Beetles

Beetles is an informational text about beetles’ sizes, colours, and behaviour, including flying.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.  Information is provided in running text as well as in captions.

All of the sentences are short and similar in structure.  Spectacular labelled and captioned photographs match the text directly and add additional information.  A question mark and exclamation mark are used.  The book concludes with an index.

The high frequency words include look, at, the, and are.  Interest words include beetles, colours, wood, and wings.  The positional words are under and in.

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