Informational texts, simple animal fantasy, realistic fiction, traditional literature (folktales) • Accessible content that expands beyond home, school and neighborhood • Multiple episodes taking place across time • Wide variety in words used to assign dialogue to speaker • Some complex letter‐sound relationships in words • Some complex spelling patterns • Some easy compound words • Most texts with no or only minimal illustrations • More complex and memorable characters • Text that contains multiple points of view revealed through the characters

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