Woof! Our Canadian Dogs is a report about three Canadian dogs: Newfoundland, Labrador, and Canadian Inuit.  The characteristics and talents of each dog are profiled.  Fact boxes titled “It’s a fact” provide additional information.  The style is conversational and informative.

Mostly simple sentences are used.  The text is supported directly by headings, maps, labelled photographs, and pronunciation guides.

Interest words include island, rescue, paws, and mane.  The verbs dive, swim, and pull are used.  The adjectives thick, webbed, icy, and rough are used.

This title is from the Celebrate CANADA series. Inspire readers to learn about the cultural, social, scientific, and Indigenous stories of Canada in these engaging, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Woof!

ISBN-10: 0134716744

ISBN-13: 9780134716749

Sleds and Toboggans is a report on how First Nations and Inuit peoples built and used sleds and toboggans in the past, on how they use them today, and on how today many people enjoy sleds and toboggans for leisure and sport, including the Olympic sports of bobsled, luge, and skeleton racing and the Paralympic sport of sledge hockey.  Fact boxes titled “Snowy fact” add additional information.  The style is conversational and informative.

Mostly simple sentences are used.  The text is supported directly by captioned and labelled photographs, boldface type, and a pronunciation guide.

Interest words include runners, loads, snowmobiles, and disability.  The verbs found, built, travel, slide, and race are used.  The adjectives narrow, smooth, hard-packed, and rocky are used.

This title is from the Celebrate CANADA series. Inspire readers to learn about the cultural, social, scientific, and Indigenous stories of Canada in these engaging, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Sleds and Toboggans

ISBN-10: 0134690966

ISBN-13: 9780134690964

Prairie Seasons is a report on how the four seasons make Canada’s Prairie provinces “the breadbasket of Canada.”  The role of the changing seasons in the farming of grain crops is described.  Fact boxes titled “Plain fact” provide additional information.  The style is conversational and informative.

Mostly simple sentences are used.  The text is supported directly by a map, headings, labelled photographs, and word banks.

Interest words include wheat, barley, canola, flax, rye, oats, snowdrifts, and tornadoes.  The verbs changes, sow, warms, waves, hit, shivers, and help are used.  Adjectives used to describe the weather, such as windy, stormy rainy, frosty, and snowy are highlighted.

This title is from the Celebrate CANADA series. Inspire readers to learn about the cultural, social, scientific, and Indigenous stories of Canada in these engaging, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Prairie Seasons

ISBN-10: 0134690974

ISBN-13: 9780134690971

Polar Bears: See You in Churchill! is a first-person report.  The reporter describes the bears, explains how the townspeople of Churchill, Manitoba cope with the bears’ visits, and relates information about the bears’ behaviour.  Fact boxes titled “Cool fact” provide additional information.  The style is conversational and informative.

A variety of sentence types are used.  The text is supported directly by a map, labelled photographs, helpful icons, and pronunciation guides for Inuit words.

Interest words include rangers, noisemakers, seaweed, and snowshoes.  The verbs wander, were sniffing, hunt, and search are used.  The adjectives sharp, strong, and healthy are used.

This title is from the Celebrate CANADA series. Inspire readers to learn about the cultural, social, scientific, and Indigenous stories of Canada in these engaging, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Polar Bears

ISBN-10: 0134690982

ISBN-13: 9780134690988

It’s Puzzling! is explanation/puzzle.  Characteristics of a Canadian animal are revealed in photographic puzzle pieces and readers are challenged to figure out which animal it is.  When the puzzle is complete, readers see a caribou and further information about the animal is provided.  The style is informative.

A series of clues in the first person, such as “I have beautiful antlers,” guides readers to naming the animal.  The sentences are simple in structure.  Headings, questions, labels, and boldface are used.  Photographs support the text directly. 

Interest words include woodlands, tundra, mountains.

This title is from the Celebrate CANADA series. Inspire readers to learn about the cultural, social, scientific, and Indigenous stories of Canada in these engaging, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: It's Puzzling!

ISBN-10: 013473744X

ISBN-13: 9780134737447

Lighthouses is a description that takes readers on a tour of four lighthouses in Nova Scotia.  The distinctive style of each lighthouse is described and fact boxes titled “A bright fact” provide additional facts about lighthouses.  The style is conversational and informative.

A variety of sentence types are used.  The text is supported directly by a map, labelled photographs, and helpful icons.

Interest words include lighthouse, fishers, sailors, and foghorns.  The verbs warns, crash, and flash are used.  The adjectives stormy, rocky, foggy, and booming are used.

This title is from the Celebrate CANADA series. Inspire readers to learn about the cultural, social, scientific, and Indigenous stories of Canada in these engaging, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Lighthouses

ISBN-10: 0134691008

ISBN-13: 9780134691008

Where Am I? is a report that gives the First Nations and Inuit origins of many place names across Canada.  For example Kamloops, British Columbia gets its name from a Secwepemstsin word meeting “the meeting of waters” because two rivers meet at that spot.  For each place name, a sidebar table gives the name of the nation and language that inspired the place name.  The style is conversational and informative.

Mostly simple sentences are used.  The text is supported directly by headings, sidebars, tables, boldface and italic type, and pronunciation guides.

Interest words include languages, beautiful, and thousands.  The verbs named, means, and describe are used.  The adjectives deep, shallow, and yummy are used.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Where Am I?

ISBN-10: 0134691016

ISBN-13: 9780134691015

Dinosaur Country is a retell of a trip to Dinosaur Park in Alberta.  On the Badlands Trail, the reader sees Hoodoos and fossil bonebeds and walks where the dinosaurs once roamed.  Fact boxes provide additional information.  The style is conversational and informative. 

Mostly simple sentences are used.  The text is supported directly by a map, headings, labelled and captioned photographs, and illustrations.

Interest words include roamed, fossils, remains, giants, artists, and layers.  The verb shows is used.  The adjectives special, living, and wonderful are used.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Dinosaur Country

ISBN-10: 0134691024

ISBN-13: 9780134691022

When the Tide Is Out is a retell by a young Coast Salish person who relates what the Elders have said about gathering and respecting the food that comes from the ocean.  Fact boxes provide additional information.  The style is conversational and informative.

Mostly simple sentences are used.  The text is supported directly by a map and labelled and captioned photographs.  The Elders words are presented as direct quotations.

Interest words include tide, ocean, seaweed, shellfish, salmon, traditional, and ceremony.  The verbs gather, dig, collect, fish, and honour are used.  The adjectives young and special are used.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: When the Tide Is Out

ISBN-10: 0134691032

ISBN-13: 9780134691039

Canada Day from Coast to Coast is a description of the ways different communities celebrate Canada’s birthday.  Fact boxes titled “O Canada” provide additional information.  The style is conversational and informative.

Mostly simple sentences are used.  The text is supported directly by captioned photographs.

Interest words include nation, coast, citizens, parades, maple, and fireworks.  The verbs celebrate, play, gather, paint, and watch are used.  The adjectives huge and dark are used.

This title is from the Celebrate CANADA series. Inspire readers to learn about the cultural, social, scientific, and Indigenous stories of Canada in these engaging, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Invoice Title: Celebrate Canada 1: Canada Day

ISBN-10: 0134743016

ISBN-13: 9780134743011