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  More Professional Books      
            

• More challenging storylines

• Less exact matching of pictures and text

• Variety of sentence structures

• Text position varies

• More words and lines per page

See the Book Note (PDF) for each book to assist teachers with unique instructional use for each book.

Supports and Builds Reader Abilities:

• Identifies which words tell when, where, who, what, why, how

• Predicts through text and context rather than illustrations

• Copes with more varied structures

• Knows changes in pattern may occur at sentence beginning

• Distinguishes between question and statement

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Joe's Blue Shoes

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 1
Grade Level:    K-1    
RR Level:        11    
Page Count:    12       
Word Count:    130      

Bunny Magic
La magia de un conejito   

A classroom pet plays a trick. 

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1   K-1 
RR Level:        14     8
Page Count:    12     12
Word Count:    176   178

 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

A Fishy Story

An encounter with a wish-granting fish gives a hungry fisherman and his wife a lot less than they expected.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1     
RR Level:         14      
Page Count:      16   
Word Count:     174       

The Lid

(fiction) 
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1    
RR Level:         14      
Page Count:      12     
Word Count:     130       

The Little Book of Street Rods

A child enjoys a day looking at cars with his dad. 

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1     
RR Level:         8      
Page Count:      12     
Word Count:     79       

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Misty Sleeps 

What does a little girl love most about her sleepy pet?

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1     
RR Level:         8      
Page Count:      12     
Word Count:     56       

 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

Pancakes for Breakfast
Panqueques para el desayuno

Grandma's pancakes are sure to please, except when blown away by a great big sneeze.
 
(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1   K-1 
RR Level:         13    14
Page Count:      8       12
Word Count:     99   109

 
 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

Spiders Everywhere
Aranas por todas partes

Creepy, crawly spiders invade a boy's space.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1    K-1 
RR Level:         9      5
Page Count:      8       8
Word Count:    36     44

 
 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

Flip Flop
Flip Flop

A big walrus climbs on a little ice floe and earns his name in an icy splash.

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1   K-1
RR Level:        11     n/a
Page Count:    12     12
Word Count:    70     76

The Storm
La tormenta

When the lights go out, the fun begins.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1  K-1 
RR Level:        14    n/a
Page Count:     8        8
Word Count:    75    71

 
 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

Tiger Dave
Tobar

A seaside-dwelling tiger gets a watery surprise.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1    K-1 
RR Level:         12     6
Page Count:       8      8
Word Count:     33    36

 
 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

The Changing Caterpillar
Los cambios de la oruga

A caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1    K-1 
RR Level:         15     8
Page Count:     8      8
Word Count:     56    60

 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

Click!
¡Clic!

A young photographer visits a zoo and finds the perfect subject for his camera.

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1    K-1 
RR Level:         9       6
Page Count:      8     12
Word Count:     41    43

 
 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

Crabbing Time

Two friends go out onto the dock to catch crabs. 

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1    
RR Level:         15    
Page Count:      12     
Word Count:     76       

 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.

My Bug Box
Mi caja de insectos

Collecting bugs is interesting and fun, but not for the bugs when they share space with a toad.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Early 2
Grade Level:    K-1    K-1 
RR Level:         7       n/a
Page Count:      12      12
Word Count:     98     93

 
 For more instructional uses see Book Note (PDF)
 How this title addresses the five key components for effective reading.