Description:
Expository texts are written to inform, describe, explain, or define the subject. This bibliography consists of books that can help in explaining main idea using expository books.
Discussion Topics & Questions:
1. Find the main idea of the entire text and support your choice.
2. Explain how these texts are expository (word choice, graphics, topic, facts not opinion).
3. Choose whether the texts are written to inform, describe, explain, or define.
Bibliography:
Non-Fiction:
Expository texts are written to inform, describe, explain, or define the subject. This bibliography consists of books that can help in explaining main idea using expository books.
Discussion Topics & Questions:
1. Find the main idea of the entire text and support your choice.
2. Explain how these texts are expository (word choice, graphics, topic, facts not opinion).
3. Choose whether the texts are written to inform, describe, explain, or define.
Bibliography:
Non-Fiction:
- Peace Begins with You by Katherine Scholes (303.6 SCH)
- Whoever You Are by Mem Fox (305.8 FOX)
- My Place in Space by Robin and Sally Hirst (520 HIR)
- The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons (523.3 GIB)
- The Planets in Our Solar System by Franklyn M. Branley (523.4 BRA)
- What Makes Day and Night by Franklyn M. Branley (525 BRA)
- A Second is a Hiccup by Hazel Hutchins (529 HUT)
- Solids, Liquids and Gases by J.M. Patten (530.4 PAT)
- What is the World Made of? By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld (530.4 ZOE)
- Me and My Shadow by Arthur Dorros (535 DOR)
- What Makes a Magnet by Franklyn M. Branley (538.4 BRA)
- Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll by Franklyn M. Branley (551.5 BRA)
- Down Comes the Rain by Franklyn M. Branley (551.57 BRA)
- Snow is Falling by Franklyn M. Branley (551.57 BRA)
- The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola (551.57 DEP)
- Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons (551.6 GIB)
- Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth, and Rough by Natalie M. Rosinsky (552 ROS)
- Fossils Tell of Long Ago by Aliki (560 AIL)
- T. Rex by Vivian French (567.9 FRE)
- Dinosaurs by Gail Gibbons (567.9 GIB)
- A Desert Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson (574.9791 WRI)
- What's Alive? By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld (577 ZOE)
- Nature's Green Umbrella by Gail Gibbons (577.34)
- Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson (577.54 GUI)
- Desert Life by Ruth Kirk (577.54 KIR)
- The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle (582 CAR)
- Tell Me Tree by Gail Gibbons (582.16 GIB)
- Once There Was a Tree by Natalia Romanova (582.16 ROM)
- Whistling Thorn by Helen Cowcher (583 COW)
- Animal Tracks by Arthur Dorros (591 DOR)
- What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You by Steve Jenkins (591.47 JEN)
- How Animal Babies Stay Safe by Mary Ann Fraser (591.56 FRA)
- A Slug's Life by John Himmelman (594.3 HIM) This book might be best taught combined with the book Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards (E EDW)
- I See Animals Hiding by Jim Arnosky (591.57 ARN)
- Dragonfly by Emery & Durga Bernhard (595.7 BER)
- From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Garard Legg (595.78 LEG)
- Army Ant Parade by April Pulley Sayre (595.79 SAY)
- What's it Like to Be a Fish by Wendy Pfeffer (597 PFE)
- Growing Frogs by Vivian French (597.8 FRE)
- Frogs by Gail Gibbons (597.8 GIB)
- All About Turtles by Jim Arnosky (597.92 ARN)
- Imagine You are a Crocodile by Karen Wallace (597.98 WAL)
- Egg Story by Anca Hariton (598 HAR)
- Whales by Gail Gibbons (599.15 GIB)
- Beautiful Bats by Linda Glaser (599.4 GLA)
- Giraffes Aren't Half as Fat by Miriam Aroner (599.63 ARO)
- All About Deer by Jim Arnosky (599.65 ARN)
- Elephant Families by Arthur Dorros (599.67 DOR)
- Tiger Trek by Ted Lewin (599.75 LEW)
- Racoons and Ripe Corn by Jim Arnosky (599.76 ARN)
- Bears in the Forest by Karen Wallace (599.778 WAL)
- The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino (611 BAL)
- My Hands by Aliki (612 ALI)
- My Five Senses by Aliki (612 ALI)
- I'm Growing by Aliki (612.6 ALI)
- The Edible Pyramid by Loreen Leedy (613.2 LEE)
- My Body is Where I Live by Dorothy Baustian Chapman (613.8 CHA)
- Cross a Bridge by Ryan Ann Hunter (624 HUN)
- Workshop by Andrew Clements (621.9 CLE)
- Tunnels by Gail Gibbons (624.1 GIB)
- Dig a Tunnel by Ryan Ann Hunter (624.1 HUN)
- Drip! Drop! How Water Gets to Your Tap by Barbara Seuling (628.1 SEU)
- Fire! Fire! By Gail Gibbons (628.9 GIB)
- Cars and How They Go by Joanna Cole (629.22 COL)
- Bicycle Book by Gail Gibbons (629.22 GIB)
- Corn is Maize by Aliki (633 ALI)
- The Zieglers and Their Apple Orchard by Alice K. Flanagan (634 FLAL)
- How do Apples Grow by Betsy Maestro (634 MAE)
- All Pigs Are Beautiful by Dick King-Smith (636.4 KIN)
- Cats by Gail Gibbons (636.8 GIB)
- I Love Guinea Pigs by Dick King-Smith (636.9 KIN)
- Milk from Cow to Carton by Aliki (636 ALI)
- The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons (637 GIB)
- Cocoa Beans and Daisies by Pascale Allamand)
- The Life and Times of the Peanut by Charles Micucci (641.3 MIC)
- The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paola (641.6 DEP)
- Out and About at the Bakery by Jennifer A. Ericsson (641.8 ERI)
- Charlie Needs a Cloak by Tomie de Paola (646.4 DEP)
- Bread by Anne Mountfield (664 MOU)
- From Cotton to Pants by Ali Mitgutsch (677 MIT)
- Sneakers by Samuel G. Woods (685 WOO)
- Take Me Out to the Bat and Ball Factory by Peggy Thomson (688.7 THO)
- How a House is Built by Gail Gibbons (690 GIB)
- The Busy Building Book by Sue Tarsky (690 TAR)\
- Sod Houses on the Great Plains by Glen Rounds (693 ROU)
- Into the Sky by Ryan Ann Hunter (690 HUN)
- What is a Wall After All? By Judy Allen (721 ALL)
- Click! By Gail Gibbons (771 GIB)
- From Metal to Music by Wendy Davis (784 DAV)
- Meet the Marching Smithereens by Karmen Thompson (784 HAY)
- Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes (784 HAY)
- Movie Theater by Sandy Francis (791.43 FRA)
- Lights! Camera! Action! By Gail Gibbons (791.43 GIB)\
- Three Ships for Columbus by Eve Spencer (970.01 SPE)
- Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport (973.7 RAP)
- Yippee-Yay! By Gail Gibbons (978 GIB)