Books with title City Chickens

In Chickens, emergent readers will learn about the behaviors of chickens that live on a farm. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage early readers as they discover the differences between male and female chickens. A labeled diagram helps readers identify body parts of a chicken, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about chickens online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Chickens also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, and an index. Chickens is part of Jump!’s Animals on the Farm series.

Domestic chickens are an essential part of the agriculture and food production in America. Gibbons takes a look at how chicken eggs are developed for human consumption and at how fertilized eggs develop into embryos and finally into fuzzy little baby chicks. The behaviour of chicks, hens, and roosters is discussed, and descriptions of the different breeds of chickens across America are provided. Once again Gibbons provides a colourful, accessible account of this familiar, domesticated bird.

Cock-a-doodle-doo! The roosters call brings the farm to life. Hens and chicks cluck as they wait for the farmer to bring breakfast. Young readers are introduced to a chickens life in the barnyard in this book for young readers. Photo labels visually define glossary terms and other important words. Picture glossaries offer visual support. Featured speech bubbles call out animal sounds. Sidebars identify names for males, females, and babies. Labeled future boxes list favorite foods. Table of contents, glossary, index are also included.

Chickens have heavy bodies and short wings. This means they can only fly for a few seconds at a time. These engaging facts and more are waiting to be discovered in Chickens, an Animals on the Farm book. This is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. This book comes alive with video, audio, weblinks, slide shows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

Chickens are found in almost every country in the world. These animals are bred on farms for their meat and their eggs. They are also bred for showing and for cockfighting. Certainly, chickens have a number of different purposes. Learning about them should be very interesting.This books shows young readers a lot about these animals of the farm. For example, how many chickens are found in the world today? Did chickens always look the way they do today? Why do chickens perch on high places when they sleep? Do chickens get sick? How do chickens chew the food they eat? These, along with other questions, will be answered in this book. There are also 20 brilliant colored photographs which will help every reader understand more about these interesting birds.