Smithsonian Readers: Early Adventures Level 1
Smithsonian Readers: Early Adventures Level 1

Author: Brenda Scott-Royce

Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781626864511

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Learn to read with the Smithsonian! Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and esteemed childhood literacy expert Dr. Adria Klein, the Smithsonian Readers series is designed to encourage reading comprehension with high-interest topics and build reading skills with a carefully designed leveling structure. Level 1 focuses on familiar content and simple text to promote engagement and success for new readers. Smithsonian Readers: Early Adventures Level 1 contains six 32-page topics for beginning readers: Vehicles, Reptiles, Outer Space, Animal Habitats, Insects, and Safari Animals. The fascinating content is accompanied 36 perforated fact cards to further encourage early adventures in reading. Level 1: Early Readers -Basic factual texts with familiar themes and content -Concepts in text are reinforced by photos -Includes glossary to reinforce reading comprehension -Phonic regularity -Simple sentence structure and repeated sentence patterns -Easy vocabulary familiar to kindergarteners and first graders

Welcome Back, Puffin!
Welcome Back, Puffin!

Author: Dawn Bentley

Publisher: Little Soundprints

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592490097

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Puffin and her mate fly over the ocean to an island where, each year, they have a baby in the very same burrow.

Awesome Adventures at the Smithsonian
Awesome Adventures at the Smithsonian

Author: Emily B. Korrell

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1588343499

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From Dorothy's red slippers to dinosaurs to the Wright brothers' plane, the Smithsonian is filled with objects fascinating to kids. Yet choosing what to see at the Smithsonian can challenge even the most enthusiastic families. Packed with activities, information, and pictures, this lively new guide offers children ages 8-12 years a way to navigate the Smithsonian. Engaging maps, photographs, and illustrations present the main museum halls along with puzzles, games, mad libs, and pages for journal entries, drawings, and superlatives that will help get kids ready for their big trip to the nation's capital and keep them focused and attentive as they navigate the world's largest museum complex that is the Smithsonian Institution. Awesome Adventures at the Smithsonian (spiral bound) is the perfect way to engage any child on their big trip to Washington, DC, and the Smithsonian.

Smithsonian Adventures in Science: Space
Smithsonian Adventures in Science: Space

Author: Courtney Acampora

Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1684126010

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Blast off on a space adventure with the Smithsonian! With a lenticular cover and packed full of fun surprises, Smithsonian Adventures in Science: Space contains everything young space explorers need to learn about the planets and beyond. After reading about the planets and space exploration through the Smithsonian's collection, kids can use the shaped box to create their own Moon landing scene with dioramas, cardstock models, and figurines. Whether it's Jupiter's moons or Neil Armstrong's spacesuit, Smithsonian Adventures in Science: Space contains everything kids need for an intergalactic adventure!

Smithsonian Readers: Seriously Amazing Level 2
Smithsonian Readers: Seriously Amazing Level 2

Author: Brenda Scott-Royce

Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781626864528

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Discover a love of reading with the Smithsonian! Smithsonian Readers: Seriously Amazing Level 2 provides accessible and engaging content designed to encourage further progress in children’s reading abilities. Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and esteemed childhood literacy expert Dr. Adria Klein, Seriously Amazing Level 2 encourages development in readers with unfamiliar vocabulary terms, new phonic structures, and more variation in sentence patterns. Seriously Amazing Level 2 contains six 32-page topics, chosen for their appeal to developing readers: Nighttime Animals, Sea Life, Dinosaurs, Solar System, Baby Animals, and the Human Body. Thirty-six perforated fact cards extend the learning and reading practice. Level 2: Developing Readers -Simple factual texts with mostly familiar themes and content -Concepts in text are supported by images -Includes glossary to reinforce reading comprehension -Repetition of basic sentence structure with variation of placement of subjects, verbs, and adjectives -Mostly easy vocabulary familiar to kindergarteners and first graders -Introduction to new phonic structures -Integration of contractions, possessives, compound sentences, and some three-syllable words

The Night at the Museum
The Night at the Museum

Author: Milan Trenc

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2006-11-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1438067100

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Perfect for fans of Wellie Wishers and Billie B. Brown books, The Night at the Museum is the next adventure book for Dino Riders, Jurassic fanatics, and Smithsonian superstars! The book that inspired the iconic Night at the Museum movies will bring every trip to the museum—to life! Set in New York's Museum of Natural History, Larry, the museum nightguard, soon finds things aren't what they seem. Strange magic has led to the most amazing vanishing act in the museum's rich history—the entire dinosaur collection has disappeared! Could they have come...to life? The Night at the Museum masterfully blends mystery and comedy, making it the perfect museum book for teachers and educators. Kids of all ages will love the author's original illustrations on every page. Don't wait to discover what dinosaurs do after dark with The Night at the Museum!

Smithsonian Reader Level 1: Trains
Smithsonian Reader Level 1: Trains

Author: Maggie Fischer

Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781684124435

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Learn to read with the Smithsonian! Developed in partnership with the Smithsonian and esteemed literary childhood literacy expert Dr. Adria Klein, Smithsonian Readers: Trains Level 1 is designed to encourage reading comprehension while covering the invention of trains, history of trains, and modern-day trains. From steam engines to monorails, children will learn about the many functions of trains while building reading skills with the carefully designed leveling structure. After reading this introduction to nonfiction, children can use the included quiz to reinforce reading comprehension.

The Last Rail
The Last Rail

Author: Darice Bailer

Publisher:

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781592492091

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In Railroad Hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Lucy tries to take a photograph of her friends only to find she has become Andrew Russell, preparing to take the famous 1869 photograph of the driving of the golden spike into the last rail of the first Transcontinental Railroad. As she works, she listens to amazing accounts of this engineering feat that linked by rail the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Smithsonian Kids: A is for Astronaut
Smithsonian Kids: A is for Astronaut

Author: Jennifer Levasseur

Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9781645176749

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Blast off into space and learn the ABCs with the Smithsonian! 2021 NAPPA (National Parenting Product Awards) Winner Inside this board book, little space explorers will learn out-of-this-world words for each letter of the alphabet paired with colorful illustrations on each page. From astronaut to zero gravity, this simple introduction to outer space and the ABCs is sure to delight babies and their parents! Author Jennifer Levasseur serves as the as the responsible curator for the National Air and Space Museum's astronaut cameras and chronographs, as well as the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.

Snack Time, Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Snack Time, Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Author: Dawn Bentley

Publisher: Palm Publishing

Published: 2012-10-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781607278757

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Tyrannosaurus rex, the biggest hunter to ever walk on land, stomps through the prehistoric forest looking for something to eat. Other animals scatter as they hear her coming. She sees an Anatotitan. Has Tyrannosaurus rex finally found her meal?