Hecht, Tracey. Nocturnals.

Grow & read. Level 3.

In The Weeping Wombat, the Nocturnal Brigade--Tobin, a sweet pangolin, Bismark, a loud-mouthed sugar glider, and Dawn, a serious fox--hear Walter the wombat whimpering under a willow tree. Walter tells the friends that the other wombats call him a wimp because he weeps. The Nocturnal Brigade tell Walter that weeping is just another way of expressing how we feel and that, like a good laugh, a good weep can feel great

Grades 2-3

490L

Decoding demand: 78 (high) Semantic demand: 85 (very high) Syntactic demand: 55 (medium) Structure demand: 75 (high)