Fingers and Thumbs

Fingers and Thumbs is an expository nonfiction text that explains animals with fingers and thumbs to help get food, hold a baby, and stay in a tree. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels.

Fingers and Thumbs includes critical thinking questions to guide the reader. Photographs match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the photographs and compare them to illustrations. As well, focus is placed on the labels, Index, layout, and design. An activity on drawing and labelling a picture about animals using its fingers and thumbs is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (thumbs) and high-frequency words (help). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences, full stops, exclamation marks and commas. Focus on blend tr (tree) and word family ee (see).

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