Key Features of Alphakids
- Highly appealing photographs and illustrations
- Gradually increasing challenges in length, vocabulary, format, and story structure
- Engaging fiction and non-fiction texts in a variety of genres
- Supports for young readers, including print placement, large font size, spacing, picture-text correlation, repetition of sentence patterns, and natural oral language structures
- Science and Social Studies connections
- Special features include a word count on the back cover and a list of high-frequency words on the inside back cover
- Ideally suited for Grades K-2
Teacher’s Guide
- Outline the features of text at each reading level
- Introduce practical assessment strategies
- Provide a model of guided reading
- Feature lesson plans for each book that develop reading strategies
- Contain reproducible pages
Samples of Alphakids interiors by level
Level A – Fruit Salad
Level B – Let’s Play
Level C – The Party
Level D – Good Night Tess
Level E – Sebastion
Level F – Floating and Sinking
Level G – The Grizzlegrots
Level H – Beaks and Feet
Level I – The Costume Party
Level J – Cat and Dog
Level K – Finding Sunshine
