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Smithsonian STEAM Readers 5: Making an Ocean Ecosystem
Aquariums allow people to explore underwater environments while keeping their feet on dry land. Learn how aquariums are created and how both their tiniest and mightiest members play big roles in...
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Snakes
Snakes is an expository text that explores how snakes move, find food, and how they interact with people. Photographs enhance meaning and are labeled. An index is included. Interest words include...
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Snakes that Rattle
Snakes that Rattle is an expository text that invites readers to learn about what rattlesnakes look like, where they hide, and what they eat. Photographs support important content and are labeled...
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Snow and Ice
Snow and Ice is an expository text about things people can do in the ice such as go ice fishing, make ice sculptures, go skating and go skiing. Labeled illustrations enhance and extend the meaning of...
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Some Birds Can Fly
Some Birds Can Fly is an informational text that identifies birds that can fly – and one that cannot, the penguin. The sentences “Look at this bird. This bird can fly.” appear on every two-page...
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Some Birds Cannot Fly
Some Birds Cannot Fly is an expository text that identifies the types of birds cannot fly and the types of birds that can swim. A picture of each animal that cannot fly is depicted on a two-page...
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Space Junk.
Space Junk is an expository text that invites readers to learn about space junk. Readers explore where space junk comes from, how space junk is tracked, dangerous pieces of space junk, as well as how...
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Space, Stars and Planets
Space, Stars, and Planets is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the things in outer space such as Earth, Mars, the Milky Way, moons, stars, and the sun. Labeled illustrations...
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Special Tricks
Special Tricks is an expository text that describes the remarkable ways animals have of catching and eating food, keeping safe, and escaping danger. The style is informative and conversational. The...
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Speed Sports
Speed Sports is an expository text that invites readers to learn about speed sports on wheels, in the water, in the air, and on ice and snow. Illustrations depict content and ideas in the text. Many...
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Spencer and Charlie
Spencer and Charlie is a narrative about a tall boy, Spencer, and his tiny, squeaky dog Charlie. Spencer doesn’t like it when people laugh at Charlie, and after Charlie saves a fisherman’s life, no...
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Spider Homes
Spider Homes is an informational text explaining that spiders can live in a web, in water, on water, in a garden, and in holes. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to...