Vijaya Khisty Bodach

The book Leaves by Vijaya Khisty Bodach is a simple read about leaves. In this book, it talks about a leaves purpose and the types of leaves. It has great pictures to go with the content being read on each page, which provides a visual support for struggling readers. There is a glossary at the end of the book with a few challenging words for this text level. However, the words found in the glossary are not highlighted or bolded in the text. Their is an index at the end of the book, which provides a great opportunity to introduce this feature of an informational text to kids. Overall, I do not think this book would be the first one I choose for introducing the features of an informational text in a read aloud setting. Although, this could be a simple read for kindergarteners or first grades about leaves with some informational text features.… (mehr)