Power Rangers Jungle Fury: We Are the Power Rangers: introduces Level 1 readers to the newest incarnation of the Power Rangers-Jungle Fury-in which the Rangers turn into animals in the heat of battle.

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an  American author best known for his novels Everything is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Eating Animals (2009).

Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book explores communication and cognition in animals and humans from a linguistic point of view and asserts that animals are not capable of acquiring or using human language.

In Word World, set in a lush landscape filled with funny barnyard animals, the messages are clearer: because each animal is graphically spelled out, kids can watch as the letters P-I-G form that porcine creature. Even the scenery gets in on the act- a barn, a tree, a splash in the lake. When animals take time to build a word (always a moment of great expectation and jubilation), you can actually witness the little wheels working in the viewers' heads...

Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Animal Locomotion

 

This episode of Bill Nye's science series is about the different ways animals get around. As usual, Nye uses lively effects to grab kids' attention, and his jokes and weird camera techniques are all designed to keep the subject interesting. Viewers will see close-ups of a millipede and its multiple feet, animals who fly, and others who leap and jump. He also shows creatures who travel without legs of anykind.

 

Grade Levels: 3-8