Take a Look at Snakes

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Information for students
Author: Betsy Maestro Title: Take a Look at Snakes
Book Genre: Informational Publishing Info: Scholastic Inc., 40

Summary: This book contains information on a variety of snakes. It tells about their habitat, food, anatomy, and their way of life. Snakes shed skin, eat live or dead prey, and have special censors that can let them know when an enemy is coming. Poisonous snakes hold their poison in their mouth and let it drip through their veins.


Personal rating: ****

Rationale: lots of great information but still on a child’s level, great illustrations

Information for teachers
Reading level: 3.1 Interest level: 1.5

Thematic Areas: family, snakes, nature

Content Areas: science

Potential Problems or Difficulties: pictures of snake laying eggs and giving live birth may be not appropriate for some

Possible use in classroom: have a rat-snake for a classroom job, visit a zoo to look at the snakes, hatch snake eggs in incubator, take a hike through the woods to look for a snake skin, make a map or chart comparing and contrasting the different characteristics of the different species of snakes