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Animal Kingdom
Book by Taylor, Barbara, Pollock, Steve
- GenresNonfiction
51 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2000
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Barbara Taylor
538 books14 followersBarbara Taylor has written more than 120 children's books and encyclopedias. She was previously Science Editor at London's Natural History Museum. She has won the American Association of Physics Science Award and the National Literacy Association Wow Award.
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December 3, 2018
Book Title: Interactive Explorer
Author: Barbara Taylor and Steve Pollock
Reading Level: 6.2
Lextile: N.A.
Fontas & Pinnell: N.A.
Book Summary: Interactively explore the animal kingdom with hands on paper pop outs and unique looks at a variety of animals from our planet. You'll learn about a wide range of animals, from birds and butterfly's to deadly predators like snakes and sharks.
Word Choice: This book is full of higher level learning words that are fitting towards the animal kingdom subject. Vocab includes kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and genus. It is a great resource in promoting those higher level words to readers.
Presentation: This book features a wide variety of unique views of animals from the animal kingdom. It features layers views of animals from exterior skin to inside the animal looking at its bones and organs. It also has pop out fast facts on migration cycles and other unique facts about animals from the animal kingdom. It is a unique and engaging way of grabbing the readers.
Classroom Integration/Mini-Lessons/Content Connections:
This would be a great resource to have in engaging students in a unit on the animal kingdom. It features a wide variety of animals that can reach the interests of a variety of students. Each section has visually engaging ways of pulling the readers in as they learn about certain animals. It may be a good read for a project the looks at the bones and organs of certain animals. Students could create a picture of bones and organs of their favorite animals from the animal kingdom.
Author: Barbara Taylor and Steve Pollock
Reading Level: 6.2
Lextile: N.A.
Fontas & Pinnell: N.A.
Book Summary: Interactively explore the animal kingdom with hands on paper pop outs and unique looks at a variety of animals from our planet. You'll learn about a wide range of animals, from birds and butterfly's to deadly predators like snakes and sharks.
Word Choice: This book is full of higher level learning words that are fitting towards the animal kingdom subject. Vocab includes kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and genus. It is a great resource in promoting those higher level words to readers.
Presentation: This book features a wide variety of unique views of animals from the animal kingdom. It features layers views of animals from exterior skin to inside the animal looking at its bones and organs. It also has pop out fast facts on migration cycles and other unique facts about animals from the animal kingdom. It is a unique and engaging way of grabbing the readers.
Classroom Integration/Mini-Lessons/Content Connections:
This would be a great resource to have in engaging students in a unit on the animal kingdom. It features a wide variety of animals that can reach the interests of a variety of students. Each section has visually engaging ways of pulling the readers in as they learn about certain animals. It may be a good read for a project the looks at the bones and organs of certain animals. Students could create a picture of bones and organs of their favorite animals from the animal kingdom.
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April 26, 2023very cool, also part of the reason I was terrified of vampire bats as a child
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