Spiders! (TFK Science Scoops Series) » (Level 3)

The editors of TIME For Kids^® are committed to informing millions of kids about the world and their place in it. As part of a national news organization, they bring expert and age-appropriate reporting and photography from around the globe to books, classroom magazines, and a website.

The editors of TIME For Kids^® are frequent visitors to classrooms all over the country. And the TFK Kid Reporters have appeared on The Today Show, CBS Morning Show, CNN, and Fox News.

TFK editors also publish the TIME For Kids^® Science Scoops series, giving kids the inside scoop on the world’s most fascinating topics.

From deserts to forests to inside your living room, spiders are everywhere! You can spot the sticky webs that they weave to catch their dinners. Spiders can be many different colors and move in surprising ways. Some roll across the sand. Others walk on water!

In SPIDERS!, TIME For Kids® unravels the mysteries of these amazing eight-legged creatures.

Marilyn Courtot - Children's Literature

This new series of early readers, "Time for Kids Science Scoops," is taken from material prepared by the editors along with Nicole Iorio. Like any other early reader series, the books are leveled—Level 1 is targeted for beginning readers, Level 2 for developing readers and Level 3 is designed for confident readers. The full-page photographs have text boxes superimposed, but the judicious layout of the text boxes is such that no important information is lost from the images. The books in the series are nonfiction and while the text is at times choppy and often just a litany of facts, they are interesting facts. Readers of this title learn spiders are not insects, they are arachnids. The difference between arachnids and insects is made clear in two side-by-side, full page, labeled diagrams. Spider silk is also nature's strongest fiber. The Level 1 books contain a words to know picture glossary, while Level two also adds a section of interesting factoids entitled "Did You Know?" Level 3 adds even another small section of "Fun Facts." Spiders! is a Level 3 book, guided reading level N-O, Spache reading level 2.96. Lesson plans can be found at www.harperteachers.com. 2005, HarperCollins, Ages 6 to 8.