Informational texts, more complex fantasy, realistic fiction, traditional literature (folktales), biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, mysteries, historical fiction, short stories, genre combinations, diaries • Some collections of short stories that have interrelated themes or build a single plot across the book • Content particularly appealing to adolescents   • Some fiction settings requiring knowledge of content (history, geography, etc.) • Complex ideas on many different topics • Long stretches of descriptive language that are important to understanding the setting and characters • Many new vocabulary words that depend on readers’ tools (such as glossaries) and meaning from context • Extensive use of figurative language (idioms, simile, metaphor) • Words with a wide variety of very complex spelling patterns • Many words with affixes (prefixes and suffixes, multisyllable proper nouns that are difficult to decode) • Increasingly difficult layout of informational texts, with dense content and format

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