Wings, Paws, Scales, and Claws

Let's Investigate Animal Bodies

From the Series Get Started with STEM

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

How are animal bodies alike and different? What characteristics make a mammal a mammal, and a reptile a reptile? In this title, readers will turn their investigative skills to studying animals. Packed with fascinating facts and fun challenges, students will meet a host of animals including blue whales, great white sharks, colorful chameleons, and the world’s largest spider.

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Interest Level Kindergarten - Grade 3
Reading Level Grade 2
Genre Science
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Traditional Nonfiction, STEM, STEM: Life Science/Animals
Copyright 2017
Publisher Ruby Tuesday Books
Imprint Ruby Tuesday Books
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2017-01-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF051030, JNF051050, JNF003000
Dewey 590
Dimensions 8.25 x 11
Lexile 640
Guided Reading Level P
ATOS Reading Level 4.0
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 187794
Accelerated Reader® Points 0.5
Features Glossary, Index, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, and eSource

Author: Ruth Owen

Ruth Owen has written more than 400 children’s books. She writes on many subjects, but science and nature are her favorite topics to research and make accessible for young readers.

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Get Started with STEM

This vibrant, colorful science series brings STEM to life and gets your students thinking and working like scientists. Readers will get to ask and answer questions; make observations; collect, record, and analyze data; perform tests; use simple scientific… View available downloads →