Stratus Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Stratus Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Level 3: Early Developing
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: Reading Academy Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,FarFaria,Highlights,Sesame Street,StoryToys,eKidz.eu
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 1st Grade

Launchpad Description: This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills — starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn.

Early Developing packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones:
- Participates in conversation
- Asks questions to clarify uncertainty
- Understands the organization of print
- Distinguishes long versus short vowel words
- Writes text with simple facts
- Begins to spell long vowel words with patterns
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Always Looking Up (app)
An inspiring look at the scientist who became "The Mother of Hubble."

Anybody's Game (app)
In 1950, girls didn't play baseball––until Kathryn Johnston changed Little League.

Bug Circus (App)
Watch these bugs clown around at the circus! A bugged out adventure for our Early Readers! FarFaria's "Bug Circus" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework

Cat - The Witch Sisters (App)
It's "Bring Your Pet to Class Day" for Big Witch Sister! Help Little Witch Sister spell CAT so she can go too!

Dario and the Whale (app)
A lonely boy spending his first summer at Cape Cod and a right whale calf who has migrated to the area with his mother become unlikely friends.

Goodnight Mo ~ 3D Interactive Pop-Up Book (App)
Goodnight Mo is a magically sleepy and comforting bedtime book. As night falls and the moon rises, a cute little monster gets ready for bed. Beautiful imagery, gently rhyming narration, and soothing music make Mo’s bedtime routine the perfect way to wind down before going to sleep. From the very first yawn, little ones will discover charming surprises in each of the 3D pop-up scenes: they will delight in gently sending various animals to the land of nod, popping bubbles in a bath, brushing Mo’s teeth, and rocking the little monster to sleep. Goodnight Mo is part of the StoryToys Junior line. Designed for young children aged 18 months to 3+ years old, it includes the following features: FEATURES • Full 3D experience - it’s just like a real book • 8 enchanting 3D pop-up scenes packed with simple animations and interactive elements • Read to Me or Read it Myself modes • Fully narrated in each language by professional actors • Wonderfully illustrated, with beautiful, co

Lily's Dress Up (App)
Lily loves her garden and playing dress up with her friends. Follow along on her adventures!

Max & Meredith: The Search for Percival (App)
Winner of a Parents' Choice Approved Award "A stellar storybook that engages the reader and exposes them to an array of essential reading skills in a most creative way!" - Teachers With Apps "Solid early elementary fare" - School Library Journal "An excellent app that promotes reading comprehension." - Geeks With Juniors "Belongs high on the list of recommendations to elementary teachers, special-ed teachers, parents, and caregivers." - Best Apps for Kids ****** Welcome to Max & Meredith: The Search for Percival, the interactive children’s book app where kids choose the course of the story. In the quiet yet curious town of Everdale, something is amiss: Max’s dog Percival is missing! Should Max and Meredith rush into action or formulate a plan? Should they form a search party or lure Percival back to town? You decide! Faced with decisions and dilemmas in the search for Percival, kids choose what to do, leading down one of eight unique storylines on a jour

Storybook Animations: Me Too Says Lulu (App)
Lulu imitates Mommy while Mommy performs household chores. After they finish, they take a nap together.

Storybook Animations: Morning on the Farm (App)
Anna and Sam spend the morning helping Grandma with farm chores.

The Fisherman and His Wife (app)
Developing; fiction. Fable enshrining the merits of being grateful for what you have. Simple present tense. Polysyllabic vocabulary. Complex and long vowel sounds with compound and complex sentence use. Incorporates direct speech along with colon to introduce speech, the use of questions, exclamation and parenthetic commas.

Worker Ant, The (App)
Ed learns the value of hard work.