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Sea Turtles
Sea Turtles is an expository text that describes the different types of sea turtles, their life cycles, and the dangers they face. The style is informative and conversational. The text is composed of a variety of sentence types. Captioned and...
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SENSES
Senses is an expository nonfiction text that explains the five senses, including taste, touch, see, smell, and hear. The back of the book includes a paragraph on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page...
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Shamus
Shamus is a humorous fiction story about a sheep farmer, Tilly, thinking her sheep are boring because they always do the same thing and copy one another. When it was time for sheep shearing, one sheep, Shamus, hid in a rock cave. Shamus hid there and...
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Shar
Shar is a realistic, fictional text about a puppy named Shar who tears up pillows, slippers, and books, which angers the mother of the house. Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Dialogue is bolded. Interest words include slippers and...
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Shark Scare
Shark Scare! is a realistic adventure presented as a first-person recount. A young snorkeller on vacation is determined to snap a photo of a “Grandaddy Snapper” before his holiday is over. He dismisses talk at the beach of a...
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Shell Homes
Shell Homes is an expository text about animals that live in shells, such as tortoises, snails, and crabs. Readers are invited to learn about how large or small shells are and why they are important to these animals. Illustrations enhance and...
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Shells
Shells is an expository nonfiction text that explains how a crab, turtle, and people use big shells as well as how people use little shells. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. Shells includes critical thinking questions to...
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Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks is an informational report. The text describes how failures of a vessel, mistakes, and bad weather can account for shipwrecks. Readers learn about discoveries of long ago shipwrecks, from a 2000-year-old wreck to famous wrecks such...
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Shopping
Shopping is a fiction story about a bunch of monsters going to a grocery store and eating tons of different foods! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, and speech bubble. Shopping uses the sentence stem “Look at...
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Shosun's Mistake
Shosun’s Mistake is a science fiction story about a boy named Palo who helps an alien to get a sample of a virus back to his home planet in order to find a cure before the virus kills the Earth. The book also discusses features of a science fiction...
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Should This Have Happened?
Should This Have Happened? is a written debate discussing different opinions of various fairy tales. The book also discusses how to write a debate. The text unfolds in first - person in the format of a persuasive essay or written debate with...
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Sid Sneaky
Sid Sneaky is a humorous narrative. Sid Sneaky buys Lolla the cow and takes her on the road, charging $10 for customers to see the black markings on her hide in the shape of North and South America. But Lolla gets homesick for the farm, and...