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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...
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This is for Me
This Is for Me is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about different animals claiming the water for themselves…until the hippo jumps in! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, dialogue, storyboard, and caption. This Is...
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Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of Electromagnetism
Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of Electromagnetism is an expository nonfiction text about inventor Thomas Edison, the radio invention, and pioneers of electromagnetism such as Benjamin Franklin, Hans Christian Oersted, and Michael Faraday. The text...
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Through the Eyes of the Camera
Through the Eye of the Camera is an informational report on the many uses of photographic technology. Photographs are essential to the communications industry, police work, and wildlife studies, for example. Diagnostic imaging, infrared...
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Tiger and Monkey
Tiger and Monkey is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about Monkey tying a ribbon on Tiger’s tail. When Tiger woke up, he was mad and went after Monkey. When monkey was sleeping, Tiger tied Monkey’s tail to a tree! Then another...
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Tigers
Tigers is an expository text that tells readers about a tiger’s coat, ears, eyes, nose, and whiskers. Readers also learn about baby tigers. Labeled illustrations enhance and extend the meaning of the text and are found on each page. Callouts prompt...