Frank Carlson Library

Open up wide! Dentists have the important job of making sure your teeth are clean and healthy. They look at your teeth to make sure you don't have any cavities and that you are flossing! Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about how dentists serve their community. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

In Let's Learn Directions, emergent readers learn the difference between directions, such as up and down, left and right, and above and below. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Let's Learn Directions includes tools for teachers and caregivers as well as introductory...

In Buses, emergent readers learn about buses and how they're used as a mode of transportation. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Buses includes tools for teachers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know,...

In this book, beginning readers are introduced to gymnastics, the fun tumbling and flipping involved, and the equipment, such as mats, bars, and balance beams that help gymnasts perform. High-frequency words and repetitive sentence patterns work together with strong visual references to support the earliest readers and create a fun first nonfiction reading experience. Gymnastics includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers, a Let's Review! question...

In Trucks, emergent readers learn about trucks and how they're used as a mode of transportation. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Trucks includes tools for teachers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to...

In this book, beginning readers are introduced to the ice rink, rules of play, and hockey equipment and gear. High-frequency words and repetitive sentence patterns work together with strong visual references to support the earliest readers and create a fun first nonfiction reading experience. Hockey includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers, a Let's Review! question and image, and introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents,...

In Trains, emergent readers learn about trains and how they're used as a mode of transportation. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Trains includes tools for teachers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to...

In Let's Learn Patterns, emergent readers learn to spot and identify patterns they see on everyday objects. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Let's Learn Patterns includes tools for teachers and caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as...

In this book, beginning readers are introduced to swimming, the floats, strokes, and dives involved, and equipment and gear, such as the lap pool, swimsuits, and goggles. High-frequency words and repetitive sentence patterns work together with strong visual references to support the earliest readers and create a fun first nonfiction reading experience. Swimming includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers, a Let's Review! question and image, and introductory...

Who is up on the seesaw? Who is down? Up and Down introduces emergent readers to opposing spacial directions they see every day, while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Up and Down includes tools for teachers and caregivers...