Bernadette Brexel

A whole wide world can be found in a tiny fish tank. This sequential narrative explains how to create a thriving fish tank from start to finish. A picture-word glossary is included.

The disciplines of Math and Art are combined to teach students how to use real-world objects to count.

This informational text teaches readers about the grass beneath their feet and what it needs to grow tall and green. A picture-word glossary is included.

Thrilling, anticipated trips are a great way to teach children how to count and use calendars. An exciting trip to the zoo is used in this story. One by one the days pass, and readers will count down to the anticipated day with Giant pandas. This fiction title is paired to the nonfiction title I Can Use a Calendar for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.

This nonfiction descriptive title provides excellent domain-specific vocabulary as well as important life science information. Many photos, correlated to the text, provide evidence about the badger's home and behavior.

This nonfiction descriptive title introduces core information about rocks and minerals, providing opportunities for both compare and contrast as well as cause and effect within the earth science curriculum.

This first-person narrative nonfiction title provides life science information from the point of view of a child taking care of his garden in a particular season.

This image-rich nonfiction text provides emerging readers with examples of many types of storms. Using newly acquired vocabulary, kids can interpret and analyze weather.

The compare-and-contrast text structure used in this title provides emerging readers with fundamental information about the physical world and how it works.

In this procedural narrative, the shape of the earth is the lesson of the day. The text provides opportunities to explore shapes, colors, and basic earth science.

Information about the familiar carrot helps build vocabulary and content knowledge about how vegetables grow. This descriptive life science title provides an example of cause and effect with strong visual information.

In this descriptive title, children learn about a vegetable, a season, and how things grow. Pictures of a corn crop, from seedlings to harvest, show cause and effect. Kids can experience a cornfield as though they were there.

A hands-on descriptive text about life processes, this book provides age-appropriate information on the basics of how plants grow and the conditions needed for a plant to thrive.

Labor unions flourished for a number of reasons: abysmal working conditions; a lack of concern for workers' safety; low pay and nonexistent benefits; and a 10-12 hour workday. The Knights of Labor, one of the strongest unions, focused on achieving an eight-hour day. After a worker was killed at a labor rally, the crowd broke out in violence. Firing into the crowd, the police killed four workers. The long-term effect of this riot was widespread fear of unionism, and a delay in the acceptance of the eight-hour day.

With the sharp decline of farm prices in the late 1800s, the farmers who felt the effects of a depressed economy put the blame squarely on Eastern financial interests. Continuing hard times for the farmers led to the emergence of farmers' alliances. From these alliances grew the beginnings of the Populist Party, which advocated a number of populist reforms such as a secret ballot, the popular election of U. S. senators, a direct democracy, banking reform, and a graduated income tax. Many of these ideas were later adopted by law or amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

With the sharp decline of farm prices in the late 1800s, the farmers who felt the effects of a depressed economy put the blame squarely on Eastern financial interests. Continuing hard times for the farmers led to the emergence of farmers' alliances. From these alliances grew the beginnings of the Populist Party, which advocated a number of populist reforms such as a secret ballot, the popular election of U. S. senators, a direct democracy, banking reform, and a graduated income tax. Many of these ideas were later adopted by law or amendment to the U. S. Constitution.