High-Speed Hoppers

Guess What

by Kelly Calhoun

Young children are natural problem solvers and always looking for answers, especially when it involves animals. Guess High-Speed Hoppers provides young curious readers with striking visual clues and simply written hints. Using the photos and text, readers rely on visual literacy skills, reading, and reasoning as they solve the animal mystery. Clearly written facts give readers a deeper understanding of how the animal lives. Additional text features, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

24 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2015

Reviews

[Michelle Gray]

I love this series and read them in storytime whenever I can. The kids love trying to guess what the animal will be at the end of the book.

[Michelle]

This is one title in a series of 8, Adivina (Guess). In addition to the non-fiction text features this book offers, the photographs are great! They are magnified and show color and texture vibrantly.

The text and photographs compliment one another well. This is helpful to emergent readers trying to decode unfamiliar words.

It's not a very challenging guessing game, however. If a reader is already familiar with the animal in question, the pictures are a dead give-away. On the other hand, these make great primary source material for young researchers. The additional facts, glossary, and incredible photographs give little scientists plenty to draw from.

Text Features: table of contents, page numbers, additional facts, glossary, index

Intended audience: PK-2
Curriculum Connection: animals, biology, research, non-fiction text features, inferencing, color and texture vocabulary

[Barbara]

Although this animal has exceptional eyesight, that isn't what makes it stand out. Readers will be hopping on their toes and bounding all around just like this animal after following the clues provided in the photos and texts to figure out what this popular animal could be. This is another easy-to-read but oh, so fun title to include in your elementary science classroom library.