Book Detail
Backyard Birds |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Lerner, Carol | Illustrator: Lerner, Carol | ||||||||
| Title: Backyard Birds | Date: 1994 | ||||||||
| Publisher: Morrow Junior Books | City: New York, NY | ||||||||
| ISBN, paperback: 0-688-12819-X | ISBN, hardback: | ||||||||
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: | ||||||||
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: | ||||||||
| Picture: Yes | |||||||||
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): nonfiction | |||||||||
HSE Descriptor(s): science |
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Summary: |
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| This informational book begins with four pages of data on birds in winter, then provides a one-page entry on many different birds, including a U.S. map of its territory and an illustration for each. The book ends with information on bird food, feeders, and Project FeederWatch. | |||||||||
Teaching Ideas: |
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| This is not a book to read from start to finish, but it is an excellent reference book with accurate illustrations. Teachers may want to use it as part of a U.S. geography unit or in a science unit. Students may have a wonderful time learning about the winter birds of their area, looking for them, observing them, writing their own reports about specific birds. Family literacy classes may want to build feeders and then set up observations--which birds feed first? Which feed on the ground? Which feed in pairs? What kinds of seeds do different birds like? Students could develop observational charts. | |||||||||
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 Matrices or Chartshttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf |
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