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The Break
The Break is a realistic recount by a boy, Mick, who goes hiking with his older brother and his friends. The big boys laugh at Mick and get ahead of him. Mick is so angry he leaves the trail and gets hurt. By the time the hike is over...
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The Bumper Cars
The Bumper Cars is a humorous and realistic fiction story about children getting in different coloured bumper cars. When a girl gets in the green car, the tire falls off and bounces into the ball pit! Readers gain information from the text,...
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The Butterfly Robber
The Butterfly Robber is a fictional narrative about a man who steals all the butterflies from the Butterfly Park. When he realizes the butterflies are getting sick, he releases them back to the Butterfly Park for everyone to enjoy. Illustrations support...
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The Cat Show
The Cat Show is a humorous, animal fantasy about a dog that visits a cat show. Illustrations support the text. The word big is printed in larger font that the other text. Onomatopoetic words, such as meow and woof, are introduced. To conclude, a two-page...
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The Complete Survival Guide
The Complete Survival Guide is a procedural text that details how to survive in a variety of hostile situations. Hyperthermia and hypothermia, shelter, water, fire, attitude, and improvisation are some of the topics covered. The book concludes with...
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The Cuckoo Bird
The Cuckoo Bird is an expository text about how cuckoo birds find nests, how they lay eggs, and how they find food for their babies. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Photographs are labeled. A life cycle diagram of a cuckoo bird’s life is...
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The Daily Meow Newspaper
The Daily Meow is an animal fantasy story with a series of fictional newspaper reports. Some of the headlines of reports in The Daily Meow newspaper include: Cat Robber Raids Again, Tiger Trio at Cat Concert, and Flu Hits Fat Cats. The story includes...
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The Day
The Day is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a bird trying to sleep through the different types of weather. An owl woke the bird up! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, illustrative text, and labels. The Day uses two...
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The Fall
The Fall is a narrative about an athletic boy who shatters his shoulder after falling while sliding down the stairs. The book also discusses text connections, planning a narrative, and features of a narrative. The text is divided into chapters...
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The Family
The Family is a fiction story about a family that lives in space with a cat that likes to chase their robot! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, thought bubble, storyboard, and speech bubble. The Family uses the sentence stem “I...
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The Farm
The Farm is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about making a mess inside the farmer’s house. The farmer is angry and chases them out with a broom! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, and labels. The Farm uses...
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The Feast
The Feast is a humorous fantasy about Dinosaur and Dragon. Both creatures try to entice townsfolk to come to a feast, but the people chase them out of town. Dinosaur and Dragon are both sad until Dragon gets the idea to invite Dinosaur to a...