Ocean Animals showcases animals found in an ocean environment, including animals like sea turtles and starfish. Uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, combining sight words and repetition. Simple text makes reading these books easy and fun. Bold, colorful photographs that align directly with the text help readers with comprehension.
In this Little Blossom Stories book, Brad and Brin search the beach for a sand crab. Uses decodable text, a repetition of sight words, and vowel sounds to increase readability. Focuses on the phonics skill of decoding consonant blends. Original illustrations help guide readers through the story.
In Sharks, emergent readers learn about the different parts of a shark and see it in the wild. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Sharks includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review questions.
Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Dolphins, emergent readers learn about dolphins as they swim in the ocean. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Dolphins includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review questions.
Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Iguanas, emergent readers learn about the different parts of an iguana and see it in the wild. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers.
I Read! You Read! books are designed for shared reading between a beginning reader and an adult. What is a frog's larva called? When can salamanders leave the water? Read to discover the answers as you learn about the life cycle of amphibians. Each book in the Life Cycles of Living Things series shows you how living things are born and how they grow up. Comprehension Questions with Answers. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Early readers will be introduced to seahorses through simple text and vibrant images to aid comprehension. Learn all about the characteristics of seahorses and their lives under the sea. List of sight words. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
I Read! You Read! books are designed for shared reading between a beginning reader and an adult. Early readers will be introduced to dolphins through simple text and vibrant images to aid comprehension. Learn all about the characteristics of dolphins and their lives under the sea. List of sight words. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
The My Favorite Animal series lets the earliest readers explore the animal kingdom. Alligator examines the characteristics and habitat of the snappy reptile in a simple way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index.
Octavia Octopus and her sea-animal friends love playing camouflage games to practice how they would hide from a "big, hungry creature." Octavia, however, just cannot seem to get her colors right when she tries to shoot her purple ink cloud. What happens when the big, hungry shark shows up looking for his dinner? This creative book introduces basic colors along with the camouflage techniques of various sea animals - a great introduction to marine biology! The "For Creative Minds" educational section includes fun facts about octopuses and animal camouflage and protection. The craft uses primary colors (paint or tissue paper) to help children learn about blending colors.
It is spring and Danny finds frog eggs in a nearby pond. Danny watches the eggs change into tadpoles and then into frogs.
This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about the fascinating oceans of the world and the creatures that live in them. Dive into wonder on every page!
Shells come in so many beautiful patterns, shapes, and textures, but they can have surprising uses!
Ocean animals often swim in groups. Groups of animals have names created over our history.
A baby seahorse rocks himself to sleep in the ocean waves.
A hermit crab finds an empty shell and makes it his new home.
The twins and Arizona are watching hermit crabs move around in a tidal pool. They watch a crab move out of a small shell into a larger one.
Praised by Jacques Cousteau, this book, illustrated and written by a16 year-old, is a classic introduction to the marine habitat. This 1994 alphabet and alliteration book continues to be a favorite of kids, parents, and teachers everywhere. It is truly an exceptional swim through an alphabet of sea creatures. Each page highlights a selected species with a full-color illustration and a paragraph of fascinating facts, surrounded by a frame full of extra creatures and vocabulary. It reaches a large age range because the large text is for young readers, while smaller text is for you or more advanced children. Kristin Joy Pratt (A Walk in the Rainforest) once again successfully inspires a generation of children about one of the most precious and fragile realms on Earth.
From tide pools to the ocean, the sea is filled with amazing life forms! Early readers will be engaged from beginning to end with informational text, vivid photos, and a picture glossary of marine animals.
Introduces the opposites up and down by comparing the behavior of such animals as eagles up in the air and fish down in the sea.
Introduces synonyms for big by comparing large, huge, massive, and enormous sea animals.
Told in the first person, the narrator describes the ocean as she experiences it through her five senses.
People can see many things at the seashore. What will we discover there today?
Here is a gentle way to share a birth with a child. John Denver's hauntingly beautiful song "Ancient Rhymes" is about the birth of a baby dolphin, and Christopher Canyon's luminous illustrations - including a baby dolphin curled up with an umbilical cord and also a live birth - convey a sense of mystery, awe, and anticipation of things to come. The baby soon tastes the air and learns of dolphin ways, much the same way as a human baby does. There's something magical and indescribable about it - a timeless and endearing lullaby.
