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Is It Time to Refresh Your Classroom Library?
Tara Maceyak, K-6
Marketing Manager
(It was Tara's birthday last week! Look at a photo.)
The Dorling Kindersley (DK) Readers
are a multi-level series of high-interest books with engaging
photographs, lively illustrations, and age-appropriate stories designed
to captivate students' attention while developing their reading skills
and general knowledge. These readers are the perfect addition for your
classroom libraries.
Readers for Grades K-5: Finding the Perfect Level
This series is intended for children in grades K-5 and is divided into the following reading levels:
- Pre-level 1 (Learning to Read): high-frequency words, picture word strips, labels to introduce and reinforce vocabulary
- Level 1 (Beginning to Read): Word repetition, limited vocabulary and simple sentences, picture dictionary boxes
- Level 2 (Beginning to Read Alone): Longer sentences and increased vocabulary
- Information boxes full of extra fun facts
- Level 3 (Reading Alone): More complex sentence structure
- Information boxes and alphabetical glossary
- Level 4 (Proficient Readers): Rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure, additional information and alphabetical glossary
Readers for Grades 6-12: Choose by Genre
These titles are organized by genre and are intended for students in grades 6-12:
- The Biography series
brings together fresh voices and DK design values to give readers the
most information-packed, visually exciting biographies available.
Full-color photographs of people, places, and artifacts, definitions of
key words, and sidebars on related subjects add dimension and relevance
to stories of famous lives that students will love to read.
- DK Readers
are ideal for readers of different ages to easily access. Illustrated
with color photographs and covering a variety of non-fiction topics,
these high-interest readers are the perfect way to build students'
interest in reading while developing their reading fluency.
- DK Classics
are presentations of classic novels in a format that is both accessible
and appealing. Each book contains the original, unabridged text,
interspersed with background information, explanations of themes, maps,
timelines, definitions, and carefully chosen illustrations that enhance
the mood of the story.
- Non-Fiction Reference Books include titles from the DK Eyewitness, DK Guides, DK Graphic Readers, and DK Inklink
series. These trusted resources provide an in-depth, comprehensive look
at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
Titles and prices
Please download these PDFs:
For more information about DK Readers, contact your ESL Specialist.
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