Animal Superpowers

Amazing traits and adaptations of animals such as the dung beetle, hummingbirds, and rats are brought to the forefront. Informative text, full-color photographs, and sidebars detailing just what makes each animal so super will immediately engage young readers. The Common Core Standards place a new emphasis on informational texts, which are now recommended to make up 50 percent of the English and Language Arts curriculum. Readers are provided the tools needed to excel in reading for content area, information, and developing content-specific vocabulary--and they will do it all while having fun learning new facts about some very cool animals. Each title features a fact spread to highlight intriguing aspects of each animal, while the remaining chapters provide information about life cycles, habitats, diet, and much more. Give students a safe place to explore and create! This robust interactive eBook set combines informational text on the animals of Asia with rich media hotspots containing videos, photos, maps, and charts. Struggling readers can make the text more accessible by choosing actor-read audio narration and text highlighting. Optional digital content creation tools guide students in:
• Creating a blog
• Composing a digital storyboard
• Building a wiki page These professional-looking student projects can be printed, emailed, or posted. Student learn to:
• Create digital content
• Use copyright-friendly media
• Cite their sources
• Comment on each others' work Simple lesson plans for each lesson include:
• Common Core Standards supported by the activity
• Small and large group instructions
• Parent Activities
• Links to free web 2.0 tools