Celebrate Canada: Lighthouses

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.