Teachable Texts

130. Planet Earth/Inside Out by Gail Gibbons

November 9, 2009 at 9:09 pm Leave a comment

Retell: Gail Gibbons imagines what we would see if we looked inside the earth.

Topics: earth, gravity, ocean, Pangaea, equator, continents, earth model, fossils, plates, earthquakes, volcanoes, islands

Units of Study: Nonfiction, Content-Area

Reading Skills: monitoring for sense, envisionment, determining importance, synthesis

My Thoughts: We are wrapping up our Science unit on Earth Movements this Friday and I was looking for a text to end with.  This book ties in a lot of subjects within this unit:  the earth model, Pangaea, plate tectonics, faults, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.  The illustrations, which contain clear and useful diagrams, help readers comprehend the text.  However, in some parts, readers most add to the illustrations with details from their own mental picture and think about what is not in the illustrations.

Entry filed under: Female Authors, nonfiction, Picture Books. Tags: content-area, continents, determining importance, earth, earth model, earthquakes, envisionment, equator, fossils, gravity, islands, monitoring for sense, nonfiction, ocean, Pangaea, plates, synthesis, volcanoes.