Environmental Science & Ecosystems, Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Rocks, Minerals & Metals, Earth Science, Animal Habitats, Fiction - General & Miscellaneous
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Synopsis
Come spend A Day on the Mountain, the follow up to Kevin Kurtz's award-winning first book, A Day in the Salt Marsh. Rhyming verse and vibrant illustrations take readers up a mountain, from the forested bottom to the snow-covered top. While climbing, they witness the changing habitats and meet the plants and animals that live there. Learn about Black bears, Great Gray Owls, Garter snakes, Clark's nutcrackers, Bighorn sheep, Hummingbirds, Yellow-bellied marmots, Mountain goats, Salamanders, and Snow fleas. This nonfiction picture book with a cuddle factor and rhyming text includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 33-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. A Day on the Mountain is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Tap animals and other things that make noise to hear their sounds.Editorials
Children's Literature -
With this book, the reader travels up a mountain and sees how the environment changes the higher you go. The book begins at the base of the mountain where trees are abundant and little bears romp, and goes all the way past the tree line to where there is only snow and insects. It is written in rhyme and accompanied with attractive illustrations, giving an overall charming presentation. The book combines the feel of a vibrant picture book with scientific information. The back of the book includes information about mountain ecosystems and contains sections such as Mountain to Arctic Pole Map Comparison, Above or Below the Tree Line Game, and Match the Animals. Additional teaching activities and interactive quizzes are available on thebpublisher's website. The book is perfect for children to learn about mountain ecosystems. It can be used in science units and in celebration of Earth Day. Because of the rhyming text and charming illustrations, the book can also be used in reading classes. Reviewer: Carollyne HutterBook Details
Published
August 1, 2010
Publisher
Sylvan Dell Publishing
Pages
32
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781607180739