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• More complex concepts and storylines

• Pictures enhance and extend the text

• Sophisticated language and structure

• Multicultural themes

• Diverse settings
   

• Understands setting- time and place

• Understands punctuation affects expression and meaning

• Pays closer attention to descriptive detail

• Identifies facts and supplementary detail

• Draws conclusions from stories- some indication of underlying theme

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

                                             Titles available in Spanish are listed in pink       

Hoketichee and the Manatee
Hoketichee y el manatí

A story of trust between a curious child and gentle sea creature.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:   1-2     1-2
RR Level:        15      n/a
Page Count:    16      16
Word Count:   113    121

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

Jump the Broom
Saltar la escoba

A young boy learns about a special African-American tradition.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:   1-2     1-2
RR Level:        15      n/a
Page Count:    16      16
Word Count:   119    134

The Author on My Street

A girl learns to use her imagination to look at things in a new and fascinating way.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:   1-2    
RR Level:        16     
Page Count:    12     
Word Count:   260     

A Family of Beavers 

A family of beavers works together to build a safe home. 

(nonfiction) 

Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2   
RR Level:         15     
Page Count:     12       
Word Count:    141

Farmer Brown and Dapple Gray

Farmer Brown learns how important and valuable his friend Dapple Gray is.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:   1-2     
RR Level:        17     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:   166     

Log Garfish

Giant Paul Bunyan shows the lumberjacks how to outwit the sneaky, hungry, logger gobbling log garfish.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:   1-2    
RR Level:        20     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:   114     

Moonbeam Cow

A tale of how one foggy night in the Highlands of Scotland the unique color combination of the Belted Galloway cow came to be.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:   1-2     
RR Level:        18     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:   228     

Raven's Gift
El regalo del cuervo

Clever Raven tricks the Chief of the Sky into sharing the light with all the creatures of the earth.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    1-2
RR Level:        15      n/a
Page Count:    16      16
Word Count:   160    173

The Red-Tailed Hawk 
El halcón de cola roja

An injured hawk is rescued, healed, and then returned to the wild.

(Nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:   1-2     1-2
RR Level:        19      n/a
Page Count:    16      16
Word Count:   199    204

Sea Lights

An introduction to some fascinating, mysterious creatures that share this planet with us but live in a watery world.

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    
RR Level:        19    
Page Count:    12   
Word Count:   122     

How trilobites that lived long ago became fossils. 

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2     
RR Level:         20     
Page Count:     12     
Word Count:    141     

Bacon Saturday Mornings

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    
RR Level:         N/A    
Page Count:     16     
Word Count:    365     

There are many ways to have fun, even if you live in a zoo. 

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    
RR Level:         17     
Page Count:     12     
Word Count:    146     

Loving relatives weave a dream catcher to hang above the bed of a little girl.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    
RR Level:        16     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:   159     

Goodbye, Goose

A goose discovers why she needs to fly away with her friends.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2     
RR Level:        19     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    264     

A boy is saddened at the
loss of a farm and its
gentle, friendly cows.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2     
RR Level:        22   
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:   464     

Pigeon Feathers

This Native American legend tells why the pigeon's feathers are gray, and how she learned that being yourself is the most beautiful way to be.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    
RR Level:        20     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    477     

A banana-loving rabbit
devises a clever pan to fill
his tummy with his favorite
fruit.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    
RR Level:         22    
Page Count:    12     
Word Count:    198     
 

A Child notices and enjoys different birds that visit a horse barn throughout the day.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    2       1-2
RR Level:        20      n/a
Page Count:    16      16
Word Count:   230    213

What froze during a coachman's journey through the snowy German mountains long ago.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2     
RR Level:        n/a     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    432     

Shintaro's Umbrellas
Las sombrillas de Shintaro

Shintaro helps his grandfather create umbrellas of many uses.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2    1-2
RR Level:        16      n/a
Page Count:    16      16
Word Count:    101   111

And Then There Were Birds
 

A retelling of a Native American tale about the creation of birds.
 
(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 2
Grade Level:    1-2   1-2
RR Level:        19     
Page Count:    12     16 
Word Count:    175   230