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Let's Eat
Let’s Eat is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the different ways that animals and humans get their food. Illustrations support the text. The tools people and animals use to get their food, such as sticks, rocks, and can...
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Life Savers
Life Savers is an expository text about things that save lives. Readers learn about air bags, seat belts, act’s eyes, and smoke alarms. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Photographs are labeled. An index is included. Some interest words...
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Lights That Help
Lights That Help is an informational text about the different ways people use lights to help them, including lanterns, headlamps, car lights, lighthouses, and traffic lights. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral...
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Little Helpers
Little Helpers is an expository text about little animals that help us in many ways. Little helpers include bees, silkworms, spiders, and worms. Many photographs are labeled. A diagram shows a bee taking pollen from one flower to another. An index is...
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Living in Trees
Living in Trees is an informational text that shows what animals live in trees. The text has the repeating language pattern “This ________ lives in a tree.” All the sentences are short and predictable. Vibrant photographs match...
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Living Together
Living Together is an expository text about animals who have mutual relationships with one another. For example, it is discussed that a bird who lives on a tortoise’s back takes care of the tortoise and clean its shell. Illustrations support the...
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Lizards
Lizards is an expository text that invites students to learn about what a lizard’s body parts do and the different places where lizards live. Some dialogue is used. Labeled illustrations enhance and extend the meaning of the text and are found on...
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Long Hair
Long Hair is an informational text about animals that have long hair. The text has the repeating language pattern “This ________ has long hair.” All the sentences are short and predictable. Vibrant photographs match the text...
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Look Inside
Look Inside is an expository nonfiction text that explains the insides of homes, nests, and tunnels for different animals. These animals include: beavers, ants, bees, birds, spiders, squirrels, and rabbits. Readers gain information from the text,...
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Looking After Babies
Looking After Babies is an expository text that shows how some animals take care of their babies. The book focuses on crocodiles, frogs, bugs, cats, penguins, and seahorses. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Many labels appear on photographs. An...
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Looking After Eggs and Babies
Looking After Eggs and Babies is an informational text explaining how mothers and fathers in nature look after their eggs and babies. Some babies are in dens or nests, others are carried in pouches or on the legs or back. The text is composed of...
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Looking at the Fish
Looking at Fish is an expository text that invites readers to become familiar with the parts of a fish. The book begins by showing a photograph of a fish with its teeth, mouth, eyes, head, skin, and tail labeled. Photographs throughout label one body...