Simple factual texts, animal fantasy and realistic fiction • Picture books • Amusing one‐dimensional characters • Familiar, easy content • Introduction of dialogue • Greater range of high‐frequency words • Some simple contractions and possessives (words with apostrophes) • Two to five lines of text on each page • Some bolded words • Some ellipses (...), commas, quotation marks, question marks, and exclamation points •Simple plurals •Words with easy spelling patterns.

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