Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

By Sian Smith

These are actually four different books. However, they were all written by the same author as part of a series of informational texts. Each is a short little book that has features of informational text. There are subtitles, graphics, pictures, page numbers, a table of contents, a picture glossary, and an index. There is one sentence on each page about the season explaining what the weather is like, when the seasons falls, what we can see in that season, and so on.

I really liked these books and I plan on using them in my unit. They serve as a great introduction to the features of informational texts, and have sentences that are very easy to read. One of the best parts is that the text isn't the main focus of the books. The pictures explain so much that even students that can't quite read all of the text, will get a lot from the pictures! I really liked the way these are set up and I can't wait to use them in the classroom!