Smithsonian Readers: Endless Explorations Level 4

Scott-Royce, Brenda; Binns, Stephen; Oachs, Emily Rose; DiPerna, Kaitlyn

ISBN 10: 1626864543 / ISBN 13: 9781626864542

Editore: Silver Dolphin Books, 2015

Codice articolo 1626864543-3-36387762

Riassunto:

Read fluently with the Smithsonian!

For fluent readers that have mastered levels 1, 2, and 3, Smithsonian Readers: Endless Explorations Level 4 provides fascinating facts and challenging content that promotes reading success and enjoyment. Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and esteemed childhood literacy expert Dr. Adria Klein, Smithsonian Readers: Endless Explorations Level 4 contains six 32-page topics for children on their way to becoming expert readers: Predators, Space Exploration, Natural Disasters, World Wonders, Ocean Habitats, and Flight. Bound into the book are 36 perforated fact cards created for fluent readers looking for extra learning opportunities.
Level 4: Fluent Readers
-Variety of factual texts that contain unfamiliar themes and challenging technical content
-Includes glossary and pronunciation guides to
-Contains longer and more complex sentence patterns
-Most of the vocabulary should be familiar to second-graders
-Longer stretches of text and extended descriptions without the support of pictures
-Extended sentences with various structures

Informazioni sull?autore:

Brenda Scott-Royce is a lifelong lover of beasts and books—and whenever possible her work combines the two. For more than a decade, she served as editor ofZoo View, the award-winning magazine of the Los Angeles Zoo. Her books include the comedic novelMonkey Love, about a New Yorker who becomes the temporary guardian of a mischievous monkey. She also wrote several episodes of the children’s television seriesChuggington. Brenda likes to say that she majored in monkeys in college (she earned a bachelor’s degree in primatology and anthropology from California State University, Fullerton) and that some of her best friends are chimpanzees (she worked as a chimp keeper at a wildlife sanctuary). She lives in Covina, California.

Stephen Binns is an education writer at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. For ten years, he was writer and editor ofSmithsonian in Your Classroom, a publication sent free of charge to all elementary and middle schools in America. His work has also appeared in theAtlantic Monthly and the National Catholic Reporter.

Emily Rose Oachs is a graduate of the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. She currently works as an editor at a Los Angeles-based educational company. In her spare time, she writes nonfiction books for elementary readers. She lives in Los Angeles.

Kaitlyn DiPerna is an award-winning writer, developer, and editor of all kinds of children’s books. Kaitlyn has authored everything from young adult art and craft titles to school textbooks, and children’s chapter books to board books for toddlers. Originally from Boston, where she earned a degree in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College, she has spent the last ten years on the West Coast, chasing the surf and the snow. She lives in San Diego, CA.

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Titolo: Smithsonian Readers: Endless Explorations ...
Casa editrice: Silver Dolphin Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: Good