Teachable Texts

108. Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs by Patricia Lauber

October 12, 2009 at 12:11 pm Leave a comment

Retell: This book explains how energy flows within food chains and food webs.  It also describes the importance of plant life.

Topics: food chains, food webs, interconnectedness, plants, animals, endangered species, ecology

Units of Study: Nonfiction, Content-Area

Reading Skills: envisionment, determining importance, interpretation, reading text features

Writing Skills: including diagrams to illustrate an idea

My Thoughts: Though our food chain unit is a few months away, I’m on the search for future read alouds.  This is a great, straight-forward text for introducing food chains and food webs.  I like the diagrams throughout the text.  This would be a great text to read to introduce the idea of a diagram.  After reading the text aloud, students could make food webs of their breakfast or lunch that day.

Entry filed under: Female Authors, nonfiction, Picture Books. Tags: animals, content-area, determining importance, diagrams, ecology, endangered species, envisionment, food chains, food webs, interconnectedness, interpretation, nonfiction, plants, text features.