ABC Safari

Author: - Karen Lee

Title: - ABC Safari

Illustrator: - Karen Lee

Publisher: - Sylvan Dell Publishing

Year: - 2007

Format: - Soft Cover

Genre: - ABC Book

Reading Level: - Second or Third Grade

Interest Level: - Assisted Reader, Individual

Topics: - Animals, Zoo, Alphabet

Summary: - This book is an A to Z book about different animals around the world. Each page is about a new animal. Not only are there pictures of each of them, but there is also a short, four-lined poem about the animal. This teaches children about different animals, and not only their name, but what they do as well.

Extension Activities: - For this book you could have each student choose an animal from the book to do more research on. They could create a short, informational book about the animal and the cover could be their own illustration of the animal. Another idea is to create a classroom ABC book of animals. Each student would be assigned a letter, choose an animal other than the one in the book to find information about, and create a page of the book. After everyone is finished, you could put it all together and keep it in the classroom for the students to look at.

Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud

Author: - Charles Ghigna

Title: - Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud

Illustrator: - Gabriel

Publisher: - Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Year: - 1999

Format: - Hard Cover

Genre: - Poetry

Reading Level: - Early Elementary

Interest Level: - Assisted Reader

Topics: - Animals, Chickens, Bears, Donkeys, Cows, Giraffes, Bunnies, Monkeys, Puppies, Goats, Crocodiles, Kittens, Lambs, Tigers, Snakes

Summary: - On each flip of the page, this book has a poem about a different animal. Each poem describes what the animal does, the noises it makes, and so on.

Extension Activities: - For this book, one activity you could do, is have the children write a poem about their favorite animal. To go along with this, you could have the children make a mask or a puppet of their animal and read it to the class. Another activity you could do is create a poem about animals as a class, and make a "classroom zoo" on a bulletin board. It would have the poem written on it and every child could make an animal to be put in the zoo.