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Description
- Overview:
- This informational text explains that while both the Arctic and Antarctica are cold, Antarctica is much colder and drier - a polar desert. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level. This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.
- Subject:
- Science
- Level:
- Lower Primary
- Grades:
- Kindergarten, Grade 1
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration
- Author:
- Jessica Fries-Gaither
- Provider:
- Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
- Provider Set:
- Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
- Date Added:
- 08/17/2010
- License:
-
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML, Video
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I appreciate that this resource contains simple text and text features and engaging photographs.
This resource is partially aligned by providing a text that can be used to address part of standard RI.1.10 or K.10 and should be considered as part of a unit that would address this nonfiction standard and others. It can also be included in a K-2 information text unit on comparing texts on the same topic if combined with additional texts on geography or arctic climates.
No learning target or assessment strategies have been indicated in the book, so users should plan to add some type of assessment. There are discussion questions worked into the text that can be used for classroom discussion of this nonfiction text.
This resource has an engaging design and accurate information along with the simple text features of photographs, a map with a legend, bold words, and a glossary.
This is very motivating for students and can be paired with a digital text for teacher modeling:
http://goopennc.oercommons.org/courses/antarctica-king-of-cold-grades-k-1-electronic-book/view
The two versions of the text have a different look and different images, but the same text, so they would be stronger if they looked exactly the same.