Little Leveled Readers: The Ants Are Marching (Level C)

This Level C little reader is designed to support children at the emergent stage of literacy, and features the following characteristics:

• One to two lines of text per page
• High-support illustrations with close text-to-picture match
• Repeated and recognizable high-frequency words
• Punctuation conventions such as quotation marks in dialogue
• Consistent text placement on the page, with slight variations such as speech bubbles
• Familiar story themes that build on children’s experience