Simple informational texts, simple animal fantasy, realistic fiction, very simple retellings of traditional tales, simple plays • Familiar content that expands beyond home, neighborhood, and school • More literary stories and language • Concrete, easy‐to‐understand ideas • Some longer sentences – more than ten words • Some three‐syllable words • Variation of words to assign dialogue in some texts (said, cried, shouted) • Easy contractions • Mostly words with easy, predictable spelling patterns • Two to eight lines of print per page • Full range of punctuation

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