Informational texts, simple animal fantasy, realistic fiction, traditional literature (folktales), some simple biographies on familiar subjects • Beginning chapter books (sixty to one hundred pages of print) • Varied organization in nonfiction text formats (question/answer, boxes, legends, etc.) • Some texts with plots, situations, and settings outside what a child would typically find familiar • Longer (more than fifteen words), more complex sentences • Variety of words used to assign dialogue, with verbs and adverbs essential to meaning • Multisyllable words that are challenging to take apart or decode • Longer stretches of print without the support of pictures

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