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Meet the tallest land animal in the world--the giraffe! Everything about this title is big, from the full-bleed photographs to the content. Readers will learn all that is super-sized about this towering mammal. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
- GenresNonfiction
24 pages, Library Binding
Published August 15, 2016
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June 24, 2017Giraffes by Grace Hansen is a basic non-fiction that explains details and interesting facts about giraffes. It has many text features such as a table of contents, heading, bold words, glossary, index and real pictures. It follows a basic descriptive text structure. I would pair this book with The Starry Giraffe by Andy Bergmann, which is a story about a hungry giraffe that helps to feed his friends. I would use webbing for both texts to focus on the comprehension skill of finding the main idea and details. We would first read Giraffes to learn more about them. We will create a web containing details about the giraffe. Before introducing The Starry Giraffe, we would review what we already know about giraffes and what they eat. We could then create a web based on our fictional giraffe story as well.
References:
Bergmann, A. (2017). The Starry Giraffe. New York. Aladdin.
Camp, D. (2010). It takes two: Teaching with twin texts of fact and fiction. The Reading
Teacher, 53(5), 400-408.
References:
Bergmann, A. (2017). The Starry Giraffe. New York. Aladdin.
Camp, D. (2010). It takes two: Teaching with twin texts of fact and fiction. The Reading
Teacher, 53(5), 400-408.
January 15, 2022
This book introduces the animal giraffe
This book, illustrated with full color photographs, gives a basic introduction to giraffes. It describes where their physical characteristics and what they eat.
Additional facts, a glossary, and an index are included at the back of the book.
This book, illustrated with full color photographs, gives a basic introduction to giraffes. It describes where their physical characteristics and what they eat.
Additional facts, a glossary, and an index are included at the back of the book.
February 19, 2018
Great photographs with good information for beginning readers.
November 9, 2017
Picture book, for Spanish practice. It had nice simple language and was clear and entertaining. No English translation.
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