Shar is a realistic, fictional text about a puppy named Shar who tears up pillows, slippers, and books, which angers the mother of the house.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Dialogue is bolded.

Interest words include slippers and pillow. To conclude, a rebus chart is presented that helps readers in retelling and comprehending the text.

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ISBN-10: 186944177X

ISBN-13: 9781869441777

A Bird is a Bird is an animal fantasy about a cat and bird who try to act like one another. Simple dialogue with pronouns is used.

Clear illustrations match print very closely.

The initial letter c appears in cat, come, and can. Some simple plurals using –s appear. Interest words include nest, steps, grass, and tree. To conclude, the cat and bird’s trail is shown in an illustration with a simple legend.

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ISBN-10: 1869448553

ISBN-13: 9781869448554

A Hat for Hippo is a humorous, animal fantasy about a hippo who turns down his friends’ suggestions to wear a hat to protect his skin from the sun. Hippo falls asleep in the sun and his whole body turns pink.

Clear illustrations match print very closely. Speech bubbles are used.

The initial letter h appears in hat, have, head, and hippo. Interest words include hippo, elephant, parrot, and sun. Capital letters are used for character names. To conclude, readers are invited to follow step-by-step directions on how to make a hippo hat.

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ISBN-10: 1869444574

ISBN-13: 9781869444570

A House for a Mouse is an animal fantasy about a mouse who is looking for a good place to live on an elephant. He realizes that the elephant's tail, back, and nose, are not a good house for a mouse.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text.

The initial letter h appears in home and head. Interest words include sneezed, trunk, and plan. The onomatopoetic word A-a-a-choo! is used. To conclude, a plan of house, which includes a bedroom, living room, kitchen, and bathroom, is illustrated.

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ISBN-10: 1869441842

ISBN-13: 9781869441845

A House for an Alien is a humorous, fictional text about an alien who is looking for his house with the help from a bus driver. The alien’s house, a UFO, lands in the middle of a road and the alien boards his spaceship.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. The alien shows the bus driver a map throughout the book. Speech bubbles are used to convey information.

The initial letter h appears in house and hill. Interest words include screech, bridge, and goodbye. To conclude, a trail is shown on a two-page spread that shows readers where the alien and bus driver drove.

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ISBN-10: 1869444582

ISBN-13: 9781869444587

Animal Skeletons is a factual text that invites readers to learn about the skeletal structures of different animals.

Illustrations support the text. Each two-page spread presents an image of the animal as well as its skeleton. Some body parts are labeled in each picture. An index is presented.

Interest words include skeleton, wings, head, and fangs. Some simple adjectives are used to describe parts of the skeleton. An activity that invites students to think about animal skeletons is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869448677

ISBN-13: 9781869448677

Animals in the City is an informational text about animals that live in and visit cities to find food. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

All the sentences are short and mostly predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly and add meaning.  The book concludes with cameo photographs of all the animals and an index.

The high frequency words are can, comes, and look.  Interest words include city, animals, and fox.

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ISBN-10: 1869444604

ISBN-13: 9781869444600

Animals in the Snow is an informational text about animals that live, hide, and hunt in the snow.  The arrival of a tiger on the concluding pages adds excitement.  The text has several simple repeating language patterns.

All of the sentences are simple and mostly predictable.  The text poses questions directly to the reader. Bold face is used for emphasis. Vibrant photographs match the text directly.  The concluding two-page spread provides photographs of all the animals and an index.

The high frequency word is too.  Interest words include seal, tiger, and hide.  The initial consonant b appears in bird and bear.

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ISBN-10: 1869448707

ISBN-13: 9781869448707

Animals in the Water is an informational text about animals that are at home in the water.  The text has two repeating language patterns, “Look at the ________.” and “The ________ are in the water.”  The text concludes with a twist as readers learn that the penguins are not only in the water but also up on the water.

All the sentences are short and nearly all are predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly. The final two-page spread has cameo photographs of all the animals and an index. 

The high frequency words are too and up.  Interest words include fish, water, and hippopotamus.

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ISBN-10: 1869444639

ISBN-13: 9781869444631

Babies in Pouches is an informational text about babies that are carried by their mothers or fathers in pouches.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.  Several questions are posed directly to the reader.

All the sentences are short and mostly predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly and labelled inset photographs add detail.  Question marks are used.  The book concludes with cameo photographs of all the animals and an index.

The high frequency words are it, where, and they.  Interest words include babies and pouches.

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ISBN-10: 186944888X

ISBN-13: 9781869448882

Barnaby is a realistic fiction about a boy who loves worms and puts them in household items that his parents use.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. A header on the top of the page reminds children of earlier events in the story so that they can keep track.

The suffix -s appears in likes, socks, shoes, worms, and hats. Interest words include yuck and juice. To conclude, a pictograph illustrates how many worms were put into the hat, the socks, the shoes, and the juice.

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ISBN-10: 1869441796

ISBN-13: 9781869441791

Bedtime is a lighthearted fantasy about a cat who chooses her own bedtime, making the rounds of the neighbourhood before going home and curling up beside her boy, who is sound asleep.  The story is told through simple dialogue and narrative with numerous repeated language patterns.

The story has a beginning, middle, end structure.  All of the sentences are short and simple in structure.  Capital letters are used for names (Cat, Dad, Owl, for example), and quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Speech balloons convey some of the dialogue.  Pictorial maps show the paths followed by Cat and Mouse.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning. 

Interest words include time, path, bridge, steps, and window.  The positional words out, down, over, into, under, and up are used.

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ISBN-10: 1442554282

ISBN-13: 9781442554283

Big Animals, Little Animals is a factual text that invites readers to learn about big animals and little animals. 

The body parts of the animals are labeled. Throughout the text, the word big is slightly larger and bolded while the word little is slightly smaller and thinner than the rest of the font.  An index is presented.

Interest words include legs, ears, tail, and body. Simple adjectives, big and little, are used. A drawing activity that invites students to think about big and little animals is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869448693

ISBN-13: 9781869448691

Big Teeth, No Teeth is an informational text about animals’ teeth – or lack of teeth.  The lively text is composed of simple language patters that are close to oral language.  Several questions are posed directly to the reader.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Dramatic photographs match the text directly.  Labels and arrows highlight important parts in the photographs.  Question marks and one exclamation mark are used.  The book concludes with two tables grouping the animals by whether or not they have teeth and an index.

The high frequency words are it, where, and have.  Interest words include lizard, mouth, and crocodile.

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ISBN-10: 1869448898

ISBN-13: 9781869448899

Big Things is a factual text that invites readers to learn about things that are big such as helicopters, trucks, planes, and ships.

These big things, as well as some components of them, are labeled. An index is presented.

Interest words include plane, helicopter, wheels, and ship. The simple adjective big is used. A drawing activity that invites students to think about big things is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 186944602X

ISBN-13: 9781869446024

Bikes is an expository text that invites readers to learn about different bikes and their uses.

Components of bikes, such as wheels and pedals, are labelled. An index is presented.

Interest words include pedals, wheel, clown, mountain, and mud. The simple adjectives big and little are used. A class activity that invites students to think about what bikes have in common is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869446062

ISBN-13: 9781869446062

Birds’ Feet is an information text that shows how birds use their feet to climb, get food, and swim.  The text is largely composed of several repeating language patterns, such as “Look at this bird’s ________” and “This bird can ________.”

All the sentences are short and mostly predictable.  Vibrant photographs show each bird in action.  Inset photographs show detail.  Labels identify each bird and highlight the feet in the inset detail.  The book concludes with cameo photographs of each bird and an index.

The high frequency word is too.  Interest words include climb mouse, and swim.

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ISBN-10: 1869446038

ISBN-13: 9781869446031

Birds Under the Water is an informational text about birds that can swim under and on the water – and one bird that can run underwater.  The lively text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.  One question is posed directly to the reader.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly. A question mark is used.  The book concludes with cameo photographs of all the birds and an index.

The high frequency words are it and where.  Interest words include water, food, and dive.  The positional words are under, on, and into.

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ISBN-10: 1869448863

ISBN-13: 9781869448868

Carrying Babies is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different ways that animals carry their babies.

Photographs add meaning to the text. An index is presented. 

Interest words include pouch and hyena. An activity that invites students to think about how babies are carried is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869441869

ISBN-13: 9781869441869

Catch Me, Cat is a humorous, animal fantasy about a mouse who is teasing a cat and makes the cat chase him around the house.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Speech bubbles are used to convey information.

The initial letter c appears in cat and cupboard. Interest words include cat, mouse, cupboard, catch, and bucket. To conclude, a trail shows where cat and mouse walked in the home.

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ISBN-10: 1869444566

ISBN-13: 9781869444563

Catching Fish is an informational text about the different ways people around the world catch fish for food, including using nets, spears, bow and arrow, kites, and birds.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

All of the sentences are short and predictable.  Labelled photographs match the text directly.  The book concludes with an index.

Interest words include bow and arrow, kites, nets, and spear.

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ISBN-10: 1442554258

ISBN-13: 9781442554252

Caves is an expository text that invites readers to learn about different types of caves and the animals that reside in them. Caves in the mountain, under the water, in a rock, under the ground, and in the ice, are discussed.

Photographs add meaning to the text. Caves and animals are labeled. To conclude, all the photographs of the caves, as well as what they are composed of, are shown and captioned. An index is presented.

Interest words include cave, rock, fox, and mountain. An activity that invites students to think animals that live in caves is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869446070

ISBN-13: 9781869446079

Clown is a humorous, fictional text about a clown who goes on a shopping trip with a bag that has a hole in it.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Illustrated signs are used to label the shirt shop, hat shop, and nose shop. A shopping list including text and visuals is shown.

Interest words include clown and list. The digraph sh appears in shirt and shop. To conclude, a labeled picture of the clown in his clothes is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869441826

ISBN-13: 9781869441821

Clown’s Party is a fictional text about a clown who tries to find a method of transportation to get to a party. He settles by using his skates after he is unable to get there by car and bike.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. An invitation to the party is shown at the beginning and end of the story.

Interest words include skates, shed, and cupboard. To conclude, a party invitation is shown

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ISBN-10: 1869448634

ISBN-13: 9781869448639

Dad at the Park is a humorous, realistic story about a dad who attends the park with his children and wants to play on the playground equipment. The children try to stop him but their father slides down the slide and gets stuck.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text.

Interest words include crack, snap, stuck, whoosh, and oops. To conclude, a map of the park is shown with a simple legend.

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ISBN-10: 1869448774

ISBN-13: 9781869448776

Dinosaurs is an informational text about the physical features of dinosaurs.  The text is largely composed of several repeating language patterns, such as “Look at this ________” and “This dinosaur has ________”

All the sentences are short and mostly predictable.  Realistic illustrations show a different dinosaur on each two-page spread.  Labelled inset illustrations and arrows are used to highlight body parts, such as wings and claws.  The final sentence ends in an exclamation mark.  The book concludes with a graphic organizer and an index.

The high frequency words are look, at, and has.  Interest words include dinosaur, sharp, and spikes.

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ISBN-10: 1869444655

ISBN-13: 9781869444655

Doors is an expository text that invites readers to learn about different doors and where they can be found such as on a plane, a boat, or a spacecraft.

Photographs add meaning to the text and are labeled. To conclude, the main images of the doors are presented along with an index. 

Interest words include door, spacecraft, train, space, and bus. The adjective big is used. An activity that invites students to think about different kinds of doors is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869446046

ISBN-13: 9781869446048

Duck and Pig is a humorous story about duck and pig who copy one another. Duck tricks pig into jumping into his pond.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Speech bubbles are used.

Interest words include silly, duck, pig, and mud. Some interest words are bolded. To conclude, places for pigs, such as the trough and the mud, and a place for the duck, such as the pond, are labeled.

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ISBN-10: 1869444590

ISBN-13: 9781869444594

Duck and Rooster is a humorous story about duck and rooster who copy one another.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Speech bubbles and dialogue are used.

Interest words include fence, grass, chimney, and roof. To conclude, a flow diagram that helps in retelling is shown.

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ISBN-10: 186944860X

ISBN-13: 9781869448608

Eggs is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different animals that hatch from eggs.

An image of the eggs are shown on the left page while the animal or insect that comes from that egg is shown on the right page. To conclude, a mapping chart that visually connects each animal to its egg is shown. An index is included.

Interest words include eggs, chicken, ants, octopus, turtles, and tadpoles. An activity that invites students to think about animals that lay eggs is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869444612

ISBN-13: 9781869444617

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ISBN-10: 1869448588

ISBN-13: 9781869448585

Feathers is a factual text that invites readers to learn about the different coloured feathers that birds have.

Feather colour, as well as the bird’s wings and tail, are labeled. An index is organized by feather colour.

Interest words include wings, feathers, head, tail, pink, green, and blue. An activity that invites students to think about animals with feathers is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869448685

ISBN-13: 9781869448684

Fish for Dinner is a humorous, realistic story about a mom, dad, grandma, and grandpa who each catch a fish for dinner.  While the foursome swims, the seagulls go fishing and steal their own dinner from the dock.  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and simple narrative.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Humorous illustrations match the text directly and add meaning .  A labelled inset illustration highlights each fish caught.  The characters’ names are capitalized, as in Dad.  Quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Exclamation marks and bold face are used for emphasis.  The book concludes with a graphic organizer matching each fisher to his or her fish.

The high frequency words are she and they.  Interest words include seagulls and swimming.  Compound words are seagulls, Grandma, and Grandpa.

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ISBN-10: 186944180X

ISBN-13: 9781869441807

Flea Gets Wet is an animal fantasy about a flea who hops around, animal to animal, until he finally finds a comfortable spot on a dog; however, the dog jumps into the water and flea gets wet.

Illustrations support the text. Some speech bubbles, as well as illustrative text, is used.

Interest words include prickly, yuck, and eeek. There are mostly one and two syllable words. To conclude, a story sequence with four scenes is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869448626

ISBN-13: 9781869448622

Flying Spider is a realistic, fictional text about a spider who tries to catch prey in his web and ends up being caught himself. 

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Speech bubbles and dialogue are used. Images are located in the top header that show what happened before the current episode.

Interest words include yum, eeeek, web, and whoosh. To conclude, a flow diagram that helps in retelling is shown.

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ISBN-10: 1869448766

ISBN-13: 9781869448769

Food for a Mouse is a factual text that invites readers to learn about the kinds of foods that mice like to eat.

Photographs add meaning to the text. Food that mice like to eat are labeled. To conclude, an index is presented.

Interest words include mouse, mice, cheese, berries, corn, beetle, and butterfly. A couple pages ask readers a direct question about what a mouse eats. One word answers are bolded. An activity that invites students to think about what mice eat is shown in the Teacher’s Guide notes.

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ISBN-10: 1869448804

ISBN-13: 9781869448806

Funny Insects is an informational text about striking aspects of insects, such as a butterfly wing like a leaf or hair like string.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly.  Labels and arrows draw attention to what is important in the photographs.  Inset illustrations help readers make comparisons, for example showing how a beetle has a horn like a rhino.  The book concludes with an index.

The high frequency words are it and have.  Interest words include horns, stick, and spines.

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ISBN-10: 1869448871

ISBN-13: 9781869448875

Going Places is an informational text about the migration of whales, birds, and butterflies.  The text explains how each creature travels from snow to warmer climes.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly.  Labels highlight important parts in the photographs.  A sidebar with a graphic of the globe and two sequenced photographs show each animal’s route.  The book concludes with a graphic organizer and an index.

The high frequency word is where.  Interest words include butterflies, asleep, and grass.

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ISBN-10: 1869448855

ISBN-13: 9781869448851

Helping Out is an informational text about how animals help people and people help animals.  Animals can herd, carry, guide, plow, and rescue.  People can help rescue beached whales and injured animals.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

All the sentences are short and similar in structure.  Photographs match the text directly.  The book concludes with an index.

The high frequency words include some, help, this, and is.  Interest words include sled, reindeer, and plough.  The compound words are cannot and reindeer.

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ISBN-10: 1442535180

ISBN-13: 9781442535183

Horns is a simple, factual text about animals that have horns on their head.

Illustrations match print very closely. The horns on the animals in the photographs are labeled.

Interest words include cow, horns, sheep, goat, beetle, rhinoceros, and three. The word too is reinforced and the initial letter h appears in horns and head. An index is included that outlines the page number of each animal with horns.

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ISBN-10: 1869444647

ISBN-13: 9781869444648

Inside Nests is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different materials that birds may use when they make their nests such as feathers, leaves, and mud.

Illustrations match print. The materials used in the making of the nest is labeled in a close up image. The nests are also labeled.

Interest words include mud, nest, leaves, grass, feathers, and spider’s web. To conclude, an index is presented. An exemplar of a pictorial list that shows what birds can put into their nests is found in the Guide Notes for teachers.

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ISBN-10: 1869446054

ISBN-13: 9781869446055

Jungle Race Day is a humorous animal fantasy about an unusual race.  Elephant, Lion, and Giraffe have wheels but Rabbit does not.  The monkeys predict Rabbit will lose, but in a funny twist, Rabbit triumphs.  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and simple narrative.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Humorous illustrations match the text directly and add meaning.  The characters’ names are capitalized, as in Lion.  Quotation marks and speech balloons are used in dialogue.  Exclamation marks and bold face are used for emphasis. 

Interest words include hippo, track, giraffe, fell, and jumped.  The positional words down, over, and up are used.

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ISBN-10: 1442554274

ISBN-13: 9781442554276

Kids Can Read is a humorous, fictional text about a father who gives a map to his children and lets them navigate.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text.

Interest words include map and mud. Positional words such as down, under, over, into, and up, are used. To conclude, the map that the children used is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1442535156

ISBN-13: 9781442535152

Kids in the Kitchen is a humorous, realistic story about a dad making pizza.  On each page, Dad tells what he is doing using the sentence stem “I am _________” and repeats the direction “No kids in the kitchen!”  Mum discovers a mess in the kitchen, and Dad explains by saying “Kids in the kitchen!”  The story is told in dialogue.

All of the sentences are simple and mostly predictable.  Dad and Mum are characters with capitalized names.  Humorous illustrations match the text directly and add meaning.  A labelled inset illustration on each two-page spread highlights the ingredient Dad is adding on that page.  Quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Bold face is used for emphasis.  The last past offers a recipe for making pizza.

The high frequency words are I, am, in, and the.  Interest words include pizza, onions, and recipe.  The -ing inflection is used to describe steps, as in making, cutting, cooking.

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ISBN-10: 1869441788

ISBN-13: 9781869441784

Let’s Eat is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different ways that animals and humans get their food.

Illustrations support the text. The tools people and animals use to get their food, such as sticks, rocks, and can openers, are labeled in photographs.

There are mostly one and two syllable words. Interest words include can opener, chopsticks, lizard, and monkey. To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, a mapping chart activity is suggested.

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ISBN-10: 1442535172

ISBN-13: 9781442535176

Let’s Sleep is an expository text about where animals sleep. Some pages portray similarities between where two different animals sleep.

Photographs match print and support understanding.

Interest words include badger, sea other, and orang-utan. Ellipses are used at the end of the book. To conclude, an index is presented. A category chart activity focusing on where animals sleep is included in the Guide Notes for teachers.

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ISBN-10: 1869441877

ISBN-13: 9781869441876

Lights That Help is an informational text about the different ways people use lights to help them, including lanterns, headlamps, car lights, lighthouses, and traffic lights. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

All of the sentences are short and predictable.  Labelled photographs match the text directly.  The book concludes with an index.

Interest words include night, cave, sea, rocks, and pilot.

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ISBN-10: 144255424X

ISBN-13: 9781442554245

Little Fish is a humorous, fictional text about a seahorse who points out different parts of the animals that swim past them such as the legs and teeth.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Speech bubbles are used.

Interest words include stingray, octopus, and shark. Positional words such as over, into, and under, are used. To conclude, four scenes are presented that present speech bubbles from the perspective of the shark in the story who wants to eat little fish.

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ISBN-10: 1869448596

ISBN-13: 9781869448592

Living Together is an expository text about animals who have mutual relationships with one another. For example, it is discussed that a bird who lives on a tortoise’s back takes care of the tortoise and clean its shell.

Illustrations support the text. Animals who are cleaned, as well as the animals who do the cleaning, are labeled.

There are mostly one and two syllable words. Interest words include buffalo, crocodile, and giraffe. To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw pictures of the different ways animals help one another is suggested. 

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ISBN-10: 1442535199

ISBN-13: 9781442535190

Look at Monkey is a humorous, fictional text about a monkey who tries to wake up his animal friends.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Some pages include several scenes that show monkey jumping over the animals and shaking a tree. Few speech bubbles are used. Some illustrative font appears for the words shake, shake, shake.

Interest words include plonk and shake. To conclude, a story sequence with four scenes is presented.

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ISBN-10: 186944857X

ISBN-13: 9781869448578

Looking at Fish is an expository text that invites readers to become familiar with the parts of a fish.

The book begins by showing a photograph of a fish with its teeth, mouth, eyes, head, skin, and tail labeled. Photographs throughout label one body part of each fish. A few pages identify the types of skin fish have, whether spotted or striped.

To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw and label their own fish is shown.

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ISBN-10: 1869448847

ISBN-13: 9781869448844

Masks is an expository text that invites readers to learn about different kinds of hand-made masks and the materials they are composed of.

Illustrations fully support the text. Photographs are labeled with the main material used in the mask’s construction.

The adjective big is used. To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to make their own mask is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869448790

ISBN-13: 9781869448790

Mum’s Hat is a humorous, fictional text about a mom who goes to the market with her child for the purpose of finding a new hat. Without realizing it, Mom ends up picking up a lampshade off of a lamp and uses that as a hat.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Some speech bubbles are used.

Interest words include market, silly, and hat. To conclude, an illustration of the market is shown with signs labeled as market, food, hats, and exit. Arrows on signs provide additional information.

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ISBN-10: 1869448782

ISBN-13: 9781869448783

No Jumping!  is a humorous, fictional text about a dad who tries to stop his two children from jumping on all the furniture in the house.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text.

Interest words include chair, couch, plonk, and creep. To conclude, an action/consequence chart using images from the text is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869448723

ISBN-13: 9781869448721

Rabbit and Fox is a fictional text about Fox who is trying to lure Rabbit out of its hole with carrots and ends up getting tricked.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. A header on the top left page helps readers compare the carrot sizes that Fox has brought Rabbit. Few speech bubbles are used. The word big is bolded and becomes larger in size as the carrot gets larger.

Interest words include hole, Rabbit, Fox, carrot. To conclude, an action/consequence chart using images from the text is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869448642

ISBN-13: 9781869448646

Run Fast is an expository text about all the different kinds of animals that can run fast.

Illustrations fully support the text. The animal, as well as their long legs, if they have them, are labeled in the photographs.

To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw and label their own fast animal is recommended.

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ISBN-10: 1869448650

ISBN-13: 9781869448653

Scarecrow’s Hair

Scarecrow’s Hair is a lighthearted fantasy about a scarecrow who is sad because he has no hair and a farmer who goes to great lengths to make his scarecrow happy.  The story is told through simple dialogue and narrative with numerous repeated language patterns.

The story has a problem/solution structure.  All the sentences are short and largely predictable.  Scarecrow appears as a character name and is capitalized.  Quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.  Two advertisements are included (one seeking help in finding the lost hair and a second seeking to buy scarecrow shoes) are included.

The high-frequency words have, will, looked, and they are used.  The interest words scarecrow, reward, and farmer appear.  The positional words under and in appear.

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ISBN-10: 1442535164

ISBN-13: 9781442535169

Silly Fox is a humorous animal fantasy about a fox who tries to trick chickens and finds himself tricked instead.  The story is told in dialogue and simple narrative.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Humorous illustrations match the text directly and add meaning.  Illustrations provide instructions for making a chicken mask.  Fox’s name is capitalized.  Quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Exclamation marks are used for emphasis. 

Interest words include fox, chickens, likes, and box.  The positional words at and in are used.

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ISBN-10: 1442554266

ISBN-13: 9781442554269

Spider Homes is an informational text explaining that spiders can live in a web, in water, on water, in a garden, and in holes.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.  Several questions are posed directly to the reader.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly.  Labels highlight important parts in the photographs.  Question marks are used.  The book concludes with a labelled visual summary of the text and an index.

The high frequency words are it and where.  Interest words include hole, bubble, and water.  The positional words are in, on, and out.

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ISBN-10: 1869448812

ISBN-13: 9781869448813

The Fire is a humorous, fictional text about spies who detect smoke coming out of a window. They call the fire department, and, as the fire fighters begin to hose down the home, they realize the smoke is coming from blown out candles on a birthday cake.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Some dialogue is bolded. Speech bubbles are used. Illustrative text is used.

Interest words include spies, fire engine, window, and party. To conclude, an action/consequence chart using images from the text is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869448561

ISBN-13: 9781869448561

The Robot’s Car is a fictional text about a group of robots who assemble the wheels, doors, lights, and bumper of a car.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Illustrative text is used. An image of the robot’s checklist is shown.

Interest words include robots, car, and oops. The word Bang! appears to signify sound. To conclude, an updated robot’s checklist is shown.

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ISBN-10: 1869448758

ISBN-13: 9781869448752

The Sneeze is a humorous, animal fantasy about a monkey, a parrot, and an elephant who sneeze at a particular tree in the jungle. When the elephant sneezes, parrot and monkey are shot up into the air due to the force of the sneeze.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Illustrative text and speech bubbles are used.

Interest words include sneeze, monkey, leaf, jungle, parrot, feather, and elephant. To conclude, a flow diagram that depicts the events of the story is presented.

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ISBN-10: 186944454X

ISBN-13: 9781869444549

Turkey is a realistic fiction about a turkey who escapes his pen and is chased around by a farmer who wants to eat him. The farmer runs into the pen after the turkey and is chased out by the other turkeys.

Illustrations support the text. An illustrative header is used to help children keep track of what has happened so far in the story.

There are mostly one and two syllable words. To conclude, a trail that tracks the turkey’s footsteps is shown on a map.

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ISBN-10: 1869441818

ISBN-13: 9781869441814

Turtle’s Trouble is a fictional text about a turtle who doesn’t feel like coming out of his shell. After a spider and parrot try to get him to come out, they call on their friend the elephant to help. The elephant throws turtle into the water which forces turtle out of the shell and makes him upset.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Illustrative text is used.

Interest words include splash and tap. To conclude, a flow diagram that depicts the events of the story is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869448731

ISBN-13: 9781869448738

Under the Ice is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different animals that go under the ice.

Illustrations support the text and are labeled. An illustration in the top right hand corner summarizes the text of that page

To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw and label a picture of animals who live under the ice and animals who do not is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869448839

ISBN-13: 9781869448837

Under the Leaf is a humorous animal fantasy.  First, Monkey is hot and finds shade under a leaf.  He invites Lion, then Tiger, to join him, but when a mosquito arrives he stings the first three.  In the end, the mosquito has the leaf to himself.  The story is told through simple dialogue and narrative with numerous repeated language patterns.

The story has a beginning, middle, end text structure.  All the sentences are short and largely predictable.  Monkey, Tiger, and Lion are characters with capitalized names.  Quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Bold face is used for emphasis in dialogue.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.  Inset pictures show the arrival and departure of each character as the story progresses.  The last page has an illustrated story sequence organizer that invites readers to retell the story.

The high frequency words are too, up, and looked.  Interest words include ouch, mosquito, and the onomatopoetic bzzz. 

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ISBN-10: 1869448618

ISBN-13: 9781869448615

Up and Down is an expository text that invites readers to learn about athletes who can go up or down.

Illustrations support the text.

There are mostly one and two syllable words. To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw a picture of something that can go up and down is shown.

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ISBN-10: 1869448820

ISBN-13: 9781869448820

Up and Under is an expository text that invites students to see the animals that go up into the sky, the trees, and onto rocks, as well as under the ground.

Illustrations support the text.

There are mostly one and two syllable words. To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw a picture of another animal that can go up and under is suggested.

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ISBN-10: 1869448669

ISBN-13: 9781869448660

Water, Water is a humorous animal fantasy is a story about an elephant who sucks up all the water from the waterhole and then sprays it at a hot and thirsty lion and tiger.

Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Some illustrative text is used.

Interest words include waterhole and swoosh. To conclude, a story sequence with four images from the story is presented.

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Guided Reading Level: D

DRA: 4

Grade: 1

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ISBN-10: 186944874X

ISBN-13: 9781869448745

What Can Jump? is an expository text that explores what kinds of animals can jump. Questions about whether or not each animal can jump is asked and answered.

Illustrations support the text. A close up image of the animal’s face, as well as a full body image, is presented.

There are mostly one and two syllable words. To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw pictures of an animal that can jump and an animal that cannot, is presented.

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ISBN-10: 1869444620

ISBN-13: 9781869444624

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DRA: 4

Grade: 1

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Invoice Title: Sls Rd: Where Is The Giant

ISBN-10: 1869444558

ISBN-13: 9781869444556

Wings is an expository text that invites readers to learn about animals and insects that have wings and can fly.

Illustrations support the text. A close up image of the animal, as well as the animal in flight, is presented. The wings of each animal and insect are labeled.

There are mostly one and two syllable words. To conclude, an index is presented. In the Guide Notes for teachers, an activity that requires students to draw pictures of an animal that has wings.

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ISBN-10: 1869448715

ISBN-13: 9781869448714