Windows on Literacy
Leveled Informational Text Readers
Windows on Literacy offers a rich array of leveled readers with high-interest content and images from National Geographic. Titles in each developmental stage of reading are carefully crafted to provide the supports and challenges that young readers need to build a strong foundation for literacy success.
- Integrates literacy development with key Science and Social Studies concepts
- Engages students' natural curiosity about the world around them
- Pairs informational text with compelling National Geographic images
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Windows on Literacy, Step Up
• Builds book sense
• Helps develop oral language
• Wordless Books with strong visuals to convey stories and action
• Word Books with strong word/picture matches
• Simple-Sentence Books with predictable, repetitive sentences. -
Windows on Literacy, Emergent
• Predictable text on a single concept/topic
• Familiar concepts, objects, and actions
• Natural language patterns
• Nonfiction text features: labels, boldface type, graphic symbols, picture glossaries
• Close picture/text match -
Windows on Literacy, Early
• Longer and more complex sentences
• More variety in sentence patterns
• Specialized vocabulary
• Nonfiction text features: table of contents, index, glossary
• Moderate picture/text support -
Windows on Literacy, Fluent
• Language reflects the structure of informational text
• Rich content vocabulary
• Nonfiction text features: diagrams, more detailed glossary and index
• Varied print formats, layouts, and typefaces -
Windows on Literacy, Fluent Plus
• Complex language structures and vocabulary
• Longer and more developed paragraphs and chapters
• More nonfiction text features: complex diagrams, maps, charts
• Variety of nonfiction genres and organizational patterns
• Illustrations add information as well as support the text