Informational Books

Reading Level 2–6
Lexile Level 510–920
Guided Reading Level R–X
Interest Level 4–9

56–72 pages

Program Overview

State Standards

Research Notes

Reviews and Testimonials

Reading Level Chart

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Fascinating and informative nonfiction books with cross-curricular applications

These entertaining and educational nonfiction books offer grade-appropriate, highly engaging content for social studies, science, and language arts.

Benefits

• Curricular-aligned topics teach important content while developing content-area literacy skills.
• Genres capture interest and engage students.
• Vocabulary is bolded in text, defined in context, and featured in glossary.
• Important nonfiction text features support content-area literacy
  —tables, charts, and graphs
  —sidebars
  —heads and subheads
  —maps
  —historical photographs
  —illustrations
  —glossaries and indexes and illustrations

Teacher ToolKit CD

All the resources and reproducibles you need to teach comprehension and vocabulary skills for the five books in a Theme Set—skill practice, strategy practice and instruction, and formative and summative assessment.

• one resource for each title in a Theme Set
  
• 75 to 150 reproducible activities
  
• an interactive skills chart—match students' needs with direct links
• objective tests to help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
• cross-curricular activities
• inquiry strategies
• strategies for ESL learners
• before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
  

Theme Set

• 30 softcover books (6 each of the 5 titles)
  
• A Teacher Tool Kit CD
• A Theme Resource
• A FREE durable storage box

Books Sampler

Includes 1 softcover copy of each title and a Teacher ToolKit CD.

LIST OF THEMES

Select a theme below to view titles and ordering information.

American History, 19th Century
American History, 20th Century I
American History, 20th Century II
American Tapestry
Ancient Worlds
Environmental Disasters I
Environmental Disasters II
Exploration and America's Early Days
General Interest
Geography
Great Moments in Sports
Information, Please
Legends and Wonders
Mysteries in History
The Natural World
Racing
Sports and Adventure
Thrills and Adventures

The guided reading levels have been assigned using the guidelines identified in GUIDED READING and MATCHING BOOKS TO READERS by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (Heinemann).