Levelled Books

  • Shamus

    Shamus

    Shamus is a humorous fiction story about a sheep farmer, Tilly, thinking her sheep are boring because they always do the same thing and copy one another. When it was time for sheep shearing, one sheep, Shamus, hid in a rock cave. Shamus hid there and...

  • Shar

    Shar

    Shar is a realistic, fictional text about a puppy named Shar who tears up pillows, slippers, and books, which angers the mother of the house. Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Dialogue is bolded. Interest words include slippers and...

  • Shark Scare

    Shark Scare

    Shark Scare! is a realistic adventure presented as a first-person recount.  A young snorkeller on vacation is determined to snap a photo of a “Grandaddy Snapper” before his holiday is over.  He dismisses talk at the beach of a...

  • Shell Homes

    Shell Homes

    Shell Homes is an expository text about animals that live in shells, such as tortoises, snails, and crabs. Readers are invited to learn about how large or small shells are and why they are important to these animals.  Illustrations enhance and...

  • Shells

    Shells

    Shells is an expository nonfiction text that explains how a crab, turtle, and people use big shells as well as how people use little shells. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. Shells includes critical thinking questions to...

  • Shipwrecks

    Shipwrecks

    Shipwrecks is an informational report.  The text describes how failures of a vessel, mistakes, and bad weather can account for shipwrecks.  Readers learn about discoveries of long ago shipwrecks, from a 2000-year-old wreck to famous wrecks such...

  • Shopping

    Shopping

    Shopping is a fiction story about a bunch of monsters going to a grocery store and eating tons of different foods! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, and speech bubble. Shopping uses the sentence stem “Look at...

  • Shosun's Mistake

    Shosun's Mistake

    Shosun’s Mistake is a science fiction story about a boy named Palo who helps an alien to get a sample of a virus back to his home planet in order to find a cure before the virus kills the Earth. The book also discusses features of a science fiction...

  • Should This Have Happened?

    Should This Have Happened?

    Should This Have Happened? is a written debate discussing different opinions of various fairy tales. The book also discusses how to write a debate.  The text unfolds in first - person in the format of a persuasive essay or written debate with...

  • Sid Sneaky

    Sid Sneaky

    Sid Sneaky is a humorous narrative.  Sid Sneaky buys Lolla the cow and takes her on the road, charging $10 for customers to see the black markings on her hide in the shape of North and South America.  But Lolla gets homesick for the farm, and...

  • Silly Cat

    Silly Cat

    Silly Cat is a humorous, animal fantasy about a cat who tries to copy the actions of a bird. Illustrations add meaning to the text. The story is written as a story sequence and a Story Sequence with six scenes is presented at the end of the story. The...

  • Silly Clown

    Silly Clown

    Silly Clown is a humorous story about a clown who is putting on clothes. Simple dialogue is used. Illustrations support the text. Speech bubbles and thought bubbles are used throughout the story. The text is composed of a few high-frequency words. The...