Living Rain Forest, The 6-pack Author: Nic Bishop ISBN: 9780478124071 Copyright Date: 2000 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 4 Reading Level: Q Strategy/Skill: Comparing and contrasting, Features of nonfiction, Information skills, Vocabulary and word study Genre: Report Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Environment, Life Science Classification: Nonfiction

Book Summary

Naturalist and photographer Nic Bishop explores the multilayered rain forest.  He explains why this fragile environment is home to such a variety of life.

Features of the Book

• Factual text with precise language
• The contents page, glossary, and index
• A variety of amazing photographs
• Fact boxes
• Captions that provide additional information
• The graph, map, and diagrams
• Writing that contains fact and opinion

Purpose

The Living Rain Forest can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:

• retrieving information from a nonfiction text
• exploring the form and function of captions
• studying the use of adjectives
• studying the origin and use of compound words
• comparing a book with other books by the same author
• using a text as a basis for research

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