Farm Animals

Scholastic Reader

by Wade Cooper

[Scholastic Reader Level 2]

Fabulous photographs, eye-catching design, and simple rhyming text constitute this fascinating Level 2 reader about farm animals! Now in paperback with foil on the cover!

Spend a fact-filled day on a farm in this nonfiction easy reader!

Children learn about horses, pigs, cows, geese, sheep, and more. The text is written in easy-to-read rhymes and is illustrated with irresistible photographs. Three pages of fun learning activities are designed to both challenge and entertain new readers.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals

32 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2009

Reviews

[Nicola · Rating 3 out of 5]

Miss 3 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors.

This was one that I chose for us to read. Lots of great pictures to appeal.

[IfCatsCouldRead · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book describes many animals you would find on a farm. What are their jobs, what benefits do people get from these animals? (Milk, meat, clothing...)

I would have liked to see a few more animals: donkey, llama/alpaca

[So_Unhip_Shan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute reader

[Steven R. McEvoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Leveled readers from Scholastic are a great way to introduce your child to reading. The levels are:
Pre1: ABC's & First Words
Level 1: Sight words, words to sound out and simple sentences.
Level 2: New vocabulary and longer sentences.
Level 3: Reading for inspiration and information.
Each book has a level rating, a grade level, a reading level, a lexile level and a word count on the back.

This book Farm Animals has great photos of animals, and poems to help children remember. It has quiz pages to help test what has been learned. It is a great resource for parents looking to assist their children in developing their reading skills.

[Brittany Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Farm Animals gives many examples of animals that live on a farm and discusses the different jobs that the animals have on the farm. The book begins by giving a list of items that comes from a farm and then asks which animals make those products. The book then proceeds to answer that question throughout the text. The author includes pigs, cows, sheepdogs, ducks, and many more. Each page includes a couple of sentences about the animal, a photo of the animal, and an interesting fact about the animal.

There were some aspects of this book that I liked, and some that I didn't like. I loved all of the great photographs of the animals. I thought that these photographs helped bring the story to life. However, I did not like that each page rhymed. I feel like it limited the amount of knowledge given about each animal and some of the rhymes didn't even make much sense.

I think that this book could be used in a classroom during a farm or animal unit. It would give another non-fiction resource that is on a level which students could understand. However, this would not be one to use for the main source of teaching.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book did perceive farm animals in true form. Living on a farm many children's books make farm animals cute and cuddly, or something like that. So opposite what real life is like. This book in nice one person format tells in rhyme about each farm animal. What they do what they are good for etc. Just a nice book.

[Aysheh M · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book captured the essence of the farm animals as true to self. It showed it in a different way because it introduced the rhyming scheme to it.