Is It Living or Nonliving?

by Rebecca Rissman

A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in • Perpetual license • 24 hour, 7 days a week access • No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time • Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available • Easy to use • Ability to turn audio on and off • Words highlighted to match audio ‘Is It Living or Nonliving?’ introduces young learners to the characteristics of living and nonliving things in different habitats around the world. Readers learn to determine whether something is living or nonliving by asking a series of simple questions. This Acorn Read-Aloud title is an excellent tool for introducing young learners to the differences between living and nonliving things.

Genres: Science

24 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2009

About the author

Rebecca Rissman is an award-winning children’s author and editor. Her writing has been praised by School Library Journal, Booklist, Creative Child Magazine, and Learning Magazine. She has written more than 200 books about history, culture, science, and art. She lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys yoga, reading, and cooking.

Reviews

[Eileen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is about all of the different kinds of habitats that exist in the world and the living and non-living things that can be found within them. It briefly describes a desert, polar, rain forest, grassland and ocean habitat. Within the book one can see vivid images of habitats and living and non-living things. I feel that this book would be a brilliant to use in a geography class. However, this book only goes through the basics, if one were to use this for a key stage two class then they might like to find out more information on each habitat and use the book in correlation.
What I really liked about this book is at the back it gave an index of the words that may be new to the children, for instance 'nutrients'. It also gave ideas for activities that can be done after reading the book. It takes both the child and parent/teachers minds into consideration.