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Destination Planet Blobb
Destination Planet Blobb is an engaging fantasy about two creatures, Zena and Zolta, who go on a trip to explore Planet Blobb. Characters are revealed by what they do and say. There is a variety of...
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Dinner
Dinner is a fiction story about a farmer trying to feed his animals. A monster keeps trying to steal the food so the farmer finds monster food! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations,...
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Dinosaur Nests
Dinosaur Nests is an expository text that invites readers to learn about dinosaur nests, eggs, and babies. Readers understand what a dinosaur nest looks like, how babies grow inside the egg, and what...
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Dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs is an informational text about the physical features of dinosaurs. The text is largely composed of several repeating language patterns, such as “Look at this ________” and “This dinosaur...
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Dinosaurs: Giant Jigsaws
Dinosaurs: Giant Jigsaws is an informational report that explains how dinosaur bones are excavated, studied in the laboratory, and reconstructed into skeletons. The text explains how scientists use...
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Disappearing Sharks
Disappearing Sharks is an informational report. The text describes how fishers catch sharks, why people catch sharks, why it’s unlikely anyone will experience a shark attack, how sharks are bred,...
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Discovering with Harry Hoggart
Discovering with Harry Hoggart is a narrative about a teacher who completes experiments with his students in order to explore various concepts including how animals walk on water and how scales help...
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Disgusting!
Disgusting! is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the things that animals do that many people perceive as disgusting such as sucking blood and releasing stinky smells...
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DNA
DNA is an informational report about DNA including information on how DNA is used to prove identity, paternity, and maternity and how DNA is used in genealogy, forensic science, and genetic medicine...
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Do Rules Rule?
Do Rules Rule? is a persuasive argument text. Mr. Chan asks his class the question “Do Rules Rule?” In groups of three students share arguments for and against common rules, such as no cell phones...
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Dog's Diary
Dog’s Diary is a dog’s humorous diary. In it, we are let in on a week’s worth of events, thoughts, and feelings in a world with an annoying cat, a snooty poodle, and a granny with more than a few...
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Don't Touch
Don’t Touch is an expository text about things that people do not touch because they are poisonous, such as particular bottles of chemicals, caterpillars, frogs, and snakes. Some photographs are...