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Weather
Favorite topics in active and interactive print and digital books, specially designed for newly confident readers.
Every year, stories of extreme weather events dominate the news. This book not only informs children about different types of weather but helps them understand how weather systems are connected. Case studies that run throughout the book give eyewitness accounts of weather disasters and a final section includes weather heroes from meteorologists to storm chasers. The digital book tells you how to be a weather forecaster. Structured layouts, age-appropriate vocabulary, and infographics make this book a great informational text at school and at home.
Every year, stories of extreme weather events dominate the news. This book not only informs children about different types of weather but helps them understand how weather systems are connected. Case studies that run throughout the book give eyewitness accounts of weather disasters and a final section includes weather heroes from meteorologists to storm chasers. The digital book tells you how to be a weather forecaster. Structured layouts, age-appropriate vocabulary, and infographics make this book a great informational text at school and at home.
- GenresNonfictionScience
80 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2013
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April 1, 2020
So this book got me into really liking science.I am in sixth grade right now and I’ve had this book since I was very little every time I wanna learn about the weather I grab this book whether it was raining outside that was so grab the book and read it I recommend this to everybody love science and whoever likes weather I can’t believe this was made in 2007 my birth year which is awesome so keep up the good work and make some cool books and it is a good book
October 7, 2013
This title is one of the "Discover More" series and deals with weather. Three sections cover weather, extreme weather and weather workers. The first section describes Earth’s weather patterns and climates. Section two addresses extreme weather occurrences: hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, floods, and snowstorms. Section three covers those who do weather related work: meteorologists, storm chasers, and climatologists. The data is enriched with intense photographs and eyewitness accounts of weather events. The varied fonts and busy format will appeal to interested readers and browsers. Numerous timelines, charts, graphs, maps and diagrams are combined with "find out more" references to other pages in the book. An added bonus is a free downloadable digital book, “Weather Watcher.” Back matter includes a glossary and index. Of course, the paper binding is a negative, but that is outweighed by the appeal and amount of data in this “must purchase” for any library.
June 19, 2014
Twin Text: The Storm Makers by Jennifer Smith, copyright 2012.
Rationale: I chose The Storm Makers as the fiction book in my twin text because I liked how the characters could “make weather”. I liked pairing this fantasy book with a similar non-fiction topic to compare and contrast the “real from the not real”. My nonfiction selection has many extreme types of weather in it, but it gives the scientific reasoning for these storms.
Text Structure: Description
Strategy Application: I would like to use the Venn Diagram for this twin text set. One story is obviously fiction and the other non-fiction. I would like to see if the students can distinguish between to two while also looking for similarities in the two stories.
Book Review Citation: (2014, April 7). Horn Book. http://www.booksinprint.com.leo.lib.u...#
Rationale: I chose The Storm Makers as the fiction book in my twin text because I liked how the characters could “make weather”. I liked pairing this fantasy book with a similar non-fiction topic to compare and contrast the “real from the not real”. My nonfiction selection has many extreme types of weather in it, but it gives the scientific reasoning for these storms.
Text Structure: Description
Strategy Application: I would like to use the Venn Diagram for this twin text set. One story is obviously fiction and the other non-fiction. I would like to see if the students can distinguish between to two while also looking for similarities in the two stories.
Book Review Citation: (2014, April 7). Horn Book. http://www.booksinprint.com.leo.lib.u...#
November 22, 2013
Our sixth grade science teacher does a huge unit on weather and I had high hopes for this one. The photographs are the stars here and this volume will be more useful to browsers interested in trivia, than report writers. The information seems a bit random, lacking in depth and disconnected. Index and glossary included but no source notes or suggested reading.
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