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Taanishi: The Fiddle Competition
The Fiddle Competition is a realistic story about a Métis boy who plays a waltz, a jig, and a reel at the John Arcand Fiddle Fest after much practicing. The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover...
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Taanishi: The Metis Star Dance
The Métis Star Dance is an informational story illustrating how to do the Métis Star Dance. The text is made up of the dance calls. The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover provides...
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Taanishi: Time to Dance
Time to Dance a realistic text showing children putting on traditional Métis sashes in preparation for dancing. Much of the text is repeated, such as the teacher’s prompt “Time to dance.” The inside front cover offers...
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Taanishi: We Are Metis!
We Are Métis! is an informational story about the activities Métis children enjoy. The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover provides instructional suggestions. Each page follows the...
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Taanishi: What do you Like on Your Beignes?
What Do You Like On Your Beignes? is a realistic story about a Métis boy having a beigne lunch with his grandmother. The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover provides instructional suggestions...
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Taanishi: What's for Lunch
What’s for Lunch? is a realistic story about Métis sisters coming home from school for lunch with mom. The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover provides instructional suggestions. The text...
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Taanishi: Where is the Metis Flag
Where is the Métis flag? is a simple text with photographs of the Métis flag in various locations. The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover provides instructional suggestions. Each page...
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Taanishi: Where's the Roogaroo?
Where’s the Roogaroo? is a realistic fiction story about the traditional werewolf of Métis stories. Roogaroo is hiding on, in, between, and around different things. The story is narrated with photographs. Where’s the Roogaroo? is a...
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Taanishi: Yummy Yummy in My Tummy
Yummy, Yummy in My Tummy is a simple story about a hungry Métis girl enjoying favourite foods such as bannock, soup, and berries. The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover provides instructional...
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Tails
Tails is an expository text that explores the different kinds of tails that animals have. A picture of animals with tails is depicted on a two-page spread. Animals’ tails are labeled. The text is composed of a few high-frequency words such as here...
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Tails, Tails, Tails
Tails, Tails, Tails in an informational text describing how different animals use their tails, from climbing to escaping to swimming to sheltering. The skunk’s tail has a special message! The text is composed of simple language patterns...
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Tall
Tall is an expository text about things in the world that are tall, such as buildings, cacti, and ostriches. Scale diagrams are used throughout to illustrate the size difference between the average human and the object of focus. Images are labeled and...