More Than Trees: A Story of Oregon Forests

Positives

• The book is engaging and accessible to early readers.
• It is informative and ends with individual actions people can take to protect forests.

Additional Prerequisites

• This nonfiction picture book is in PDF format and can be downloaded to use offline or printed into a book or packet.
  

Differentiation

• Students can take notes on all of the living things they see in the book and describe how they work together in an ecosystem.
• Art teachers can group students to create visuals of the different layers of the forest and then display their creations on the wall, organized by layers.
• Students in science classes can create a food web of the different organisms in the forest.
• ELA teachers can use the chickadee name as a jumping-off point to discuss onomatopoeia.
• Students can brainstorm additional ways to help care for the forests that are not mentioned in the book.
• Teachers may want to allow students time to identify local or nearby forests that they could visit.