Use art to stimulate content-area language development and writing skills! From A to Z, the 81 animal patterns combine with 35 different activities to enhance your primary curriculum. You give each student a photocopy of the pattern, paper, scissors, and some materials to decorate the critter. You can use Snipper Critters with a content-area activity, in the language arts block, in writing workshop, or as art enrichment. The not-so-usual animals in Snipper Critters represent most major animal families. Activities use facts about the animals and information about their habitats. Students learn about the world's animals and have fun, too! Use Snipper Critters to: build content-area vocabulary; help meet grade-level curriculum standards for math, science, and social studies; teach critical, informational writing skills; create art extensions for math, science, and social studies projects; build skills in research, writing, and verbalization; and develop a child's imagination. Snipper Critter activities fit with any curriculum and adapt easily to specific grade and ability levels. And, to save you time, the resource includes a bibliography of children's literature that features the critters, an index of ways to group the critters, and lists of physical characteristics and habitats of the animals.

Jeff Corwin introduces readers to invertebrates of the southwestern United States, including desert hairy scorpions, giant vinegaroons, tarantulas, trap-door spiders, pinacate beetles, and others.

Brief text and illustrations introduce such strange creatures from American folklore as the snawfus, billdad, lufferlang, and tripodero.

Axolotes, chinchillas, and sugar gliders -- oh my! This charming illustrated follow-up to the bestselling Big Words for Little Geniuses spotlights the world's oddest and cutest animals. From sloths to spoonbills and panda ants to pangolins, little geniuses will love learning about all of the unusual, adorable animals that live on this planet. More than 50 little-known flyers, swimmers, and crawlers are included in this book, whimsically illustrated by artist Hsinping Pan. Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses will remind you that nature contains many wonders -- and these cute and curious creatures are no exception!

An illustrated collection of twenty nursery rhymes which feature animals.

Engaging Text Describes Animals Who Are Crafty Problem Solvers.

Critters make the craziest pets! Caring for insects and small animals is fun--and important!

Introduces insects, including ladybugs, bees, and grasshoppers.