What Will the Weather Be? (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science: Stage 2

Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2

by Lynda DeWitt

Explains the basic characteristics of weather--temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure--and how meteorologists gather data for their forecasts.

Genres: Science, Picture Books, Nonfiction, Childrens, School, Nature, 1st Grade

32 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Jen Goeden · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story called What Will the Weather be? is a great book about what the weather does. Helps you try to understand the weather predict and what you should wear in what weather.

The story What will the Weather be? is a great book to read to your student when
you are teaching them about weather in sciences. The book has great bright pictures that student understand what the weather is doing at times of the year. You can find captions within the pictures. The captions will help you understand what is going on in the picture. There are many different graphs, charts, and table to help organize what the weather does and the steps it takes. After reading this book you could have a weather person come to your classroom to talk to the students about weather and weather predict. Also students would love to go to the weather station to see how it works and how they make weather predictions.

[Joelle Karlitz]

Title: What Will the Weather Be?
Author: Lynda DeWitt
Illustrator: Carolyn Croll
Genre: Predictable Book
Theme (s): Weather
Opening Line/Sentence: Weather….Will it be warm or cold? Should we wear shorts or pants? Shoes or boots?
Brief Book Summary: This book is about the weather and how children should dress when it is hot or cold out. This story also shows children how to tell what the weather will be like outside.
Professional Recommendation/Review #1: A cheerful invitation to enjoy all sorts of weather, with a gentle, simply rhymed text and warm, paper cutout illustrations. Well-stated for reading aloud, and useful for introducing elementary concepts.
Professional Recommendation/Review #2: Cheerful, bright illustrations depict a multiracial group of children and enhance a very simple introduction to meteorology. Warm and cold fronts, air pressure, and a variety of measuring instruments are introduced, and the importance - and difficulty - of predicting the weather is presented.
Response to Two Professional Reviews: I agree with the two recommendations listed above. I believe that the illustrations were bright and cheerful! I also thought that it was a great idea to use a multiracial group of children in the story to depict a different group as opposed to everyone being the same race.
Evaluation of Literary Elements: I thought it was interesting that the story included a group of multiracial children. I also enjoyed the illustrations that were on each page because of the bright colors that were used. The font was big enough for children to read which is important.
Consideration of Instructional Application: In this book, the author explains what meteorologists do, and what their instruments are used for. In the classroom, I might be able to incorporate this into a lesson by asking the children what the weather is like outside and how they should dress in certain situations.

[Holly Hardwick · Rating 4 out of 5]

I chose What Will the Weather Be? by Lynda DeWitt as a informational book to use for a weather unit in my science education theory class and really loved the information presented in it. The book presents science topics and concepts that are more advanced in a simplistic way that younger students could easily understand and apply to their own lives. DeWitt gives information about warm and cold fronts, storms, and instruments used to collect weather data. I think that this would be an excellent book for students in the primary grades that are interested in understanding how weather happens.
One reason that I think students would respond well to this book are the colorful illustrations done by Carolyn Croll. Rather than actual photographs seen in most books about weather, the fact that there are illustrations in this book make it seem more playful and fun, which may appeal to some students more than photos would. My favorite illustration is of the snowstorm in Washington D.C. with the streets covered and children playing outside in the wintry environment.
I would definitely use this book in my classroom, both for student use and for a weather unit that I would teach. I think that it would be especially helpful in teaching students about the different tools that scientists use to study weather because the book gives a good overview of some that students may have never heard of.

[Kathleen Pine]

This book helps children learn ways that meteorlogists look at the weather. It brings light to the methods and instruments they use, and digs deeper into different types of weather and how these changes come about. This nonfiction novel also explains how unpredictable weather can be, and that by simple differences in air temperature miles away can affect the forecast.

This book has bright colorful pictures and presented in an easy to read format that help bring science to life. I believe this book is an engaging way to introduce the concept of weather change to young children.

Questions:
- Why is it important to study the weather?
- Where have you heard about the weather? Who has told you about the weather?
- When is it especially important to know about the weather?
- When you know what the weather will be like, what do you do? How does the weather affect your choice of clothing? Activities for the day?
- Why do meterologists occasionally make mistakes?
- Who does the weather impact?

[Brittany Townsend · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a very interesting book. The illustrations draws readers in and an easy read. This book explains that sometimes the weather forecast can be wrong because it is always changing. It examples what water vapor is and examples and show how to study the weather using many things such as anemometer. This book should be used in either 1st or 2nd grade.

The way I would use this in my classroom is having an interactive read aloud. This can help students learn how and why weather changes. It also can help explain how predictions works when it comes to the weathers that meteorologists make. I see this being more of two day lesson because of how much new terminology for students it has. Overall this book would be good use for a science lesson.

[Melanie, Aaron, Annie, and Mary Project · Rating 5 out of 5]

What Will the Weather Be?
BY Lynda DeWitt
Illustrations By Carolyn Croll
Grade Levels: K-2
DRA/Lexile Measure/GLE: 500L/3.5
Reviewed By Aaron Carter

What Will the Weather Be? does an excellent job of teaching the basics of weather, including cold fronts, warm fronts, air pressure, temperature, humidity, and meteorology, all in an easy-to-understand format. Accompanying the text are illustrations that are tremendously helpful in showing key points and concepts. As sentence structure is simple, the children could read this book to themselves; however, as I see it, the real value would be from reading it aloud when accompanying a lesson (or lessons) on weather.

[Kristy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although slightly outdated in terms of meteorology technology, this nonfiction book is still great for teaching younger children about weather. Told through a storyline, the only thing that could make this book better is to update the mentions of technology and to include a glossary for children. Overall, a good book to use to spark a child's interest in the science of weather in hopes that they will read other books about the topic.

Publication Date: 1991
Age/Grade level: Kindergarten to 2nd grade
Format: Print Book

[Jessica Lane · Rating 4 out of 5]

What Will the Weather Be? by Lynda DeWitt is a great nonfiction book about weather patterns. It talks about weather patterns and explains vocabulary. The illustrations by Carolyn Croll help show what the certain weather pattern looks like.

This is a really cute book for showing children what weather is like. The vocabulary is easy to understand, and the pictures are great for showing what they mean. Because of these, I would definitely use this book in a young elementary classroom. I would use it in a science unit when talking about weather.

[Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is all about the factors that affect our weather and forecasting. Air pressure, wind speed and direction, temperature, and humidity are all discussed. Instruments for measuring each of these factors are mentioned. Fronts and how weather changes occur are also discussed.

I thought this book was pretty good for a non-fiction reader about weather. The pictures and illustrations are good.

A lot of the weather standards from science are addressed in this book. I would use this book at the beginning of a unit on weather and pull some of the terms from the book to place on our word wall.

[Dolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book that introduces the concepts of meterology. With cartoon illustrations and basic descriptions of weather terms, it's a great book to teach about weather. It is pretty technical, so younger children could lose interest quickly, but it's great for first and second graders.

Both of our girls brought this home from their first grade classes (two years apart and different schools, too.) They both loved it and were very proud to have read it by themselves.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was better than most books about weather for kids. It seems that a lot of books on weather try to simplify complicated science to make it easy for kids to understand, but through this process actually end up giving false information, particularly about what causes rain. This book didn't explain it quiet as well as I would have liked, but I didn't notice anything terribly false and I was able to fill in information pretty easily.

[Alexis Levine · Rating 3 out of 5]

What Will the Weather Be is a cute story with great illustrations. The vocabulary is a little tough for young children though so I woud read this book to them while discussing the more complex words. It's good for helping children realize characteristics of certain weather and in discussing differences in different seasons.

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book would obviously be appropriate and very informative for young children (and even older children/adults) learning about weather.

The book also touches on some concepts that students learn in math in the early elementary grades, such as dates, times, and measurements (temperature and inches of snow), so it could be used to review or introduce these topics.

[Evelyn Matias · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good book to use when taching a book on weather. It uses vocabulary words such as cold front, new air, old air etc. It's a great warm up to a lesson that could be made into a more in debth lesson plan later. I would maybe start a weather unit off with this book as not to overwhelm my students.

[Esther · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book can teach you and students all about the weather. Vocabulary is a little advanced for lower grades, but the book does a great job of explaining how the weather works and makes it fun to learn about!

[Kathryn Joyce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative book on how the weather is measured and predicted. It explains the tools used and how weathermen gather data. Explains different weather fronts. Useful for science lessons and a career unit.

[Kellee Hao · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grade: 1

We were actually using this book to have the students read more about weather since we're beginning to talk about it. It's a great introductory book to weather and where we can go to get our daily news weather cast.

[Krupal Morjaria · Rating 4 out of 5]

What Will the Weather be is a great story that teaches readers about the different types of weather. It takes us on a journey where we go through a storm, snowy weather, fall, spring and lots more. I really enjoyed being able to figure out and predict which weather would go with which season.

[Carrie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe older than a 6 year old would enjoy this.

[Hatka Kecalovic · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is What Will the Weather Be? by Lynda DeWitt. This book can be used in Kindergarten-2 grade classrooms. This book can be used for lessons on weather and our atmosphere.

[Debra]

Lynda DeWitt

Grade K - 4

Weather Concepts. Weather Vocabulary. What will we wear today?

[Cindy]

Great book to introduce weather. However, the vocabulary is a bit more challenging so it would be for more experienced readers.

[Serge Smagarinsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This non-fiction picture book provides a good explanation about the weather.

[Kirsten · Rating 5 out of 5]

Could be a great book to start a lesson! Very informative and students will defiantly be able to connect to this text.

[Rosanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was a good, informative book. I'll be looking for more in the series.

[Bethe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bright, engaging illustrations featuring a diverse cast and clear, easy to read labels and diagrams make the sometime dry content accessible for young readers.

[Brooke Parmely]

A cute book for young children explaining the weather process and how sometimes it is hard to predict. It is important to teach children the weather at a young age and this is a great way to help!

[Jessica Rosado · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love the book and its so good that i red it so much times

[Caleb M. Powers · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son, Finneas: "That a very cool book, Dada."

There you go.

[Melissa Housholder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute story to explain weather. Goes into great detail about low pressure and high pressure and how this creates rain, sunshine and snow. Good for a science lesson, especially if the kids are having a hard time with it!