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    Perfect pairs : using fiction & nonfiction picture books to teach life science, K-2 / Melissa Stewart & Nancy Chesley.

    • Title:Perfect pairs : using fiction & nonfiction picture books to teach life science, K-2 / Melissa Stewart & Nancy Chesley.
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    • Author/Creator:Stewart, Melissa.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Chesley, Nancy.
    • Published/Created:Portland, Maine : Stenhouse Publishers, [2014]
      ©2014
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Life sciences--Study and teaching (Elementary)
      Life sciences--Study and teaching--Activity programs.
      Picture books for children--Educational aspects.
    • Description:ix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-338) and index.
    • ISBN:9781571109583 (paperback)
      1571109587 (paperback)
      9781625310217 (ebook)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: How Perfect Pairs Can Help You
      Not All Nonfiction for Children Is Created Equal
      Why Combine Science and Children's Books?
      Why Pair Fiction and Nonfiction?
      From Idea to Book
      Who Is This Guide For?
      Getting Started
      Obtaining the Books
      Starting with a Wonder Statement
      Investigative Process
      Reinforcing the Concept
      ELA Links
      Wonder Journal
      Science Dialogues and Science Circles
      Meeting the Standards
      Addressing the Next Generation Science Standards Supporting the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
      Lessons for Kindergarten
      Lesson K.1 What Plants and Animals Need to Survive
      Salamander Room by Anne Mazer & From Seed to Pumpkin / Wendy Pfeffer
      Lesson K.2 What Animals Eat
      Gobble It Up! A Fun Song About Eating! by Jim Arnosky & Time to Eat / Robin Page
      Lesson K.3 How Animals Depend on Their Environment
      Just Ducks! by Nicola Davies & Hip-Pocket Papa / Sandra Markle
      Lesson K.4 How Animals Can Change an Environment
      Mole's Hill by Lois Ehlert & At Home with the Gopher Tortoise / Madeleine Dunphy
      Lesson K.5 How People Can Change an Environment
      On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole & Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa / Jeanette Winter
      Lesson K.6 How to Reduce Our Impact on Creatures in Land Environments
      Where Once There Was a Wood by Denise Fleming & A Place for Butterflies / Melissa Stewart
      Lesson K.7 How to Reduce Our Impact on Creatures in Water Environments
      Big Night for Salamanders by Sarah Marwil Lamstein & Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! / April Pulley Sayre
      Picture Books for Kindergarten Lessons
      Lessons for Grade 1
      Lesson 1.1 How an Animal's Body Parts Help It Survive
      Snail's Spell by Joanne Ryder & What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? / Steve Jenkins
      Lesson 1.2 How Animals Find and Catch Food
      Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson & just One Bite / Lola Schaefer
      Lesson 1.3 How Animals Protect Themselves
      Swimmy by Leo Lionni & What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? / Steve Jenkins
      Lesson 1.4 How a Plant's Parts Help It Survive
      Jack's Garden by Henry Cole & Plant Secrets / Emily Goodman
      Lesson 1.5 Mimicking Plant and Animal Body Parts to Solve Problems
      Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty & Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again / Craig Hatkoff
      Lesson 1.6 How Animal Parents and Young Interact
      What Dads Can't Do by Douglas Wood Sc Little Lost Bat / Sandra Markle
      Lesson 1.7 How Young Animals Are Like Their Parents
      Just Like My Papa by Toni Buzzeo & What Bluebirds Do / Pamela F. Kirby
      Lesson 1.8 How Adult Animals of the Same Species Can Be Different
      Dogs by Emily Gravett & No Two Alike / Keith Baker
      Picture Books for Grade 1 Lessons
      Lessons for Grade 2
      Lesson 2.1 How Wind, Water, and Animals Disperse Seeds
      Miss Maple's Seeds by Eliza Wheeler & Planting the Wild Garden / Kathryn O. Galbraith
      Lesson 2.2 Understanding Habitats
      House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle & Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems / Joyce Sidman
      Lesson 2.3 Understanding Biomes
      Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry & Here Is the Southwestern Desert / Madeleine Dunphy
      Lesson 2.4 Life in Wetlands
      Catfish Kate and the Sweet Swamp Band by Sarah Weeks & Frog in a Bog / John Himmelman
      Lesson 2.5 Life in Grasslands
      Water Hole Waiting by Jane Kurtz and Christopher Kurtz & Out on the Prairie / Donna M. Bateman
      Lesson 2.6 How Plants Change as They Grow
      Plantzilla by Jerdine Nolen & A Seed Is Sleepy / Dianna Hutts Aston
      Lesson 2.7 How Butterflies Change as They Grow
      Clara Caterpillar by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Where Butterflies Grow / Joanne Ryder
      Picture Books for Grade 2 Lessons.
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