Informational texts, simple animal fantasy, realistic fiction, traditional literature (folktales) • Some longer texts with repeating longer and more complex patterns • Longer more complex sentences, consisting of 10 or more words, prepositional phrases, adjectives, compound sentences, and clauses • Familiar content that expands beyond home, neighborhood, and school • Some texts with settings that are not typical of many children’s experience • Some complex letter‐sound relationships in words • Some content‐specific words introduced, explained and illustrated in the text • Complex illustrations depicting multiple ideas • Most texts three to eight lines of print per page • Slightly smaller print •Elaborated descriptions of characters

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