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Spies Go Shopping
Spies Go Shopping is a humorous story about spies who go to Spy School but are not properly dressed. The spy teacher sends them to get glasses, coats, and hats. When they get back, their colourful...
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Spikes, Scales, and Armour
Spikes, Scales, and Armour is an expository text about animals with spikes, scales, or armour. Readers learn about animals such as armadillos, hedgehogs, pangolins, snakes, and porcupines...
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Spitters!
Spitters! is an informational explanation. The text explains how animals use spit when they are angry, to make things, and to get food. For example, llamas fire off spit balls when other llamas...
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Splinters
Splinters is a narrative about a boy named Edward who rescues an injured magpie. The magpie becomes like a pet but when a painter offers to buy him, Edward agrees. Edward regrets the decision but one...
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Spooky House
Spooky House is a mystery story about a family that moved into a mysterious old house known for the creepy sounds and lights that come from the attic. The book also discusses text connections,...
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Sports News
Sports News is a collection of newspaper reports, each covering a dramatic event in sport. From skiers caught in an avalanche to a mountain biking duel to a homerun hero, each news story captures...
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Spots
Spots is an expository text about animals that have spots, such as baby deer, large cats, butterflies, birds’ eggs, and spiders. Images enhance and extend meaning of the text. Some images are labeled...
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Spy Mail
Spy Mail is a narrative about a man who comes back from a spy mission and has to respond to his mail, some of it formal, some informal, some in letter form and some in emails. The book also discusses...
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Spy Maps
Spy Maps is a series of fictional directions and maps for the famous spy Mickey Maloney. Micky Maloney works for Big Wig, the Master Spy. Big Wig sends Mickey Maloney to spy on things so he must read...
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Spy School
Spy school is a humorous, realistic fiction about a spy whose teacher gives him a task of finding secret messages in a park. The spy finds his last messaged under the Teacher’s hat. Dialogue is...
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Spy Tools
Spy Tools is an expository nonfiction text that explains spy tools of the past and spy tools of today. The text explains how spy tools were used and why. Readers gain information from the text,...
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Spy Underwater
Spy Underwater is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a spy that went underwater and then popped up in a cave. The spy took out his spy glasses and saw some red fish, but they all of a...