Reading Essentials®
Discovering & Exploring Science

Fluent A Titles

Grade Level K–3
Guided Reading Level J/K, L/M, N/O
Lexile Level 420–780

Student Books are 6 1/2" x 8 1/2", 24 pages.

• 18 titles
• Early Intervention Level: 19, 20, 22–24
  Word Count: 350 to 1,000 words
• Varied photo and text layouts
  
• Varied text styles, including captions, reports, labeled diagrams, sort and classify, report, factual recount, “how to” procedure, explanation, question and answer, description, and definition
  
• Experiments—hands on activities to support text
  
• Nonfiction Features: subheads, charts and graphs,sidebars, captions, labels, tables of contents, index, glossaries, diagrams

Integrate science content with literacy development for fluent readers. Titles cover the following six science categories: Life Science, Earth/Space Science, Physical Science, Science as Inquiry, Science and Technology, and Math in Science.

Fluent A Book Sets include:

• 6 softcover copies of 18 Student Books (108)
  —3 titles from each of the 6 science categories
  
• a FREE Teaching and Assessment Resource
• a FREE durable storage box

Fluent A Books Sampler includes:

• 1 softcover copy of each of the 18 titles in the set