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Egg Incubators
Egg Incubators is an informational report about how mallee fowl, malau birds, and alligators take care of their eggs. The book also discusses text connections, planning an informational report, and features of an informational report. The text is...
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Eggs
Eggs is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different animals that hatch from eggs. An image of the eggs are shown on the left page while the animal or insect that comes from that egg is shown on the right page. To conclude, a...
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Ela and the Dog Choice
Ela and the Dog Choice is a recount by Ela, who describes her middle-child life in amusing detail. Ela finally gets her dream birthday present – a puppy, but the pup goes missing on his first night. The family becomes a search party...
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Energy.
Energy is an expository non-fiction text about energy including information on renewable energy, solar energy, wind energy, and hydro-electric power. The book also discusses features of an informational explanation. The text unfolds in third-person...
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Epidemic!
Epidemic is an informational report about various epidemics including the plague, rabies, Legionnaires’ disease, Ebola, and influenza. The book also discusses text connections, planning an informational report, and features of an informational...
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Extreme Acceleration
Extreme Acceleration is an informational explanation of Top Fuel dragster racing. The book describes the phenomenal capabilities of these vehicles, as well as the design features that make their feats possible. The style is informative and...
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Extreme Journeys
Extreme Journeys is an informational report on the explorers, scientists, and athletes who brave harsh environments, from deep ocean to high mountains to hot deserts to outer space. For each environment, the conditions, training, hazards, and...
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Eyes
Eyes is a nonfiction text that shows children the different types of eyes that animals can have. The sentences “Look at the _____” and “Look at the eyes” are repeated throughout the book. The picture of each animal is presented on...
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Fangs
Fangs is an expository nonfiction text that explains getting food with fangs, snake fangs, and spider fangs. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. Fangs includes critical thinking questions to guide the reader. Photographs...
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Fangs and Teeth
Fangs and Teeth is an expository nonfiction text that explains how different animals’ teeth or fangs are unique and serve different purposes. These animals include land (Komodo dragon) and water animals (cookie-cutter shark). Readers gain...
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Fantastic Frogs
Fantastic Frogs is an informational text describing how frogs can jump, catch insects, climb, hold their young in their mouths, and control garden insects. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language. All the...
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Feathers
Feathers is a factual text that invites readers to learn about the different coloured feathers that birds have. Feather colour, as well as the bird’s wings and tail, are labeled. An index is organized by feather colour. Interest words include...