This descriptive title provides strong sequential action in the growth of a sunflower plant from seed to flower. The kid-friendly context provides many opportunities to explore how things grow.
Emerging readers immerse themselves in the world of dolphins and their behaviors as they interact with humans and each other. The text structure is descriptive, and the controlled vocabulary provides
This first-person point of view describes the unique features of a garden in spring, combining life science information with facts about specific flowers.
This life science title gives children an introduction to an animal’s habitat. Kids witness, through visual evidence, industrious beavers building their dams and homes. Procedural text describes how b
This image-rich nonfiction text provides emerging readers with examples of many types of storms. Using newly acquired vocabulary, kids can interpret and analyze weather.
Descriptive text shows emerging readers interacting with circles on their tablets. Mastery of a shape is shown in a high-tech context, providing opportunities for the teacher to introduce technology.
This narrative nonfiction title provides a point of view and descriptions about a season and one of the fun activities kids love to do in the snow. Strong photo-text correlation reinforces the action.
This descriptive text provides emerging readers with opportunities to learn about a season and an associated vegetable. Art and life science come together when talking about making a face on a Hallowe
In this descriptive title, children learn about a vegetable, a season, and how things grow. Pictures of a corn crop, from seedlings to harvest, show cause and effect. Kids can experience a cornfield a
This life science title introduces the real world of giraffes to amaze and engage children with nonfiction description. Opportunities abound to compare and contrast within the context of the natural w
This informational text provides many opportunities to build domain-specific vocabulary and to introduce some basic concepts of life science and earth science.
The compare-and-contrast text structure used in this title provides emerging readers with fundamental information about the physical world and how it works.
This narrative nonfiction text gives emerging readers basic life science information about a boy’s pet hamster. The illustrations and tightly correlated text help to build vocabulary.
Rabbits make great pets, and this strong narrative nonfiction text gives many examples of why this is the case. This title can stimulate discussion about animal behavior and the responsibilities of ow
This narrative nonfiction title provides kids with an opportunity to see a cat’s behavior throughout an entire day. A friend demonstrates her sense of responsibility while gaining basic life science i
This first-person account of caring for a garden and growing a tomato plant provides strong cause-and-effect evidence using a sequential text structure.
