Teachable Texts

123. Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City by Barbara Bush

November 3, 2009 at 9:12 pm Leave a comment

Retell: Barbara Bush zooms in on gothic building structures, bridge towers and overpasses to describe the adaptations of birds who thrive in urban areas.

Topics: birds, pigeons, urban areas, cities, habitats, migration, camouflage, adaptation, roosts, crows, shelter

Units of Study: Content-Area, Nonfiction

Reading Skills: envisionment, questioning, determining importance, synthesis

My Thoughts: I’m currently looking for books that will support the current Nonfiction unit.  I considered reading this book immediately, but I think I’m going to save it for our Content-Area unit.  During that unit we’ll be studying Food Chains and Habitats in Science making this book a perfect fit.  Urban Roosts is a book that will encourage urban readers to reconsider the common pigeon, finch or crow–a great book for modeling envisionment in nonfiction.

Entry filed under: Female Authors, nonfiction, Picture Books. Tags: adaptation, birds, camouflage, cities, content-area, crows, determining importance, envisionment, habitats, migration, nonfiction, pigeons, questioning, roosts, shelter, synthesis, urban areas.