Main Street Animal Shelter

The dogs, cats, and rabbits at the shelter who are waiting to be adopted need water, food, exercise, and grooming. Spend a day at a busy animal shelter and learn how employees and volunteers use graphs and charts to make sure the animals have everything they need! With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, grade-appropriate text, and informational text features to help navigate the text, students will learn practical, real-world applications of math skills as they learn graphs and build their STEM skills. | Use information about the Main Street animal shelter to practice graphing! This title introduces young readers to bar graphs and pictographs. Simple images, tallies, and mathematical diagrams all help children understand and create their own graphs! | Suzanne I. Barchers, Ed.D., has been in education for more than 40 years as a classroom teacher and educational author and publisher. An award-winning author, she has written many educational resources and previously served as managing editor, editor-in-chief, and vice president at several leading educational companies. Barchers is past president of the board of directors for the Associated of Educational Publishers.