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Themed Nonfiction Series | Reading A-Z

Provide your students with focused content-area and literacy instruction with the Themed Nonfiction Series. Each collection of books within the series is built around a central theme and provides informational texts on similar topics. Books in each collection are written at different levels of difficulty to help facilitate differentiated instruction. All books are available in printable and projectable formats.

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Brilliant Biomes

Colors

Countries Around the World

Giants of the Animal World

My Body

National Parks

Numbers

Spectacular Sports

Trip on a Latitude Line

U.S. Government

World Landmarks

World Leaders

Experience Reading A-Z: Leveled Books for Every Reader

Reading A-Z is famous with educators because we offer more than 2,400 books at 29 levels of reading difficulty. Our extensive collection makes it easy to put developmentally appropriate content into each student's hands.

With Reading A-Z you also get thousands of corresponding resources to enhance instruction and strengthen students' reading skills, including a lesson plan, comprehension quiz, and practice materials that accompany each of leveled book! Let's take a quick look at how our best-in-class leveling system works.

Our Leveling System

At Learning A-Z, our proprietary leveling system was developed over 10 years with input from teachers and instructional experts. Thousands of books were evaluated to create 29 developmentally appropriate levels. Today we also offer a Spanish leveling system, which carefully analyzes text based on Spanish language structure, vocabulary, and syntax.

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The Text Levels

Our leveled texts are grouped into 4 stages of reading development:

The Leveling Measures

Each and every one of our leveled texts is specifically designed and carefully constructed to fulfill appropriate qualitative and quantitative measures.

Qualitative measures ensure:

• Predictability of text
• Text structure and organization
• Illustration support
• Infographics
• Knowledge demands

Quantitative measures ensure:

• Total word count
• Number of different words
• Number of high- and low-frequency words
• Sentence length
• Sentence complexity

The Leveling Process

Every Reading A-Z text undergoes a precise 5-step review to ensure accurate and reliable leveling.

Assessing Students’ Levels

Reading A-Z provides a 3-part assessment process to help you place students in their instructionally appropriate levels.

Using Leveled Books

Reading A-Z offers a number of leveled books and texts to differentiate instruction and keep students engaged:

• Leveled Books in 7 Languages
• Fiction Series
• Themed Nonfiction Series
• Classics
• Genre Collections
• Benchmark Books
• Benchmark Passages
• Close Read Passages

Standards & Correlations

Reading A-Z resources are aligned with all major national and state standards, core reading programs, and NWEA RIT ranges. We also make it easy to find level-appropriate content by providing correlations to other popular leveling systems. Check out the Level Correlation Chart!

How I read books

I have always loved books and have always read a lot. And since the summer of last year, I have been reading them not only for pleasure and self-development, but also for work needs, since I started working at the Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing house. And since in MYTH each of the copywriters actively promotes 3-5 books a month, it turns out that I read 7-10 books every month. Half for work, half for myself. I want to share some life hacks that I use when reading literature.

All advice pertains exclusively to working with non-fiction literature. I also really love works of art, but there is a completely different approach to them. By the way, 1-2 books a month is always fiction. Nowhere without her.

Format

I love books in electronic format. E-books have a convenient font and do not need to allocate additional space in the luggage. I always have a MacBook, iPhone and Kindle at hand. If I read on a laptop, then I use Acrobat Reader for PDFs, which are immediately synchronized with the app of the same name on the iPhone. Just in case, Ibux is still installed everywhere, but I use it very rarely. The rest of the books are stored in my Kindle. I already have an old model - the first Paperwhite, but it still does its job perfectly.

As for paper books, I order them either to play with the pictures and carefully examine the illustrations, or as a gift to someone. I don’t share the hysteria about “special smell” and “pleasant tactile sensation”.

Once a traveler from Denmark stayed with me and carried a separate library backpack with her everywhere. After playing with my Kindle, she ordered the same one for herself and seems to be satisfied so far.

Preparation

Every book starts with a cover. I carefully study the annotation, look through the titles of the chapters and go over the introduction. With this first step, a global immersion in knowledge begins. And at the same moment I am trying to clearly formulate questions, the answers to which I can find in this book.

I also really like to study the author’s biography - look at an article about him on Wikipedia, find a website, subscribe to a blog. If I like the book, then I can easily contact him to express respect or ask questions for the “Literary Habits” section.

Reading

The process of reading depends on the book and on subsequent work with it. I do not own the technique of speed reading, although my colleague Yulia Skrypnik practices this business with might and main and even teaches other people. But I'm not one of them yet. Maybe I'll try it in the near future.

For some tasks, you can just flip through the book, for others you need to read every word, for example, when I am preparing an article for a narrow-profile publication or trying to improve myself in sports. However, as a rule, any non-fiction book does not have to be read from cover to cover. This fact is hard to accept, but as soon as I came to terms with it, books began to bring much more pleasure. There are no rules in reading. You can skip pages and entire chapters. The most important thing is to find answers to your questions. If you are reading a self-development book and you are doing great with time management, then it is not necessary to read the chapter on procrastination. And if the author cites the research of scientists, feel free to skip them (unless, of course, you started reading this book just to study the research of scientists). In other words, study only what is relevant to you. It is this approach that will help you highlight the main thing and implement it into life as quickly as possible.

As I read, I highlight interesting passages and copy them to a separate file. If I work with a notepad or a paper book, then I photograph the selected area using the Scannble application.

Highlights

After I have read the book, all notes are sent to Evernote. I have a special notebook "Books" in which I create a separate note for each read work, where I insert highlights and my own thoughts.

This material is then actively used when writing articles and reviews of the book. Also, once every three months, I run through the main thoughts from what I read and, as a rule, always discover something new for myself.

Working with what I've read

If I used to treat books a little lightly and rarely allowed myself to follow the advice of the authors, then at the end of the summer, after two months of work at MIF, I decided to change my strategy. Now, from every book I read, I take at least one idea or piece of advice and immediately put it into practice. It turns out very interesting:

"Remote" → I realized that I once made the right step, turning down the next office vacancy and starting to look for a remote dream job.

"To the limit" → It's been a hell of a week. This intensive taught me how to properly relax and control social networks.

"Scrum" → Together with his girlfriend, they began to use Scrum. As a result, we began to do more and spend more productive time together.

"Visual Notes in Practice" → Started drawing pleasant impressions every day. I have long wanted to record important events and finally found the right tool.

Show your work! → Launched mailing list 🙂

That is, some books change me completely, others help me move in the right direction, others dilute everyday life with useful life hacks. I love to read.

How do you work with books? Share interesting life hacks, reveal the techniques of a literary ninja.

P. S. My love of reading led me to launch the project "I read a lot" . This is a package of literary books that I update every month. To book lovers by book lovers. All the details are here - http://mnogochital.ru/

I am not reading a book, but the book is reading me. Asya Volodina's "Protagonist" :: Reportage :: News of the Library for Foreign Literature

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On March 16, writer Asya Volodina, the author of Elena Shubina's Editing, visited the "Foreigner". The main character of the meeting was the post-COVID novel Protagonist.

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The conversation took place as part of the "Book PostProduction" cycle, which the Library for Foreign Literature conducts together with the "Editorial Office of Elena Shubina". Asya Volodina's interlocutors were the leading editor of the publishing house Alexey Portnov and Alexey Yudin , Advisor to the General Director of the Library for Foreign Literature, historian and TV presenter.

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There was no consensus on the genre to which "Protagonist" can be attributed. It is called both a classic "university novel", and a psychological thriller, and an action-packed detective story. For many, the work of Asya Volodina reminded the work of the American writer Donna Tartt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (2014). In order not to be unfounded, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the original editions of Donna Tartt's novels: all of them are presented in the Inostranka fund.

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The Protagonist shows the story of student Nikita Buyanov’s suicide, which is divided into nine voices the chapter is an internal monologue of the new character.

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At the meeting, Asya Volodina spoke about the real background of the novel, about the atmosphere prevailing in the leading universities of Moscow, and the tense situation with exams. The writer, candidate of philological sciences, teacher of the Estonian language, knows firsthand about her. At the meeting, Asya talked about how her studies, life in a hostel, rotation in academic circles, as well as teaching influenced her. Also, Asya Volodina’s area of ​​interest includes Faulkner’s work (she wrote her dissertation on him) and the study of the Estonian theater.

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The interlocutors paid special attention to the theme of antiquity, which pervades the text of The Protagonist.

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