How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Brooke Barker
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How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
by Brooke Barker
2022
Simon and Schuster
Grade 4+
Lexile Level 680L
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Summary:
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza? is a graphic novel outlining some interesting facts about different animals. During the course of the graphic novel as readers, we learn not only about animals in the wild such as humpback whales, and the scientists that study them. The book provides a unique perspective because it not only describes the humans observing the animal, but what the animal observes about the humans.
Key Words: Animal, Habitat, Scientist, Diet
Suggested Delivery: Small group
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Vocabulary: (Before Reading)
Carnivore: an animal that feeds on flesh.
Herbivore: an animal that feeds on plants.
Omnivore: an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
Habitat: the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
Mammal: a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females
Species: a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
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Vocabulary: (During Reading)
Camouflage: a defense or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings.
Climate Change: the significant variation of average weather conditions becoming, for example, warmer, wetter, or drier—over several decades or longer.
DNA: a self-replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms
Parasite: an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.
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ELA Teaching Suggestions:
Common Core Standard
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Before Reading:
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Building Schema:
Before Reading:
Ask students to read the back cover and hypothesize about what kind of animals might be in this book.
While Reading:
Encourage students to page-flag or bookmark any animal pages in the book that may be of interest to them. Also encourage the use of sticky notes to write down any questions about the animals the students may have.
Have students analyze the map found on page 2, are these the only locations these specific animals can be found?
After Reading:
Students will pick an animal to focus on and research them further in depth. After research is complete students will complete a graphic organizer in order to accurately display facts about their species.
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