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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...
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Silly Cat
Silly Cat is a humorous, animal fantasy about a cat who tries to copy the actions of a bird. Illustrations add meaning to the text. The story is written as a story sequence and a Story Sequence with six scenes is presented at the end of the story. The...
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Silly Clown
Silly Clown is a humorous story about a clown who is putting on clothes. Simple dialogue is used. Illustrations support the text. Speech bubbles and thought bubbles are used throughout the story. The text is composed of a few high-frequency words. The...
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Silly Fox
Silly Fox is a humorous animal fantasy about a fox who tries to trick chickens and finds himself tricked instead. The story is told in dialogue and simple narrative. All the sentences are short and predictable. Humorous illustrations match...
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Silly Tricks
Silly Tricks is a humorous and fictional story about two aliens and their dog playing different places in their house. When they are having a pillow fight in the bed, mom walks in! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, diagrams, and...
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Sleepy Tiger
Sleepy Tiger is a humorous animal fantasy about a tiger that is asleep in the jungle and a bird who is typing to wake him. Illustrations support the text. To conclude, a story map is presented to aid children in retelling. Interest words include tiger,...