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A Birds Eye View
A Bird’s Eye View is a realistic fiction that allows readers to become more familiar with maps, bird’s eye views, legends, and directions through different events introduced in the text. Questions are asked that encourage readers to...
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Amazing Lizards
Amazing Lizards is an informational explanation. The text explains that lizards are amazing because they can move, change colour, and escape enemies in novel ways. Numerous examples of support the central idea. The style is informative...
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Animal Advertisements
Animal Advertisements is a humorous collection of advertisements that might get the attention of animals. Among the products available are skates for turtles, earmuffs for owls, and slippers for dogs. Persuasive language is used to entice...
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Around and Around
Around and Around is an expository text that invites readers to learn about things that go around and around such as propellers, blades, rollers, and wind machines. Photographs support important content and some are labeled. Illustrations add detail and...
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Baldy
Baldy is a realistic story about a boy named Eddie who adopts a newborn possum after its mother is struck by a car and killed. Eddie finds a way to feed the little thing, and in time the possum becomes the family pet Baldy. Unfortunately, the...
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Birdcatcher
Birdcatcher is a realistic fiction story about a girl, Jessie, who was worried about her mother being sick. While at the park with her Nana, Jessie saw a bird that appeared to be hurt. Nana told Jessie about the birdcatcher tree that has seedpods that...
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Cat's Diary
Cat’s Diary is a narrative animal story detailing several events that happen from the perspective of a cat. The book also discusses features of a diary. The text is in the format of a diary with illustrations that support and enhance the text...
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Celebrate Canada: Around Kensington Market (Gr 2)
About Toronto's Kensington Market and highlighting other markets around Canada.
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Celebrate Canada: Brilliant Beadwork (Gr 2)
Brilliant Beadwork is a description of the traditional Métis art called beadwork. The book concludes with a procedure readers can follow to create their own flower beadwork. Fact boxes titled “Brilliant fact” provide...
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Celebrate Canada: Bush Pilots (Gr 2)
Bush Pilots is the retell of an Inuit named Michael who grew up in Nunavut. Michael relates the stories of several bush pilots he knew and tells about the time his mother Kukik spent a whole day sewing to repair the cloth cover on a plane. ...
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Celebrate Canada: Face-off!
Face-off! is an explanation of how three popular Canadian games are played: lacrosse, hockey, and basketball. Fact boxes provide additional information. The style in conversational and informative. Mostly simple sentences are used. Some...