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How Do We Move?
Describes how the human brain, nerves, muscles, joints, and bones of the skeletion work together to make movement possible.
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24 pages, Library Binding
First published July 30, 2005
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Sally Morgan
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Sally Morgan is a leading author of children's information books. She has written more than 250 titles, covering wildlife, natural history, science, geography, and environmental topics. She writes for all ages from first readers through to 16+ readership as well as books aimed at family readership.
Sally read Natural Sciences at Cambridge which was followed by several years of research into the restoration of derelict land. She then taught biology for a few years before turning to writing. With her love of the natural world and her concerns about the loss of habitats worldwide, it was not surprising that she chose to write about wildlife and environmental issues.
She is lucky enough to own a small organic farm in Somerset. When she is not writing she can be found on the farm looking after her rare breed poultry, sheep and pigs or weeding the kitchen garden! Conservation is important to her and the farm is managed to improve biodiversity. Keen to connect people with their food, Sally has set up a small education centre on the farm, where people can learn about smallholding, butchery and other rural skills.
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Sally Morgan is a leading author of children's information books. She has written more than 250 titles, covering wildlife, natural history, science, geography, and environmental topics. She writes for all ages from first readers through to 16+ readership as well as books aimed at family readership.
Sally read Natural Sciences at Cambridge which was followed by several years of research into the restoration of derelict land. She then taught biology for a few years before turning to writing. With her love of the natural world and her concerns about the loss of habitats worldwide, it was not surprising that she chose to write about wildlife and environmental issues.
She is lucky enough to own a small organic farm in Somerset. When she is not writing she can be found on the farm looking after her rare breed poultry, sheep and pigs or weeding the kitchen garden! Conservation is important to her and the farm is managed to improve biodiversity. Keen to connect people with their food, Sally has set up a small education centre on the farm, where people can learn about smallholding, butchery and other rural skills.
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October 17, 2022
‘How do we move’ is a great book to introduce children to the basic concepts behind how the body works to move around. It introduces children to the basic functions of the skeleton and muscles, moving on to discuss walking, running, climbing, jumping, and swimming as activities that use these body parts.
The language used throughout is highly accessible for young learners, introducing them to possibly new vocabulary and then explaining the meaning of these words. These were used alongside images of the words to aid understanding. The author has structured the text so it first introduces movement, then moves on to the body parts involved in movement, and then finishes with different forms of movement. This was a really successful way of staging the information so children can first identify what they are going to learn and then move on to the new information. The book uses both a contents page and a glossary which could be new concepts for children to understand. They can then be taught that these are common features of information texts.
Throughout the book, the author has included questions about the topic for the child to think about and answer. This checks the child’s understanding of what they have just read, allows them to demonstrate this new knowledge (for example ‘can you feel the bones in your feet?’), and how they can apply it to other areas of their existing knowledge (How many ways of moving can you name?).
The book finishes with a section named parents and teacher notes. It contains a series of tasks that an adult can complete with their children to model the concepts discussed within the book, check their understanding of what was said, and build on this understanding to apply to other movements or contexts. This is a really nice way to model how the book can be used and applied to a child’s everyday life.
The language used throughout is highly accessible for young learners, introducing them to possibly new vocabulary and then explaining the meaning of these words. These were used alongside images of the words to aid understanding. The author has structured the text so it first introduces movement, then moves on to the body parts involved in movement, and then finishes with different forms of movement. This was a really successful way of staging the information so children can first identify what they are going to learn and then move on to the new information. The book uses both a contents page and a glossary which could be new concepts for children to understand. They can then be taught that these are common features of information texts.
Throughout the book, the author has included questions about the topic for the child to think about and answer. This checks the child’s understanding of what they have just read, allows them to demonstrate this new knowledge (for example ‘can you feel the bones in your feet?’), and how they can apply it to other areas of their existing knowledge (How many ways of moving can you name?).
The book finishes with a section named parents and teacher notes. It contains a series of tasks that an adult can complete with their children to model the concepts discussed within the book, check their understanding of what was said, and build on this understanding to apply to other movements or contexts. This is a really nice way to model how the book can be used and applied to a child’s everyday life.
June 14, 2016
The library summer theme is a sports theme, so I wanted to share movement or sports at story time. How Do We Move? offers a great basic book about movement. The contents include moving around, your skeleton, muscles, walking and running, climbing, jumping and hopping, and finally swimming. I used 2 sections (which were two pages each) moving around and jumping and hopping. I think it did well to kick off my storytime theme of jumping. After reading the excerpts, we practiced hopping on one foot, the other foot, and jumping with both feet.
2016 storytime theme: jumping
Reviewed from a library copy.
2016 storytime theme: jumping
Reviewed from a library copy.
February 18, 2013
How Do We Move is a great book that describes how the body works and what it is capable of allowing us to do. It describes bones, muscles, how we run, walk, swim and jump. It doesn't go into great detail about everything, but it is a good book to be used for learners who are barely getting introduced to the subject. At the end of the book, it asks a couple of questions that is great for the readers so that they are able to retain the info they just received.
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