
Tiny Tugboat
Fantasy (fiction) 117 words, Level E (Grade 1), Lexile 270L
Tiny Tugboat has a huge job before him when a crowd of boats get stuck in the bay. The plucky tugboat goes to work. Students will enjoy watching him set free boats, ships, and even a submarine! Cartoony illustrations bring humor and personality to the story. Tiny Tugboat uses shorter sentences and dialogue appropriate for emergent readers, and also teaches students about sequencing events and quotation marks.