- Fits national reading standards by linking images to the text to provide picture clues and introduces age-appropriate vocabulary.
- Top reading specialists have leveled this text as appropriate for emergent, early fluent, and fluent readers.
- The text supports and teaches language skills with rhyme; repetition; counting, numbers, and shapes; consonant clusters; and opposites, which help children decipher words.
- Word lists at the back of each book help build reading vocabularies.
Grades K-4 Social Studies Standards
Culture: I
- Describe ways in which language, stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture.
Individual Development and Identity: IV
- Explore factors that contribute to one's personal identity such as interests, capabilities, and perceptions.