Animals Need Shelter

Book Features:
• Ages 4-7, PreK-Grade 2, Guided Reading Level B, Lexile 100L
• 16 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches
• Vibrant, full-color photographs
• Includes a photo glossary, high-frequency vocabulary list, and review activity
• Reading/teaching tips included

Ready For Science: In Animals Need Shelter, preschoolers—second graders explore where some of their favorite animals live! They'll read about unique homes and natural habitats, including beehives, pig barns, bird nests, hermit crab shells, and more.

Bring Science Learning To Life: The 16-page beginning science book teaches kids to think like scientists as they explore engaging full-color photos of animal habitats while building essential critical thinking skills with a fun post-reading activity.

Build Basic Reading Skills: This engaging nonfiction book will help your child learn and improve reading fluency and comprehension skills with simple sentences in large print, a picture glossary, a high-frequency word list, and an extension activity.

Inspire Scientific Curiosity: Part of the Ready for Science series, this leveled reader introduces early readers to life science concepts. Each interesting book in this series helps kids explore a basic science concept and foster a love for science.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

All animals need shelter to survive – just like you! What gives you shelter? Let's explore the animal kingdom and discover what other animals use for shelter.

PreS-Gr 2–These titles begin with a photo glossary and list of high-frequency words. The texts provide a predictable, easy-to-follow pattern. Attractive photos fill the pages. Labels identify glossary terms. The activity page at the end of each book is useful for the classroom. There are discussion questions, teacher read-alouds, and ideas for writing or art projects, as well as encouragement to reread the book. Students can create a poster about recycling or a chart about pushes and pulls to demonstrate their understanding. Make It Move depicts children from different ethnic and racial backgrounds pushing swings, tugging on ropes, or rolling wagons. VERDICT An attractive introduction to early science concepts for the primary grades. - SLJ Fall 2020

All animals need shelter to survive. What gives you shelter?