SPINNING TALES

             The following are suggested books that integrate into the thematic unit on spiders.  All are available through Amazon.com.  Just click the mouse on the book covers to read more about each title.  Then catch a few spinning tales in your web.

   

 

             8.99

Photographs and descriptions about spiders.  Reference book.

    

      Hello Science

        Information presented in a rhyming text. 

    

            3.59

All Aboard Reading

Explains how a hungry spider builds a web and waits for lunch.  A big hit with my students!

            6.25

Another excellent book by Gail Gibbons.  Great illustrations and informative text.

  

     Excellent book.  Great to use as a prewriting book for class book making.

                 $5.39

   A Raffi book to sing.  Based on the popular song.

 

            $13.56

  This series is a big hit in my first grade classroom.  Miss Spider wonders why her bug and insect friends won't join her for tea. 

           $3.50

 Magic School Bus

   Spanish Edition

 

         Eric Carle

 The Very Busy Spider

One of the main books to use in the thematic unit.

 

       An interactive book about a spider hiding in the house.  Die cut spider to use with the story comes with he book

 

Sing-song poem about the spider's climbing adventures.

 

 

   

      Spider's climbing adventures using the traditional rhyme.  Great book to start the spider unit.

      One book in a series by David Kirk.  This title describes how Miss Spider came to be.

 

 

  

 Spiders Spin Webs

Simple text with illustrations.  Describes 15 types of arachnids.

 

  

   Interesting book of the "I didn't know that" series.

 

 

 

  

The Lady and the Spider - Reading Rainbow.

A spider who lives in a head of lettuce is saved when a lady finds her and returns the spider to the garden.

      A little boy watches a tiny yellow spider spin in its web.  He then dreams about being this spider as he weaves his dream.

 

             $5.95

 

  Entertaining Poems

 

   Backyard Books

            $7.96

 

 

           $7.15

 A young girl guides the reader on a tour of her yard.  She explains the habits of spiders.

     

      Sign Language

       Book about spiders using sign language.

 

                                   Resource Books

           Click on the title to review the books through Amazon.com.  The books are published through Scholastic.

                                                      

                     Excellent resource book.  Lots of hands-on phonics materials to use with each rhyme.  There is one for the Itsy Bitsy Spider and Little Miss Muffet.  My kids love these activities that reinforce phonics skills.

                                      

                Math activities to incorporate into the nursery rhymes.  

 

                                 

              Patterns and directions for making easy-to-make and easy-to-read mini books using nursery rhymes.  Easy books for small hands and young children to make.  I love this book!

     

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