Going to a Zoo

by Rebecca Rissman

Overview

This book teaches readers about what field trips are, why people take field trips, and what you can learn from a field trip to a zoo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781406235302
Publisher:	Raintree Publishers
Publication date:	03/28/2013
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Rissman is an award-winning children's author. She has written more than 200 books about science, history, art, and culture. Her writing has been praised by School Library Journal, Booklist, Creative Child Magazine, and Learning Magazine. She lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and two daughters.

Table of Contents

Field trips — Field trip to a zoo — Different zoos — How should you act at a zoo? — What do you think?

Editorial Reviews

Each book in this series written by Rebecca Rissman includes an explanation of why people take field trips, color photos and simple text of several locations, and behavior expectations. Locations cover places that youngsters study as a part of their community. The series can be used with community studies, but won’t strongly appeal to children’s recreational reading choices. Glossary. Table of Contents. Index. –Marge Cox, Library Media Specialist, Veterans Memorial Elementary School, Naples, Florida Library Media Connection October 2012 Issue Additional Selection

Library Media Connection

The A World of Field Trips series titles all begin the same way: "People take field trips to visit new places. People take field trips to learn new things." In Going to a Library, children are introduced to librarians, as well as public, school, and special libraries. Going to a Museum defines museums as "places where special things are kept" and briefly showcases history, science, natural-history, art, music, and space museums. For animal lovers, there’s Going to a Zoo, where kids can get up close and personal at a petting zoo, aquarium, wildlife reserve, city zoo, and bird park. Each title ends with how to behave properly at the site (for example, Don’t feed the animals!), followed by an image question – for instance, "What kind of zoo is this?"—which tests reading or listening comprehension skills. Geared toward the very young, the series is marked by one line of text per page (amounting to about 180 words per volume), plenty of word repetition to reinforce vocabulary, and a single large, bold photograph per page. While the series title suggests an international scope, there are no captions to verify location. Still, the books open up whole new worlds to explore; before long, kids will be begging for a trip to the (fill in the blank). – Ann Kelley Booklist June 2012 Issue

Booklist

(5) K-3 World of Field Trips series. This book begins by defining field trips concisely: "People take field trips to visit new places./People take field trips to learn new things." For a first trip to a zoo, parents or teachers will find little to excite a child in the minimal, oversimplified text and unidentified photos of animals. Glos., ind.  - Barbara Bader The Horn Book Guide Fall 2012 issue

The Horn Book Guide

PreS-Gr 2—In this excellent series, children are introduced to a wide variety of possible field trips. Each book starts with the same two sentences and then turns to describing a type of excursion and what students might experience. For example, Concert covers pop, symphony, opera, choral, and marching-band performances. Every title concludes with a section about how visitors should act and a question that tests their comprehension. This series has a challenging vocabulary and there are no pronunciation guides. Some situations depicted in the large, clear photos may be unfamiliar to students, e.g., sumo wrestling in Stadium, rice farming in Farm, and an indoor beach in Beach, and the many new scenarios and places described, like field trips themselves, will expand their horizons.

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