Grades K–2

• highly appealing photographs and illustrations
• gradually increasing challenges in length, vocabulary, format, and story structure
• engaging fiction and non-fiction texts in a variety of genres
• supports for young readers, including print placement, large font size, spacing, picture-text correlation, repetition of sentence patterns, and natural oral language structures
• Science and Social Studies connections
  
• special features including a word count on the back cover and a list of high-frequency words on the inside back cover
  

Teacher’s Guides

• Outline the features of text at each reading level
• Introduce practical assessment strategies
• Provide a model of guided reading
• Feature lesson plans for each book that develop reading strategies
• Contain reproducible pages