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Cockroaches
Cockroaches is an expository text that invites readers to learn about a cockroach’s body, where they live, the animals that eat them, and how long they have been on our Earth for. Some photographs are labeled and a couple captions support the text...
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Cold Places
Cold Places is an expository nonfiction text that explains the Arctic and Antarctica by outlining the animals, people, plants, and location of these two cold places. Readers gain information from the text, captions, labels, maps, graph, and photographic...
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Colorful Animals
Colourful Animals is an informational text showcasing the rainbow of colours displayed by animals in nature, from insects, to amphibians, to birds, to mammals. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language. All of...
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Come
Come is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about two monkeys playing together in different places outside. Other animals are not too happy about it! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard and speech bubble. Come uses...
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Come in the Grass
Come in the Grass is a humorous and fictional story about a monster that wants another monster to come with him to different places outside. When they go in the garden, the geese chase after them so they run into the barn! Readers gain information from...
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Comets
Comets is an informational report that explores comets including information about what comets are, how they travel, tracking Halley’s comet, and the Stardust spacecraft. The book also discusses text connections, planning an informational...
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Condensation
Condensation is an expository nonfiction text that explains condensation and the water cycle. The back of the book includes a paragraph on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in...
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Cooking
Cooking is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a father and son getting the ingredients they need to bake. When the son gets the butter, dad notices a chunk of it is missing! They begin to bake and make a mess. Readers gain information from the...
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Cool Cockroaches
Cool Cockroaches is an informational explanation about an ancient pest. The text explains why cockroaches are phenomenal survivors, as well as how cockroaches multiply and some of their unusual characteristics. The style is informative and...
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Cool Crabs
Cool Crabs is an expository text about crabs which focusses on where crabs live, what they look like, where they hide, what the eat, and how big and small they can be. Some dialogue is used. Some photographs are labeled and some captions support the text...
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Cool Grinds
Cool Grinds is a short story told in the first person. Josh and his stepfather seem to have no common ground. The high stress of a skateboarding competition leads Josh to think about life and choices. And when he makes a kind gesture to...