Barnaby Dell is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a very lazy farmer. One day he decided to take a nap when he felt too tired. All of the animals napped too…until a horsefly flew over the farm! It bit donkey, and donkey woke the whole farm up! Barnaby got all the animals to calm down…but the horsefly was waiting. The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, onomatopoeia and illustrative text.

Barnaby Dell is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text (italics), layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss with students how the text style changes (capitals) to show when there is a loud noise or someone yelling. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (milked) and adjectives (laziest). Focus on suffixes and base words (started). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (hens’), apostrophes within contractions (won’t), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Barnaby Dell), question marks, quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories. 

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Invoice Title: BARNABY DELL

ISBN-10: 143335523X

ISBN-13: 9781433355233

Boris and Bea is a humorous and realistic fiction story about Bea and her dog Boris. They would do everything together, but one day she noticed something wrong with Boris. The vet did not find anything wrong, but Bea decides to let Boris be a therapy dog again. Boris was happy again to be around all of the children! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, and thought bubble. 

Boris and Bea is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the thought bubble, layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss with students the multiple illustrations on one page and why the illustrator decided to create this montage.

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (listened) and adjectives (healthy). Focus on suffixes and base words (worried). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (doesn’t), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Aunt Kay), question marks, quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: BORIS AND BEA

ISBN-10: 1433355302

ISBN-13: 9781433355301

Cuckoo, Cuckoo is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a bird, Cuckoo, who would not stop singing. When all the other birds went to bed and Cuckoo was still singing, she noticed a fire. Owl tried to warn everyone, but no one woke up. Cuckoo collected all of the seeds, but her voice was gone! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, onomatopoeia and illustrative text.

Cuckoo, Cuckoo is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text (italics), layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss with students how the text style changes to show when the cat is thinking. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (flew) and adjectives (quickly). Focus on suffixes and base words (scorched). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (it’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Wise Old Owl), question marks, quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: CUCKOO CUCKOO: A FOLKTALE FROM MEXICO

ISBN-10: 1433355264

ISBN-13: 9781433355264

Escape from Pacaya is a realistic fiction story about a boy, Juan, recounting his experiences of what it’s like to live near a volcano. He describes the one day when there was a large explosion, and him and his family had to escape from their house. His papa was working near the volcano so at night in the hall, he kept watching for his papa. His papa eventually showed up safe but covered in ash! The story is narrated from the boy’s perspective with dialogue, illustrations, and illustrative text.

Escape from Pacaya is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text, layout, and design of the story. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (erupted) and adjectives (fire-breathing). Opportunities arise to discuss similes, apostrophes within contractions (weren’t), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Mount Pacaya), quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: ESCAPE FROM PACAYA

ISBN-10: 1433355299

ISBN-13: 9781433355295

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a humorous fiction story about a new teacher that took his students on a trip to the center of the Earth. On the journey, students learned all about magma and the Earth’s core. They stopped for lunch in Hawaii and then headed back to school! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, and illustrative text.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design. Opportunities arise to discuss with students the features of Earth’s core.

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (spewed), adjectives (strange), positional words (center). Focus on suffixes and base words (glowing) as well as abbreviations (Mr.). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (we’ll), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Interactive Learning Center), question marks, quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

ISBN-10: 1433355272

ISBN-13: 9781433355271

Mia’s Chocolate Challenge is a humorous and realistic fiction story about Mia and her father going to the baking shop to find a chocolate horse mold for Ben’s birthday. Before going to Ben’s, Mia showed the horse her chocolate mold, but it broke in the process! Mia tried to use the sun’s heat to warm the chocolate and fix it. When Ben opened the gift, he loved the chocolate turtle! The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrations. 

Mia’s Chocolate Challenge is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the symbols on boxes, layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss the procedures Mia followed while baking a chocolate horse. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as singular/plural (horse/horses). Focus on suffixes and base words (grinned). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Ben’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Mia), exclamation marks, question marks, commas, and quotation marks.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: MIA'S CHOCOLATE CHALLENGE

ISBN-10: 1433355337

ISBN-13: 9781433355332

Patrick and Paloma is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a cat, Patrick, that was very happy and content with his life. One day, his owner brought home a kitten. The kitten started sitting in his chair and getting fed before him. When the kitten curled up to Patrick, he started to have a change of heart! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, onomatopoeia and illustrative text. 

Patrick and Paloma is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text (italics), layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss with students how the text style changes to show when the cat is thinking. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (listened) and adjectives (comfortable). Focus on suffixes and base words (started). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Paz’s), apostrophes within contractions (didn’t), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Paloma), question marks, quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: PARTICK AND PALOMA

ISBN-10: 1433355329

ISBN-13: 9781433355325

The Glass Slippers is a fractured fairytale based on a traditional tale about a kind girl named Cinder who had two mean stepsisters. Cinder always had to stay home and clean…even when her stepsisters were invited to a grand ball! A Fairy Godmother gave her beautiful clothes to go to the ball, but when the clock struck midnight…her shoes grew wings! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, illustrative text, and an invitation. 

The Glass Slippers is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text, invitation, layout, and design of the story. Opportunities arise to discuss the structure and procedure for writing an invitation as well as the information included in an invitation. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as compound words (stepsisters), verbs (clean) and adjectives (grand). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Cinder’s), apostrophes within contractions (I’m), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Fairy Godmother), quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: THE GLASS SLIPPERS

ISBN-10: 1433355345

ISBN-13: 9781433355349

The Snake’s Diary is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a snake keeping a diary of his growth and changes. Snake discusses how his colours have changed and how he is getting faster. Snake is happy when he finally turns green! The story is narrated with illustrations, diary entries, illustrative text, and dates.

The Snake’s Diary is a simple narrative story designed as a series of diary entries by Snake. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text as well as the layout and design of a diary. Opportunities arise to discuss the purpose and structure of a diary and the information included in a diary.

Readers develop vocabulary such as adjectives (yellow) and verbs (turned). Focus on suffixes and base words (amazing). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Reed), exclamation marks, and commas.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: SNAKES DIARY BY LITTLE YELLOW

ISBN-10: 1433355310

ISBN-13: 9781433355318

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about city mouse visiting his cousin country mouse. Country mouse decided it was time for a change and went to the city. After hiding from the woman in the house and the scary cat, country mouse decided he liked the country better! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrative text, labels, jokes, and illustrations.

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text, labels, layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss the labels on the food packages in the city house. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as singular/plural (mouse/mice). Focus on suffixes and base words (scraping). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (mouse’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences, exclamation marks, question marks, commas, and quotation marks.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE

ISBN-10: 1433355256

ISBN-13: 9781433355257

The Treasure Hunt is a realistic fiction story about a girl, Opal, who was opening her birthday gifts. One of her gifts was a map of a science museum with a clue! Opal and her family went to the museum where she saw her friends. The clues led them around the museum until they finally ended up at Opal’s birthday party! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, illustrative text, a map, and clues. 

The Treasure Hunt is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text, map, layout and design of the story. Opportunities arise to discuss the structure of the clues and layout of the map. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (squeal) and adjectives (shiny). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Opal’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Bird Life Hall), quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: THE TREASURE HUNT

ISBN-10: 1433355221

ISBN-13: 9781433355226

This is the Tower that Frank Built is a poem based on a true story. The poem is about a tower in New York City built by Frank Gehry. The poem captures the design, plans, interior, exterior, floors, and lookout views of the tower. It ends with how long the tower took and who built the tower. The poem includes illustrations and a time scale.

This is the Tower that Frank Built is a poem that repeats itself on each page, but adds one new line to the poem each time. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the poem. Opportunities arise to discuss with students the time scale at the end of the book. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (designed), adjectives (rippling), and rhyming words (night/light). Focus on suffixes and base words (buildings) as well as ordinal indicators (23^rd floor). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (New York City), exclamation marks, and commas.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: THIS IS TOWER FRANK BUILT

ISBN-10: 1433355353

ISBN-13: 9781433355356

Vroom, Vroom! Poems About Things with Wheels is a collection of fictional poems about fire trucks, trains, robots, buses, cranes, and other machines.  

The collection includes poems of several different types including different rhyming schemes and syllabic measures. The format is a beginning chapter book with illustrations that support and enhance the text.

Vroom, Vroom! Poems About Things with Wheels uses several verbs with the ending –ing such as carrying, riding, thumping, chunking, and listening. It also uses a variety of simple adjectives and adverbs and a variety of punctuation such as periods, commas, quotation marks, question marks, and exclamation points.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: VROOM VROOM! POEMS ABOUT THINGS W/WHEELS

ISBN-10: 1433355213

ISBN-13: 9781433355219

Where Did the Dinosaurs Go? is a fictional story about two dinosaurs learning about planets. They tried to figure out why the dinosaurs disappeared from planet Earth. They thought about what dinosaurs need, humans, the volcano that blew up, and the meteorite. In the end, the dinosaurs are glad nothing like this happened to their planet! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, and symbols. 

Where Did the Dinosaurs Go? is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the symbols, layout and design of the story. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as compound words (sunlight), verbs (picked), and adjectives (icky). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (hadn’t), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Earth), quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: WHERE DID THE DINOSAURS GO?

ISBN-10: 1433355280

ISBN-13: 9781433355288

Why Anansi Has Eight Thin Legs is a tale from West Africa about an greedy and impatient spider that did not want to wait around while his friends cooked food. He still wanted to eat the food so he tied his web to their pots and said that they can tug him when it’s ready. He had eight friends cooking, eight legs, and they all tugged at once! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations and illustrative text. 

Why Anansi Has Eight Thin Legs is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the story as well as the illustrative text (italics). 

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (tied) and adjectives (seventh). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (they’re), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Anansi), quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks, and commas. Focus on suffix ing (running). 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.

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Invoice Title: WHY ANANSI HAS EIGHT THIN LEGS

ISBN-10: 1433355248

ISBN-13: 9781433355240