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Enter the world of non-fiction!
Includes Social Studies and Science Connections.
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These carefully levelled books for Grades K–2
have a full range of features to assist students
as they learn to read non-fiction.
AlphaWorld Features:
• Books gradually increase in difficulty based
on complexity of concepts, vocabulary and language
structures, context, and length of text
• Interesting, well-researched texts inform and extend
children’s knowledge of the world around them
• Visually stunning photography
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Levels 1–5 Text Features | Levels 6–11 Text Features |
Simple language structures | More complex language structures |
Consistent placement of text | Labels, table of contents, indexes, flow diagrams, and headings |
Repeated sentence patterns | Variation in sentence structures |
Small range of text types | Increased range of text types |
Photographs support the text | Photographs and diagrams support the text |
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Teacher’s Guides for Levels 1–11
• Outline the features of text at each reading level
• Introduce practical reading strategies
• Provide a model of guided reading
• Feature lesson plans for each book that develop reading strategies
• Contain reproducible pages
• Were developed by a national team of Canadian educators