Gail Saunders-Smith

Offers teachers mini-lessons, activities, assessment tools, and tips for teaching students the five non-fiction text structures to aid their comprehension and response skills. Includes examples, photographs, student samples, a glossary, book lists, and graphic organizers.

Simple text and photographs depict a visit to a fire station, including the people, uniforms, and equipment.

Simple text and photographs present the different types and colors of leaves found in the Northern Hemisphere in autumn.

Simple text and photographs describe the stage in the life cycle of apples when the buds on a tree turn into leaves and apple blossoms.

Describes and illustrates various activities of koalas and their joeys.

In simple text and photographs, describes a number of different cars, including toy cars, model cars, and old cars.

In simple text and photographs, describes several different kinds of airplanes, including paper airplanes, biplanes, and jets.

Simple text and photographs present the clothing worn to keep warm as fall changes to winter.

In simple text and photographs, describes a variety of trucks and what they do, including garbage trucks, cement mixers, snow plows, and mail trucks.

Simple text and photographs present the behavior changes of animals as winter approaches, such as growing thicker fur, migrating, and hibernating.