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Explains how the various orders and suborders of dinosaurs were similar and different in structure and appearance.
Lexile Level: 530
Guided Reading Level: N

During his visit to an aquarium, a boy finds out about the characteristics and environments of many different marine and freshwater creatures.
Lexile Level: 710
Guided Reading Level: O

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.
Lexile Level: 230
Guided Reading Level: NR

Introduces the human body and how it functions, with interesting facts boxed and highlighted alongside the illustrations.
Lexile Level: 820
Guided Reading Level: P

Text and photographs describe common things that are black, including tires, hockey pucks, and black cats.

For children learning to recognize circles and other round shapes, this lyrical poem with photographs identifies a variety of familiar objects.

Through a rhyming game and brilliant photographs, children learn what is square in the world.

An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.
Lexile Level: NA
Guided Reading Level: H

As they are startled by the activities of other nearby creatures, the number of turtles on a log in a pond decreases from ten to one. Includes factual information about the animals mentioned in the story.
Lexile Level: 160
Guided Reading Level: H

Identifies the characteristics of mammals and provides specific examples, including the whale, bat, kangaroo, and puppy.
Lexile Level: 540
Guided Reading Level: H

Introduces many kinds of boats and ships, including rowboats, canoes, sailboats, speedboats, cruise ships, submarines, tugboats, and tankers.
Lexile Level: 290
Guided Reading Level: G

Describes how the surveyor, heavy machinery operators, carpenter crew, plumbers, and other workers build a house.
Lexile Level: 570
Guided Reading Level: M

Describes the habitat, physical characteristics, and behavior of different kinds of penguins.
Lexile Level: 610
Guided Reading Level: O

A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.
Lexile Level: 620
Guided Reading Level: K

Uses observations of bean seeds planted in eggshells to demonstrate the growth of seeds into plants.
Lexile Level: 400
Guided Reading Level: I

The Magic School bus visits various mouths to try and discover the place of origin of a lost tooth found in their classroom.
Lexile Level: 370

Paired photographs illustrate the concept of wet and dry.

Presents the things that everyone needs, as well as things some people want, and invites the reader to consider his or her own wants and needs.

Describes various kinds of workers in a community and explains the service which persons in each occupation provide.
Lexile Level: 350
Guided Reading Level: D

The first portion of the work is a counting book covering the numbers one to twenty with block prints of animals. The second portion of the work has factual information concerning the animals.
Lexile Level: NP
Guided Reading Level: H