Animals Are Sleeping

By Suzanne Slade, Gary R. Phillips (Illustrator)

Discover how animals sleep in the wild, from standing to swimming or flying.

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32 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Explore the wild world of animal slumber, where creatures sleep standing, swimming, or even flying. This enchanting journey reveals the unique sleeping habits of animals across diverse habitats. With engaging rhymes and a creative minds section, young readers will uncover the mysteries of animal rest. How do these creatures manage such feats? Dive into this captivating tale to find out!

From the publisher

Just how do animals sleep in the wild? Some animals sleep standing up, others even sleep while swimming or flying! The short, lyrical text provides fascinating information, such as location, position, and duration of sleep of animals living in different habitats. The satisfying conclusion will have children reaching for this book again and again at naptime, bedtime, or any time of day to learn about animals. This fictional story includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 25-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Animals are Sleeping is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Tap animals and other things that make noise to hear their sounds.

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