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.
Hundreds of different animals make their homes on the coast. Discover many amazing coastal creatures and get ready to impress your friends and family on your next trip to the beach! Animals on the Coast is part of Decodables by Jump!, a comprehensive library of decodable leveled readers that follow a sequenced approach to phonics instruction.
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.
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.
Do you know what lives under the sea? Read along with our spy as he discovers all kinds of underwater creatures that are blue! The perfect book for emerging readers, I Spy Blue in the Ocean uses simple sentences and colorful illustrations to help early readers practice their reading skills. Includes a page for caregivers with creative reading and writing prompts.
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.
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.
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.
Los tiburones y los delfines tienen cuerpos en forma de torpedos con aletas en sus espaldas. Ellos se deslizan a través del agua para atrapar a sus presas con sus dientes filosos. Pero a pesar de sus similitudes los tiburones y los delfines pertenecen a diferentes especies de animales: uno es un pez y obtiene el oxígeno del agua y el otro es un mamífero y obtiene el oxígeno del aire. El marino Kevin Kurtz guía a los lectores jóvenes para comparar y contrastar a esos depredadores del océano a través de impresionantes fotografías y con un texto simple, y real
Camas de agua: durmiendo en el océano es una relajante historia para la hora de ir a dormir que responde las preguntas de cómo los mamíferos marinos- animales que viven en el agua pero que respiran aire- se las arreglan para dormir en el océano. Los jóvenes lectores conocen diez mamíferos marinos, que incluyen nutrias marinas, delfines de pico largo, manatíes, y focas comunes y aprenden sobre sus hábitos únicos.
Told in the first person, the narrator describes the ocean as she experiences it through her five senses.
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.
