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The Tunnel.
The Tunnel is a realistic fiction story about different animals going in a tunnel. Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, and caption. The Tunnel uses the sentence stem “The _____ are going in.” Illustrations match the text...
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The Turkey
The Turkey is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a father and son looking at different farm animals together. When they look at the turkey and the parts of a turkey, it scares the dad away! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations,...
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The Volcano Awakes
The Volcano Awakes! is a first-person factual recount of a reporter’s experience covering the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Narrative and dialogue are used to tell the dramatic story. The style is highly descriptive and includes the use...
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The Water
The Water is a realistic fiction story about different animals going into water and swimming. They are having fun…until the elephant jumps in! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, and speech bubble. The Water uses the...
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The Water Park
The Water Park is a realistic fiction story about water park animals stealing the divers fish! A penguin brings the diver to the pool. Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, symbols, and signs. The Water Park uses the sentence...
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The Waterhole
The Waterhole is an expository text that explores the kinds of animals that come to the waterhole. The sentence stem “The baby ____ is at the waterhole, too” is repeated throughout the book. A picture of the animals that visit the waterhole...
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The Wild Ones
The Wild Ones is a biography of Velma Johnston, an American woman who spent decades fighting to put an end to the slaughter of wild horses for human and animal food. The text contains numerous excerpts from Johnston’s own writing. The book...
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The Wonder of Outer Space
The Wonder of Outer Space is an expository nonfiction text that explores outer space and its early history, why we should explore space, spacecrafts, dangers of space, and observatories. Readers gain interesting information from text and graphics. A...
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The World of Animals
The World of Animals is an expository nonfiction text that explores the world of animals from echinoderms and mollusks, to amphibians and mammals. The text also covers the classification system of taxonomy. Readers gain information from text and graphics...
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The World of Elements and Their Properties
The World of Elements and Their Properties is an expository nonfiction text that explores matter, elements, compounds, the Periodic Table, chemical symbols and formulas, chemical reaction, and mixtures and solutions. Readers gain interesting information...
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The World of Rocks & Minerals
The Wonder of Rocks & Minerals is an expository nonfiction text that explores rocks, specifically, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, the importance and use of rocks, as well as minerals and their importance. Readers gain interesting...
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The Zachary's Plans
The Zacharys’ Plans is a narrative story about a couple who are trying to build a house but cannot decide on a plan. The book also discusses features of a description. The story unfolds in first - person with illustrations and diagrams...