title: Amazing Animals!: 80 Ready-to-Use Stories & Activity Sheets for Building Reading Comprehension Skills (Reading Levels 3 - 6)
author: Stanton L. Barnes
description: For all classroom reading teachers and reading specialists, here isan exciting collection of stories that capture and hold students'natural interest in <i>animals</i> while steadily improving theirvocabulary, reading comprehension and critical thinking skillsthrough carefully designed activity sheets.
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  A Note to Parents and Caregivers:
  With a focus on math, science, and social studies, Read-it! Readers support both the learning 
  of content information and the extension of more complex reading skills. They encourage  
  the development of problem-solving skills that help children expand their thinking.
  The PURPLE LEVEL presents basic topics and objects using high 
  frequency words and simple language patterns. 
  The RED LEVEL presents familiar topics using common words 
  and repeating sentence patterns.
  The BLUE LEVEL presents new ideas using a larger vocabulary 
  and varied sentence structure.
  The YELLOW LEVEL presents more challenging ideas, a broad 
  vocabulary, and wide variety in sentence structure.
  The GREEN LEVEL presents more complex ideas, an extended 
  vocabulary range, and expanded language structures.
  The ORANGE LEVEL presents a wide range of ideas and concepts 
  using challenging vocabulary and complex langua