Encourage your students to make connections with their world!

Reading nonfiction expands their vocabulary and helps satisy their curiosity.
The knowledge acquired while reading nonfiction can be used to:

• instruct and persuade
• explain and describe
• recount and explore
• engage in authentic research

All of the titles in the collection have been leveled according to Fountas and Pinell guidelines. The advantage of offering students leveled titles is that the student is able to choose a "Just Right Book," a book he/she can read independently, for reading or research. Students with varying levels of reading proficiency can work together on projects, sharing interests and ideas while searching for answers to questions and developing expertise on their own.

The Nonfiction Leveled Libraries contain books organized around specific topics and main ideas. They can be used:

• for independent reading
• to activate schema
• to motivate students to further research topics of interest

We know your students will enjoy reading these books. Nonfiction is fun to read and generates a high level of enthusiasm and engagement!