More Clocks — Pat Hutchins

Cluck O’Clock — Kes Gray

Five Minutes’ Peace — Jill Murphy

It’s About Time, Max! — Kitty Richards

It’s About Time — Judy Nayer

It’s About Time!: Hours — Stuart J. Murphy

Just a Minute! — Teddy Slater

Pigs on a Blanket: Fun with Math and Time — Amy Axelrod

Telling Time with Big Mama Cat — Dan Harper

The Clock Struck One: A Time-Telling Tale — Trudy Harris

The Ding Dong Clock — Carol H. Behrman

Tick-Tock — Eileen Browne

Time to Get Up — Gill McLean

What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile? — Judy Sierra

What’s the Time, Dracula? — Victor Ambrus



TEKS 1.8(A) Collect, Sort, and Organize Data


Collecting Data: Pick a Pancake — John Burstein

Country Fair — Gail Gibbons

Grandma’s Button Box — Linda Williams Aber

Red Is Best — Kathy Stinson

Sort It Out! — Barbara Mariconda

Sorting — Henry Pluckrose

Tally Cat Keeps Track — Trudy Harris

Tally O’Malley: Tallying — Stuart J. Murphy

The Best Vacation Ever: Collecting Data — Stuart J. Murphy

The Button Box — Margarette S. Reid

The Mouse Who Owned the Sun — Sally Derby

Toy Tally: How Many Toys Are There? — Donna Loughran

Wacky Wednesday — Dr. Seuss



TEKS 1.8(B) Create Picture and Bar Graphs


Chrysanthemum — Kevin Henkes

Graphs — Bonnie Bader

Lemonade for Sale: Bar Graphs — Stuart J. Murphy

Pepper’s Journal: A Kitten’s First Year — Stuart J. Murphy

Red Is Best — Kathy Stinson

The Great Graph Contest — Loreen Leedy

The Mouse Who Owned the Sun — Sally Derby

Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger — Ann Whitehead Nagda & Cindy Bickel

Tikki Tikki Tembo — Arlene Mosel

Who’s Got Spots? — Linda W. Aber



TEKS 1.8(C) Answer Questions Based on Picture and Bar Graphs


Analyzing Doggie Data — Marcie Aboff

Graphs — Bonnie Bader

Lemonade for Sale: Bar Graphs — Stuart J. Murphy

Lions and Tigers and Graphs! Oh My! — Jennifer M. Basel

Sorting Fur, Feathers, Tails, and Scales — Marcie Aboff

Tally Cat Keeps Track — Trudy Harris

Tally O’Malley: Tallying — Stuart J. Murphy

The Frog Prince — folk tale retold by Edith H. Tarcov

The Great Graph Contest — Loreen Leedy



TEKS 1.9(A), 1.9(B), 1.9(C), & 1.9(D) Manage Financial Resources




Arthur’s Funny Money — Lillian Hoban

Arthur’s Pet Business — Marc Brown

Caps for Sale — Esphyr Slobodkina

Do I Need It? Or Do I Want It?: Making Budget Choices — Jennifer S. Larson

Earning Money — Mary Firestone

Frannie’s Fruits — Leslie Kimmelman

Just Saving My Money — Mercy Mayer

One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money — Bonnie Worth

Ox-Cart Man — Donald Hall

Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock — Sheila Bair

Sallie’s Big Save — Laura Driscoll

The Berenstain Bears’ Trouble with Money — Stan & Jan Berenstain

The Little Red Hen — illustrated by Barry Downard


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