Fiction - Animals - Insects, Poetry - Rhymes, Nursery Rhymes & Fingerplays
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Overview
This beginning-to-read series, "Rookie Readers", will score easily with early readers. These very simple books focus on different aspects of language usage. Colorful, action pictures and familiar, everyday activities will interest and motivate young readers. A word list is included in each book. The "Rookie Readers" were prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich, Ph.D.Children set out looking for insects and they find all kinds.
Editorials
Children's Literature -
The "Rookie Reader" series has been around for years and this is a new subseries entitled "Rookie Read to Learn: Animals." Bugs are generally small and often small young children are intrigued by something smaller than themselves. I used to be and still am fascinated by watching ants—leafcutters, army ants, and others. (How can these little creatures organize and handle weights many times that of their own bodies?) The kids in this short story are out to collect a variety of bugs. They have a jar and a net and off they go. They spy and capture ladybugs, aphids, and ants. They observe spiders, dragonflies, click beetles, earwigs, crickets, and stag beetles. The artist has labeled each so there is plenty of opportunity to learn the names of these bugs. After the story is finished there is a brief blurb about the author and illustrator followed by pages of activities. They include a sing-along to a familiar tune; a maze game, a description and counting exercise related to the body parts of bugs, and a bug hunt where the kids draw what they see. The final page contains a list of the 102 words that make up the story. Reviewer: Marilyn CourtotBook Details
Published
March 1, 2011
Publisher
Scholastic Library Publishing
Pages
40
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780531266960