Text sets allow students to build background knowledge about a topic as they read each new text. Discover books and articles to create squirrel text sets for students to read.

Nonfiction Books About Squirrels

Squirrel Emergent Reader and Decodable Books – Learn facts about the squirrel. This squirrel text also comes with a long and short vowel one page decodable book.

Heggerty Frog Series: I Have Soft Paws– Readers learn about similarities between squirrels and other animals. Uses short vowels: a, i, o and ch.

Squirrels: Animals That Make a Difference! (Engaging Readers, Level 1)

Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep– Learn facts about squirrels in this rhyming book.

Fiction Books About Squirrels

Bird & Squirrel On the Run!: A Graphic Novel– Follow the adventures of Bird, Squirrel, and Cat in this graphic novel.

Unlimited Squirrels: I Lost My Tooth– Read about the funny, furry adventures of the squirrels by Mo Willems.

Free Squirrel Texts

Kids National Geographic: Eastern Gray Squirrel

Read Works: Squirrels Build Nests

Read Works: Henry the Squirrel