Guided Reading Level I Novels & Stories

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Every minute we spent in this house, the risk of a slip-up grew. I looked down at the workbooks. *Grade K Math. Phonics Level 1.* These were the tools of a normal life. A life where success was measured by gold stars and learning to tie your shoes, not by how fast you could run or how hard you could bite. I needed to keep him in this mindset. I needed him to stay "Sarah Miller’s" son.

Always eye level. “Day 57,” Adrian said. 70 BPM. “We sleep in. No alarm. No court. No 3:01 PM. We make pancakes. Chocolate chip. Susan rule. We go to the beach. We build a sandcastle. And we don’t look over our shoulders. Because there’s nothing behind us. Anymore.” “Day 100,” Adrian continued. “You start first grade. Ivy and Isla start saying sentences. Bear gets a medal. For T-Rex. I go to work. 9 AM. I come home. 3 PM. Every day. No ‘eventually.’”