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Animal Smuggler
Animal Smugglers is an expository text that describes the business of animal smuggling and its tragic consequences for a variety of species. The style is informative and conversational. Mostly simple sentences are used. Captioned and labelled...
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Armadillos
Armadillos is an expository text about an armadillo’s body and life, as well as their babies, their homes, and how they look for food. Photographs are labeled and include some captions. A flow chart shows how an armadillo rolls into a ball when it...
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Army Ants
Army Ants is an expository text that invites readers to learn about where army ants live, their body parts, and their queen ant. Photographs are labeled. There are some captions beneath pictures that provide important information. Labeled illustrations...
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Beavers
Beavers is an expository text that invites readers to learn about beavers. Readers learn about the beaver’s body, how they cut down trees, and how they make their homes. Most pages have three photographs per pages. Some photos are labeled. An...
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Buildings
Buildings is an expository text that explores buildings that are for animals, people, and plants. Readers also learn about the materials that these buildings can be constructed with, such as brick, glass, mud, and wood. Photographs support important...
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Celebrate Canada: Canada Day from Coast to Coast to Coast
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...
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Celebrate Canada: Our Families, Our Homes (Gr 1)
A book highlighting three children from three different families--one from Alberta, one from Ontario, and one from Nova Scotia.
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Celebrate Canada: Prairie Seasons
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...
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Chameleons
Chameleons is an expository text that invites readers to learn about a chameleon’s body, their food, their homes, and their young. Photographs are labeled. There are some captions beneath pictures that provide important information. A set of three...
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Claws
Claws is an expository text that invites readers to learn about how different animals, such as bears, cats, crabs, head louse, shrimp, and skunks, use their claws. Most photographs are labeled. An index is provided. Interest words include claws, paws,...
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Clothes that Help
Clothes that Help is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different clothes that people wear to help them and keep them safe. Photographs illustrate important content. Clothes that help keep firefighters, skateboarders, and race car...
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Cockroaches
Cockroaches is an expository text that invites readers to learn about a cockroach’s body, where they live, the animals that eat them, and how long they have been on our Earth for. Some photographs are labeled and a couple captions support the text...