Grandmothers: Revised Edition

by Lola M. Schaefer

Overview

Explore the meaning of family relationships, from nuclear family units to extended families and communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429617550
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Series:	Families
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	140L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Table of Contents

Grandmothers — Busy grandmothers — At play.

Editorial Reviews

This attractive and simple nonfiction text is designed to help young readers reflect on their personal experience and build new understandings about family relationships. The colorful, appealing, and diverse photographs of grandmothers shown in a variety of roles will interest young readers and aid in their comprehension. The large plain font supports simple sentences, familiar vocabulary, and many words with predictable letter-sound relationships for easy decoding. There are only two to three lines of print per page, and the highly supportive illustrations match the message on each page. With adult assistance, early readers will enjoy using the table of contents, glossary, suggested Internet sites, and the index. This book about grandmothers is one in a series of ten books about families. The entire “Families” series can be read and enjoyed by children in a kindergarten or first grade classroom in support of the national social studies curriculum standards for elementary students.

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