Out on the Ice, Level 9 infuses a story about a family living in the Arctic out on the ice engaging in ice fishing. This 28-page leveled reader is part of the Nunavummi Reading Series from Inhabit Education publishing. Inhabit Education created this series of early numeracy skills of composing, decomposing numbers,quantity awareness, and working with the part/whole relationship of numbers.  This title is a numeracy storybook that supports the development of essential skills such as counting, composing and decomposing numbers, quantity awareness, and working flexibility with the number 10. A page includes questions to consider while reading this reader. For Level 9 readers 16-32 pages are included generally with 2 to 4 sentences per page. The title has longer, more complex sentences with varied punctuation. Dialogue is included in fiction titles. The reader includes images with more details coming from the text. Fountas & Pinnell Level: K