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Finding Their Way
Finding Their Way is an informational explanation of some interesting methods animals use to navigate. The book describes how various birds, sea creatures, mammals, and insects maintain their sense of direction using the stars, the sun, or...
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Fingers and Thumbs
Fingers and Thumbs is an expository nonfiction text that explains animals with fingers and thumbs to help get food, hold a baby, and stay in a tree. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. Fingers and Thumbs includes critical...
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Fires in the Wild
Fires in the Wild is an informational report about fires including information on what causes them, how they spread, how they are controlled, and warning systems. The book also discusses text connections, planning an informational report, and...
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Flower Power
Flower Power is a narrative about Lizzie, whose desire for a bike is so great that she hits on a sneaky plan to earn money: selling her florist mom’s garden flowers while her mom is away at work. Lizzie’s mom has an interesting way of...
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Flyers and Swimmers
Flyers and Swimmers is an informational text about birds and fish that can both fly and swim. The text has the sentence stem “Look at this ___________.” All the sentences are short and predictable. Vibrant photographs match the...
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Flying Machines
Flying Machines is an expository text that invites readers to learn about machines that fly in the sky and the parts that help them work such as propellers, wheels, and wings. Labeled illustrations enhance and extend the meaning of the text and are found...
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Food for a Mouse
Food for a Mouse is a factual text that invites readers to learn about the kinds of foods that mice like to eat. Photographs add meaning to the text. Food that mice like to eat are labeled. To conclude, an index is presented. Interest words include...
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Food from the Water
Food from the Water is an expository text that shows readers how animals and people can get food from the water. Readers see birds catching fish, bears catching fish, and humans catching fish. Photographs support important content and some are labeled...
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For the Feet
For the Feet is an expository nonfiction text that explains things for feet including boots, flippers, shoes, skates, and skis. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. For the Feet includes critical thinking questions to guide...
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Forensics in Fire
Forensics in Fire is an informational report about conducting fire investigations including information on how fires begin and how fire investigators collect and analyse evidence. The book also discusses text connections, planning an informational...
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Forgers And Fakers
Forgers and Fakers is an expository text that invites readers to learn about ancient forgery, art forgery, monetary forgery, crop circles, forged computer messages, and much more. Illustrations depict content and ideas in the text. Many illustrations are...
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Fossils
Fossils is an informational explanation. The text explains the types of fossils, what fossils tell us, how fossils are formed, and how palaeontologists remove fossils. The style is informative and conversational. The book has a contents and...