• 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

Download Grade 1 & 2 Ontario Curriculum Correlations for Alphakids

Grade 1
Grade 2