10 Things You Can Do to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

by Elizabeth Weitzman

"Introduces the reader to recycling"--

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens

32 pages, Library Binding

Published September 1, 2016

Reviews

[LaRae Schmidt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is entitled, 10 Things you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle. Let’s just quickly review what those three words mean. ( define them together by writing definitions on the board.) Now I know that many of you already do the three r’s, so before we get started I want to hear of the good choices we are already making. Tell me what you do at home or here in our class to reduce, reuse and recycle. Fantastic! Wow! As we are reading, I want you to think about what is the author’s purpose in writing this book? Is she trying to inform, entertain, explain or persuade? Great! Let’s go!
Opening moves: Activate prior knowledge
Invite personal connections
Set the author’s purpose. ( Pinnell, p.226)
Rationale: The other two books talked about our choices related to the animal kingdom. Now I wanted to move into some applications. What are things that we can do right now to make the world a more beautiful place?

Pinnell, G. S., & Fountas, I. C. (2006). Engaging readers in thinking and talking about texts through interactive read aloud. Teaching for comprehending and fluency: Thinking, talking, and writing about reading, k-8. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Publishing.

[Kristi Betts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Young children are introduced to the three R’s of being environmentally conscious - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle in this Rookie Star book from the series, Make a Difference. Each two page spread shows how children can help protect our Earth. From taking shorter showers to using reusable snack bags for their lunch, children can see how they can be involved in reducing the amount of trash being sent to our landfills. Special features of this book include the following: a table of contents, an infographic, a glossary, an index, and access to a website using keywords for access.

[Cynthia Daniels · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one delightful brightly colored book about reducing, reusing and recycling trash for the littlest readers. This Rookie Star book offers ten things children can do to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle items that clutter the area landfills. Author Weitzman has compiled a books that great ideas for recycling that children can do and even initiate by themselves. The end of the book contains a shout out to Erek Hansen who began a jeans recyling project in Ohio which earned him a Presidential Environmental Youth Award. He also set a Guinness World Record for the "Largest Collection of Clothing to Recycle." This little book reminds children they can do simple things like turning off a light, or the faucets. It also causes us to consider that the food's transport to our local stores is problematic because the truck delivering that food causes more problems as it emits undesirable gases during the transport making the air unclean. This book includes an index and glossary and a website for discussion of the terms used in the title so the children are better informed. This is a small book that could be quite valuable for children in the lower grades.