The My Dinosaur Adventure series introduces early readers to the coolest creatures in history. In this book, meet a Stegosaurus and learn about how they use their spikes. Through simple sentences, early readers will develop word recognition and improve their reading skills. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, and author biography.
The My Dinosaur Adventure series introduces early readers to the coolest creatures in history. In this book, meet a Spinosaurus and learn about how they use their sail. Through simple sentences, early readers will develop word recognition and improve their reading skills. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, and author biography.
The My Dinosaur Adventure series introduces early readers to the coolest creatures in history. In this book, meet a Pterodactyl and learn all about this flying reptile. Through simple sentences, early readers will develop word recognition and improve their reading skills. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, and author biography.
The My Dinosaur Adventure series introduces early readers to the coolest creatures in history. In this book, meet a Brachiosaurus and learn about how they use their long neck. Through simple sentences, early readers will develop word recognition and improve their reading skills. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, and author biography.
Look! How many animals do you see? The Counting Animal series uses exciting and familiar animals to support early readers quest to count. The simple text makes it easy for children to engage in reading, and uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition that builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colorful photographs correlate directly to the text to help guide readers through the book.
Kids love animals and will enjoy exploring the zoo as they flip through the pages of this easy to read book.
Mammals come in all shapes and sizes. Close-up photos and intriguing clues prompt readers to guess what kind of mammal will be revealed on the following page. Students can find out more about each mammal—and what exactly a mammal is—at the end of the book.
Spiders come in all shapes, colors, and, sizes. Most are harmless and are beneficial to our daily lives by taking care of pests for us.
Snakes are frightening to many people. Others love them and keep them as pets. Some are deadly to humans, others just look scary. Learn about constrictor snakes that kill by squeezing though amazing images and simple text.
Snakes are frieghtening to many people. Others love them and keep them as pets. But some are deadly when they bite. Great high interest subject for beginning readers
A variety of habitats exist on our planet. Let's further explore what ecosystems are home to the animals of the earth.
A much under valued insect of our world. This colorful book focusing on the life and importance of honey bees. What their homes are like, what they collect for food and how they help plants. Kids will also find out how different bees have different jobs within their colony.
Puppies are cute! Read how their mother looks after them when they are born, what happens to their baby teeth, and what kinds of things puppies like to do.
Kittens are cute! They are also curious. Learn how to keep them safe and some of the important things they need as a house pet.
Hamsters are tiny, soft, and cute! Learn about some of the important things they need as a pet and how to keep them safe.
The American Beaver is often overlooked as an environmental wonder. It can create entire ecosystems. It can also drive land owners crazy by cutting down a large number of trees changing the landscape.
Sometimes the best exploration is in our own backyard. Young kids love to explore their local surroundings and the backyard is where it usually begins. This series of books helps teachers teach living sciences with things kids can learn by seeing in their own backyard.
This entertaining book shows how animals communicate to share information, attract mates, or scare away enemies. They sing, growl, howl, spray smelly scents, and make their body parts bigger. Students will have fun learning about these communication skills and be asked to compare their communication methods with those of animals.
Animals adapt, or change, to stay alive. Adaptation can happen in an animal’s body or in the way it behaves. Some adaptations have taken place over many years, and others are caused by changing habitats due to the actions of people. This informative book shows animal adaptations due to changing climates, habitat changes, and opportunistic behaviors that help animals survive, such as the creation of new species. The coywolf, for example, is a new species. It is part coyote and part wolf, and has a much greater chance of survival than either of the animals that created it.
This fascinating book explains that some animals must learn the basics of staying alive from their mothers, while others know how to survive without being taught. Students will discover how some bird and mammal mothers teach their babies how to find food and keep safe from predators. Readers will also learn about other animal skills such as finding their way over great distances. People need help from navigation instruments, radar, or maps. Animals use cues such as the sun, stars, or Earth’s magnetic field when they are swimming or flying. This book asks students to look at the skills of animals and compare them to their knowledge and ways of learning.
People have learned a lot from animals and copied many of their ways of surviving. This interesting book details many, often surprising, examples: bird flight and airplanes; defensive equipment such as helmets and turtle shells; strong spiderlike threads for surgeries; heating and cooling systems such as those created by termites; camouflage patterns on uniforms or vehicles in battle; and animal prints copied in fashions and decorations.
Animals are endangered in many kinds of habitats and for different reasons. This intriguing book looks at why some animals have become endangered due to changes in their habitat. Examples include animals in the Arctic that rely on ice for hunting face the challenge of melting ice due to climate change, the populations of animals born only on particular islands and nowhere else are shrinking, and many kinds of ocean animals are being poisoned by water pollution. Ideas are included to encourage readers to help protect these endangered animals and their habitats.
This fun title asks readers to think about how different body coverings protect animals by keeping them warm and safe. From fur and feathers to scales and shells, readers get a close-up look at different animal coats to see how they suit the habitats and lives of the animals that are covered in them.
Enjoy reading about the changes in a rabbit as it grows from a newborn bunny to a full-grown adult.
Everything in nature has an opposite, or at least, that is the way people describe things that are the most unlike. This engaging book shows these extreme differences in sizes, colors and light, texture, smell and taste, the states of water, landforms, positions and directions on Earth, seasons, and even in people. An activity spread asks children to find opposite characteristics in a group of animals.
