Tuesday, April 17, 2012

#25- Our World: Rainforests


#25- Our World: Rainforests

Our World: Rainforests
Written by: Valerie Bodden
Photography by: Jay Ireland, Georgienne Bradley, Eugene G. Shulz, Tom Stack & Associates
Creative Education, 2007
20 pages

Nonfiction

“A rainforest is a kind of forest. Rainforests are found near the equator.”

            This very informative book tells the reader all about rainforests. The biggest rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest which is largely located in Brazil. Rainforests are hot all year long. They contain many trees and flowers, animals, insects, and birds. Some animals live in the canopy of the rainforest. Many people are hurting rainforests, so there are other people whose job it is to save the rainforest.
            Each page is filled with vibrant pictures. The pictures cover a wide range of life in the rainforests. Trees, plants, flowers, and animals are all shown in this book. Some pages only contain one picture, while other spreads contain three to four pictures. Most of the text placement is formal.
            The book is appropriate for all elementary school students, but early elementary school students would benefit most from it. This book would be a terrific book to read to your classroom while studying about rainforests. You could teach the students how to draw a semantic web. They could each make a semantic web on the topic of rainforests.

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