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Ancillary Materials              
  More Professional Books      
            

• More complex concepts and storylines

• Pictures enhance and extend the text

• Sophisticated language and structure

• Multicultural themes

• Diverse settings

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

• 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

 
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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

(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 tow 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.