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What's Living at Your Place?
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478124019
Copyright Date: 1999
Grade Level:
3
Reading Level:
P
Strategy/Skill:
Features of nonfiction, Summarizing, Text structure, Using graphic sources, Using texts as models for own writing
Genre:
Poetry, Report
Theme/Topic:
Animals, Birds, and Insects, Habitats, Science and Technology
Classification:
Nonfiction
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Book Summary
If your house is warm and dry you could have all kinds of creatures as “house guests.” In this book, entomologist Bruce Chapman tells us about some of these unwelcome creatures and why they like to come and live with us.
Features of the Book
- The regular structure of each chapter
- The introduction and poem
- Specialized vocabulary – pupa, abdomen, molt
- Life cycle diagrams
- Labeled diagrams of the creatures
- Photographs with captions
- Detailed, freeze-frame photographs
- Background images that support the theme
Purpose
What’s Living at Your Place? can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:
- recognizing and using different parts of a book
- to locate information
- understanding and using a glossary
- interpreting and using graphic information in a text, for example, life cycles
- summarizing and presenting information in appropriate formats
- using text as a model for students’ own writing
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