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Fascinating Food Chains
Carnivores
Examines animals which are carnivores, including reptiles, spiders, and mammals.
24 pages, Library Binding
First published July 1, 2005
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About the author
Heather C. Hudak
212 books51 followersHeather C. Hudak has worked as a professional writer for more than a decade. She began her career as a journalist with a small northern newspaper, before working as a movie critic for an entertainment magazine. When she arrived at work one day and the doors were locked, she started a new chapter in children's book publishing. For eight years, Heather developed and wrote dozens of books, and she edited hundreds more for the educational market. Now, she is turning a new page in her writing career. Her first full-length, young adult novel, Breathless, is now available for ebook readers. Wanderlust, a second title in the Breathless series, is currently in development. Heather will be publishing her first chick lit novel, A New Life, this spring. When Heather is not writing, she enjoys traveling to new and exotic places, as well as camping in the mountains. With her husband, Heather rescues animals that would not otherwise find a loving home. Hershey, the one-eyed, blind, epileptic, snaggle-toothed cat, and Turtle, a sternumless Siamese, are just a few members of their menagerie.
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June 13, 2015
Opening Moves:
1. If we look at the cover of this book, we see a ferocious tiger. What do we notice about the tiger? Why do we think his face is like that? (children respond) Would you be brave enough to be near a tiger that was growling and staring his beady eyes at you? Why not? What do tigers eat? (children respond) Yes! They eat all kinds of animals. Do you think they eat plants? No, tigers only eat meat! Animals that only eat meat are called carnivores. Let's listen and learn more about carnivores!
2. The first opening move was to prompt students to notice details about the tiger on the cover of the book. Next, I asked students if they would want to be near a tiger that was growling and staring his beady eyes right at them. This activates students' background knowledge of what they know about tigers and what kind of facial expressions they may have when hunting and also what type of food tigers eat. I then shared important information that students would need in order to understand the information in the story, which is that carnivores eat only meat.
3. Consumers are a part of the food chain. Carnivores are specific kinds of consumers that my fourth graders learn about. This book works well with the others in the text set because it is informational and has many great text features to support student learning, such as engaging photographs, diagrams, headings, and even a quick quiz with engaging questions for the students to check their understanding. This text would be good to read alongside another book in this text set, which is titled Herbivores. Herbivores shares information about animals that only consumer plants, which is the opposite of Carnivores. It would be good to read these two texts before the other two so that students have a stronger foundation of background knowledge for the fictional stories.
1. If we look at the cover of this book, we see a ferocious tiger. What do we notice about the tiger? Why do we think his face is like that? (children respond) Would you be brave enough to be near a tiger that was growling and staring his beady eyes at you? Why not? What do tigers eat? (children respond) Yes! They eat all kinds of animals. Do you think they eat plants? No, tigers only eat meat! Animals that only eat meat are called carnivores. Let's listen and learn more about carnivores!
2. The first opening move was to prompt students to notice details about the tiger on the cover of the book. Next, I asked students if they would want to be near a tiger that was growling and staring his beady eyes right at them. This activates students' background knowledge of what they know about tigers and what kind of facial expressions they may have when hunting and also what type of food tigers eat. I then shared important information that students would need in order to understand the information in the story, which is that carnivores eat only meat.
3. Consumers are a part of the food chain. Carnivores are specific kinds of consumers that my fourth graders learn about. This book works well with the others in the text set because it is informational and has many great text features to support student learning, such as engaging photographs, diagrams, headings, and even a quick quiz with engaging questions for the students to check their understanding. This text would be good to read alongside another book in this text set, which is titled Herbivores. Herbivores shares information about animals that only consumer plants, which is the opposite of Carnivores. It would be good to read these two texts before the other two so that students have a stronger foundation of background knowledge for the fictional stories.
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