What Lives Here?
Level A,
nonfiction
What Lives Here? provides an overview of several animals, including insects, amphibians, and mammals, and their homes. Photographs establish one-to-one correspondence and support readers who are learning to look at print.
My Body
Level A,
nonfiction
My Body introduces students to the print vocabulary for the names of familiar body parts. The photographs encourage picture-to-text connections, while the repeated sentence pattern ensures early readers' success.
What I Like
Level A,
fiction
On a rainy day, a girl sits by the window and thinks about what she likes to see and do outside. The repetitive text, high-frequency words, and illustrations provide support for beginning readers.
Hot and Cold
Level A,
nonfiction
What types of things are hot? What types of things are cold? This repetitive text introduces the concepts of hot and cold while providing an opportunity for readers to visualize hot and cold, and use high-frequency words.
My Room
Level A,
fiction
The familiar setting of a child's bedroom puts readers at ease as they read new vocabulary, naming the objects they find in their own room. Students will learn to link pictures they recognize with unfamiliar words.
All Kinds of Faces
Level A,
nonfiction
What makes you happy or mad? All Kinds of Faces shows emotions on the faces of young children. Students have the opportunity to think about faces and the emotions associated with them. Detailed, supportive photographs, high-frequency words, and repetitive phrases support beginning readers.
Maria Counts Pumpkins
Level A,
fiction
Have you ever received too many things all at once? This is the problem that Maria faces in the book Maria Counts Pumpkins. In this text Maria is sitting on the stoop of her apartment with her dog when seven different relatives bring her pumpkins. The pumpkins crowd the dog and Maria off the stoop. The repeated sentence patterns and picture to text match in this book help early readers retain meaning and read counting words.
I Can
Level A,
fiction
What can your early readers do? The children in I Can can hop, jump, ride, and play. Every child can do something. The repeated text patterns, high-frequency words, and familiar verbs in this text give students another accomplishment to add to their list: reading.
Opposites
Level A,
nonfiction
What are opposites? Students have the opportunity to learn about opposite words in this book with supportive photographs. High-frequency words and repetitive text make this book easy for early readers.
Up and Down
Level A,
fiction
What goes up must come down. The book Up and Down illustrates this concept to students using familiar objects. The pictures, high-frequency words, and repetitive text support beginning readers as they read.
Maria Goes to School
Level A,
fiction
Maria Goes to School introduces readers to the print vocabulary for the names of familiar items taken to school. The familiar situation, repeated sentence pattern, and picture-to-text correspondence help early readers make meaningful connections.
Bird Goes Home
Level A,
fiction
In Bird Goes Home, the reader seems to be accompanying a bird as it flies over many places and sees many things. At the end of the book, the bird is happily reunited with its chicks after a long flight.
My Hair
Level A,
fiction
My Hair is about the many types of hair that people can have. The book, which has engaging illustrations, is a fun look at a few of the ways we are all unique. Early readers learn to read words pertaining to various hair lengths and textures. The illustrations also offer opportunities to discuss hair color and ethnic backgrounds.
My Dog
Level A,
fiction
My Dog presents some of the activities that a boy's dog can do. The book helps readers learn to read the terms for various behaviors associated with pets. The last page of the book reveals something that demonstrates the dog's love for the boy.
In and Out
Level A,
fiction
In and Out introduces readers to various pairs or trios of animals that jump in a large mud puddle and then jump out. The last animals, which are pigs, happily remain in the mud. Playful illustrations offer strong support to the text.
Going Places
Level A,
nonfiction
This early leveled reader shows students all the different ways they can get around, from planes to boats to horses. Photos accompany the text in one-to-one correspondence for easy reading.
Baby Animals
Level A,
nonfiction
Baby Animals is a simple text, with photos, that introduces or reinforces the names of seven baby animals. Almost all of these cute baby animals are mammals. Children will enjoy finding the one that is different from the others.
