Author and Illustrator: Margery Facklam, Paul FacklamGenre: Nonfiction
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Grade Level: 2nd - 5th grade
This book is an informational bug book about 13 of the world's largest insects. Insects have many features such as: exoskeleton, spiracles, and thorax, as well as stages of life. The tarantula hawk wasp is located to southwestern states. Since the male wasps are harmless, the female wasps catches prey, feeds the wasp babies, and painfully stings. As the female wasps hunts, she waits for the perfect moment to sting the spider with her paralyzing venom. The female wasp then takes the live spider to her hole and lays her eggs on it. The spider serves as the perfect lunch for the baby wasps.
I would use this book as a read aloud in my classroom. An educator can use this book if the unit is about animals and insects. Younger students tend to better understand and retain factual information verbally. Students can choose an insect they are interested in, create the insect, and choose one fact to identify, explain, or demonstrate. For example, a student chose the giant wetapunga. The student would draw the Giant Wetapung with craft materials. Depending on the fact that is chosen, the student could identify the insects native origin, New Zealand, explain why wetapungas are close to extinction, or draw a comparison between crickets, grasshoppers, and wetapungas,
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