Informational texts, simple fantasy, realistic fiction, traditional literature (folktales), simple biographies, simple mysteries • Underlying organizational structures (description, compare and contrast, problem and solution) • Some technical content that is challenging and not typically known • Some texts with plots, settings, and situations outside typical experience • Multisyllable words that are challenging to take apart or decode • Some new vocabulary and content‐specific words in nonfiction text introduced, explained, and illustrated in the text • New vocabulary in fiction texts (largely unexplained) • Chapter books (sixty to one hundred pages of print)

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