Platypuses

Web-Footed Billed Mammals

From the Series Comparing Animal Traits

  • Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 4
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

Find out what a platypus has in common with a beaver or a dolphin. Learn what sets a platypus apart from a giraffe or a wild dog. Readers will compare key traits of platypuses—their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle—to traits of other mammals. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information about similarities and differences, readers will make connections and draw conclusions about what makes this animal a mammal and how mammals are alike and different from each other.

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Interest Level Grade 2 - Grade 4
Reading Level Grade 3
Genre Science
Category Animals
Copyright 2015
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2015-08-01
Reading Counts! Level 5.2
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF003140, JNF051150
Dewey 599.2'9
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 7.75 x 10.25
Lexile 790
Guided Reading Level Q
ATOS Reading Level 4.4
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 170588
Accelerated Reader® Points 0.5
Features Awards, Bibliography/further reading, Charts/Graphs/Diagrams, Glossary, Index, Maps, Reviewed, Sidebars, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, and eSource

Awards

  • Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award, Winner, 2015

Reviews

School Library Journal, Series Made Simple

“The unusual comparison of mammal traits makes this a series worth considering.”―School Library Journal, Series Made Simple