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A Birds Eye View
A Bird’s Eye View is a realistic fiction that allows readers to become more familiar with maps, bird’s eye views, legends, and directions through different events introduced in the text. Questions are asked that encourage readers to...
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A Cold Place
A Cold Place is an informational text about animals that can live in cold places. The text has the repeating language pattern “This _________ is in a cold place.” All the sentences are short and predictable. Vibrant photographs...
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A Long Time Ago
A Long Time Ago is a historical, expository text that invites readers to learn about what it means to live a long time ago. The book focuses on things from a long time ago such as axes, bows and arrows, coats, hats, and shoes. Illustrations enhance and...
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A Nest in the Grass
A Nest of Grass is an expository text about animals that make nests with grass such as, deer mice, harvest mice, mole rats, and squirrels. Labeled illustrations enhance and extend the meaning of the text and are found on each page. Callouts prompt...
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A New Skin
A New Skin is an expository nonfiction text that explains animals that can get a new skin like different insects and snakes. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. A New Skin includes critical thinking questions to guide the...
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A Place for a Bed
A Place for a Bed is an expository nonfiction text that explains a bed in a spaceship, submarine, bike, and mountain. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. A Place for a Bed includes critical thinking questions to guide the...
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A Safe Place to Sleep
A Safe Place to Sleep is an expository nonfiction text that explains safe places to sleep for a chimp, a fox, and a mouse. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. A Safe Place to Sleep includes critical thinking questions to...
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A Slug is Born
A Slug is Born is an expository nonfiction text that explains a slug’s eggs, eyes, food, head, and slime. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. A Slug is Born includes critical thinking questions to guide the reader...
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A Time to Sleep
A Time to Sleep is an expository text about how and where animals go to sleep. This book focuses on animals that sleep for a long time, a short time, in the day, standing up, and with their eyes open. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Some...
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Accidental Discoveries
Accidental Discoveries is an informational report on how accidents – and imaginative thinking – produced some of the most familiar items in everyday life, from Penicillin to Super Glue to bubble gum to potato chips. The style is...
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Action: Defence
Action: Defence is an informational report that explores the defense mechanisms of various animals such as camouflage, flight, and chemical defenses. The book also discusses text connections, planning an informational report, and features of an...