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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...
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The Feast BIG BOOK
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...
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The Fire
The Fire is a humorous, fictional text about spies who detect smoke coming out of a window. They call the fire department, and, as the fire fighters begin to hose down the home, they realize the smoke is coming from blown out candles on a birthday cake...
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The Fire Zenith
The Fire Zenith is a fantasy about a man named Malek who uses an animal called a fire zenith to put on a show. When the creature won’t perform, Malek is worried that the audience will be unhappy. He captures another fire zenith but this one...
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The First Geologists
The First Geologists is an expository nonfiction text about scientists of the earth: geologists. The text goes into detail about early geologists such as James Hutton, William Smith, Friedrich Mohs, Alfred Wegener, and Florence Bascom. The text includes...
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The Fishing Trip
The Fishing Trip is a recount by Joey about a father/son fishing trip that takes an unexpected turn. Joey needs quick thinking and courage to save his father. The style is friendly and conversational. The text is composed of a variety of sentence...