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Great Explorers
Join the explorers and heroes that have dared to go where no-one has before.
DK Reader Great Explorers is packed with fascinating facts about heroic explorers for kids just beginning to read fluently with support. From historical explorers such as Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, to modern explorers like Bear Grylls and Erik Weihenmayer, this book covers all bases for kids interested in exploration.
DK's innovative range of levelled readers combines a highly visual approach with non-fiction narratives that children will love reading. DK Reader Great Explorers is a Level 2 reader, Beginning to Read, offering a delightful narrative for young children to encourage an interest in and desire to read. Simple sentences are used with an emphasis on frequently used words with strong visual clues and labels introducing and reinforcing vocabulary.
Additional information spreads feature extra facts for kids that build on the topic further. There's also a fun quiz to develop reading comprehension.
DK Reader Great Explorers is packed with fascinating facts about heroic explorers for kids just beginning to read fluently with support. From historical explorers such as Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, to modern explorers like Bear Grylls and Erik Weihenmayer, this book covers all bases for kids interested in exploration.
DK's innovative range of levelled readers combines a highly visual approach with non-fiction narratives that children will love reading. DK Reader Great Explorers is a Level 2 reader, Beginning to Read, offering a delightful narrative for young children to encourage an interest in and desire to read. Simple sentences are used with an emphasis on frequently used words with strong visual clues and labels introducing and reinforcing vocabulary.
Additional information spreads feature extra facts for kids that build on the topic further. There's also a fun quiz to develop reading comprehension.
- GenresChildrens
Hardcover
Published January 4, 2018
About the author
James Buckley Jr.
301 books72 followersIn addition to his work as a professional editor, James Buckley, Jr., is also the author of many books on American sports that are geared toward young fans and budding athletes.
Buckley, who has founded a company called Shoreline Publishing Group to produce books for reluctant readers, maintains that sports are far more than simple hobbies or ways to burn off excess energy.
Buckley, who has founded a company called Shoreline Publishing Group to produce books for reluctant readers, maintains that sports are far more than simple hobbies or ways to burn off excess energy.
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July 28, 2023
Renton Highlands Easy Nonfiction E910.922 Buc
It does just what it says on the tin, at about a second grade level, with several sentences per page and big illustrations. It's also a good example of perspective -- although there are attempts to include other parts of the globe, especially in the prehistoric sections, it's mainly a history of European exploration. Europeans who go places are explorers, but we don't hear about people from other places going to Europe.
It does just what it says on the tin, at about a second grade level, with several sentences per page and big illustrations. It's also a good example of perspective -- although there are attempts to include other parts of the globe, especially in the prehistoric sections, it's mainly a history of European exploration. Europeans who go places are explorers, but we don't hear about people from other places going to Europe.
January 28, 2018
I quite liked this - it covers a variety of explorers, from the journeys of Polynesian people in the South Pacific to current missions to the International Space Station and Mars. It gives a special shout-out to female explorers, but also includes several photos and accounts of women throughout the text.
September 26, 2018
Good stuff. Doesn't get into the grim side of conquest, which I guess is good. We do have this though -- "Many people in the past thought women should not explore. But women were brave travelers, too." Yip yip!
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