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 • Some longer stretches of dialogue • Some longer sentences – more than ten words – with prepositional phrases, adjectives, and dialogue • Illustrations support the text, but do not carry all important aspects of reading • Most texts three to eight lines of text per page • Variety of punctuation • Greater range of vocabulary and multisyllabic words

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