Turbo the turtle loves to surf the ocean current with his friends. Learn about his adventures as you practice reading words with "ur." This book uses the Dyslexie font to make reading easier for people with dyslexia. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Why do fish have a yolk sac? What is a fry? Read to discover the answers as you learn about the life cycle of fish. 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.
Read about the nurse shark, who hunts at night and rests during the day. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Read about the lemon shark, who looks a bit yellow and blends in with the sandy ocean bottom. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Read about the mako shark, who is so speedy some people call them torpedoes with teeth. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Read about the great white shark, who is the deadliest hunter of the sea and can catch big prey. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Read about the bull shark, who is stout (like a bull) and can live in both saltwater and freshwater. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Read about the blacktip reef shark, who lives in oceans near reefs and gets its name from the black tip on its top fin. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
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.
It is fun to watch colorful goldfish swim around a tank, but the care of these little animals can be challenging! Easy-to-understand text and vivid photographs will help children ensure that their pet goldfish have long, healthy lives. Children will learn about the different goldfish breeds, baby goldfish, setting up the fish tank, how to feed a goldfish, and cleaning the fish tank.
From croaking frogs and quacking ducks to floating lily pads and buzzing dragonflies, ponds are bursting with life. Dynamic photographs and descriptive text help budding young scientists discover the plants and animals that live in these freshwater ecosystems.
Tide pools form from water left on rocky shores when the tide withdraws. From seaweed and sea snails to shore crabs and seabirds, readers will discover some of the plants and animals that live in and around these ever-changing ecosystems.
Vibrant photographs and descriptive text guide readers on an underwater journey through coastal waters to explore coral reefs. Home to more than one million kinds of plants, fish, and other ocean life, readers will discover how living things meet their needs for shelter, food, and more in this dynamic ecosystem.
From what they eat to how to keep their tanks clean and healthy, this book gives you all the pet care advice you need to become a fish’s best pal. Learn the inside information on how to understand their behavior, so you can have your own piece of the ocean in your home.
Starting with the Sun, this book looks at an ocean food chain in Antarctica, from tiny plants called plankton to a large whale called an orca.
This fascinating book gives readers core information about marine biomes on coasts, in coral reefs, frozen oceans, and in the deepest depths of the ocean. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to life underwater, who lives in these environments, and how humans impact life there.
Did you know that a tiny sea jelly the size of your fingernail can kill a person? Oceans are filled with some of the most colorful creatures alive and some of the deadliest! Young children will be thrilled by the animals featured in this exciting ABC book, which identifies everything under the sea, from colorful nudibranchs, sea cucumbers, and clownfish to deadly electric eels, stingrays, great white sharks, and sea jellies.
Children will learn about river habitats and the animals that live in them and along their banks. Baby beavers, crocodiles, brown bears, otters, swans, geese, tigers, and hippos are some of the animals featured. Young readers will learn about a river food chain, learn which animals are herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores, and discover how baby reptiles, birds, and mammals find food in their river homes.
This book tells the story of Tylosaurus, which swam in the prehistoric seas between 87 and 82 million years ago. It was a fierce marine reptile that used its sharp teeth and huge jaws to feed on sharks and other marine reptiles, such as plesiosaurs, as well as fish. A Tylosaurus could grow as long as 50 feet (15 meters) and was a superb swimmer.
Kids will love the beautiful, full-color images and easy-to-read style of Dolphins and other Marine Mammals! This books takes kids on an underwater journey, where they will learn about the bodies, feeding habits, and natural habitats of dolphins, whales, seals, and many other marine mammals. Vivid photographs and concise text highlight which marine mammals can live on land as well as in water, how marine mammals breathe air, and which foods marine mammals eat and how they find it.
Children will love the appealing photos of baby animals that live in both cold and warm oceanspenguins, seals, dolphins, whales, sea turtles, corals, and many kinds of fish. Young readers will also find out how baby animals survive in this salty, underwater habitat.
