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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       

An Armadillo escapes her predators and fills her burrow with life.

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2    
RR Level:        24     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    434    

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

The story of how a shipwreck full of treasure was discovered off the Florida coast. 

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2      1-2
RR Level:        21     n/a
Page Count:   16      16
Word Count:   284   280

Gargoyles on Guard

A young girl brightens the
life of her lonely, hard-
working  mother.

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2     
RR Level:        n/a         
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    804     

For more instructional use see Book Note Click on "Read Only" box

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:     2 
RR Level:         n/a     
Page Count:    12     
Word Count:    277     
 

The beauty and importance of coral reefs portrayed in words and photographs.

(Nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2     
RR Level:        n/a     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    551     
 

A recounting of how two wild, desert burros found a home.

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2       1-2
RR Level:        23      n/a
Page Count:    16      16
Word Count:    419   424

A marine biologist relates his encounter with a persistent young cormorant.

(nonfiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2    
RR Level:        n/a     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    846     

Treasures

A story of the changes in the life of a family who lived by the sea. 

(fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2     
RR Level:        23     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    263     
 

A clever fox outwits a vain crow and a gullible goat.

(Fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2     
RR Level:        n/a     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    411     

Dog never completes his mission.

(Fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2     
RR Level:         n/a     
Page Count:     12     
Word Count:     237    

(Fiction)
Reading Level: Fluent 3
Grade Level:    2     
RR Level:        n/a     
Page Count:    16     
Word Count:    590     

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