How a Seed Grows

By Helene J. Jordan

Book Overview

Read and find out about how a tiny acorn grows into an enormous oak tree in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

This is a clear and appealing environmental science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. Plus it includes a find out more activity section with a simple experiment encouraging kids to discover what a seed needs to grow.

This is a Level 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores introductory concepts perfect for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

hands-on and visualacclaimed and trustedgreat for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

Entertain and educate at the same timeHave appealing, child-centered topicsDevelopmentally appropriate for emerging readersFocused; answering questions instead of using survey approachEmploy engaging picture book quality illustrationsUse simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skillsFeature hands-on activities to engage young scientistsMeet national science education standardsWritten/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the fieldOver 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Book in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062381881
• ISBN13: 9780062381880
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 9.7" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

We read this all the time

We've gotten this book out at least a dozen times from the library, so I finally just bought a copy. We live in Phoenix, so we plant our gardens 3 times a year. Everybody gets their own garden with their own seeds. My youngest makes sure we all have a windchime in our garden, as well. And we always go through this book the week we plant -- even though my kids know the steps, the book makes it so interesting for them...

Terrific

WE planted a vegetable garden and this was a great complement to doing the gardening and explaining how thing grow.

Wonderful little book

My four year old grandson loves this book. We have been growing plants from seed on his windowsill and can't wait to try the experiment in this book.

Great Science Project for Little Learners

If you are looking for a simple "experiment" for the budding scientist in your home, this is an excellent book. As you read this with your young child, he/ she will certainly be inspired to do what the kids in the book are doing; planting a bean seed and watching it grow. As you read along with the story and follow-up with actually doing the experiment your child becomes part of the story, waiting and watching as his (or...

Life Springing Forth.

This book should have been more appropriately titled HOW TO WATCH A SEED GROW. Instead of discussing the various stages of development and explaining what happens, the book is basically an extended science project explaining how students can watch a seed grow into a plant. The book talks about the different stages, but only discusses what the planted beans should look like in those stages, not really explaining what is happening...