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Windows on Literacy™ Emergent, Early & Fluent Levels Set (34 titles)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emergent Level: 23 titles

• Description
• Title List
• Samples: When the Rain..
• What Lives in a Swamp?
• Making Sultanas

At the Emergent stage, children continue to develop an understanding that print carries a message. Children read simple, predictable texts with strong picture support. Features at this stage include:

• simple text with single concept/topic
• familiar concepts, objects and actions
• predictable text structures
• natural oral language patterns
• close picture/text match.

Title List :

1. A Bird Flies By
2. Bricks,Wood and Stones
3. Come to My Party
4. Hot and Cold
5. In My Family
6. Look at the Tree
7. Making a Hat
8. Making Sultanas
9. People Build Dams
10. People Live Here
11. People Work at the Supermarket
12. Shopping with Dad
13. The Animal Hospital
14. The Baby Shark
15. The Little Panda
16. Toys
17. Up, Down and Around
18. Weather in the City
19. What Lives in a Swamp?
20. What's My Job?
21. Wheels
22. When the Rain Comes
23. Where Are They going?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early Level : 7 titles

• Description
• Title List
• Samples: Mud Mud Mud
• I Can Breathe Underwater

At the Early stage, children demonstrate a greater confidence in their abilities as readers. They actively use their prior knowledge and growing range of reading strategies to make sense of text. Features at this stage include:

• extension of content from personal experiences to new contexts
• more variety in sentence patterns
• blend of language structures
• longer and more complex sentences
• moderate picture/text support.

Title List :

1. Class Rules
2. Class Teddy Bear
3. I Can Breathe Underwater
4. In My Bag
5. Mud, Mud, Mud
6. Our Teacher
7. Water, Land and Air

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fluent Level: 4 titles

• Description
• Title List
• Samples: Corn
• Big Red Tomatoes
• Where Does the Water Go?

At the Fluent stage, children develop greater fluency and the ability to use multiple reading strategies. They are introduced to increasingly varied and complex text. They are also introduced to a greater range of content vocabulary. Features at this stage include:

• expansion of background knowledge
• language reflecting the structure of informational text
• rich, varied vocabulary
• varied print formats and layouts
• more complex non-fiction features

Title List :

1. Big Red Tomatoes
2. Corn
3. When a Storm Comes
4. Where Does the Water Go?

 

 

 

Book Features

 

Teaching Notes can be found on the back of the front cover of every book.

 

 

Every back cover features an open ended question to extend the learning experience.