Reading Analysis
Animal Friend
Oceans and Seas
Page 30-31(Why Are Giraffes so Tall?
Page 20-21 ( Ocean Mammals)
Similarities
Review
Reading strategies applyed
Both books are explaining about animals, where they explain about their facts.
Giraffes is the tallest of all animals. It lives in open grasslands. Because of is great height, i can spot its enemies coming form a long way away,
Herds of zebras are often found alongside herds of giraffes.This is because the giraffes can quickly spot an enemy, Their alarm warns the zebras too.
Sea mammals are shaped for swimming. They have smooth, streamlined bodies that can slip through the water, and they can hold their breath for a long time when they dive.
Sea-lions use their webbed front feet to row them along fastly. It's like underwater flying, and it makes catching fish easy
The giraffe's long neck also lets it eat the leaves on tall trees. It grasps the leaves with its long tongue, pulls them off and eats them.
Dolphins do not have back legs at all. they swim by beating their tail up and down, and steer with paddle-shaped feet called flippers.
Rereading
We read the information in the books twice so we can make sure the facts are right.
Synthesizing
Predicting
We predicted the facts that will be explained in both of the books.
Synthesizing by combining all of the information into a conclusion.
Citation
Oceans and Seas
Animal Friend
Big question
Cause: What is the cause of the author making the book?
Both of the animals explained in the pages are mammals.
Both of the facts given are explained simply for younger target readers.
Davies,Nicola. Oceans and Seas, Hong Kong. Kingfisher, 2004.
Animal Friend., China. Education Technologies Limited, 2010.
Text features
Table of Content (2-3)
Text features
Title (On the book cover)
Photograph ( Chapter 19 )
Headings ( Chapter 9 )
Table of Content (Page 3-4)
Photograph (Example: page 7)
Headings (Example: page 6)
Effect: What is the effect of the reader after reading the book?
The author wants to inform the readers about the facts that mammal animals have with simple words that younger readers can understand
The readers gets plenty of information/data about mammal animals and could understand clearly about there characteristic and habitats.
Text structures
Cause & Effect (Page 7)
Text structure
Cause and Effect
A heading is a word, phrase, or sentence at the beginning of a written passage that explains what it's about. A heading is very similar to a title
The use of photographs can be particularly impactful in nonfiction books that educate or introduce children to diverse cultures, environments, or historical events.
A heading is a word, phrase, or sentence at the beginning of a written passage that explains what it's about. A heading is very similar to a title
The use of photographs can be particularly impactful in nonfiction books that educate or introduce children to diverse cultures, environments, or historical events.
The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author.
Title ( On the book cover )
The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author.
The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author.
The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author.
Index (Last page)
Index alphabetically lists all the major topics, events, people, and places discussed in the book and provides page numbers that direct you to each reference.
Caption (Example: page 36)
A caption is the words printed underneath a picture which explains what it is about.
Caption(40-41)
A caption is the words printed underneath a picture which explains what it is about.
Cause and effect is the relationship between two things when one thing makes something else happen.
Example: Drinking problems, due to giraffes have long necks and long legs, giraffes have a hard time getting drinks
Example: Many animals, like octopus, prefer the deeper water of the middle ocean, because there they can hide from predators and be safe from storms.
Description (Page 20)
A statement or account giving the characteristics of someone or something
Description ( page 26 )
Example: Sea mammals have smooth, steamlined bodies that can slip through the.water, and they can hold their breath for a long time when they dive.
When they are born, lion cubs drink milk from their mother. While they are still small, their mothers gives them some of the food that she has caught. Between the ages of two and three, they learned how to hunt food and provide for themselves. Their mother, is lioness, teaches them.