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Venice: The City Built on a Wooden Forest

Guided reading · Level EAges 3–520 pages339 words~3 min read-aloudCountries & flags books

Venice: The City Built on a Wooden Forest is a narrated read-aloud picture book at guided-reading Level E for ages 3–5, 20 pages long and about 3 minutes to read aloud. Every word highlights as it's read, so a growing reader can follow along.

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Page 1Venice is a city built on water. Its streets are canals, and boats are its cars.

Page 2Long ago, people needed a safe place to live. Enemies were coming across the land.

Page 3They found a lagoon full of mud and reeds. It looked too soft to build a city on.

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