Library Media Connection - Barbara S. Zinkovich
With large, colorful photographs on every page and a big, easy-to-read font, this series of books about plant and animal life cycles will appeal to both students and teachers. The format and organization in each volume is identical. Teachers will appreciate the nonfiction text features: table of contents, picture glossary, and index. A graphic organizer of each life cycle, depicted on one page, concisely sums up the facts in four stages. Many photographs are labeled to help young readers understand unfamiliar words. Notes to teachers and parents at the end provide suggested pre- and post-reading activities or related book titles. For example, in A Butterfly’s Life, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungary Caterpillar is listed as a fiction text connection. Libraries needing to update their collection in this curricular area will find the series a solid choice. – Barbara S. Zinkovich, formerly of Hollis Academy, Greenville, South Carolina <i> Library Media Connection</i> November/December 2010 Issue
November 14, 2011Educational Dealer
The "Watch It Grow" series provides a first introduction to plant and animal life cycles, exploring how living things grow and reproduce. Emergent readers (pre-K to grade 1) will learn how new life begins and develops. Eleven 24-page titles are available covering beans, bees, butterflies, chickens, dogs, frogs, penguins, sunflowers, turtles, apples and oak trees. In January 2011 all titles will be available in Spanish. <i> Educational Dealer</i> November 2011 Issue
November 14, 2011
