Each title:

• Provides text to self, text to text and text to world opportunities
• Supports investigation of literary devices that are essential for effective writing
• Includes specific modeling of text types including reports, explanations, narrative fantasy and persuasive
• Contains numerous opportunities to develop oral language

The teacher resource provides detailed lessons for the explicit instruction of skills and strategies such as:

• Understanding inferencing
• Summarizing and sequencing
• Understanding cause and effect

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