Books with title Who Lives in the Desert?

The desert is full of surprises! You never know what you might find nestled in a tall saguaro or climbing steep canyon walls. All you have to do is look! This fun, interactive guessing game invites curious children to discover all of the secrets and surprises the desert holds. Who leaves x-shaped tracks? Who has orange and black beady skin? Just open the book to find out! Each time you do, you're bound to find something new! Bright, unique illustrations, fun, rhyming text, clues on every page. A read-again-and-again-and-again book!

Designed for grades K–5 and to be done at home or with small groups, this interactive multi-activity mini-course introduces children to the diversity of life in the desert and the strategies different plants and animals use to conserve water. The mini-course includes a richly illustrated story-based lesson, as well as games, activities, and projects that appeal to all types of learners. After an introductory story where the host, Sandy Saguaro, introduces desert-dwelling plants and animals, children have fun designing their very own desert animals with the included illustrations of fur, scales, feathers, and claws. Concepts are reinforced through a beautifully illustrated board game (included in the course) in which children collect various animals, plants, and water droplets. In a separate movement-based game, children take on the form of different animals and reenact a day and night in the desert. Finally, children will perform an easy at-home experiment in which they calculate and graph evaporation rates of water in different environments. Most materials needed to complete the mini-course can be cut from the book itself (or, if preferred, downloaded and printed using an included link.). The mini-course requires only a few additional common household items to complete the activities: tape, a few coins, one die (or numbered spinner), bowl, paper, crayons or markers, glue, pencil, two identical translucent cups, water, ruler, hole punch (or paper clip), scissors, string or yarn, timer.) Upon completing the mini-course, children will be provided with links to additional online resources and will earn new concept badges for their Science Tool Kit (included in the mini-course)— – including evaporation, conserve, dormant, crepuscular, and adaptations.

Who Lives in the Desert? introduces emergent readers to a variety of desert-dwelling animals while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once.

Who Lives in the Desert? introduces emergent readers to a variety of desert-dwelling animals while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once.

This illustrated picture book reveals a different desert animal on each spread who is being "watched" by another. A whole menagerie is revealed at the end of the book showing all the creatures in their distinctive habitat, including: scorpion, kangaroo rat, roadrunner, woodpecker, gila monster, iguana, puma, spadefoot toad, kit fox and locust. The book also features an informative map and picture index to facilitate learning on animals and their habitats. The "Look Who Lives In" series presents a picture book format aiming to develop children's reading skills whilst teaching them about animals and their different environments.